Get 'em One at a Time

It is hard to know if I have a measle.  There is this angry-looking blotch on my chest-bone that looks like I have the measles.  But there is only one blotch, so my brain is wondering:  How can you have measles when there is only one measle?

If you get scarlet fever twice do you have scarlet fevers, or have you had scarlet's fever?  Or was that roseola (roseolas?).  Or rubella/rubellas?

Psoriasis....Now there's one for you.  And sebhorrea.  That's another one for you.  How come those don't come in plurals?  Chicken pox.  A poxes upon you, I say.

And here's another one you don't want to get:  Chagas' disease.  And I know this was named for Mr. Chagas because only one of him was the first to find it.  So much for Chagases' disease.

This (Chagas') is caused by little insects, mostly down in the tropics, that are called "blood- sucking assassin bugs."  Yuck.  (Yucks?)

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Here's a poetic done by my Scamp:

Bird food hangs under leafless birches
Where ice has formed on all the perches.
The goldfinch flocks seem unaware,
Nor do the blackbirds seem to care.

Bamboos have arched and seem quite rigid.
(The weatherman has just called it frigid.)
Seven inches coming so we debate,
But there's ice on top, so now that makes eight.

It snowed last week, and then it melted,
Relief was felt, and again we got belted.
So bundle up, and fluff those feathers,
And let's all hope for warmer "weathers."

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My favorite phrase today is Oliver's Law of Public Speaking.  N., sounds good to me.  Def.:  A closed mouth gathers no feet.