Pneumonia fun
Art
WPA poster - Pneumonia strikes like a man-eating shark (pictured right)
Music
"Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu," performed by Johnny Rivers, Professor Longhair, the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith, as well as many others
"Pneumonia," by Kool & the Gang
"Pneumonia Blues," by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Pneumonia Blues," by Lightnin' Hopkins
"It Ain't Pneumonia, It's the Blues," by John Anderson
"Dust Pneumonia Blues," by Woody Guthrie
"Twistin' pneumonia," by The Genies
"Pneumonia," by Fog
Pneumonia album, from Whiskeytown
Burning Lungs album, from the band named Pneumonia.
The song "I'll never fall in love again," written by Burt Bacharach, has the following great lines:
What do you get when you kiss a girl?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia.
After you do, she'll never phone ya.
I'll never fall in love again.
Toys & Games
Streptococcus pneumoniae stuffed doll
"Infection" board game
"The Innards" video game
Sports
Pneumonia Ridge is a ski run at Turner Mountain Ski Resort in Montana.Jokes
Found on the web without attribution...
Patient: Doc, are you certain pneumonia’s the diagnosis? My uncle was being treated for pneumonia but he died of meningitis.
Doctor: Don't worry about that. If I treat you for pneumonia, then you die of pneumonia.
A patient went to see the doctor because of a terrible cold. The doctor prescribed pills, but they didn't help. At the next visit, the doctor administered a shot, to no avail. At the third visit the doctor advised "Go home and take a warm bath. When you finish, throw open your windows and stand in the cold draft."
The patient replied "Doc, if I do that, I might get pneumonia."
"I know," said the doctor, "I can do something for pneumonia."
Below is a verse from "Hark! The Streptococcus Brings," sung to the tune of
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing:"
Pneumonia makes you cough and wheeze.
Mucus fills the lungs with sleaze,
A viscous greenish oozing cloak,
That causes you to gasp and choke.
Without water you can drown
If you breathe the strep germ down.
Hark! The Streptococcus breeds
The misery of a bad disease.
