Today, something a bit different. To win a point: What is a Neti-Pot? Anyone… anyone? Enjoy my crack at poetry.
Don’t let this happen to you:
You can’t stop from… from… ”ah-choo!”
So you think,
what better way,
to flush the blues away,
then with water that comes from your sink.
But that’s not the end of it all,
for in the water are things that can crawl
up your nose
to your brain
amoebas ingrain
and soon all life it will drain.
It starts with a headache and fever,
and progresses until you have seizures
Hallucinations in bed,
and there are no meds
and in one to twelve days, you’ll be dead.
To win a point: What is a Neti-Pot?
The previous Death By … story is based on:
The Boston Molasses flood was a disaster of epic proportions, producing a 15 foot high wave of sticky, viscous fluid moving twice as fast as a man could run. 21 people were drowned or crushed by the wave. A molasses tank exploded and the resulting flood killed 21 people and injured another 150. It also destroyed a number of houses and drowned many horses. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph.
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Clarissa - You've gone really creative here, which I like a lot! This is an ingenious way to do this A-Z challenge. Very cool!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Laura, Bev Hankins, jtwebster, Kittie Howard, and Sarah Pearson! Another point each.
ReplyDeleteLaura - 11 points
JTWebster - 5 points
Bev Hankins - 3 points
Glynis - 2 points
Jan Morrison- 2 points
Cherie - 2 points
Old Kitty - 2 points
Sarah Pearson - 2 points
Jayne Robin Brown - 1 point
Youngman - 1 point
Angela Brown - 1 point
Suze - 1 point
Sia McKye - 1 point
Alex Cavanaugh- 1 point
Connie Keller - 1 point
Pat Newcombe - 1 point
Susan Roebuck - 1 point
Lynda R Young - 1 point
Denise Covey - 1 point
Nicki Elson - 1 point
JC Martin - 1 point
Talli Roland - 1 point
Golden Eagle - 1 point
Kittie Howard - 1 point
Let me know if these tallies are off.
And just a hint: Not all names used in the stories will be the right name. Sometimes if I use the right name, it'll be too easy. I can't make it that easy, can I?
Thanks, Margot, I'm trying to try different styles of writing during this challenge as well. I think that's it's for poetry though, I'm a horrible poet.
ReplyDeleteHad to look it up. Wonder if anyone will get it without checking the Internet?
ReplyDeleteAlex, I don't have to look this one up! It's a holistic-style remedy for stuffed nasal passages - a device that actually looks sort of like a teapot. You put water in it and then use the pot to shove said-water up your schnoz.
ReplyDeleteIs it death by leprachauns?
ReplyDeleteDeath by Neti-pot?! I can hardly believe it. But I guess the old cliche is true--Truth is stranger than fiction.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I'm fascinated by these posts!
I did know that you used it to clear your sinuses. Never tried it, sounds gross.
ReplyDeleteApparently its deadly too.
HMG
I know what a Neti-pot is. Cathy described it quite well.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a teapot looking contraption that helps relive sinus congestion through flooding the nasal cavities with saline or something. But I could be totally wrong. I was once...wrong.
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Hey I've got a point! Wonderful. This must be nasal irrigation that goes wrong. I heard of a story recently where someone went into the sea (in January and it's freezing) to wash out their nose and got swept away!
ReplyDeleteI only knew what a neti-pot was because ages ago a blogger talked about using one and I had to look it up. I can't think of any equivalent we have here - unless I'm looking in the wrong place.
ReplyDeleteIt's a small container designed to rinse out your nasal passages.
ReplyDeleteI think the neti pot is one of those little steam looking pots that You add a packet of the meds and pour in your nostrils to clean out the sinuses. I never thought about anything crawling up my nose to my brain- till now.
ReplyDeleteThe neti-pot flushes out the nasal passages and sinuses. The one we have looks like a small white teapot. You fill it with a water solution, fill the one nostril and let it run out the other.
ReplyDeleteI know this because my husband has one! He has a really narrow face and his sinuses get clogged all the time. I've seen him use it once and it's kind of hilarious!
