Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by:
annie (164.53.218.---)
Date: February 23, 2012 11:07PM
0) Technically Animal with chemical catalyst
1) Is it edible? No
2) Is it alive? Well, yes, it grew for a while.
3) Is it usually found indoors? Indoors, outdoors everywhere, while it lasts
4) Is it possible to see which kind of animal it was before the chemical catalysis? It doesn't exist prior to the chemical catalysis.
5) are we looking for a protein? I don't think so
6) Is it bigger than a breadbox? Cumulatively, yes but it would depend on the size of the host
7) Are people usually pleased to see it? No
8) Is it an illness or disability? yes
9) Is it hayfever? no
10 Is it the common cold? no, nor the uncommon cold
11) Is the illness/disability normally immediately identifiable on meeting a "victim?"yes indeed
12) Is it a rash? no
13) Is it possible to get a vaccination against it? No, but it is preventable
14) Is it a nasty little foot-pinching verruca? No, thankfully!!
15) Can you see at once if somebody is suffering with the great unknown? Depends on where the unknown it, but generally yes.
16) Is it SUNBURN?
The fair-haired and white skinned Australian woman can advise, on a 37 degree day, that the mystery item is, indeed, sunburn: something that I can say I have carefully avoided for many years.
Congratulation OB, your turn...