Glamcat
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 | 08:13 PM
What is this? Is it some kind of disease? Please explain, I can't read through that whole site. I'm so confused! :ohh: Would you mind putting it in a nutshell for me?
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Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 | 10:26 AM
The only info I can find on mercritis always comes back around that website. Got to be a hoax but it's so boring I can't even bring myself to read the whole thing. |
Nick
in Merrie Olde Englande
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 | 10:56 AM
Hoax! the front page gives it all away. The 'Mecritis riots of 1959' photo is wonderfully under-captioned; what the hell are we looking at? the title is the best though;
"Mecritis online...Lord help you my son"
Bizarre level of effort for something so pointless though. |
Creighton
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 | 05:34 PM
Not a hoax. Mercritis is an urban legend you hear about in the South. It's a campfire story that revolves around a riot in 1959 due to an outbreak of a rare disease that causes madness in women. I called my dad who said when he first heard about Mercritis the story was the same but the riot was 1859 not 1959 and as usual there was a huge cover up. Odd thing is if you sift through the forums at the site from the very beginning there must be thousands of posts from men saying they got it and then they make like they all got wiped out by it and the thing is... the posts span years and years. |
Glamcat
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 | 07:18 PM
So, it IS a hoax. What you're describing sure sounds like a hoax to me. Basically an Urban Legend that isn't true. HOAX.
Thanks for clearing this up.
My question is, WHO CARES?! This is a boring UL and a boring website! I agree with Charybdis, I can't even make it through the site.
Thank you. :blank: |
Hester
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 | 09:40 AM
This is real. My grandfather got killed by Mercritis Activated Rage in the 59 riot and by the way, it's basically a disease that makes beautiful women go insane with rage and it's a completely real phenomenon. |
Glamcat
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 | 10:00 AM
Only "beautiful" women? How does the disease know? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 | 10:19 AM
it's basically a disease that makes beautiful women go insane with rage
I think I have a variant strain of this disease except mine doesn't discriminate between women who are beautiful or otherwise. Sure got the "insane with rage" part nailed though. |
Hester
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 | 01:47 PM
"How does the disease know?"
1. The man eats lead based paint chips.
2. If this doesn't kill him, he develops Mercritis.
3. Then he emits a scent.
4. Certain women smell it and react on a harmonal level ("beauty" being somewhat harmonal) in what is called a MAR episode. (Mercritis Activated Rage).
5. If he doesn't live in seclusion, he will probably be murdered by a beautiful woman. |
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 | 07:12 PM
I've heard of this Mercritis and it's %100 true. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 | 09:56 PM
Oh, well that settles it then. Thanks so much. Everybody can go home now. :roll: |
Hester
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 | 03:45 AM
The world is a park and mercritis but a small sparrow. |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 | 12:55 PM
Clearly, it causes the subject to produce some chemical that can be safely secreted through the skin of a male, but that causes women to respond to the "harmonal" (probably hormonal) effects and attack the source of the chemical. What's not to believe? |
Ga
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 | 01:00 PM
So, why are these guys eating lead paint?
Since when is beauty hormonal (or "harmonal" as Hester so astutely put it)?
And, remember, as Aeon Fluxx taught us, "That which does not kill us makes us stranger." |
Myst
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 | 01:06 PM
Here is something real all guys should fear. Woman + PMS + Gun = really bad, run for your life. :lol: |
Hester
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 | 02:51 PM
"So, why are these guys eating lead paint?"
1. A fit of compulsive behavior.
or
2. A need for a moment that can't be taken back.
or
3. A self destruction drive.
or
4. A lack of snacks around the house. |
Nick
in Merrie Olde Englande
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 | 05:02 PM
Fools! lead paint tastes good |
Nick
in Merrie Olde Englande
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 | 05:03 PM
did i just say something 'tastes good'??
i think i must be reading too much american
oh my god; i over-punctuated. i need help. |
Katherine
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 | 01:08 PM
What would you say other than "tastes good"? "Tastes well"? Or it's just plain tasty? Scrummy? |
Maegan
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 | 01:41 PM
...I haven't been able to load the page. ...And Nick, other than commenting that "The food is delicious", "I like the way this tastes", how else, (other than "good") would food taste?
