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Indeed, that is quite a feat for humanity. I know my mother has the scar Roger speaks of.
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I have it as well. It itched like a small bag of fleas had been emptied into your underwear, and you had been fitted with boxing gloves... 
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English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Well, I can't imagine anything more miserable than that.
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I have it too, but it was so long ago I don't recall anything about the event...
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Ah, that would explain it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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We had a TB jab aged 11 that left a scar. It also weeped foul smelling puss for weeks afterwards.
Punching people on the TB jab was quite a game, kids going home and peeling their shirt off their arm.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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We had a multi-jab thing, with a ring of needles.
On me, it blew up like a red balloon, then disappeared altogether -- no scar. The kids that had no reaction all ended up with scars.
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That was the "BCG" (Bacillus Calmette–Guérin) jab - which was the TB vaccine.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Well, it must have worked, because, so far as I'm aware, I haven't died of TB.
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Actually the ring of needles was the test for TB. If it came up then they sent you for a chest x-ray to determine if you were either naturally immune or if you actually had TB. Those that didn't come up needed the jab.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dunno about the polio one (I was born 1960 and we all got multiple vaccinations - including polio - as infants). But we had a mass immunisation program for TB when I was 13 and I have a scar from that.
So maybe it's more related to age/body size and how your body reacts to the vaccination....
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It is deadly to your flesh and damaging to your immune system.
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I think the polio one is now given as a liquid on a sugar cube?? I think you are referring to the scar left by TB jab?
The one that left my arm scared was the (BCG)TB. Not only that but it was agony for about a month. it also got really swollen and filled with puss to the size of about a golf ball. It burst one day when someone hit my arm at school.....what a mess!
You can read about it -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine[^]
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I remember the sugar cubes, but Griff is right; the jab was for smallpox. The US never did a routine TB vaccine, though in the '70s a TB test was required to be issued a health card for working in a restaurant.
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DaveAuld wrote: I think the polio one is now given as a liquid on a sugar cube??
Not only now (no idea if it is still, actually), but in the 60s it was the sugar cube deal.
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Just went to buy a domain name.
£1250!
I decided that I didn't need it after all.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Yeah, Microsoft.com is likely to remain pricey for a little while longer. But be patient... 
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You could probably get Bing.com for a lot less... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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If you could find it... 
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LOL!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Just google!
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I knew it was only a matter of minutes before that one would come up. Thanks, Mark! 
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Funny how tories only complain about exorbitant prices and profits when the shoe is on their foot.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ok... I have to ask. 
Just what domain name is this?
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