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[CoolHandCake]

Howdy. I've been a fan of the microbes since i first found them earlier this year. I bought the exotic set and HIV one. I see some new ones since then, I'll have to make another order.

[Emily]

I am really into the microbes. They rock. I have yet to get some, but I am buying them ASAP. They are cool.

[Norby]

Hi. I think that the Giant Microbes are some of the most innovative toys around. After seeing them listed in The Week Magazine a few years back, I found some a store and bought Sore Throat. Since then I have bought Martian, Yeast, Flu, Bad Breath, Athlete's Foot, Bed Bug, Dust Mite, Bookworm, Stomach Ache, and Ulcer. Keep 'em coming! :)

[kskerr]

A guy in my physics class found out about them and showed me the site a couple years ago, I bought the full set then, then my family bought the new ones that had come out since then back in April and now there are the 10 new ones... They keep making them and I keep getting them :D !!! Not my fault they are so cool!

[Aenir]

I look forward to posting on this board with you, just found out about giant microbes TODAY, and thought they were hilarious, even more so because my mom is a nurse

[kskerr]

Being a microbiologist is what hooked me, they are so geeky cool:D !

[kskerr]

I think it would be cool to announce soon-to-come-out new microbes in this forum, give people like me a heads up of what will be going on the shopping/wish list :).

[Ebola Cactus]

I want some, but I'm poor and I lack a card.. waahh! I want Ebola! I found this place today, it was hilarious. My friend and I were talking about giving her boyfriend the AIDS microbe XD

[GERMan]

Hi there! Happy to be on the forum, here's a big welcome to all other plush germ lovers! :)

[Shark's Protein]

Hey! I'm new too. I'm a huge fan of GIANTmicrobes- I ordered the 15 set!

Oh- and my username IS microbe related- check my sig!

[297hakr]

Hey guys

I've been hooked on these fuzzy little bugs for over a year now. I'm a lab tech in the microbiology department at UTSW in Dallas, TX. We have many different giant microbes decorating our lab, but we work mainly with spirochetes (Lyme disease), so we each have a Pox bug at our desks.

I think that the perfect aditions to the Giant Microbes collection would be a Tick and B. burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete.

[kskerr]

Those would be great, especially as a set 297hakr :). I think spirochetes are so cool looking, don't work with them but they are cool :D!

[Anghara]

Hi all!

I am another big fan of these cute microbes. I had purchased 4 from Thinkgeek more than a year ago but the customs fees were a pain... It has been a GREAT idea to have distributors in the EU, now I have 8 germs on my desk and have ordered 6 more! :D

[Giardia]

Hi, I just joined two days ago! That was February 25th/06, by the way! I'm really glad I found out about this forum site! No one else I know shares the exact same passion for plush germs that I do, so it's nice to talk to others that do. I have eighteen microbes: Cold, ear ache, sore throat, flu, pimple, kissing disease, the pox, the clap, salmonella, E.coli, Ebola, beer and bread, ulcer, stomach ache, mad cow, athlete's foot, bad breath, and GIARDIA! Got the last eight in a big shipment the day before I joined this forum! Next will be cough, martian life, flesh eating, black death, and sleeping sickness.:D :D :D

[kskerr]

Yes this forum is great for those of us that share that passion for plush microbes, I get all kinds of strange looks when I tell "normal" people about them! I was a bit surprised when one of the "normal" people is a fellow micro grad student, you'd think she'd think they were geeky cool like the rest of us microgeeks that like them! Not every scientific field gets its own plushes!

[Crazy4Microbes]

I just joined yesterday. I have 12 microbes. Dust mite, cough, ebola, mad cow, plaugue (i'm not sure how to spell it), flesh eating disease,(so cute with it's knife and fork), sleeping sickness, ear ache, cold, stomach ache, sore throat, and ulcer. I love them so so much! Actually, on March 21, we had a party 'cause it was my microbes birthday. :D

[kskerr]

I will have to tell my friend about the party... perhaps she will not see me as being quite so nutty about these things then ;)!

[Pollock]

I just joined this forum an hour or two ago, and I already feel at home. I started my collection earlier this year, but it's slowly growing. My mom thinks I'm nuts, because I'll call her after purchasing one, and I'll shout into the phone "MOM! Guess what? I got Mono!" or whichever one I happened to buy that day. Needless to say it took me a little while to calm her down after I bought HIV this afternoon.

[kskerr]

That is hilarious, I enjoyed asking for TB for Christmas :D!

[kskerr]

Ah and welcome to our nutty family ;)!

[Tuburculosis]

:d :d :d :d

[Tuburculosis]

ok,you said your neice does it so here!

[kskerr]

OK my 3 year old niece does that, and she wouldn't if she knew how to read...

[Tuburculosis]

ok,ok,i edited it,OK???!

[kskerr]

Thanks :). My niece sends IM and e-mails to us or people we know, we don't let her go on forums.

[Tuburculosis]

ok,she does,like the example below?

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[Pollock II]

It's me Pollock. I had to redo my account because I was too scatterbrained to type in my e-mail and password correctly. But it's still the same old Pollock (just with II after my name).

[Tuburculosis]

i did that once!

[anemone]

Hi all. Glad to be on the forum.

[Pollock II]

Welcome! :) Glad to have you aboard.

[pdw]

hi.. we're new... me and g/f will likely be posting thorugh this account. she a bio major and I am the one to found the giantmicrobes online. and i started a disatserous chain of events that lead to an obsession with these things...

right now we only have lyme disease, blu-green algae, and scum...
hoping to get lots more... cool site.. these are a fun idea and nice to see other people interested as much as we are.

[ibdjehuty]

Hey all! Just discovered you guys have a forum. :D Yay!

I think I first came across the plushie microbes when I was looking around the thinkgeek website. Was astonished to discover one small sci-fi/fantasy bookstore in Perth actually sells them!

The first one I got was HIV, much to my mother's disappointment. *sighs* She just doesn't understand how cool these thigns are. >.< But then she isn't a science geek like me. :P And I was given African Sleeping Sickness and Flesh Eating Disease just today by a friend of mine. So now I have three.

Although I must say, I'd love to see a Volvox plushie to go with the algae. Volvox are awesome. :D

[Hroswith]

Hi there!

I'm totally in love with the Microbes. :) Not only they are educational, but they are also fun and cute and... addicting. They make me want to collect them all. :p

[ephraim]

i think they are the best things ever! its annoying that my parents think its a waist of money :(

[Lunareve]

I love these things...they are so addicting.

[microbes_are_our_friends]

I'm new here too! These little plush things are soooooooooo cool! (and cute!):p :D

[crzisme]

This is the best idea i've seen in a while.

[wolfmom]

I just found these today and fully intend to buy all of them for my daughter. She is fascinated with microscopes and the human body.

[10825]

My only suggestion is that some new ones are made soon. I have been waiting for a really long time:)

[mazuac]

My only suggestion is that some new ones are made soon. I have been waiting for a really long time:)
Hah! Same here!