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Thanks for posting this!
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Gary DePersia, a top real estate broker in the Hamptons on Long Island's south fork, said once issues concerning environmental cleanup are settled, the possibilities for the island are nearly unlimited.
"It could make an awesome resort, with condos and room for a golf course," DePersia said. "We don't really have a major destination resort on eastern Long Island."
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Maybe they could make a Lyme Disease theme park - like Disneyland....?
Could you imagine? - a freakin' golf course...!
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John van Courtland Moon, an author and history professor emeritus at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts, said his research has found that animal testing for germ warfare was conducted at Plum Island in the 1950s.
"The problem is the stuff that went on is not available in the public record," he said. "Exactly what took place? I would imagine sheep, I would imagine goats and rats and rabbits" had been tested.
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I am reading Lab 257 right now. It's quite interesting and frightening.
I can't believe anyone would want to buy this island after what's been done to it and on it, especially for leisure activities for everyday people!
I certainly would steer clear from there.
Glad I don't live in Kansas! Though, who knows what goes on in our own backyards anywhere!
One comment after the article said it would be a good place for a Walmart! LOL!
Perhaps Wall Street could move there. ; )
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I think IDSA should build their headquarters there! Posts: 6286 | From Oregon | Registered: Jan 2006
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I like TerryK's idea.
After reading that link, all I got to say is that's plum crazy!! Lymetoo, I'm with you.
A plum crazier idea is moving the facility to Kansas!!! Yeah, make it a target right dab in the middle of the USA.
The people on that committee don't seem to be thinking clear, do they have "some kind" of brain fog?
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I worked for a co. similar to this one... won't mention the name since it's so not loved by us lymees( get the hint) any way, the things I saw were horrific, animals with amthrax and aids and rabbies and the list goes on then they were disposed of and the burning stinch was enough to make you want to hurddle.
All the chemicals dump right there in poools and sprayed on the land ...very scary.
There is NO possible way Plum land can be safe!!
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Oh, my word. Yet another reason not to trust our food supply, and to NOT eat beef!!! Poor Kansas!
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I like the idea of the IDSA having their headquarters there. They could call it plum dumb island!
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Plum Dumb Island: THE Adventure Theme Park for Children of ISDA members! Experience GIANT INSECTS up close while your parents attempt to bury even BIGGER problems in their new ever-so-contaminated headquarters!
Oh so grateful for the best belly laugh I've had in a while. Thanks sutherngrl, kadee, et al.
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I like Plum Dumb Island Adventure Theme Park too!! Ride on a giant tick! Hang on while braving a giant spirochetal rollercoaster! Meet Babs, Bart and Ehrl, our infectious staff! Meet our mad, mad, mad, mad Lab Workers!
Learn how to suck fake blood at our bloodcones confections stand! Leave singing our park theme song: Deer gotta swim, birds gotta fly (to Lyme CT)!
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Help! Robin, now I have air hunger from LMAO!
I heard "tick-its" for the Four-phase Spirochete Rollercoaster are already being scalped on eBay.
Another booth near the Bloodcones Confections stand is more popular this summer than Old Faithful:
Quench your air hunger by watching ISDA panelists blow a lotta hot air about their own ignorance!
Then pet a porpoise with a Bartonella henselae infection before the next act of the Flea Circus and other Biting Vectors Show!
Eat all the high-fructose, low-fiber carbs you want, all day AND all night!
Ignore your bedtime, forever!
Stay mired at Plum Dumb Island Adventure Theme Park!
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quote:Originally posted by Sick Tick: Oh, my word. Yet another reason not to trust our food supply, and to NOT eat beef!!! Poor Kansas!
Sick Tick, I heard they wanted to move the lab to Kansas since they'd already created flying monkeys with LD anxiety and wicked witches with Lyme rage.
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With a nod to randibear, and a warning my humor is getting darker:
Plum Dumb Island Adventure Theme Park also features BIG DUCKS with BIG NUMBERS!
The traditional, well-loved carnival game is updated here with bulkier ducks to challenge upper body strength in the immuno-challenged!
ISDA members' children can try grabbing at a scant few rubber duckies floating by to see what "prize" they'll be awarded. The number on the bottom of the duck is the number of months a child will be in bed & out of school before he or she can have Mommy take them to a LLMD. Only double-digit numerals are used on the Plum Dumb Island ducks!
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An added feature to Plum Dumb Island is a petting zoo(for children and grandchildren of IDSA members only). Very prestigious!
You may leave your children here for a day of "hands on" education and fun filled activities involving lab animals and ticks.
Children will be allowed with supervision to actually handle lyme infected ticks with no fear of infection or long term effects.
