Sinister: candida

[sad tomato]

now.  i am reading the plethora of digests i have received from you guys
recently, and i am only on #456.  so if i repeat something, please ignore me.

two days ago, scott said:

Okay, so the scientific name for "thrush" is "Candida albicans"- nasty oral
fungal infection yada, yada, yada. Well, the scientific name for the common
vaginal yeast infection is also "Candida" something or other. And, I'm no
doctor, just a smutoglogist, but I am almost positive that you can get
thrust from (here comes the smut) going down on someone who has a yeast
infection. Thus and therefore, making railings, well, i think you can use
your visual imagination.......


and, as a latinist, i would like to say something.  i used to be on the pulp
list a long long time ago, and we were talking about how really sad that
candida's parents named her candida.  a yeast infection!  well, anyway, in
latin, "candida" is a diminutive that means something like "sweet little
girl."  though, i cant find my dictionary right now, so i am not explicitly
correct.  for those old romans this was a nickname of sorts.  as it turns
out, candida is not too bad a name for a person.  well, maybe if you were
living centuries ago.

oh yeah.  i am not afraid to say that i have had yeast infections, as most
women have these at some point or other.  the reason i am saying this is
because my boyfriend never got thrush, and maybe you dont get thrush THAT way.
enough smut for ya??

a girl obsessed with names,
robin.

Blood oranges grow well in Florida, but they frighten American women.

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