17 Sure-Fire Treatments for Strep Throat

Each of these remedies offer a 99% guarantee that your strep throat will be gone within 5-7 days.

  1. Take three organic baby carrots and slice them in half long-wise using a carbon steel paring knife. Chew each half 50 times before swallowing. DO NOT SWALLOW THE LAST PIECE. Spit it out and grind it into the ground with your left buttock. This is particularly important as it replenishes your earth intonations.
  2. Place two wire curry brushes on the floor face up. Stand on the brushes for seven minutes while slowly humming random pitches covering your full vocal range. Be sure to slide between the pitches. Do this three times a day until symptoms abate or your feet hurt too much to continue.
  3. Strep throat can make your throat more reddish, be sure to counter this by eating lots of green foods.
  4. Strep throat can make your throat more reddish, be sure to eat foods that are reddish in color. The closer the match, the better.
  5. Sleep with your head pointing to the east. In fact you should have been doing this all along–not doing it is probably why you got strep in the first place. If you had already been sleeping with your head pointing east, you have a pre-existing critical imbalance in your gloaming carriage.
  6. Crystals.
  7. Clamp hemostats to both ear lobes until you no longer notice the pain in your throat. Do this until your eyes water. Repeat at least twice daily until the symptoms abate. Take ibuprofen or other analgesic for pain.
  8. Your energy field has become replexed. You should see a licensed retrologist to be thoroughly flummoxed. Continue treatments for at least six years after the initial cure to prevent recurrence.
  9. Spit into a sanitized, one quart, glass jar of pure distilled water. Seal and shake vigorously forty times up and down, then forty times side to side. While lying on your back, place the full jar on your belly for 30 minutes without letting it tip over. Empty the jar and sanitize by boiling in water for 20 minutes. Repeat daily until symptoms abate. Do not take internally!
  10. Streptococcus pyogenes is just an invention of the microscope industry or “Big Microscope”. Trust the combined 9,000 years of traditional European, Chinese, and Ayurvedic medicine: strep throat is actually a bilious humor disrupting the flow of chi between your third and fourth chakras.  Take an enema once daily.
  11. Shape a hollow-bottomed cone out of a corrugated cardboard (must be corrugated) that is big enough to fit snuggly on your head. Line the interior with aluminum foil. Wear the cone on your head as much as you possibly can. Make absolute sure that no light can enter through the top of the cone! This directs the heavenly signals into your head. The aluminum foil magnifies the energy.
  12. Take three unbleached recycled-paper napkins, two whole lemons and one large jalapeño pepper. Place them in a food processor with one cup water. Blend until smooth. Do not take internally.
  13. I knew someone who once had strep throat (or was it measles?) he walked backward for 3 hours each day. He either got better or he died. I can’t remember. Do this until symptoms abate or you die which ever occurs first.
  14. The germ theory of disease is only a theory. Teach the controversy!
  15. Take five minutes every 3 waking hours to visualize sphagnum angustifolium. Limit to no more than 9 visualizations a day.
  16. Make peppermint tea with clover honey. Smell the drink until it cools. Do not take internally. (The combination of the trefoil shape of the clover leaf with the vital frequency of peppermint are too powerful when your throat vibrations are disrupted).
  17. Seventeen is a prime number and is, incidentally, the numerological value of strep throat. Calculate the cubed root of 17 in your head. Symptoms should clear up either by the time you find the correct answer or shortly thereafter.

Whatever of the above treatments you may choose (combined with plenty of fluids and lots of rest), be sure to swear by it as the best treatment for strep throat. If the strep throat continues after 5-7 days you probably did not start the treatment in time. In very rare cases strep throat can lead to severe complications. While biomedicine only has empirical evidence to support its claims, it may be necessary to seek help from a doctor of evidence-based medicine. Taking an antibiotic to assist the body in combatting the infection is usually successful. Be aware, however, that antibiotics give off an Aquarian aura. Depending on the phase of the moon, this could be very dangerous!

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Ode to Allen Ginsberg

America, I don’t cry for you.

I’m tired.

I have corns, and the unbecoming putty is showing in the gloaming of the streetlight understudy. Your understudies! Your streetlights!

America, I don’t cry for you.

I’m sleepy.

Your noisy buttery spreads and your lilac larynxes jiggle in your sewer-trapped licorice wraps.

America, I don’t cry for you.

I’m cold.

