11/11/11 Nigel Tufnel Day

[Tom Sawyer]

Tufnel on why so few girls attend Spinal Tap shows:

"Really, they're quite fearful, that's my theory. They see us on stage with tight trousers. We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers."

Spinal Tap - These Go Up To 11

[Jim Johnson]

Nigel Nigel Nigel!

A real man's man.

[Pat K]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/health/28leprosy.html

Armadillos Can Transmit Leprosy to Humans, Federal Researchers Confirm 

[Silent_Bob]

"But one of the interesting aspects of leprosy is that transmission seems to have gone in both directions. Leprosy was not present in the New World before Christopher Columbus, and armadillos are indigenous only to the New World."

Another reason to celebrate Columbus Day...

[Jim Johnson]

Only a third of the cases in the United States are contracted from armadillos, which means that armadillos probably caught the disease from one of Nigel's great great grand fathers, who did, in all likeliness, have an armadillo in his pants.

[Kat Kanning]

Russell and I killed an armadillo in the garden.  We didn't want to touch it because of the leprosy thing.

[Russell Kanning]

little armored one

[Jim Johnson]

Russell and I killed an armadillo in the garden.

Was it in Russell's pants?  Because... I don't know... it sounded violent.

[littlehawk]

Don't you Texans eat those lil crusty creatures?
I'll stick with lamb fries.   

[Pat K]

Russell and I killed an armadillo in the garden.  We didn't want to touch it because of the leprosy thing.

Well as long as the rabbit didn't die I
think your safe.

[Tom Sawyer]

Russell and I killed an armadillo in the garden.

I'm glad others jumped on this... I was sure it was some kind of euphemism or maybe I mean a metaphor?

[Russell Kanning]

Does it go up to 12 this time?

[Jim Johnson]

It's just not magical like it was last Nigel Tufnel Day.

[Russell Kanning]

Yes 11 is as high as it goes