Worst parasite?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Poll question: Worst parasite?

[LibertyorDeath]

1. Bush

:) & the rest of the Far Right

[LynneSin]

22. damnit - you beat me to it!!

:mad:

[Cpt Spaulding]

2. journalists who editorialize

should be on the list.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. or maybe an African Explorer

sometimes called a Shnorer (sp???????). ;-)

[7th_Sephiroth]

4. Eve

and if you get that joke 10 points to gryffindor

[WindRavenX]

6. I do!

Mitochondria eve, eh?
God that was a kick ass game...best video game score bar none.

[7th_Sephiroth]

7. read the book

and see the movie, parasite eve is HUGE in japan

[WindRavenX]

9. Is there a translation of the book availible?

I do know some decent Japanese (I can read magazines and manga in Japanese no problem), but I have a feeling that an actual novel would be..quite a challange.

[7th_Sephiroth]

11. i checked amazon.com

and they dont have a translation, or the original japaneese text, but i did order the FLCL soundtrack

[WindRavenX]

12. I'll check eBay.

I better get my kanji dictionary handy :D
Thanks for the heads up on the novel, I had no idea it was out, and I'm a huge PE fan. :hi:

[7th_Sephiroth]

13. the novel came

waaaay before the game (i think, not sure, could be wrong but i think it was originally published in 1985-6) and if you find a copy get me one too, Please, and have you played parasite eve 2?

[WindRavenX]

15. haven't played PE 2

I did hear that it wasn't nearly as good as PE...the graphics seemed to be better though (not that it matters).

[7th_Sephiroth]

16. waaaaay off from the story of the original

but still decent

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. That would be the common leech.

Also known as the "ambulance chaser" or, more formally, Judicus vulgaris v. Americanus. And it seems that they keep multiplying. It's really getting out of hand.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. WalMart

If I were a Freeper, I'd say it was the unmarried crack-addicted limo-riding welfare queen with 13 children from 13 different men.

But as a liberal, I have to say WalMart. Or it could be Halliburton. Or even Ken Lay.

Or perhaps the biggest parasite is ToiletBrain.

So hard to tell.

[wickerwoman]

10. Britney Spears?

She definitely sucks.

If you mean literally there's this species of fly here in China. I had a run in with one when I was buying fried rice at an outdoor market. It was dark so I didn't really see it but as I was walking home I had hives erupting the whole length of my arm. It bit me about eight places before I even noticed. I could actually feel the swelling from the bites. I had fingers like sausages and they itched like hell for the better part of an hour.

[JCMach1]

14. Where are TICKS on the list....?

God I hate them...

[St. Jarvitude]

17. Freepers

There's no "Other" option, so i just picked Crabs :shrug:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. Art critics!

:mad:

[Mr.Green93]

19. Dermatobia hominis

[sniffa]

20. conservative underground

[AngryAmish]

21. Bot Flies

Adult bot fly grabs mosquito and lays eggs on mosquito. Mosquito bites you. Egg is deposited in the wound of the mosquito. Bot Fly MAGGOT grows in your flesh. You can see it wiggling under your skin. It grows in flesh while you develop painful abscess until it reaches big enough size and then erupts through your skin and drops to the ground. It was the Animal that served as the inspiration for the beast in "Alien."

[jukes]

27. angry

i have a cat that was infested in his sinus cavity by a botfly larva. collapsed his right sinus cavity before he was rescued. had reconstructive surgery @ auburn u, but it didn't help much. they can do horrible damage.

[-..__...]

23. Candiru

"The candiru is one creature you definitely don't want to get too close to. Like many of the more than 2,000 species of catfish in the world (there are about 1,200 in South America alone), Vandellia cirrhosa possesses a set of barbels that resemble feline whiskers. But this diminutive specimen -- it is only about half an inch to three inches long -- has a rather dicey trait not shared with others in its family: It is the world's only vertebrate that parasitizes people. It can anchor itself in a most intimate part of the human anatomy, leading one jokester to dub it Urinophilus diabolicus. In English it is candidly known as the urethra fish, because it can actually swim up the urethra of an unsuspecting bather and lodge itself firmly in place by flaring sharp spines along its gills. Not only does this make for a most excruciating ordeal, but once embedded, the cold-blooded little terror can't be removed by anything short of surgery".


http://magazine.audubon.org/ask/9901.html

[SarahB]

24. Malaria

Still the biggest killer world wide. The Guinea worm is pretty gross too.

[Jack Rabbit]

25. Removed as redundant

See post number 1, above.

[bemildred]

26. You left out politicians. nt

[Burma Jones]

28. John Tesch