Too many have sworn their shoes to the garbage heaps of shrieking shit-faced toad buckets.

America, I don’t cry for you.

I’m weary.

You paint your omelets with custard-green stainless monkey noodles, with cramped cock-sure cupcakes.

This is your mission. This is your goal. This is your purpose.

Stand up!

Stand up on your doghouse fashions.

Stand up on your banana powders.

Stand up on your pulpits of lovely, licentious, lobster leaves.

Stand up!

America, I don’t cry for you.

I don’t cry.

I don’t.

I.

Cry.

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Suggestions to Microsoft for Windows 8

(I originally posted this on Facebook for Windows 7, same rules apply)

Microsoft is preparing to release their next version of Windows Operating system this fall. Given the insufficient number of versions available for Windows Vista, I thought I might make some suggestions for more configurations. Everyone loves choice, so we should have more choices! This is partly inspired by the new **Windows Basic edition which will purportedly restrict the number of apps one can run to 6 or something.

[OEM=Original Equipment Manufacturer--Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc pay a significantly lower price for the Windows licenses that they sell with their equipment. You can sometimes buy OEM-priced versions of Windows from build-your-own PC parts vendors if you pay for some piece of hardware with your purchase such as a couple screws]

WINDOWS BASIC and NETBOOK EDITIONS

**Windows Basic Advanced
[allows 2 more apps to be installed over the Basic edition]
SRP $100/OEM $25

**Windows Netbook Edition
[fully featured, requires lifetime non-compete contract with users with ability to place liens on user property if in non-compliance--such as using Ubuntu--ankle bracelets included]
SRP FREE/OEM Microsoft pays panufacturer $300 per license in exchange for promise not to even think about any other operating system.

WINDOWS HOME EDITIONS

**Windows Home Advanced
[Shareware can be removed] $230/OEM $20

**Windows Home Basic Advanced
[Keyboard ready]
SRP $250/OEM $120

**Windows Home Premium Advanced
[Allows use of Google, Gmail, Yahoo, and non-microsoft apps]
SRP $350/OEM $349

**Windows Home Advanced Supra Extreme Limited
[Allows limiting of system tray reminiders to only "useful reminders"]
SRP $3700/OEM $1000

**Windows Home Secure Advanced Premium Limited “Lock Down Edition”
[Six anti-malware tools come permanently installed, no networking, no removable media, no USB Ports]
SRP $50/OEM $15

WINDOWS MULTIMEDIA EDITIONS

**Windows Multimedia Basic Advanced
[millions of colors]
SRP $200/OEM $110

**Windows Basic Multimedia Premium
[Allows use of the second half of a dual-core processor]
SRP $220/OEM $130

**Windows Multimedia Premium Advanced
[stereophonic sound]
SRP $275/OEM $195

WINDOWS BUSINESS EDITIONS

**Windows Business Basic
[printing]
SRP $200/OEM $130

**Windows Business Basic Limited
[networking peer-to-peer only]
SRP $225/OEM $160

**Windows Business Classic Advanced Basic
[shared file transmission size increased to 8K]
SRP $250/OEM $180

**Windows Business Basic Advanced Classic
[Ctrl-key Ready]
SRP $295/OEM $190

**Windows Simple Basic Advanced Premium Extended Limited
[Function Key ready]
SRP $300/OEM $200

**Windows Business Professional Advanced Extreme Extended Premium Limited
[File sharing comes standard]
SRP $375/OEM $275

WINDOWS CORPORATE EDITIONS

**Windows Corporate Advanced Client
[Client access license CAL for connecting to server half-price with purchase of 500 or more licenses]
SRP $500/OEM $300

**Windows Cloud Computing Edition
[Uses the new, hip term "Cloud Computing"--features will be added once the concept is understood. Any licensing fees Microsoft then develops for Cloud-related features will be included in the price of this edition.]
SRP $600/OEM $350

WINDOWS NON-PROFIT and SCHOOL EDITIONS

**Windows Non-Profit/Education
[Same as Windows Business Professional Advanced Extreme, Organizations are required to hire IT staff who demonstrate either an outdated view or a complete lack of awareness of other operating systems. Microsoft Licensing Specialist provided at significantly reduced rate!]
SRP Free for first dose, next dose is $10, subsequent doses increase $5/year per user, non-compete contract required same as Netbook Edition.

WINDOWS SERVER EDITIONS

Due to the 30 configurations available for **Windows Server, this will not be discussed here.

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