Missing a hole here

I woke up to a bad allergy attack this morning:

runny nose
sneezing
itchy, watery eyes
itching of the nose or throat

p.s. I just copied that litany from the back of my bottle of Zyrtec.

I’ve got them all. As I was using up the last tissue from the giant Kleenex box, I was contemplating tweeting about it. (Yes, I do compose tweets in my head as I go about my daily business. Shut up! Don’t tell me you don’t. Liar!)

Something to the fact of:

Bad allergy! Every hole on my face has liquid coming out of it!

I slay myself sometimes.

This imaginary tweet reminded me of the common Chinese phrase for describing a brutal death (e.g. from poisoning or from a freakishly ginormous renegade Shaolin monk clapping his Thunderous Fists over your ears in a mortal combat) :

Bleeding from seven holes   七孔流血*

Here is an illustration:

This guy is dying from Psychic Powers.

PSA: Do NOT search for images with keywords “七孔流血” or worse, “nose bleed manga” at work.  It is like a codeword for “Show me pornographic images please”. Srly, people? The above is like the only image not involving a scantily-clad lass.

Since I am such a math geek (Har har) I automatically counted out the seven holes (and I swear I did not point my fingers to my body parts as I did this…)

My two eyes
My two ears.
My nose.
My mouth.

Hey, that’s only SIX. WTF? So I started thinking of other holes there could be…

Oh.
No.
Could it be that?
No…?
Or that?
Hmmmm.

Then it hit me. Of course! There are TWO nostrils. Duh.

As I opened up a new box of Kleenex, I thought to myself, “I am sucking more and more at being Chinese. And you people really have a bad influence on me!”

—The End—

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* Google Translate is so awesome! I typed in “Bleeding from seven holes” and it presented the exact phrase! I *heart* you Google Translate even though you say dumb things sometimes…

33 thoughts on “Missing a hole here

    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      Did you arm swell so much that it looked like Athena was going to come out from it? No? Good. Just checking.

      I can’t believe I didn’t know the book! I have the Everyone Poops and it was a main reason how we were able to potty train the youngest child! Highly recommend it.

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  1. dufmanno

    That’s what I looked like when I was rockin’ the Ebola Virus, but of course just like Typhoid Mary I shook it off and recovered.
    Anyway, I woke up with watery eyes and a scratchy throat too! Except I have the maddeningly annoying problem of only my left eye dripping so everyone is telling me my makeup is running and WHY would it only be my left eye?
    Zombies have watery eyes too you know.
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  2. Kernut the Blond

    Oh, I never count the tear-ducts as holes so I would HAVE TOTALLY MISSED THAT and counted the um “other” two holes in the body. That makes seven, too.

    Allergies suck… mine have been awful lately and the Claritin isn’t working.
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  3. Technobabe

    People who have never experienced the discomfort of allergies cannot know what it feels like to be resisting a tyrannical headache while mopping and plugging eyes and nose constantly between sneezing and coughing. It is dang tiring too. Hope you feel better soon.
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  4. Nance

    I’m fairly certain we’re related. We’ve both got those seven holes, we understand each other’s severely perverse humor, and we both have allergies this morning. I’d bet you ANYTHING that we can both trace our DNA back to a single source somewhere in Ethiopia about 5.8 million years ago.
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    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      YES! I feel so honored. 🙂

      Well, let’s see: I am 1/4 Japanese, 3/4 Chinese. Actually there may be some traces of Dutch and there is a family lore that we may also be related to the Native Taiwanese and therefore Polynesians.

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  5. Wicked Shawn

    Of course, I would have never made it to the “two nostrils” conclusion, I would have been stuck wondering why there was no “bleeding from 8 holes” death. Wow, thanks for sending me there. Now I will take a shower, put on my public persona and go help put on the Arts Council’s Heritage Festival today. If these people only knew the bizarre things my mind comes up with………
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  6. iamqueer

    Thaatsss pretty much the consensus among people, due to the weather change. When your nose involuntarily drips onto your lap and or a paper your looking over at your desk and you have to stair at the ceiling to prevent it…haha that illustration pretty much relates my sentiments exactly.

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