Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Another thing, Kenji--=never= surpress a laugh. The latest research shows surpressed laughs back up in your hippocampus and make your head explode! :eek:
No problem, Mike. I return to home, then I convulsed with laughter.
jimbow8 Wrote:I could suppress a laugh while watching 100 hours of I Love Lucy ..... easily.
Yeah, I hear ya. Never thought Lucy was funny, or the Honeymooners.
Lucy was a selfish, scheming, conniving, (the Greman word for female dog) and Ralph Kramden was an ignorant, loud mouthed bully, altways threatening spouse abuse. I guess people thought these things were funny in those days.
I couldn't recall any comedies that were on about the time of the original Scanners and didn't want to be called out on a show that hadn't been on yet for being historically inacurate, so I played `it safe.
keith the elder
I'm reading now "Wednesday chapter13".
When Jack and Carl hung around outside of Anya's house, many Florida roaches assaulted them. Ewwww!!! Palmetto? Huge cockroaches? Cockroaches on steroids? And.....they are flying! :eek:
But I've never seen the Florida roach. So I searched it in internet, but I couldn't get pictures.
Somebody can find out pictures?
!!!!!!!!!!Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!
When Jack and Carl hung around outside of Anya's house, many Florida roaches assaulted them. Ewwww!!! Palmetto? Huge cockroaches? Cockroaches on steroids? And.....they are flying! :eek:
But I've never seen the Florida roach. So I searched it in internet, but I couldn't get pictures.
Somebody can find out pictures?
Kenji Wrote:But I've never seen the Florida roach. So I searched it in internet, but I couldn't get pictures.Here's a palmetto bug:
Somebody can find out pictures?
![[Image: PalmettoBug.gif]](http://www.venture-learn.org/Florida_insects/Florida_insects_images/PalmettoBug.gif)
[highlight]Other Florida Bugs[/highlight]
This post was last modified: 04-22-2005, 10:55 AM by jimbow8.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:Here's a palmetto bug:
[highlight]Other Florida Bugs[/highlight]
Gwaaah!!! :eek: :p
Thanks, Jim. Now I can imagine that scene in book.
Kenji Wrote:Gwaaah!!! :eek: :pI think that is pretty much actual size also, Kenji. I read that they are usually 1.5" long or more (4 cm)
Thanks, Jim. Now I can imagine that scene in book.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:I think that is pretty much actual size also, Kenji. I read that they are usually 1.5" long or more (4 cm)
Yeah, but Jack was surprised to roach's size. "--but never this size", "these were big".......Well, 4cm is not big. Oh, Jack is definitely squeamish type!
jimbow8 Wrote:Here's a palmetto bug:
[highlight]Other Florida Bugs[/highlight]
Yewwww!!! These are the waterbugs I've posted about so often. Another one got smashed in a mouse trap 2 days ago. They are so big they can set off a mouse trap! Yeeech!
I HATE THESE THINGS! A bug by any name still creeps me out. Waterbug, Palmetto bug, Yuck! And NYC waterbugs can fly, not very far, but they can fly. Absolutely horrible! And they are long, easily over 2 inches.
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
Maggers Wrote:Yewwww!!! These are the waterbugs I've posted about so often. Another one got smashed in a mouse trap 2 days ago. They are so big they can set off a mouse trap! Yeeech!Have you ever seen La Cucaracha Grande? I saw some at the zoo one time and simultaneously got chills up my spine and felt nauseous. Those things are HUGE and pasty white. AAAAHHHHH!!!!!
I HATE THESE THINGS! A bug by any name still creeps me out. Waterbug, Palmetto bug, Yuck! And NYC waterbugs can fly, not very far, but they can fly. Absolutely horrible! And they are long, easily over 2 inches.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:Have you ever seen La Cucaracha Grande? I saw some at the zoo one time and simultaneously got chills up my spine and felt nauseous. Those things are HUGE and pasty white. AAAAHHHHH!!!!!
OMG! The stuff of nightmares! No, I've never seen one and I DO NOT WANT TO!
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd