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Post by Spiderdancer on May 19, 2006 16:50:29 GMT -5
Nonsense. Ants are ALREADY running rampant over humanity. I am thinking particularly of the dorm room I lived in my junior year in college, where it was not possible to walk on the carpet without hearing crunchy noises. Also, looking too closely at the bed sheets was not recommended.
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Post by blinkfan on May 24, 2006 14:14:36 GMT -5
I wish it rained maple syrup.When I have waffles, I can just stand out side to get all the mapley goodness. ;D I can't help but wonder if the adverse affects of such a rainfall -- coating the entire world in a sticky film that would jam up all machinery and allow ants to run rampant over humanity -- would outweigh the benefits. I don't know Justin,Waffles are awesome. |
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Post by dajaymann on May 26, 2006 22:17:37 GMT -5
You can tell it's starting to get to be summer here in Florida because it rains. Every day. At 2 pm. For 15 minutes.
No more.
No less.
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Post by pfrsue on May 27, 2006 5:21:58 GMT -5
You can tell it's starting to get to be summer here in Florida because it rains. Every day. At 2 pm. For 15 minutes. No more. No less. The worst thing about the Floridian 15 Minute Shower, is that it NEVER makes you feel any cooler. I mean, you're already walking around drenched in sweat, and it's like a voice up above, (I blame the Disney execs in their helicopters) says, "Hey, lets dump ten gallons of someone else's sweat on that stupid pedestrian. At least that's my experience. |
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Post by Head Mutant on May 27, 2006 6:36:46 GMT -5
And the bugs. Ye space gods, the bugs. Our family used to spend a couple weeks down there every summer with my grandpa, and I just loathed being bitten by the mosquitoes, chiggers, noseeums, ticks, flies and whatever hellspawn they have going on in the swamps.
Yeah, I used to notice the 15 minute showers too, mid-to-late afternoon. Was always a bit weird.
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Post by StarOpal on May 27, 2006 11:17:21 GMT -5
I lived in a few places in Florida for about nine years all together. And I'd like to preface this with, my dad aside, we are all thoroughly city people (as in "hey look there's grass, oh, and a tree!") so Florida was a lot of firsts for my mother and us three kids.
The rain. This is no lie. One Saturday I was in my room reading and my mom comes in and says, "Eunice, you got to see this." We go to the front door and it's a sunny day. "Sunny right?" "Yes?" I'm thinking she's crazy. We go to the back door. Rain and dark clouds, "Isn't that something?" "You've got to be kidding me."
The bugs and insects. Golly Moses, but Justin is right. We lived in this house, not for very long mind, that had ginormous hissing roaches. It was terrible. And cigar roaches. They're huge! And aggressive! The mosquitoes are ravenous. There are nights you have to run from the car to the house.
Then there's the spiders, which actually weren't too bad if you're not afraid of spiders. Banana spiders and orchard orbweavers (I think that's right) are my favorites.
But worst of all, to me, was when we had lake front property. Oh sure there's the expected snakes and one alligator of note, but then there were The Frogs. I'll never forget the first time after we moved in that they showed up. It was late and very dark with only a street lamp on the corner for light until the security light kicked in when you walked up to the house. "Look at the house." I tell my mother and brother.
In the dark the house looks like it's crawling. "What is that, Mom?" "I don't know. walk by slowly and be quiet."
So we get almost to the steps and the light comes on and there are frogs covering the house. I mean there is no wall to be found. And they were unhappy about the light. Boy were they unhappy. That scene in ET has got nothing on it.
"Ahhhhhh!" screams a six year old girl and a twelve year old boy. Mom's going, "Get in the house! Get in the house!"
Memories....
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Post by PoolMan on May 27, 2006 18:12:51 GMT -5
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Your name is Eunice?
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Post by StarOpal on May 27, 2006 21:35:33 GMT -5
... You gotta problem with that? |
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Post by Head Mutant on May 27, 2006 21:54:09 GMT -5
There's a lady at our church who's name is Eunice. It's a biblical name, actually: 2 Timothy 1:5. As is "Lois", mentioned in the same verse.
Not playing "top you" bug stories, but I forgot to mention that one year in Florida, while I was sleeping, a cockroach crawled inside my ear.
My. Ear.
I woke screaming, digging it out. My grampa told me that a cricket did a similar thing to my grandma, and they had to take her to the hospital for a cricketectomy.
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Post by StarOpal on May 27, 2006 22:00:02 GMT -5
I have a friend who had one of those little roaches crawl in her ear when she was sleeping and she had to get her boyfriend get it out. Ew. Before that I thought that stuff only happened on Outer Limits and in urban legends.
EDIT: ...Now in the light of day it occurs to me that the "Biblical name" comment might have been meant for PoolMan... Never mind me....
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Post by Big T on May 28, 2006 18:33:54 GMT -5
Y'know bug stories like that make me so happy that I live in the canadian prairies, no roaches or scorpions or anything up here. Heck, in Alberta we've even got patrols along the provincial border to keep out rats (no joke).
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Post by PoolMan on May 29, 2006 11:22:06 GMT -5
... You gotta problem with that? ... No. |
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Post by pfrsue on Jun 7, 2006 21:32:17 GMT -5
Not to bring this thread back around to its original intent or anything, but did I mention... tornados? This farm is a few thousand yards from where I work. Notice the lovely red barn and the stately pine trees. Well, they were there yesterday morning anyway. Not so much by yesterday evening.  |
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