Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started with a scratchy feeling at the back of my throat. Then came the coughing. Before I knew it, in the middle of my favorite extracurricular activity of the year, the South Asian Association's annual cultural show Ghungroo, I was sick...
...thinking about it. I was scared. I was frightened. I was a master of synonyms. Panicked, I called comedian Howie Mandel. Of all the germophobes I'd heard about, Mandel seemed the most grounded. He'd had a guesthouse built so he can live there when his kids get sick. He spent much of the 1980s putting surgical gloves over his head and blowing them up with his nose as part of his act--probably just so he could write off his huge purchases of surgical gloves. And perhaps strangest of all, he refused to kiss Carmen Electra when...
...result of people needlessly taking antibiotics to fight off head colds, thus somehow causing the germs they already have to mutate into crazed killers. I've been told by a doctor friend that antibacterial products do the same thing. Worse, they don't keep you from getting sick, because colds and flus are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Before I could even ask, my friend told me there was no antiviral hand soap...
...Frankenstein's monster built from our collective neuroses. To fight this new battle, I now think that everyone, even exhibitionist models with a knack for sensuous hand gestures, should abandon their Purell. Except me. I haven't been waging the germ war because I'm afraid of getting sick. I like being sick. It means I get to stay home and watch that little yodeling mountain climber on The Price Is Right. No, I'm waging my own secret, illogical germ warfare because that way, when the end comes and it's just me and Mandel against the Killer Germ...
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