Foreigners carry disease; you should carry Lysol

[snopes]

Comment: A MATTER OF CONCERN

My Son was Home this weekend. He travels for the Company he works for.
Last week, all traveling employees were told to keep Lysol with them at
all times. Theres a new disease brought in by foreigners that starts out
like small whiteheads on the skin. They were told to spray every John and
Motel room that they used or stayed in, to spray sheets and even carpets.
Lysol will kill this Germ. Disease gets in Blood and Surgery is required
to get rid of it. If you don't go for help, this disease will kill.
Please take caution and keep Lysol with you. Please pass this to everyone
on your email list.

[Avril]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: A MATTER OF CONCERN
Disease gets in Blood and Surgery is required
to get rid of it. If you don't go for help, this disease will kill.

How can surgery remove things from your blood? Short of a transfusion (and even that, it would seem, would not be completely effective), I can't see what they could do to get diseases out of the bloodstream.

Avril

Originally Posted by snopes

Theres a new disease brought in by foreigners that starts out like small whiteheads on the skin.

Which foreigners? After all, aren't we all foreign? Heck, wasn't this guy the one traveling and therefor a foreigner?

Originally Posted by snopes

They were told to spray every John

Nice! Lysol scented johns for the prostitutes.

Originally Posted by snopes

Disease gets in Blood and Surgery is required to get rid of it.

So what does this Disease do to your Blood that requires Surgery? Does it make masses in the Blood? If not, that would be one heck of an intricate Surgery to remove infected Blood.

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: A MATTER OF CONCERN
My Son was Home this weekend. He travels for the Company he works for.

If he's travelling it's not the foreigner's fault is it?

[Eddylizard]

Perhaps in his inept way, the commenter is pointing out that surgery is required to remove the lesions or whatever. All but the most minor surgeries require some blood replacement by transfusion, and you cannot trust blood in 'foreign places' not to be tainted with something worse.

Other than that I've got nothing.

[Cervus]

Originally Posted by Lee Orac

Nice! Lysol scented johns for the prostitutes.

Damn, you stole my line.

[Eddylizard]

"Hi Mr. Lizard. Thank you for travelling all this way to meet us. My name's Joh..." [hiss] "...aaargh, myNFBSKing eyes. It burns."

"Sorry John. Company policy. Now let's go over the Reddison contract."

[moonfall]

What's the name of this so-called disease? "Acne?"

Oddly enough, I HAVE been sick two out of the three times I left the country. Given the fact that I suffer from allergies and sinus infections no matter where I am, it isn't saying much.

[Esprise Me]

Apparently the Writer of this letter learned Capitalization from James Frey. Perhaps he learned Fact Checking from him, too.

[Wolf333]

Originally Posted by Tarquin Farquart

If he's travelling it's not the foreigner's fault is it?

And if he is travelling to foreign places, is he not the foreigner?

[Eddylizard]

I could be wrong, but isn't there an STI that starts out with whitehead type things on the old fellah?

Perhaps the son should have made a more appropriate decision when choosing the 'local entertainments'. Nice try though blaming on the sheets, carpets and toilet seats.

[snopes]

Mirgant workers go to the United States with dreams of new prosperity, hoping to bring back dollars. But they are bringing back something else as well, HIV and AIDS, and they are spreading them in the rural parts of Mexico least prepared to handle the epidemic.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/16/news/mexico.php

[Floater]

This is, of course, viral marketing for Lysol®.

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by Wolf333

And if he is travelling to foreign places, is he not the foreigner?

Those foreigners, going abroad, spreading disease...

My guess is that this is a terrific morphing of a couple of news stories. One is reported here Hotel guests leave plenty of germs behind. Basically, the study determined that people with colds could leave a lot of virus behind when they check out of a hotel room. The study was sponsored by, ahem, Reckitt Benckiser Inc., "which manufactures, markets and sells household, cleaning and specialty food products in North America, including LYSOL®."

The second part is a spate of recent articles on bed bugs as a resurgent problem in US hotels. An example Bed Bugs Lurk in Hotel Rooms

Originally Posted by Floater

This is, of course, viral marketing for Lysol®.

Wow. I think you won this thread.

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

"Hi Mr. Lizard. Thank you for travelling all this way to meet us. My name's Joh..." [hiss] "...aaargh, myNFBSKing eyes. It burns."

"Sorry John. Company policy. Now let's go over the Reddison contract."

Dang it! You beat me to it!

The only thing to add is:

"Hi, my name is J----, I'm sorry, are you Canadian or American?"
"American."
"Hi, my name is Henry....."

[Gayle]

Of course, if they're Greek, you should use Windex

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: A MATTER OF CONCERN

My Son was Home this weekend. He travels for the Company he works for.
Last week, all traveling employees were told to keep Lysol with them at
all times. Theres a new disease brought in by foreigners that starts out
like small whiteheads on the skin. They were told to spray every John and
Motel room that they used or stayed in, to spray sheets and even carpets.
Lysol will kill this Germ. Disease gets in Blood and Surgery is required
to get rid of it. If you don't go for help, this disease will kill.
Please take caution and keep Lysol with you. Please pass this to everyone
on your email list.

Oh No, I think I caught the Disease! The symptoms seem to be Randomly Capitalizing Words for No Apparent Reason. I have also Started Calling my bathroom a John, which seems Rather Peculiar...

-Tim

Originally Posted by Gayle

Of course, if they're Greek, you should use Windex

YOMANK!!!!

I forgot about the wonders of Windex...that'll cure anything!