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1. pelf (26 comments.)
   Posted January 9, 2008 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

   I hope you get really well soon, Andy

2. clairec23 (8 comments.)
   Posted January 9, 2008 at 6:59 pm | Permalink

   Hmm, that man cold is a funny thing, eh? :/

   Get well soon and congrats on the rankings.
   clairec23’s last blog post..Blogging Woes and Lyrical Heaven

3. Bobby Revell (34 comments.)
   Posted January 9, 2008 at 10:22 pm | Permalink

   Just remember Andy…technorati and Alexa are temporary, much like a cold…hehe:) I don’t check stats any more…techno links last 180 days and then they disappear. Thank goodness colds don’t last 180 days!!!!!

   Bobby Revell’s last blog post..I Choose To Be Happy

4. Andy Bailey
   Posted January 9, 2008 at 11:13 pm | Permalink
   pelf: thanks pelfy! me too

   claire: the man cold is feared amongst all men!

   Bobby: yes that’s true, Ineed a continuous stream of traffic for Alexa and links to myblog are only valid for a little while on Technorati (I think) so I need to keep generating traffic to keep them or make them better. I don’t really have a traffic strategy or special SEO things that I do so if I just carry on doing things that I enjoy then the rankings wont matter much as long as I’m blogging for the fun of it…

   thanks for visiting!

5. Mike (1 comments.)
   Posted January 10, 2008 at 1:18 am | Permalink

   Real men, such as myself, consider the flu sniffles. There is no such thing as a man cold. You only go through a temporary period of being able to hork up some really good stuff that you and your buddies see who can hork the most or the longest distance.

   Real man consider something like a compound fracture a cold. :P

6. Martin (1 comments.)
   Posted January 10, 2008 at 10:02 am | Permalink

   OMG… Yes. About 80% of the people in our company had this bug. And yes… it does seem like the latter symptoms include a deepening of the voice, a.k.a Darth Vader.

   It’s lasts 30-60 days. A real tough bugger. A lot of people have been able to kick it with frequent doses of Echinacea… it seemed to work for me for a while but eventually, I had I thought **ck it and went to a doctor… got some antibiotics and finally got rid of that awful bug. Errr, I hate taking antibiotics, but his bugger just wouldn’t die.

   All in all, this flu business is quite scary. It seems like the bugs are getting tougher and tougher to kick. I for one have stocked up on antibiotics.

   At any rate, I hope you’re feeling better!!!

   Kind regards,
   Martin
   http://www.zyon.com

7. Scott (12 comments.)
   Posted January 10, 2008 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

   Hope you get better soon mate. I have had that phlegmy cough for 2 weeks now and it stinks !

   BTW, when I loaded your home page I got a message about flash not loading ? Had to press No to retry in the end to get page up ( this is on Safari, OSX 10.5 )

   Otherwise nice site !

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8. Andy Bailey
   Posted January 10, 2008 at 11:05 pm | Permalink
   Martin: 30-60?? OMGWTF?? I thought it was gonna be a few days thing, luckily I must have conditioned my body to limit it to a week. I definitely feel better today that I have all week. still coughing though and I found a packet of 10 days worth of antibiotics so I’ll scoff that for a few days until they run out. self medication rarrr!

   scott: I’ve not heard of that error happening before, I don’t use flash on here! thanks for visiting!

9. mommyknows (2 comments.)
   Posted January 10, 2008 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

   Hope you feel better soon! My husband tells me, man flu is harsh, I can’t imagine how horrible ‘extended man flu’ must be! (especially for your wife/family if you have one).

   I desperately want to get CommentLuv to work on my site but I am having trouble … is there a FAQ for it some where?

   MK

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10. Andy Bailey
    Posted January 10, 2008 at 11:25 pm | Permalink
    Mommyknows: I see that you are using a version of wordpress that is less than 2.1
    if you don’t want to upgrade just yet, I could make you a special version that should work if you like?
11. mommyknows (2 comments.)
    Posted January 10, 2008 at 11:27 pm | Permalink

    Andy,

    Wow … that was quick. I am afraid my host doesn’t have the updated version of mySQL so I am unable to upgrade.

    If you’d make me a special version, WOW, I would be very grateful.

    It is such a great product!!

    MK

    mommyknows’s last blog post..Little Suzy Home-Wrecker [Flickr]

12. Andy Bailey
    Posted January 11, 2008 at 1:06 pm | Permalink
    mommyknows » it’s a shame the special version didn’t work for you, I think it was to do with you making a comment and using your own url, that usually causes a problem that shows an error. I’ll see if I can suppress the errors which should take care of that … I’ll play with it this weekend! (oo-er)
13. Bert Balliss (1 comments.)
    Posted January 11, 2008 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

    Suspicious females have spread scurrilous rumours that man flu doesn’t exist. I too am dying proof that it does. Where’s the lemsips gone?

14. Andy Bailey
    Posted January 11, 2008 at 7:28 pm | Permalink
    try the lemsip 12 hour capsules. they work really well for me. better order a headstone just in case though
15. witchypoo (37 comments.)
    Posted January 12, 2008 at 12:56 am | Permalink

    I’ve had the extended version of this man cold since the middle of November. But women, they still always have stuff to do or the world will not run without them. Pity me.

    witchypoo’s last blog post..What they don?t want to know, part two

16. Andy Bailey
    Posted January 12, 2008 at 9:03 am | Permalink
    there is no extended when you are talking about man colds! they can’t be any worse, they are already the maximum times 10 cold.
    if you still have stuff to do and you can actually do it, you don’t have a man cold!
    @-)
17. CarpetGuy (1 comments.)
    Posted January 23, 2008 at 3:31 am | Permalink

    As was mentioned earlier, tese bugs are getting worse! We can thank modern medicine for that, why? Because of antibiotics! Most people only take half of the prescibed amount and the bug n their system evolves and gets stronger, back in the good ole days, if you got really sick you just died and the bug went with you!…….hope you know I’m kidding!

    Get well soon, I love the plugin!

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18. Andy Bailey
    Posted January 23, 2008 at 9:14 am | Permalink
    haha! I agree with you, these are the only times in history that people who would have normally died off and took their diseases and genes with them are given a second chance to infect the rest of us!
19. BillinDetroit (2 comments.)
    Posted June 14, 2008 at 2:16 am | Permalink

    I last had a ‘man cold’ a couple of years ago. That turned out to be Legionnaire’s disease … a particularly ugly strain of pneumonia. Usually fatal.

    Since then, nothing more than a sniffle.

    Get gooder sooner!

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