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Can your flip-flops kill you?
msnbc.com ^ | Tues., Aug 18, 2009 | Laura T. Coffey

Posted on 08/18/2009 10:17:00 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe

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To: Wardenclyffe

Wouldn’t any shoe have the same amount of germs? Is there something different about a flip-flop? Were I to wear my tennishoes on the same route, I assume the same germs would be on them.


21 posted on 08/19/2009 12:01:18 AM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: Wardenclyffe

22 posted on 08/19/2009 12:01:36 AM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Wardenclyffe

(shivers!) If wearing Jandals is dangerous, imagine how lethal it could be to run around barefoot!!!

There ought to be a Law!


23 posted on 08/19/2009 12:15:15 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Yehuda

There’s something I never understood.

Stores have policies that require “Shirts and shoes”.

If somebody’s “shoes” expose most of their bare feet, why can’t *I* just go in totally barefoot and be happy?

[and how *small* a “shirt” can I get away with?]

:)


24 posted on 08/19/2009 12:16:56 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.........)
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To: Marie2

You’re just wearing the wrong shoes.

For the bajillionth time, I just saw the ad for “Obama Commemorative Sneakers”.
They come with a free basketball.

[I kid you not]

If those fugly things don’t repel *everything*, I’d be amazed.


25 posted on 08/19/2009 12:24:34 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.........)
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To: Wardenclyffe

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26 posted on 08/19/2009 12:29:52 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Wardenclyffe

Blue flip-flops are the national footwear of Taiwan.

Seriously.


27 posted on 08/19/2009 1:23:10 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I still think that running with a pair of scissors is more dangerous than wearing flip flops. I haven't done a government grant funded study yet though.

Ooh! Ooh! Do a study! Then you'll have a mobile running-with-scissors lab!

28 posted on 08/19/2009 1:37:14 AM PDT by roamer_1 (It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
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To: Wardenclyffe

This is preventative public health care in action.


29 posted on 08/19/2009 2:30:58 AM PDT by 2ndClassCitizen (We can reform all previous socialist systems, make welfare workfare.)
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To: smokingfrog

This is what American police will look like in a few years.

They will have their guns removed after they have disarmed/pacified the American public.


30 posted on 08/19/2009 2:34:02 AM PDT by 2ndClassCitizen (We can reform all previous socialist systems, make welfare into workfare.)
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To: Marie2

Wouldn’t any shoe have the same amount of germs?..etc..
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Ya Think?

You should know better than to try and bring logic into such a conversation.
Next thing “THEY” will be telling you to wash fruit before you eat it...or veggies straight out of the garden...
I know, they already do but “THEY” poison the earth with gazillion chemicals that ruin the taste of the food that comes out of it.....
Let’s see now...cover yourself with skin block several times a day and drink 2% milk and suffer the consequences of having Vitamin D deficiency.
When I do drink milk, it is of the Whole Vit D type, forget any sun block or sun tan lotion,


31 posted on 08/19/2009 2:56:44 AM PDT by xrmusn (VOTE THE INCUMBENTS OUT)
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To: stormer
When my doctor told me he thought I was a “binge” drinker I told him I thought that was an ugly word - I told him I prefer “spree”.

Isn't it a shame how they redefine normal behavior in order to stigmatize it?

Next thing you know, eating a whole pizza will be taboo.

32 posted on 08/19/2009 6:52:49 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Kenya? Kenya? Kenya just show us the birth certificate?)
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To: Wardenclyffe

BTW, NOT GUILTY!


33 posted on 08/19/2009 6:53:12 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Kenya? Kenya? Kenya just show us the birth certificate?)
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To: ThePanFromJapan

I know, I wash my flip-flops regularly just to keep them looking nice. Who knew I was washing all those dangerous germs off them? That said, wouldn’t it be beneficial that I can wash them regularly, as opposed to my work sneakers that have to traipse through all sorts of public transportation and semi-public restrooms?

Although, they should’ve checked a college student’s flip-flops. Would they be cleaner than usual from being worn in the dorm shower every day, or have more nasty germs than usual from being worn in the dorm shower every day?


34 posted on 08/19/2009 7:57:21 AM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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