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East About To Be Overrun By Billions Of Cicadas
Associated Press ^
| May 6,2013
| Seth Borenstein
Posted on 05/06/2013 2:29:22 PM PDT by Biggirl
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To: carriage_hill
Awww...they don’t bite ya.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:41:19 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(For me, I plan to die standing as a free man rather than spend one second on my knees as a slave.)
To: carriage_hill
Not nice critters: Unless you are one of many species of birds. They love 'em!
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:42:08 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: allmendream
It’s more of an orgy, really...;)
To: Salamander
That is a TYPE of party!
;)
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:44:09 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: allmendream
Buried for 17 years and they came out to PARTY and raise a ruckus!And have lots and lots of sex :) That's what all the buzzing is about. Wonder how the females make a choice? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Bachelor #1 or Bachelor #2 or... Bachelor #341,289,402.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:44:22 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
To: livius
As kids (LOVED bugs) we used to pick the emerging nymphs off the sidewalk in the evening on their way to the nearest tree to hatch. We’d let them emerge from their shells on our bedroom curtains and wake up to adult cicada’s buzzing around our room. What fun!
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:44:37 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: KarlInOhio
Forget that, then...I’m not building them an apartment.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:45:26 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
( (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization))
To: Biggirl
They emerged in 2011 here in middle Tennessee. They were loud and there were a lot of them.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:45:51 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: CatherineofAragon
You should try putting one of these on your bare arm. They have a vice-like metallic grip that is memorable.
Are you freaking now? :)
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:45:53 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: CatherineofAragon
They’re saying they’ll be south of me.
I’m bummed out.
I love listening to them and the squirrels love munching on them.
I’m skeptical of the forecast as the squirrels and crows have been gathering in what sure seems like anticipatory hordes.
I hope...:)
To: F15Eagle
Will the Cicadas be visiting Washington, D.C.? They did during the 2004 eruption. The front ends of the MetroRail trains were heavily splattered with cicada carcases. Truly disgusting.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:46:27 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Biggirl
Since they are all here legally they should be given EBT cards
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:46:38 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: fwdude
YES!
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:48:34 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
( (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization))
To: Biggirl
17 years? That’s nothing. I found a bag of Sea Monkeys that I ordered as a kid. I kid you not, I put them in water and Sea Monkeys came out a few days later!
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:49:03 PM PDT
by
MNDude
(Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
To: cripplecreek; Bloody Sam Roberts
At 600-to-1 odds, it’s not fun for any person/animal to get “swarmed” by a hundreds or thousands. I had to use brooms to clean-off livestock during the last 16-17yr cycle. And there were bite welts.
They’ll make some nice compost in the forests, after denuding the trees and shrubs. I hope the birds remember what to do. Heh.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:49:37 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(AR-10s & AR-15s are the Muskets of the 21st Century. Free men need not ask permission.)
To: CatherineofAragon
I despise bugs Well, here is a close-up of these suckers:
Keep your distance.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:49:58 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
To: Salamander
I envy you...life would be so much easier if bugs didn’t bother me.
I love snakes, mice, all those things, but the most overwhelmingly numerous life form, yeah, that has to be the one....
I don’t think you have anything to worry about. Everything I’ve read says this swarm is gonna be historic.
(sheesh)
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:50:54 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
( (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization))
To: ansel12
When it rains cats & dogs, that’ll be a good indicator.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:51:21 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(AR-10s & AR-15s are the Muskets of the 21st Century. Free men need not ask permission.)
To: fwdude
Are they edible by humans?
Might be a good source of protein during the expected Obama famine (related to the Ukrainian Stalin famine of 1933 that intentionally starved about 7 million to death).
http://faminegenocide.com/mace_ch3.html
My Uncle was a POW in Germany in WW-II and they had to eat whatever bugs they could find to survive.
Some versions of locusts can be eaten in a pinch, apparently, and they aren’t bad roasted.
Whatever Stalin did, IMHO, Obama is capable of doing.
We’d better be ready.
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:52:51 PM PDT
by
George Varnum
(Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
To: Biggirl
When I lived in Texas and Arkansas, I used to love listening to cicadas in the summertime...
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:54:01 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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