[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 19 17:53:01 UTC 2020


>   sales of Corona beer are up 5%

Quod remedium. Id omnes sciunt!

IL

(But seriously, soaks, shouldn't beer sales be up more than that? I blame
covid.)



On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:48 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Mar 19, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Regardless, the more apt translation is "The disease, not the beer."
> >
> > JL
>
> Apparently consumers are still able to distinguish the two.  Contrary to
> some reports, sales of Corona beer are up 5%, not sharply down, since the
> outbreak and naming of the eponymous virus, according to both snopes.com
> and factcheck.com, although some consumers have expressed a reluctance to
> order it in public.  (The opportunities for ordering anything in public are
> themselves on the decline, of course.)
>
> So reports of a steep sales downturn for Corona are as urban legendary as
> the claims of problems for the Chevy Nova in Mexico and Central America.
>
> --LH (who would order Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo IPA aboard a submarine)
>
> P.S.  Speaking of urban legends, some of you will recall the Blackout Baby
> Boom hoaxes of the 1960s and 1970s (cf.
> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/from-here-to-maternity/). I wonder if
> nine months from now (plus or minus) there will be a boom or bust in the
> maternity wards—I could see arguments both ways.
>
>
>
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:56 AM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> For us plebeians, Gtrans says
> >> Chronic disease, it is not beer,
> >> If you try to stay! "(Said Julius Caesar)
> >> Dung, man! What are you trying to say? (said Varrhenius  Cerevesarius)
> >> Well said Ionatana!
> >> Speculative Grammar written by Marcus Mandelensis
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:29 AM Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Quid, me anxius sum?"  - Alfr. E. Neumannus
> >>>
> >>> JL
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:17 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> "Si conamini, prohibebo!" (ait Julius Caesar)
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:45 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Stercus, vir! Quid conaris loqui? (ait Varrhenius Cerevesarius)
> >>>>>
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> to
> >>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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> >>
> >> a
> >>
> >> Andy Bach,
> >> afbach at gmail.com
> >> 608 658-1890 cell
> >> 608 261-5738 wk
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