So panel three contains an in-joke with my brothers that no one else'd really get. Peeing blood is not, in fact, a symptom of West Nile Virus (as far as I know, anyway), but there's a story behind this (as there usually is).
A few years back, Clif (the real-life Clyde) had some sort of...thing wherein he peed blood for a week or two (and he's gonna hate me for life for sharing this information). Visits to specialists revealed some sort of UT infection that he had to take medication for for a few weeks. Anyway, part of the problem was that whatever he had was potentially communicable, so no one could drink after him or anything like that.
Anyway, one day our youngest brother, Scott, came home from a visit to Sonic (the best fast food joint ever) with a slush, and Clif grabbed it and took a sip. My mom yelled at him for potentially spreading his germs, and Scott said something to the effect of, "Yeah, I don't want to get West Nile Virus or whatever it is you've got!" And it stuck. Anytime someone at home was sick, we'd ask if they had West Nile Virus. Whenever we asked what someone's symptoms were, we'd ask if they were peein' blood (thus confirming the West Nile Virus if they were).
It occurs to me that this story is probably really only funny to my family. Oh well.
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I thought it was hilarious. That could be because I've met your family. Then again, it could be because I've got my laughter thing primed because I've been wiki-geeking The Office.
Tough to say, really.
whatever i had, it couldn't be spread. scott freaked out and made all that shit up. the doctor thought i got it from drinking out of the hose all the time, but i thought you only get lead poisoning from that.
thanks for airing my personal medical history in a comic, and then explaining to the world that it was actually true, then telling the entire story in a blog. you are infringing my privacy, and i'm gonna sick the gov't after you!
clyde
If they hadn't heard it from me, Clyde, they'd've just heard about it on the street.
Besides, I air pretty much everything in the comic. You should know that by now.
And if you got lead poisoning from drinking from the hose, there are bigger problems afoot...like why any of our pipes were still made of lead.
lead's good for a growing young man!
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