Dinosaur Comics ([info]dinosaurcomics) wrote,
@ 2008-05-05 05:36:00
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for more information on these diseases, i, um, i made comics about them

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001216.html


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May 1st, 2008: Chris "Reprographics" Yates has a new book out for sale that looks pretty great! Reprographics is a fun comic because all this crazy stuff happens in it, but it's a photo comic, so you know that Yates was out there actually doing this stuff. It makes me say, Yates, you so crazy!

Also your friend and mine Jason Eppink has made some more cool stuff: check out his twenty-first century campfire. I also like his A Group Of Images And One That Does Not Belong (2) (3) (4).


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[info]xjustkidding
2008-05-05 01:24 pm UTC (link)
For more weird disease and disorders, read The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales.

It. Is. Badass.

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[info]tired_spirit
2008-05-05 02:11 pm UTC (link)
I keep meaning to read that; Oliver Sacks is a very engaging author and presenter.

A lot of the stuff that was happening to me while I was growing up made a lot more sense to me after I read Migraine... I hadn't realised that migraines covered so much ground until I read that.

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[info]marilyn_moore
2008-05-05 05:57 pm UTC (link)
that book is awesome.

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[info]alaitallon
2008-05-06 05:16 am UTC (link)
I was JUST thinking about that (or, rather, prosopagnosia in particular!)

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[info]glenniebun
2008-05-05 01:34 pm UTC (link)
Tell me about it. I'm eternally squicked out by mental diseases you don't even realize you have.

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[info]kinokofry
2008-05-05 02:26 pm UTC (link)
Hey dude, I asked God basically the same question just yesterday and this was his answer.

I'm satisfied.

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[info]feuillu
2008-05-05 04:22 pm UTC (link)
I like your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

(In other words, I'm friending you. Hope you don't mind. :)

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[info]lola_joan
2008-05-06 03:23 pm UTC (link)
ditto :)

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[info]isthatjamie
2008-05-05 02:35 pm UTC (link)
The comic mentions crying, and then there's Chris "Reprographics" Yates below. Conspiracy?!

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[info]uozaki
2008-05-05 05:08 pm UTC (link)
Yes!

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[info]masshysteria
2008-05-05 03:33 pm UTC (link)
my favorite weird-ass disease is fatal familial insomnia... where you can't sleep until you slowly go insane and then die.

fun times!

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[info]qwantz
2008-05-05 03:44 pm UTC (link)
holy crap

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[info]wavingtoanimals
2008-05-05 04:21 pm UTC (link)
That shit is whack.

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[info]buboniclou
2008-05-05 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Whiggidy whack?

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[info]mithent
2008-05-05 04:50 pm UTC (link)
Definitely more than regular type.

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[info]gezellig_girl
2008-05-05 04:48 pm UTC (link)
OMG ME TOO!

I tried telling people how awesome "The Family That Couldn't Sleep" was and they were all backing away slowly. PRION DISEASES ARE THE NEW YOGA, PEOPLE.

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[info]tobysionann
2008-05-05 08:28 pm UTC (link)
Prions are weird! I was just reading about mad-cow disease the other day...eeeeewwwwwwww, prions

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[info]mandydax
2008-05-06 12:43 am UTC (link)
I want a Prion. I hear hybrids get awesome gas mileage.

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[info]sammka
2008-05-05 05:21 pm UTC (link)
but it's really not familial, it came from them all eating each other

!!!!!!!!

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[info]trempnvt
2008-05-05 05:37 pm UTC (link)
Ahhh I kept reading that as "fetal familial insomnia" and I just did not understand.

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[info]alaitallon
2008-05-06 05:18 am UTC (link)
And I kept reading what YOU wrote as "fecal familial insomnia" and got even more confused. It's like one big, crazy game of "Telephone!" XD

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[info]boxer_the_horse
2008-05-06 03:14 am UTC (link)
HEY DUDE, CHECK OUT YESTERDAY WHEN I ALREADY MENTIONED THAT.

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[info]mandydax
2008-05-06 03:41 am UTC (link)
I thought I was just having déjà vu again.

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[info]boxer_the_horse
2008-05-06 04:04 am UTC (link)
Admittedly I forgot its name. BUT I REMEMBERED ABOUT THE PRIONS.

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[info]quesrah
2008-05-05 03:47 pm UTC (link)
My favorite little-known disease is Maple Syrup Urine Disease, because it is exactly what it sounds like, and it is much worse than you'd think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup_urine_disease

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D:
[info]isthatjamie
2008-05-05 05:41 pm UTC (link)
That disease name is deceptively tragic!

(Also: Corner Gas! Whoo!)

Edited at 2008-05-05 05:41 pm UTC

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The answer to both questions: "Because I'm freakin' awesome!!"
[info]dontsayroscoe
2008-05-05 04:10 pm UTC (link)
Started out funny, got super depressing, and ended super funny.

Yet another exceptional Dinosaur Comic.

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Wait, I figured it out
[info]trempnvt
2008-05-05 05:37 pm UTC (link)
We live in a world where all these awful diseases exist <=> T-Rex walks around the downtown core naked

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"Because you touch yourself at night!"
[info]bienegold
2008-05-05 06:47 pm UTC (link)
An appropriate response to any hypothetical question.

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[info]annieamaryllis
2008-05-05 06:59 pm UTC (link)
For people who want to read about weird diseases that are presented in a funny manner, get The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have by Dennis DiClaudio.

Fatal familial insomnia, mentioned above, is in there. So's one of the health problems I have, cyclic vomiting syndrome. I'm not sure how reliable the research actually is (for example, cyclic vomiting syndrome is primarily, though not exclusively, a disease of childhood that often eases into migraines at puberty, which isn't terribly amusing), but that's understandable with something that tries to condense the details of diseases into short and amusing pieces.

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