I’m with you rac0308! I’m only 40! How did I suddenly become a SENIOR plugger just because I was vaccinated against smallpox as a child 30 or so years ago???!!! That was just “yesterday”! A REGULAR plugger on a lot of things I can accept … even at my age! But this is just WAY too much!!!!!
I must be a “really” senior plugger I have two (one on each arm). The first one in elementary school, and the second one when I joined the Army. I guess they in the Army thought the first one didn’t take.
Trust me on this. When you work with a bunch of 20-somethings, they will ASSURE you that you’re old…whether you are 40 or 60. (I am 55…but I felt much younger until I was reminded on a daily basis how old I was. grrrrr)
Yeah but it really feels good when you get carded for buying beer. Last weekend for me. Told the clerk I’ve been drinking legally for 32 years. That didn’t matter still wanted the ID.
flhtcu…The Marines put my second scar on during Vietnam. The second scar proves the first vaccination didn’t take. God bless the military for protecting me from microbes if not bullets.
I agree with Lewreader about having a scar from the second shot as a sign the first did not take (or perhaps had worn off). The Army gave me my second and I had no reaction, but many did.
My scar from childhood is about 1/2 inch, but scars were not always so small. Many people had scars over an inch, almost two, across. When watching a movie like “Cleopatra” I couldn’t help but notice people’s anachronistic vaccination scars.
Before air-pressure injections were available, they used to drop a glob of smallpox vaccine on the arm, then slightly puncture the skin underneath several times with a needle. In the Army I saw how the vaccine ran down one guy’s arm, so they punctured right along with it, so he had a scar about half an inch wide and over two inches long.
The elimination of smallpox is one of the great advances in my life, but it was only possible because smallpox has no non-human hosts, unlike influenza that inhabits birds.
Plods with ...™ almost 15 years ago
Great…now I’m a SENIOR plugger.
Yukoneric almost 15 years ago
I was in second grade.
Gretchen's Mom almost 15 years ago
I’m with you rac0308! I’m only 40! How did I suddenly become a SENIOR plugger just because I was vaccinated against smallpox as a child 30 or so years ago???!!! That was just “yesterday”! A REGULAR plugger on a lot of things I can accept … even at my age! But this is just WAY too much!!!!!
clyde.knox almost 15 years ago
I must be a “really” senior plugger I have two (one on each arm). The first one in elementary school, and the second one when I joined the Army. I guess they in the Army thought the first one didn’t take.
GLENN B WOODEN almost 15 years ago
Trust me on this. When you work with a bunch of 20-somethings, they will ASSURE you that you’re old…whether you are 40 or 60. (I am 55…but I felt much younger until I was reminded on a daily basis how old I was. grrrrr)
ffkelton almost 15 years ago
Yeah but it really feels good when you get carded for buying beer. Last weekend for me. Told the clerk I’ve been drinking legally for 32 years. That didn’t matter still wanted the ID.
EarlWash almost 15 years ago
I wish I would get carded for something, but no such luck anymore. Dang!
wolfe526 almost 15 years ago
Like flhtcu91, I have 2 - both on the same arm. Thank you US Army. And I am only 50. Still very young.
tc0809 almost 15 years ago
Why would a dog need to shave?
lewisbower almost 15 years ago
flhtcu…The Marines put my second scar on during Vietnam. The second scar proves the first vaccination didn’t take. God bless the military for protecting me from microbes if not bullets.
vjwhet almost 15 years ago
Yep, I’m a Plugger alright, a proud SENIOR one at that.. :)
pschearer Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I agree with Lewreader about having a scar from the second shot as a sign the first did not take (or perhaps had worn off). The Army gave me my second and I had no reaction, but many did.
My scar from childhood is about 1/2 inch, but scars were not always so small. Many people had scars over an inch, almost two, across. When watching a movie like “Cleopatra” I couldn’t help but notice people’s anachronistic vaccination scars.
Before air-pressure injections were available, they used to drop a glob of smallpox vaccine on the arm, then slightly puncture the skin underneath several times with a needle. In the Army I saw how the vaccine ran down one guy’s arm, so they punctured right along with it, so he had a scar about half an inch wide and over two inches long.
The elimination of smallpox is one of the great advances in my life, but it was only possible because smallpox has no non-human hosts, unlike influenza that inhabits birds.
anserman38 almost 15 years ago
Oh, Tod!!!!!