Mystery readers tend to get rabid when a favorite series detective is grounded.
If a dog was to go insane and if a dog got rabid and it bit someone, you destroy it.
The source is Max Brooks's cult satirical novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, but once Hollywood gets its rabid fangs into a complex book, it often turns it into a shambling, snarling parody of itself.
"They've got a rabid and incredibly loyal fanbase and a big female following," he says.
Lasker Rink is close by, for hockey, if we can get the rabid youth league parents to clear out.
Pet projects tend to become less fun when you've got a rabid team of lawyers gunning for you.
It was hard not to get his rabid commitment to his beliefs, which manifested itself in all sorts of trouble-making, like his crusade against ACORN and Planned Parenthood and his hijacking of the Anthony Weiner press conference.
That is until you come to a reminder of the mundane but profoundly comforting fact that rabies vaccinations for dogs, which have always seemed to me a bureaucratic annoyance (who gets bit by rabid dogs these days anyway?), have produced one of the historic successes in public health.
Both have rabid followers.