I read about this in a medical journal. People got ameobic brain infections by flushing their sinuses out with the neti pot using tapwater contaminated with amoebas. Now I tell all my patients to used distilled or boiled water.
ReplyDeleteEw. So awful, and yet such a clever post!
Haha, you've done an awesome job with this poem!
ReplyDeleteA neti pot looks like a genie's lamp and you use it clean your nasal passages with water. And accidentally bump yourself off, apparently.
ReplyDeleteI use a Neti-pot all the time and got my kids to use it. Nice usage of it here!
ReplyDeleteErm.. a neti pot is a medical instrument of some kind to help with this fatal nasty infection!??!
ReplyDeleteTake care
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I guess the explosion gave the molasses the speed it would never have attained otherwise. And nope, I don't know what the thing is you mentioned at the start. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, I know what a Neti-pot is. Now. ;) Great to read all the comments above.
ReplyDeleteMolasses flood! I never realized exactly how many odd ways there are to die until coming here.
ReplyDeleteNeti-pot...um, like a tea pot from which you inhale the steam to clear a cold? But apparently, that's yet another strange way to die.
A Neti pot is the little thing that looks like a genie's magic lantern and you wash salt water through your sinus cavities. I did hear about somebody getting some kind of brain amoeba from one though. EEK!
ReplyDeleteNeti-pot is some kind of nasal irrigation thing I'm guessing?
ReplyDeleteIt's tempting to tap Google, but, no, I'll wait as I haven't a clue. But, yay, I got a point for the molasses incident.
ReplyDeleteI actually know neti pots! They're those creepy little pots you pour water or icky nose fluid in. It pours up one nostril and down the other. Ewww!
ReplyDeleteDeath by molasses has to be one of the most bizarre ones so far!
I had to get a Neti-pot for my daughter. Poor thing was just so congested and none of the over-the-counter stuff helped so we had to use a Neti-pot for about a week. She's seven. She didn't like me very much for each of those days.
ReplyDeleteHey Clarissa. I googled neti-pot to see it's a weird contraption you fill with water to flush your nose out when you feel congested. Why not just use a Vicks inhaler?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, you'll be pleased to know when I googled 'neti-pot' it brought up your blog as the third item. Obviously not many people talk about neti-pots, lol!
Denise
A humidifier? I'm not good at this sort of thing but you are very clever post
ReplyDeleteGreat post. My Neti-pot is a lifesaver. With out it my allergies would be the death of me! However, I recommend using it as well as washing it with distilled water. That's what I do. :)
ReplyDeleteMy wife has a neti-pot. I could not watch her use it as it grossed me out. Wait til I tell her about the water bugs she might have gotten!!
ReplyDeleteSince I want at least one point on your site...it is of course a little tea-pot like device for washing out your nasal cavity...eeww!
'tis for snortin...
ReplyDeleteI know this is probably very un-pc, but I hate hearing about animals dying even more than I do about humans!
ReplyDeleteSheesh. It turns out I used one and didn't even know what it was (until just now when I peeked at Laura's answer).
ReplyDeleteI promise I haven't peeked at other answers...it's a little contraption that looks like a lantern (or squished tea pot) with which to flush out your sinuses with saline (salt water). Good for colds and such.
ReplyDeleteis a neti pot a nose irritation? I'm assuming if not treated it's fatal?
ReplyDeleteUgh! This sounds like a gruesome way to die! Bugs growing in your brain?? *shudder*
ReplyDeleteAnd in regards to the last death: a 35mph molasses tsunami? Didn't know molasses could move that fast ... suppose it was hot, too.
Ah ha ha! That poem cracked me up! I remember when the story broke that NetiPots are full of danger...
ReplyDeleteLove it, Clarissa!
ReplyDeleteYou're a poet
And we didn't know it.
Sorry. :)
I've no idea what netipot is.
ReplyDeleteI did read about people who have a worm growing in their eye or stomach because they've drank infected water.