What Makes Me Laugh

Got a flu shot today (the regular kind) so had to post this photo my sister e-mailed me. It’s Swine Flu paranoia gone too far. And I had to laugh.

Thanks to Ken for commenting on my Fline Swu post and clearing up the mystery about the mispronunciation of Swine Flu on SNL in 1976: ” SNL veteran Jane Curtain was doing the SNL news satire, and she briefly bobbled the “Swine Flu Shot” story, saying ‘F-Swine Flu’… or Fline Swu! A good and funny [...]

   In trying to find the original skit about “fline swu” on SNL in 1975-76 I did find an episode with Dyan Cannon, Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd that uses swine flu in the plot. It aired on May 15, 1976 at the end of the first season of Saturday Night Live. Thanks to the [...]

Vintage Swine Flu PSA | Viral | SPIKE.com I spent several hours on the Internet tonight trying to track down a video clip or transcript of a Saturday Night Live skit about Fline Swu (or Swine Flu) from 1975. Doug swears that’s where the nickname for Swine Flu  came from and I’m dying to see [...]