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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #630 on: August 22, 2007, 11:59:39 AM »
I did take karate and I did reasonably well at that, though.
I never knew. How well?

It was Shotokan karate and I got up to a purple belt.

This was my last kata:

http://www.karate-psv-hattingen.de/images/Kata/Heian_Yondan_g.jpg

I did not have enough time to keep it up, unfortunately.  I was working on my Master's degree and that had to come first.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #631 on: August 22, 2007, 04:17:45 PM »
I did take karate and I did reasonably well at that, though.
I never knew. How well?

It was Shotokan karate and I got up to a purple belt.

This was my last kata:

http://www.karate-psv-hattingen.de/images/Kata/Heian_Yondan_g.jpg

I did not have enough time to keep it up, unfortunately.  I was working on my Master's degree and that had to come first.

Heh. I did Shotokan as a young 'un and got as far as purple belt too before I packed it in.  :swords:

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #632 on: August 22, 2007, 10:31:02 PM »
callaway, can you tell me about mary mallon, and why at one time she was the most feared woman in america?
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #633 on: August 22, 2007, 10:52:10 PM »
callaway, can you tell me about mary mallon, and why at one time she was the most feared woman in america?

Interestingly enough, I saw a television show about her yesterday.

She was a carrier of typhoid fever, even though she was never sick.

She was a cook, so she unwittingly transmitted typhoid fever to quite a few people before she was quarantined.

At that time, there were no antibiotics.  On the island where she was quarantined, the doctors wanted to remove her gallbladder, which can be a focus of typhoid fever bacteria, but she refused the surgery.  She never believed that she could be making people sick when she had never been sick herself.

When Mary Mallon was eventually released from quarantine, she was set up with a job as a laundress, which would not have caused people to be infected by her, but it was very difficult work at the lowest eschelon of domestic laborers.  A cook was much easier work and much higher status.  Since she did not believe that she made people sick, she sought a job as a cook in a hospital, and infected many more people before she was quarantined again, this time for the rest of her life.

Mary Mallon was also known as Typhoid Mary.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #634 on: August 22, 2007, 11:05:59 PM »
i watched the same story on the Nova channel.  ;D


i was thinking the entire time that the state of New York should have put her on and paid her disability to not work.  but i guess that was before welfare.
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #635 on: August 23, 2007, 06:00:18 PM »
I did take karate and I did reasonably well at that, though.
I never knew. How well?

It was Shotokan karate and I got up to a purple belt.

This was my last kata:

http://www.karate-psv-hattingen.de/images/Kata/Heian_Yondan_g.jpg

I did not have enough time to keep it up, unfortunately.  I was working on my Master's degree and that had to come first.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #636 on: August 23, 2007, 08:20:56 PM »
callaway, can you tell me about mary mallon, and why at one time she was the most feared woman in america?

Interestingly enough, I saw a television show about her yesterday.

She was a carrier of typhoid fever, even though she was never sick.

She was a cook, so she unwittingly transmitted typhoid fever to quite a few people before she was quarantined.

At that time, there were no antibiotics.  On the island where she was quarantined, the doctors wanted to remove her gallbladder, which can be a focus of typhoid fever bacteria, but she refused the surgery.  She never believed that she could be making people sick when she had never been sick herself.

When Mary Mallon was eventually released from quarantine, she was set up with a job as a laundress, which would not have caused people to be infected by her, but it was very difficult work at the lowest eschelon of domestic laborers.  A cook was much easier work and much higher status.  Since she did not believe that she made people sick, she sought a job as a cook in a hospital, and infected many more people before she was quarantined again, this time for the rest of her life.

Mary Mallon was also known as Typhoid Mary.

that's very interesting. :)

what an idiot. had she never heard of carriers? i guess not. but still, i mean it's a little odd to have people fall ill all around you. she could have still considered it and played it safe.

i wonder if there's ever been a Typhoon Mary.
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #637 on: August 23, 2007, 08:46:57 PM »
i wonder if there's ever been a Typhoon Mary.

Yes, there was a Typhoon Mary between June 3 and June 12 of 1960:

http://www.hko.gov.hk/informtc/no10/mary.htm


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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #638 on: August 24, 2007, 02:32:55 AM »
I did take karate and I did reasonably well at that, though.
I never knew. How well?
It was Shotokan karate and I got up to a purple belt.
This was my last kata:
http://www.karate-psv-hattingen.de/images/Kata/Heian_Yondan_g.jpg
I had a look at that and it looks complicated.
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #639 on: August 24, 2007, 09:41:17 PM »
I did take karate and I did reasonably well at that, though.
I never knew. How well?
It was Shotokan karate and I got up to a purple belt.
This was my last kata:
http://www.karate-psv-hattingen.de/images/Kata/Heian_Yondan_g.jpg
I had a look at that and it looks complicated.

I looked for a demonstration instead.

Here's one:


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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #640 on: August 25, 2007, 04:25:01 PM »
Is your innocent persona too good to be true? In all honesty, I sometimes think it's a facade.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #641 on: August 25, 2007, 04:27:01 PM »
Is your innocent persona too good to be true? In all honesty, I sometimes think it's a facade.

No offence intended.

None taken, Peaguy. 

Innocent in what way?

I am married and I have a child, so obviously I'm not a virgin.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #642 on: August 25, 2007, 04:28:40 PM »
Is your innocent persona too good to be true? In all honesty, I sometimes think it's a facade.

No offence intended.

None taken, Peaguy. 

Innocent in what way?

I am married and I have a child, so obviously I'm not a virgin.

Your nice persona is too good to be true sometimes. I wonder if it's simply an act, or an experiment? If so, then fair play, I guess.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #643 on: August 25, 2007, 04:58:01 PM »
Is your innocent persona too good to be true? In all honesty, I sometimes think it's a facade.

No offence intended.

None taken, Peaguy. 

Innocent in what way?

I am married and I have a child, so obviously I'm not a virgin.

Your nice persona is too good to be true sometimes. I wonder if it's simply an act, or an experiment? If so, then fair play, I guess.

I'm definitely not acting or experimenting. 

I don't think that anyone is 100% nice all the time, and I certainly don't claim to be. 

I'm a mostly kind person, but I have my limits just like everybody else does. 

If someone tried to harm my daughter, I would do everything in my power to stop them, even if I had to kill them.

There are certain things I don't like and I'm not particularly nice to people who do those things.

For example, I strongly dislike people stalking other people and refusing to stop.  Because of this, I'm sure Hiro does not think of me as a nice person.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #644 on: August 25, 2007, 05:36:25 PM »
I've only seen Callaway burn someone twice.  The second I wasn't sure if it was a burn or not because of her disposition.
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