"He says, "The 1918 Flu spread faster and was more deadly, killing more people than even the Plague and Black Death of the middle ages. Why does no one talk about it?" No one talk about it?? It's been on the news and in the papers for months."

IIRC, this article was from Feb/March of this year. I don't have TV -- was it in the news back then?

"I also beg to differ that Kleenex, Scotch Tape, and Xerox are 'generic names.' "

I suspect he meant "used generically", which they are.

I don't believe everything I read anywhere, even here. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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