A rose by any other name...

One thing that sucks about having shingles, is that it just doesn't sound cool. I mean not only is it known as an "old person" illness, but the name is completely lame - shingles - ugh...

The Danish name for it is MUCH better - helvedesild:

helvedes = hell's
ild = fire

Put em together and the word means - "Hell's fire"

Pretty cool name, I think. I almost feel proud telling people I have helvedesild

I was telling Luke how the name is so much cooler in Danish. Luke is clever though, so he pretended to misunderstand helvedesild this way:

helvede = hell
sild = herring

"You've got Herring from Hell?!"

Of course, the dumb doctor refereed to it as some kind of herpes.