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bigtree

(85,998 posts) Mon Nov 28, 2022, 11:48 PM Nov 2022

Mpox

...♫ 'ba duba dox' ♫

(♫ Can you tell me who will still care?
Can you tell me who will still care? ♫ )

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Mpox (Original Post) bigtree Nov 2022 OP

Today my daughter asked: "They couldn't vanlassie Nov 2022 #1

Reasonable question. However, historically there was a "Great Pox," which was syphilis... Hekate Nov 2022 #3

Reminds me of the old Pro Tools Mbox too. emulatorloo Nov 2022 #2

vanlassie

(5,675 posts)

1. Today my daughter asked: "They couldn't

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Mon Nov 28, 2022, 11:51 PM

Nov 2022

call it LargePox?”

Hekate

(90,714 posts)

3. Reasonable question. However, historically there was a "Great Pox," which was syphilis...

Reply to vanlassie (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 29, 2022, 01:40 AM

Nov 2022

For centuries it was a scourge on the sexually active and their partners, incurable, causing a variety of symptoms including madness in some, stillbirth and idiocy in newborns, and on and on. A diagnosis meant social ruin, and the end of marriage plans forever if you were honorable.

When Shakespeare wrote: “A pox on both your houses,” it was one helluva curse.

Penicillin — truly a miracle drug.

emulatorloo

(44,131 posts)

2. Reminds me of the old Pro Tools Mbox too.

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2022, 01:10 AM

Nov 2022

I had an Mbox Mini.

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