What to call my friend with leprosy
What to call my friend with leprosy
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#0What to call my friend with leprosy
Posted: 10/27/06 at 9:37pm
Need help from the creative folks here at BWW...
A circle of friends and I have nick names for each other. My one friend just was diagnosed with leprosy and said to change his nickname to "tiger" But I want to be more creative that that...
What should his new nickname be? I don't want to use anything common and am having trouble thinking of something new...
Whatcha' think?
#1re: What to call my friend with leprosy
Posted: 10/27/06 at 9:38pmWhat a brilliant way to get all the other similar threads deleted.
#2re: What to call my friend with leprosy
Posted: 10/27/06 at 9:40pm
Exactly, Rath.
Besides, the parodies have run their course.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#3re: What to call my friend with leprosy
Posted: 10/27/06 at 9:41pm
I've noticed that when someone makes a completely DUMB thread (like the one that CapnHook made...well all of his threads are dumb) people make parodies of them...like the horoscope ones....there are so many others that they all end up getting deleted.
That was my strategy.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#4Father Damien
Posted: 10/27/06 at 10:08pm
"Leprosy" is not a PC term for the disease any more. It is called Hansen's disease.
It was a big problem in Hawaii in the old days. Not until they got medicine to cure tuburculosis did they realize they had also found one that would arrest leprosy. There are still some aged "lepers" or Hansen's disease patients who live on Molokai.
He was a Catholic priest who devoted his life to taking care of the outcast "lepers" in the "leper" colony on Molokai. He built a church, took care of the children and everyone there (it was a horrid place people only went to die). He alone dug 2000 graves. Ships would honor him and his colony by sounding their horns to him as they passed for he became famous as he fought for better treatment of the "lepers" there.
He finally caught and succumbed to the disease, though Caucasians are less likely to catch it, they have more resistance. The Hawaiians and Chinese got it bad. He is being canonized as a saint and they returned his remains to Belgium to honor him, as that's where he was from.
When they unearthed his remains, his face was still visible, he did not decompose or putrify, one of the charisms or signs of a saint.
So I suggest you call your friend "Father Damien," a very nice nickname indeed.
#5Father Damien
Posted: 10/27/06 at 10:10pm
gee kid tough sincerely hope nose doesn't fall off love
(it costs extra after 10 words)
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