The headline comes from a part of a press release issued by NBC/Universal related to the network having to shut down production of the Ultimate Slip ’N Slide series after up to 40 crew members contracted giardia.
Now some of you may know what giardia is, but I had never heard of such a condition.
It is also sometimes called beaver fever (another phrase I’ve never heard of). after hikers at Banff National Park in Canada became ill from drinking stream water contaminated with giardia from beavers.
Giardia is usually contracted from getting fecal-infested water in your mouth.
Disgusting? Most certainly.
So perhaps you may have heard of the more common name for this disease – explosive diarrhea. Once you’ve heard that phrase, you’re not likely to forget it.
After reading the press release, you can imagine what the contestants were slipping and sliding through.
Universal said that the outbreak occurred seven weeks into shooting, only five days before wrapping.
The show is scheduled to have its premiere on Sunday, August 8, in a time slot right after the Tokyo Olympics.
I hope they finish the filming in time for the scheduled debut, because I’ve heard the producers are planning for an explosive ending…
I’m just wondering, can you be arrested for boarding a plane, while ill with explosive diarrhea? I think that could bring a plane down.
When I first read the expression, “beaver fever,” I crossed my legs. Then I read what it actually refers to, and felt a little at ease.
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it could certainly bring the passengers on the plane down…
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Yeah, that would really stink.
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Oh Help!!
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🙂
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it would turn the aisle into a slip ‘n slide…
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That would help the flight attendants work faster.
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although they might spill the drinks more easily…
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That’s okay, they can just sponge the drinks up and squeeze them back into the cups.
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😶🤚! I hope I forget this conversation when I fly in a week!
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Just make sure you don’t catch Giardia.
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Oh gosh! I will do my best!
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great travel advice…
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I hope so too!
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that’s one way to spread giardia…
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…mmm…!!
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I don’t think this was the explosive ending they had in mind…
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I think you may be right 🙂
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For some reason I keep wondering whether or not the people who signed up for this are the type of people who would discretely pee in a swimming pool.
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it’s one way to beat the competition…
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omg, i almost spit out my water i was drinking while reading this!
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doing so may have kept you healthy…
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You’ve done a public service
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I wonder if it’s Congressional Medal of Honor worthy? 🙂
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The success of shows like American Ninja Warrior have led to an “explosion” of similar shows like Ultimate Slip and Slide. Maybe too much info but I had explosive diarrhea on a plane. The worst part was I didn’t realize it.
https://salsaworldtraveler.com/2020/03/28/my-first-airport-wheelchair-experience-delta-a350-900-business-class-shanghai-peoples-republic-of-china-to-detroit-mi/
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I remember reading that post before. That must have been a terrible feeling. I hope you had a speedy recovery.
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It was a mess, but at least in the bathroom.
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thank heaven for that…
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I’m curious about the show. It sounds like it might have something to do with how fast you can go on a slip ‘n slide. That sounds like it might be fun to watch a couple of times, but there must be more to it than that. I doubt that I’ll remember giardia, but who could forget “beaver fever” or “explosive diarrhea?”
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I am curious about the show as well; how can you turn a slip ‘n slide into a whole series?
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Charming is all I can say, with heavy sarcasm.
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I thought it was time to raise the level of discourse 🙂
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Full disclosure… I never matured out of my 5th grade sense of humor. Needless to say, I’m cracking up over here. Thanks for the chuckles!
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I think I’m stuck at a third grade level…
glad you enjoyed it…
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Almost too much to digest in the post and comments.
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I didn’t think it was possible for my blog too reach a new low, but I guess I was wrong. Now I’ll have to reset my standards…
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Somehow I knew keeping that family of beavers in the water tank was going to be a problem….😁
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Look how much attention you get with “explosive diarrhea”! Writing this I realized that diarrhea should be in every spelling bee 🙂 Back to the topic at hand, we have experienced Giardia first hand many years ago. Not fun and involves a long treatment with antibiotics if i remember correctly. I never heard of the show though, so I’ll go look it up. Thanks for the morning chuckle!
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Here in the UK, the proper spelling is the traditional one: diarrhoea. As if it wasn’t already difficult enough for the kids to spell!
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Haha, not just kids mind you!
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No, quite! It was one they used to test us with at school. Sadists!
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Too funny!
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we were tested with:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
fortuantely, except for the silent p and e near the beginning, you spell it just like it sounds 🙂
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Now that’s a proper word!
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agreed!
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I was thinking the same thing!
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wow – how did they sneak that “o” in there?
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From the Latin word for it. I remember that from my school Latin lessons – one of the things that stuck, to coin a phrase.
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It’s funny what stays with you…
for better or worse, I never took a course in Latin…
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I’m glad I did. It really helped learning other languages, as it was the basis for many.
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I wish I had taken a course in it, but my high school did not offer such a course…
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I was in the bright boys stream so we were given it whether we wanted it or not! I rather enjoyed it, even though we all had the official rhyme in our notebooks:
Latin is a a language,
As dead as dead can be.
It killed the Ancient Romans,
And now it’s killing me.
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I like that poem, and apparently it’s still fresh on your mind. Maybe my high school offered it, but I wasn’t invited to take it 😦
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It kind of stays with you! I think we were unusual in learning it in a state school – it tended to be the province of those whose parents paid for their education. The types who go on to ru(i)n the country.
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so maybe Latin is to blame for the type of politicians we have today…
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Something must be causing it, but I don’t think it could be blamed for former guy: he can’t even speak English…
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quite true…
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I would imagine giardia is not a fun experience…
I have not heard of this show easier; it sounds kind of goofy…
And yes, diarrhea is a challenging word to spell. But my guess if I got such a word as a 12 year old I would start laughing and not be able to spell it…
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That’s exactly where I was going with this 🙂
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yes, every spelling bee needs a little comic relief 🙂
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Fortunately, Jim, I’m drinking coffee! Oops, it’s made from water. I hope there are no beavers in the Prescott City water source. I’m starting to feel a little off. …
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it could just be the power of persuasion at work: 🙂
or it could be the feeling that a lot of people get simply from reading my posts…
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LOL! I didn’t die yesterday or go explosive, so I’m back at the coffee! Or my memory is just bad and I forgot about at the possibilities of drinking brown water. 🙂
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I’m glad you survived! 🙂
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Actually, me too! Beaver water would not be a fun place to be. BTW, I saw a post of yours on Sally’s site. Congratulations. 🙂 You’re famous! 🙂
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I think I would freak out if I saw a beaver in the same water I was swimming in. And yes, that was very kind of Sally 🙂
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Me too!
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We have a shitshow for a government so I guess it’s to be expected that there would be a tv version…
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there needs to be a reality show featuring politicians; I don’t know what the premise would be, but it could be entertaining…
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Just watch proceedings in Congress or our Parliament!
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good point. I just saw clips of the Israeli parliament hearings – things got a bit out of hand…
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I haven’t seen those, but read about them in the paper. It was interesting to see the ones who deposed Netanyahu being described by him as left wing when by anyone else’s definition they are far right!
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my sense is that most of the country is far right, but I really don’t know much about it…
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Same here. A country that tends to shoot first and ask questions later. No wonder the former guy liked them…
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and they would respond tenfold to whenvever they were attacked…
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Or claim to have been attacked, as we’ve seen recently.
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yes, good point…
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