We here at Plum Dumb Island uphold with the utmost honor the guidelines laid out by the IDSA.
If for some reason your child does present with any symptom of Lyme Disease after leaving the park, you can rest assured it is only in their head. No treatment is neccessary.
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quote:Originally posted by Remember to Smile: [/qb]
I heard they wanted to move the lab to Kansas since they'd already created flying monkeys with LD anxiety and wicked witches with Lyme rage. [/QB][/QUOTE]
Perfect - Dorothy needs some healing and goes to the wizard for help, who turns out to be an IDSAer, her companions need a healthy heart and healthy brains, Toto is sick and in need of a vet, the munchkins are everyone who needs to be freed, etc.
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Children will be allowed with supervision to actually handle lyme infected ticks with no fear of infection or long term effects.
We here at Plum Dumb Island uphold with the utmost honor the guidelines laid out by the IDSA.
If for some reason your child does present with any symptom of Lyme Disease after leaving the park, you can rest assured it is only in their head. No treatment is neccessary.
Good one!
Robin and Smile.. you're too funny!
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Come watch variety shows, headlined by the Tickettes, with eight legs a-kickin', followed by the Symptoms showcasing various body ailments and mental aberrations,
then the 30-member chorus presenting the 30-days-treatment-you're-fine song sung to "I Feel Pretty" (I feel treated, oh so treated, etc).
Lymetoo, you started off yet another fun thread - can we fit the chicken in here somewhere?
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IDSA members dunking tank...throw that big tick, via sling shot at the big tick target and watch the IDSA member fall in the tank of ticks.
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"It could make an awesome resort, with condos and room for a golf course," DePersia said. "We don't really have a major destination resort on eastern Long Island."
Mark my words, Plum Island will become a destination-du-jour, that will be unaffordable to most. It will ultimately be inhabited by millionaires who are ignorant regsrding TBD.
The easternmost part of LI has barely a chance of being acknowledged as a major source of tick-borne disease.
This area of our country is by all accounts,a MAJOR tourist destination as well as an area infected by tick-borne disease.
IMO, no one in power will EVER acknowledge this.
There is waaay too much money spent on Hamptons home rentals on the south fork and mucho dinero spent on winery events on the north fork.
If anyone connected to a business on the north or south forks of eastern LI who has been affected by LD or has an interest in raising awareness and/or participating in a fundraiser, please PM me.
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Don't any of these folks ever get bit, or is it just that we don't hear about it? Or is it that they have the money to get quietly treated? Or are they as much in the dark as anyone? What's the story on those living on eastern Long Island?!
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While your children are getting an education at the petting zoo, IDSA members can visit the latest exclusive club, called "Club 257". Its the hottest addition to Plum Dumb Island.
Of course it serves an array of drinks. The specialty drink is of course a margarita with LYME. Made with tequila that of course includes a WORM. Drink and be merry as you dance to the sounds of extremely loud music performed by the famous IDSA band "Three Dumb Ducks"(three dog night).
Fine dine in the adjoining resturant that serves the finest seasoned steaks on the island called "Bum Steers". They raise their own beef right here on the island. They also serve venison and duck.
Finish the night with a romantic stroll along the beach front while drinking a glass of island made wine; made from grapes that have been genetically modified from soil that was brought to the island back in the early 1970s. Guidelines for making this wine were set by IDSA members themselves.
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quote:Originally posted by MDW005: IDSA members dunking tank...throw that big tick, via sling shot at the big tick target and watch the IDSA member fall in the tank of ticks. [/QB]
oh! That would be FUN!!!
Robin.. the chicken had to cross the road in order to get to the ferry for Plum Dumb Island.
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quote:Originally posted by sutherngrl: [QB] While your children are getting an education at the petting zoo, IDSA members can visit the latest exclusive club, called "Club 257". Its the hottest addition to Plum Dumb Island.
Of course it serves an array of drinks. The specialty drink is of course a margarita with LYME. Made with tequila that of course includes a WORM. Drink and be merry as you dance to the sounds of extremely loud music performed by the famous IDSA band "Three Dumb Ducks"(three dog night).
Fine dine in the adjoining resturant that serves the finest seasoned steaks on the island called "Bum Steers". They raise their own beef right here on the island. They also serve venison and duck.
Classic!
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originally posted by Lymetoo....... the chicken had to cross the road in order to get to the ferry for Plum Dumb Island.
Lymetoo, thats a good one!
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quote:Originally posted by MDW005: IDSA members dunking tank...throw that big tick, via sling shot at the big tick target and watch the IDSA member fall in the tank of ticks.
