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Incredulous, well said. I pondered too long in the past and ended up driving myself nuts.

I'm still nuts but in a much more bearable way. No more drifting off trying to figure it all out.

Live, love, laugh and be happy.....

Lady G.

Wiki: "Cooties is a non-scientific term in North American English used by children for an imaginary "disease" said to infect through contact.... A child is said to "catch" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. The phrase is most commonly used by children aged 4-10; however it is also used by many others older than 10."

An Imaginary Disease....

Is it possible (probable? Perhaps widely known and understood! Albeit privately maintained, perhaps subconsciously even, as a deep dark secret unto ourselves) that the children's "disease" of Cooties is analogous to the mind-rotting disease known as Religion in adults?

To answer my own question, and to speak for everyone, yes, yes it is.

lol.

Thanks for the quotes.

The second paragraph proved my point I DON'T HAVE COOTIES.

Not that I believed I did in the first place...but it's great to see it in print.

If the 2nd paragraph is your own words then 'Well done!"
If not...thanks anyway.

Cootie, in cockney is the infestation of Fleas or Head Lice.

My Nan, was always saying, "So an so is cootie cos they avent done their net curtains"

When I was a nipper, we played on the banks of the River Thames and quite often caught Scabies. It became a thing to be proud of, because we had the day off school to be treated.

The evil bastard of a nurse, and I can still see her face, used to take great joy in painting our privates with this white solution, it stung like mad! But the day off school compensated. My children, do believe not me, when I tell them we never had hot tap water, or an indoor bath when I was a kid. Let alone central heating!

I hear you Arm. Tin bath on the back door till it was needed. Boil the water in the pans.

Scabies? I thought you got more than ONE day off for that!

Nits and headlice was ususally two days....it still IS where I work....but Nitty Nora the jungle explorer...doesn't visit anymore. I've had to be 'trained' to check for nits and headlice. Something else to add to my resume....

I know you are all asking, "Is there no end to this woman's talents?"

The answer is NO!

I was in the pharmacy the other day and flabberghasted by the fact that the smelly nit shampoo we used to use when my son was at school has now been replaced by a sooperdooper nit comb that zap the little buggers with a high voltage. Apparently one can hear them explode as it passes through the hair.

Come a long way since the nurse with lolly sticks smelling of dettol

Ooh! We havenèt got those nit combs yet (Christ my apostorphe has gone again).

What are those nit combs called, pray tell....(Imagine question mark back there....)

Didn't absorb the name just the wondrous technology


Apostrophes and other punctuation goes to pot when one is drawn into the rapid reparti here and in my case a sticky keyboard that randomly decides certan lttrs are not gon to be working

I see you found the stash of 'u' s Lynton.

Lady G.

I'll research the 'new nit comb'....