Is it just a British thing that food doesn't taste good? |
Hester
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 | 03:21 PM
I love British people and even though they are responsible for most Mercritis outbreaks they are also charming, well mannered and well, we just like 'em. |
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 05:35 AM
I just like:
"Mercritis a term that literally means Sea Refuge was originally coined in 1412 AD in a paper by botanist/surgeon Tornajo Mejia"
Which is bizarre because all the rest of the site (or the bits I could be bothered reading) seems to be properly punctuated.
I'm also quite fond of the poor photoshopping.
Anyway, I say hoax. And not a particularly interesting one, at that. |
Creighton
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 11:56 AM
What's with people slapping a hate on a hoax? I mean how would it feel to be a Hoax, walking down the street, just trying to make something of yourself and right when you make the move to stand out and be a successful hoax someone's got slap a hate on you, like "oh, you ain't a fun hoax" or "you're not an entertaining hoax." Imagine how torn down that poor hoax has to feel. Mercritis, we apologize, now, you go spread your wings and fly,
Creighton |
Charybdis
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 01:09 PM
Oh my, I dearly hope that I have not ever offended any hoaxes out there with my bigoted antihoaxism. If I have then I sincerely appologize. I never realized how racist I was until Creighton opened my eyes. I feel that to atone I must adopt an orphaned hoax and raise him according to his own belief system without disparagement. Now I have to find a suitable hoax. Any suggestions? |
Glamcat
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 02:06 PM
Oh Creighton, "sniff, sniff" my eyes too have been opened to see my bigotry of this poor little hoax. I feel aweful for the hate I feel towards it. It's not it's fault that it's incredibly inane and boring, that it's hard to even look at the site for more than 2 seconds before clicking off. Oh, Mercritis! I'm so sorry for hating you!
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Hester
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 04:45 PM
I thought the part on Managing Mercritis Pain was excellent along with the Mercritis Poetry from the Mercritis boards, so Creighton, maybe you're right, maybe Mercritis shouldn't hide its light under a bush. Please tell Mercritis we're sorry.
Hester |
BugbearSloth
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 05:49 PM
"I survived Mercritis and all I got was this lousy forum post." |
Creighton
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 07:34 PM
Mercritis is the puppy of all hoaxes and I know you wouldn't ridicule or kick a puppy, would you? |
Ga
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 08:29 PM
Good God, Nick! Get ahold of yourself! If you keep this up, why, you'll be kicked out of Englishland for sure! It'll be awful! You'll be American, and forced to eat French fries, English muffins, and apple pie with the kind of reckless abandon that only Americans have! *And* you'll over-punctuate! Run, Nick, run! Get help! Eat scones and sing "God Save the Queen" while wearing a kilt and drinking a hot toddy!
You'll feel better after the hangover wears off, I promise. |
Ga
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 | 08:32 PM
*sings* Everytime I go downtown, somebody kicks my dog around... |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 | 09:04 AM
<a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=864">http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=864</a>
Keep reading. It's in there. |
X
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 | 09:34 AM
If you eat the non lead paint chips,Beautiful women will chase you for other reasons!!!! 😜
I have not yet tried this theory out, but I'm certain it will work. It must. |
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 | 09:50 AM
I think you're confusing "good" and "well"- you wrote it correctly the first time. If you had typed that the food tastes well, you'd be implying the food has taste buds. |
Creighton
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 | 03:34 PM
So, we are all in accord and are experiencing great harmony; Mercritis is real and all is good. 😊 |
X
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 | 03:41 PM
ummmmmm, yeah. |
CAsey
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 | 07:36 AM
I think the website is at least a hoax, if the phenomena isn't, just because if you look under the link called Assistive Products, and then click on the deoderant, there's a rediculous testimonial. That's my two cents. |
Creighton
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 | 03:52 PM
I know what you mean, but I dug deep into the Mercritis forums, and discoved that "Mercritis Sufferers" rail against those ads in post after post. Apparantly they felt victimized by Mercaway because it just doesn't work and led to some of them getting gravely injured after applying the faulty product and then entering public like everything would be okay. |
