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"You have AIDS."
"NOOOOOOO."
"Don't worry, we have a cure."
"What?"
"Please turn on the DS and look at the screen. You can see a animal on there, right?"
"Yes."
"CONGRATULATIONS! you have cancer YOU'RE HEALED!

Just watch out for Nintendogs. Doctors enjoy the chance to use a placebo whenever possible.
 
...It comes out of a mother, you can't prescribe it.

I think you're getting Placebo and a Placenta confused.
placenta |pləˈsentə|
noun ( pl. -tae |-tē| or -tas )
1 a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.
2 Botany (in flowers) part of the ovary wall to which the ovules are attached.
ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from Latin, from Greek plakous, plakount- 'flat cake,' based on plax, plak- 'flat plate.'

placebo |pləˈsēbō|
noun ( pl. -bos)
a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect : his Aunt Beatrice had been kept alive on sympathy and placebos for thirty years | [as adj. ] placebo drugs.
• a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.
• figurative a measure designed merely to calm or please someone.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin, literally 'I shall please,' from placere 'to please.'
 
apparently, though I didn't start it.
perhaps we should change the subject to something a little less detailed.

so how 'bout them furrets? Aren't they cool? (much better than those stupid linoones and bibarels.
 
How does one go from placebo to furret...
Furret is alright. Fairly weak though.
 
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