Thanks MDW005! We took your popular idea to a foggy consultation with an exhibit designer in remission.
The suggestion was made to have a live hawker stationed at this booth. Most IDSA panelists are accustomed to spouting off and would suit:
"Dunka-Duck! Come try Dunka-Duck!
"Dunka-Duck! Try yer crippled hands at DUNKA-DUCK!
Step right up and put your pain-free limbs to the test!
That's right, Sonny, just fit this big, friendly live tick into the sling shot and aim for that biiiiig picture of the mindless Worm on the target. Yup!
Huh? Of course this tick isn't one of the mere 10 percent that have ever carried pathogens, ya' silly jokester!
Okay, pull back, and...
WOW! Another IDSA Duck slymes RIGHT into the Co-infection Cocktail tank!
And, WOW! Those pathogens are tenacious little 'ketes and rods aren't they? We've even got 'em engineered to live in HIGH heat now, not like back when I was a kid...
Makes ME wanna go on break now for a cool Co-infection Cocktail at Club 257... Hey, kid, ask your mom if she knows when The Symptoms are doin' their next flare in The Flea Bag Lounge. I shur hope the florescent lights will still flicker by the time I get there!"
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- I think the IDSA and Plum Island graduates must have gotten some kind of secret immunity. It just baffles me that this whole group of lyme-deniers has not been personally affected. -
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Don't any of these folks ever get bit, or is it just that we don't hear about it? Or is it that they have the money to get quietly treated? Or are they as much in the dark as anyone? What's the story on those living on eastern Long Island?!
I think they're as much in the dark as the rest of us. Burrascano no longer sees patients, and that leaves only one LLMD on eastern LI, and from what I've heard, he's very conservative when it comes to treatment.
Does anyone watch "Housewives of NYC"? I tune in to these Bravo series and wish I had their problems.
Anyway, all these women have condos in Manhattan, NY and summer homes in the exclusive Hamptoms area of southeastern NY. Jill's daughter has some kind of arthritis and from what I remember Ramona's daughter has some kind of issue as well.
And southerngrl says
"Finish the night with a romantic stroll along the beach front while drinking a glass of island made wine; made from grapes that have been genetically modified from soil that was brought to the island back in the early 1970s. Guidelines for making this wine were set by IDSA members themselves.
OMG...how scary is that?? The wines made in LI are distributed throughout the northeast (at least). Then again so are the wines from Sonoma and Napa Valley in CA. (But thankfully LD does not exist in Norther CA....NOT!)
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Oh, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!! Just now seeing these posts. What a FUN place it will be, this dumb plum island....and once Kansas is ruined thanks to the big move, there can be a midwest dumb theme park too!!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Sick Tick: Oh, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!! Just now seeing these posts. What a FUN place it will be, this dumb plum island....and once Kansas is ruined thanks to the big move, there can be a midwest dumb theme park too!!!!
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Oh, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!! Just now seeing these posts. What a FUN place it will be, this dumb plum island....and once Kansas is ruined thanks to the big move, there can be a midwest dumb theme park too!!!!
Well aside from being totally clueless and messing up a response to your post,
I would appreciate it if you could elaborate on the Kansas connection.
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Alana - I think they're thinking of moving a research institute to Kansas similar to what Plum Island had.
If so, clear the birds, clear the deer, clear the rodents, clear the people, since we have an inkling of what happened with PI...just put a very large dome over it all -
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Robin.. the chicken had to cross the road in order to get to the ferry for Plum Dumb Island. [/QB]
Hey, the chicken and its friends all originated on Plum Island! - see the chicken crossing the road in off-topic
if the chicken is crossing the road to get to the plum island ferry, it is returning to its roots - is it ready for a nostalgic summer vacation? Are they willing to go visit the Plum Dumb amusement park?
I think they're all still playing baseball in an Indiana baseball field loaded with blue-dyed ticks from the March madness basketball showdown.
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Not on a funny note, but some food for thought:
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What's the latest development on the Midwest Plum Dome Misadventure Park in Kansas?
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Has anyone near NYC been keeping up with this?
quote:Originally posted by kadee:
quote: Maybe they could make a Lyme Disease theme park - like Disneyland....?
With GIANT INSECTS When you scroll down you find ticks.
Has the contract been awarded yet for fabrication of the GIANT INSECTS for Plum Dumb Island Adventure Theme Park for the grandkids of IDSA Guideliners? What about the Tissue Hide-Out?
I think this project would be integral to economic stimulus and ultimate recovery, at least for the East Coast...
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Don't forget to pick up our soundtrack at the gift shop!
CD- only 57 dollars!
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