what there weren't any sheep in europe back then???
Posted on 01/14/2008 5:31:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver
I am sure the bush was involved, somehow.
What will they blame on him next?
Anything and everything, of course.
Would not have been a problem, were it not that the sailing sinners fornicated around.
Some INFORMED scholars have submitted a more inclusive hypothesis on the history of Syphilis..
The Origins of Syphilis:
http://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/syphilis.html
Don't touch that! You KNOW where it's been!
PBS covered this a while back. And while they seem to have pretty good evidence that there were remote pockets of infection in Europe during pre-Columbian times, it is almost certainly true that the largest spread of the infections came after he returned to Europe.
And they had (PBS) discussed yaws and a few other related infections. Seems there are/were variants that almost all children got, acting with little more damage than chicken pox, and providing lifelong immunity to the more deadly venereal type.
what there weren't any sheep in europe back then???
Patient Zero was a gay Air Canada flight attendant. He brought the first case of AIDS to North America. I forget his name but I’m sure it could be Googled.
Don’t forget that they have the casinos now too. I guess it is their turn to get us drunk and steal from us.
Huh? Did you read the article you linked to?
“Syphilis, it seems, developed in the New World from yaws, perhaps 1,600 years ago, and was waiting for Columbus and his crew.”
And to think, he only knew about the islands in the Caribbean and never even suspect the continent of America.
What a STUD!
Don't forget cocaine.
***I thought it came back from the Middle East with returning crusaders. Maybe that was another STD.***
Lepersy.
They didn’t have condoms back in the time of Columbus?
In days of old
When knights were bold
‘Fore rubbers were invented,
They’d wrap a sock
Around their...
Oh, never mind...
Good one!I got my laugh for the day.
I stand corrected.... Thank you.
I quickly misread, and somehow jumped to the conclusion that Columbus was being blamed for spreading the disease to the pristine “New World” -—— KNOWING is just the other way around.. I’ve grown so accustomed to the evil white man being blamed for everything.....
It appears the fine and noble pristine “native Americans” spread the scourge throughout the world using “visitors” as carriers..
This was NOT a “white man’s” disease originally, by a “noble native’s” disease.......
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