"feed a cold, starve a ffever"

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or vice versa?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I HAVE NEVER NEEDED TO KNOW ANYTHING MORE THAN I NEED TO KNOW THIS RIGHT NOW.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Feed a fever.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't remember which way around it's supposed to be, but I do remember reading that scientists had shown it to be nonsense (or at least the starving whatever bit).

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Starve both.

― Aja (aja), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It thought it was a contraction of "If you feed a cold, you'll have to starve a fever" either way I never paid any attention, and that's why I'm always fat and ill.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

aja is right, you haven't even got the energy to digest food - drink energy drinks or chicken soup, but that's about it.

― chris (chris), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

One of them means you get to eat and feel shit, the other one means you get to starve and feel shit. Be pragmatic - do you have any appetite? In that case, it's feed a fever. If the thought of eating leaves you cold, then it's starve a fever. Simple.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

These people are wrong THE TIME FOR RIBS IS NIGH.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

aja is right

Thanks.

I hate being sick. I think it's just harder to eat when you have a fever than a cold.

I don't like to eat anything when I'm sick. If I eat when I'm sick, I feel worse.

― Aja (aja), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

nickalicious otm

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

if by "ribs" he means "baloney sandwiches"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

and we all know he does

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"baloney sandwiches"

I hate those!

Those'll make me sick.

― Aja (aja), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

please shut up.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

DAMN YOU MLK

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

please shut up.

Me?

Why?

YOU SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Aja (aja), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

'jess harvell: insensitive bigot'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I see.

― Aja (aja), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

or jess harvell: just has a bit less patience than the rest of us

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

We never got off MLK day in Arizona.

I wish Aja lived in Arizona.

Why?

― Allyzay, Monday, 19 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

hi aja!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 19 January 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt is right. The expression is originally medieval English 'if you feed a cold then you must starve a fever'.

― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahh the dark ages, they knew alllll about medicine back then.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

even ffever

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"leech a cold, leech a fever"

wht more do you need?

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

booze

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

touché

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep. Whisky and honey.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so hardcore I leech leeches.

In the leech clubhouse bulletin board I'm the number one 'bad date'.

― Le Coq (DarrenK), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

drink echinacea tea.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

It's feed a cold & starve a fever. That's it, no contradiction.

Has Aja gone back to school?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Lemme tells ya something, that whiskey and honey thing WORKS. It get's you nice roasted too.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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