2004-04-09 - 12:14 p.m.

Clam up, Fucky. Listen to Agent Grillo's wisdum.

Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, and more, are all caused by der deadly micro-micro-microscopic Prions.

Prions is virtually indestructible. They cannot be destroyed by any amount of heat, fire, acid, rendering, autoclaving, etc. Once a Prion, always a Prion. Unlike viruses, they do not depend on a host to survive. They ain't even really alive, they're just a speck of mutant protein with no DNA. Burp.

Animal carcasses and by-products am routinely boiled, cooked, and incinerated at meat plants. When you is in Louieville's Butchertown, you can smell the lovely funk of hoofs and snouts boiling, ears and tails roasting, and fat being yummily rendered on its way to Hot Dog glory.

So.......... if Prions is not destroyed by such processesessesses, then, given that we now know that some Mad Cow Prions have crept into the U.S. meat supply, idn't it a statisticle certainty that somewhere out there, AIRBORNE PRIONS are being belched into our air? MY goddamn air that I'm supposed to be BREATHING?

Then again, Grillo (myself) already has Nasal Hepatitis, Irritable Tentacle Syndrome, G-bola, the Fantavirus, Swollen Gills, Dogpees Simplex Nine, Scurvo, Parvy, Infectious Orgo, Supergout, Fleabitis, Baseball Fever, Nippleworms, The Deadly Foot Asthma, Pathogenic Smegma, Grumpy Spaghetti Syndrome, Teeth Lice, Barfy's Disease, Dyspoopsia, Glottal Fungus, Butt-itis, Spugna, Sharpie, Termites, Anal Influenza and the alien Yellow Oil.