soon after I was born, at the age of two, my parents gave me a chemistry set and a microscope (I was very precocious, erudite, etc. mozart has nothing on me). I began experimenting with ticks, testing the effects that different colors of play-dough had on their development.

I developed the perfect medium by mashing up some roly polies and adding a little bit of orange kool aid. when tested on one of my mates in pre-school, the ticks produced a bulls-eye rash, which seemed a convenient target for rubber band fights.

For large scale testing, I waited until my family took a summer vacation on the connecticut shoreline. I brought along my tick collection and set them loose on the world during a long and involved diaper change.

If I had known that the result of my naive experimentation would have been the disease we know today, I never would have experimented with these ticks. For that I am dreadfully sorry, but I know you all understand that I was just a little kid at the time and didn't understand the ramifications of my actions.

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Originally posted by Caryn:
my mother-in-law! she's behind it!

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hahahahahahahahahaha

I would say it's all of my inlaw relatives!

Yep, that's a bonafide AP article, courtesy of my yahoo health news digest.

It's all clear to me now. Alan Steere has been working for Michael Jackson all along, using remote-controlled ticks to infect likely candidates for sleepovers at Neverland Ranch, rendering them weak and vulnerable.

We don't want to get well. We're dirty lazy moochers.

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Originally posted by okie lyme:
Hitler did it

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Nope, you can't classify that one with the outrageous joky ones when you think that Hitler's top biowarfareman, Erich Traub, was on Plum Island after the war teaching the staff what he knew about OPEN-AIR tick experiments, and was even invited to be chief scientist!

You see, real life is always stranger than fiction.