Of bugs, and birthday presents

[jl_merrow]

My son has recently discovered Giant Plush Microbes and wanted to show me the website. So we spent ten minutes looking at the site: I thought swine flu was particularly cute, but I was also rather taken with three common cold microbes snuggling in a petri dish.

Then my son, who is 13 and ought to know better, announced: "I want to buy that one. Not for me. I just want to be able to tell everyone I gave my sister HIV for her birthday!"

Er, no.

Really, really... no.

Comments

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

*dies*

I think I like your son :)

ETA A Great temptation to get Jay's Dad penicillin for his birthday. He has The Name (yes, identical).

[jl_merrow]

Oh, that would be a fabulous gift! They're rather cute too, aren't they? :D

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Scary. But cute. Actually, that could describe both your son's humour and the plush microbes. Cute attack: did you see the plushy 'platelet' and the sperm cell? Awww.

[jl_merrow]

And kissing disease! With the eyelashes! ;D

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I love those plushies- and the swin flu made me laugh out loud at myu desk. (My colleagues who actually had the real life buggers weren't that amused. Oooops).

[jl_merrow]

Some people have no sense of humour... ;D

[torino10154]

LMAO! No.

[jl_merrow]

Thank God he mentioned it to me first... ;D

[dcjuris.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Classic. *So* classic! Loves it!

[jl_merrow]

*g* He'd be mortified if he knew I'd posted about it!

[taylor-lochland.livejournal.com]

Hehe, we have those at my work (I work at an educational institution). We're especially fond of throwing the "kissing disease" at each other and saying, "I gave you mono!"

The kids love them too. One of the brats even stole our strep throat! lol

[jl_merrow]

LOL! They're just all so adorable, aren't they? :D