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2006-05-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Fjords cruise cancelled after outbreak of vomiting disease

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-30 09:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...an outbreak of norovirus, which causes diarrhoea and projectile vomiting.

Duel action!

Two elderly passengers were removed from the ship on stretchers and taken to Colchester hospital when it docked in Harwich, Essex, on Sunday. Both people, who were in their 80s, have since been discharged.

Considering the former, I suspect they certainly have been completely discharged.

A coastguard spokesman said: "This virus is quite easily passed on. It remains on the upholstery, so the ship needs to be cleaned from top to bottom...

Sound like a good excuse for a good old fashion Viking funeral to me. After appropriate and lasting chorus of pleas to the God of Porcelain Devices [tm], kill the dog and set the whole thing on fire. Cut to closing visuals and sounds from the movie 'The Vikings'.

Posted by Jumble Thromomble5864 2006-05-30 10:26|| 2006-05-30 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 "Projectile vomiting". Hmmm. Is there any other kind?

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-30 11:23|| 2006-05-30 11:23|| Front Page Top

#3 ...an outbreak of norovirus, which causes diarrhoea and projectile vomiting.

Duel action!

Reminds me of an old pussycat of my childhood who used to loudly fart when it sneezed (as it often did when it sat on our lap); my guess is it was a clever way not to move (Newton's 3rd law IIRC). What a cunning feline.

"Projectile vomiting". Hmmm. Is there any other kind?

This reminds me of an interview of Mike Myers in his Wayne's guise, where he told how he was forcefully pushed back while hurling a stream of vomit after a party involving heavy drinkibng, and how Nasa engineers came to his home to study this revolutionary kind of propulsion.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-30 11:33|| 2006-05-30 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I had noro over Xmas this year. It was dreadful. Fortunately, I wasn't on an expensive cruise holiday.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-30 11:33|| 2006-05-30 11:33|| Front Page Top

#5 I've heard of "pining for the fjords" before, but . . . really!

Posted by Mike 2006-05-30 13:57|| 2006-05-30 13:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Norwegian Blue! Beautiful plumage, beautiful plumage!

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-30 14:37|| 2006-05-30 14:37|| Front Page Top

#7 I had noro over Xmas this year. It was dreadful.

I had it back in, I think 2000. Nasty, unpleasant illness -- won't kill you if you're in a modern nation with reasonable access to sanitation and clean drinking water, but you won't enjoy it for all that.

However, having it once makes it easier to fight off later exposures. I found that out about a year later when it swept through my family after Thanksgiving.

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