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Hmm, it seems like the right time to lug the trusty ol’ machine which spits out the week’s best comments out of storage, and give her a whirl — and What’s That You Say? has got the keys to start the engine. Vroom vroom.

This last week was a feisty one in the comments — what was going on out there? Oh yeah, that whole influenza panic, right. You all should just be grateful that we didn’t break out a swine flu–pocolypse headline this week. (Wait, one of those is actually about pigs. Ah, whatever.) In the midst of so much hype, we were looking for one of our commenters to make some sense out of the whole thing for us. Luckily, boondoggle came through in our Comment of the Week:

Every decade, the media creates some Latin-themed menace that will rise up from south of the border to kill us all. Back in the eighties it was Menudo; in the nineties it was those killer bees we needed to be worried about.

Who wants to bet this Swine Flu turns out to be just as innocuous as the hot sauce at Taco Bell?

After the jump, you’re officially entering a no-H1N1 zone; IHOP debate, confusion about civil defense alarms, and hockey trash-talk is still plentiful, though.