Clinton Syndrome

[jimkopelli]

You know what bothers me? They're calling symptomatic pain from heart attacks "Clinton syndrome." WTF? Why should that be "his" syndrome? I woulda thought it would be more like suspicious bite marks on the *cough* from someone hitting their head on the bottom of your desk when someone walks into your office without knocking. Why not start a trend? Being old and hypocritically racist could be the "Strom Thurmond syndrome" and choking to death would be "Mamma Cassitis." Death by skis and trees could be "Bononosis." Clinton wasn't the first to have a heart attack, nor was he the first famous person to have one. Lou Gehrig, sure. But Clinton?!? Is this another last ditch effort to shift what he will be remembered for?

[Claverhouse]

I started laughing at the first part, but lost it half way through. Mama Cass had a beautiful voice: anyone can choke to death; the fact she was fattish was incidental. And although I've virtually no knowledge of the gentleman or what he did or believed in, I've a vague liking for the late Mr. Thurmond simply because if Bush had lost the ballots thing in Florida, and a couple of others were disqualified or something ( The US constitution always seems very arcane and gobblydegookish to non-americans ), that gentleman would have assumed office by being the elder member of the house or some such nonsense, and I just loved the idea of a 98-yr-old president.

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[KentOhio]

It's just a myth that Mama Cass choked to death. She had a heart attack while she happened to be eating. I saw the biography. She didn't like to be called Mama Cass, either. She liked Cass Eliot. But this has nothing to do with Clinton. I agree that "Clinton Syndrome" is stupid. Why not "Monroe-Belushi-Kobain Syndrome" for a mysterious lethal drug overdose?

[jimkopelli]

Ok... can we think of other famous syndromic people? They don't neccessarily have to have died... just had something painful/uncomfortable/odd have happened to them.

[Phreon]

I thought this thread was going to be about pathological liars...

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[jimkopelli]

Nah, that's just a case of politician's mouth. It's pretty common.