How to be stupid:

Yeff said:

- Walk to the store, mainly to see how many cicadas are
about.

- See so many that you're reduced to nothing but a girlish
scream.

- Get to store, buy Gatorade and a can of wasabi peas.

- Walk home, screaming like a girl the entire way.

- Drink Gatorade, eat peas.

- Rub your right eye that's itching.

- Realize that there's still horseradish powder on your
fingers.

--

-Jeff B. (freaked out, screaming like a girl, blind in one
eye.) yeff at erols dot com

Cook the cicadas. They're related to shrimp.

Yeff <[email hidden]> through great pain but in fantastic humor posted
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Quoted message said:

- Walk to the store, mainly to see how many cicadas are
about.

- See so many that you're reduced to nothing but a girlish
scream.

- Get to store, buy Gatorade and a can of wasabi peas.

- Walk home, screaming like a girl the entire way.

- Drink Gatorade, eat peas.

- Rub your right eye that's itching.

- Realize that there's still horseradish powder on your
fingers.

-Jeff B. (freaked out, screaming like a girl, blind in
one eye.)

BTDT (with those damned wasabi pea-stained fingers); I
survived -- though I doubted I would view the world through
my 20/40 eye-sight later. Thanks for the laugh -- at your
expense. Remember Bausch and Lomb eye drops on your next
screaming-run.

The Ranger

Yeff said:

- Walk to the store, mainly to see how many cicadas are
about.

- See so many that you're reduced to nothing but a girlish
scream.

- Get to store, buy Gatorade and a can of wasabi peas.

- Walk home, screaming like a girl the entire way.

- Drink Gatorade, eat peas.

- Rub your right eye that's itching.

- Realize that there's still horseradish powder on your
fingers.

Yeff, I had to say, thank you for that hilarious story. Too
friggin funny.

I keep watching for cicadas, nothing yet, but I'm still
terrified. One got into my hair once and started buzzing
away. I almost ran into traffic trying to get away from it.

Screaming like a girl.

nancy

BOB said:

Cook the cicadas. They're related to shrimp.

Cicadas are insects, shrimp are a decapod crustacean.

abbot.si.educicadasOpen ↗

Q. What are the higher level taxonomic classifications for
the three cicada species expected in Brood 10?

R. Well first, taxonomy, or "taxonomic classification," is
the orderly classification of living things based on
seven major zoological categories or levels in
hierarchical order as Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, and Species. The higher level taxonomies
for the three Brood X species are:

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Homoptera Cicadidae Magicicada
septendecim Magicicada cassini Magicicada septendecula

Perhaps you have cicadas mixed up with pillbugs. www-www-Open ↗
.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca.html

insected.arizona.eduisoinfo.htmOpen ↗ Phylum, Arthropoda;
Class, Malacostraca; Order, Isopoda

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

Nancy Young said:

I keep watching for cicadas, nothing yet, but I'm still
terrified. One got into my hair once and started
buzzing away. I almost ran into traffic trying to get
away from it.

Screaming like a girl.

I've decided that the screaming helps. Nothing else does
save moving to the west coast (and that'll never happen).

Apparently, every flight path the cicadas take lead directly
to Yeff. I, too, almost walked out into traffic trying to
avoid a red-eyed monster flying right at me.

--

-Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com

The Ranger said:

BTDT (with those damned wasabi pea-stained fingers); I
survived -- though I doubted I would view the world
through my 20/40 eye-sight later. Thanks for the laugh --
at your expense. Remember Bausch and Lomb eye drops on
your next screaming-run.

I was home alone in the house the first time I ever handled
jalapenos. My eyes itched, so I rubbed them. I thought I was
going to be blind for life! Fortunately, I managed to feel
my way over to the sink, turned on the water full blast and
ran it over my eyes for a little while to flush them out.
Don't know how long it would have taken to recover if I
hadn't done that.

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

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sf said:

BOB said:

Cook the cicadas. They're related to shrimp.

Cicadas are insects, shrimp are a decapod crustacean.

But they are all still arthropods... ;-)

Did you know that the army calls Grasshoppers "brush
shrimp"?

K.

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I was traumatized as a child by the very same incident. They
are unbelievable here in Harford County Maryland right now!
I'm going to the boat to get away from them...they sure
don't swim! Cindy

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Quoted message said:

Nancy Young said:

I keep watching for cicadas, nothing yet, but I'm still
terrified. One got into my hair once and started
buzzing away. I almost ran into traffic trying to get
away from it.

Screaming like a girl.

I've decided that the screaming helps. Nothing else does
save moving to the west coast (and that'll never happen).

Apparently, every flight path the cicadas take lead
directly to Yeff. I, too, almost walked out into traffic
trying to avoid a red-eyed monster flying right at me.

--

-Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com

Yeff said:

I've decided that the screaming helps.

I suspect running with your arms flapping like a windmill
and feet lifting high off the ground helps a bit to scare
them away.

Quoted message said:

Apparently, every flight path the cicadas take lead
directly to Yeff. I, too, almost walked out into traffic
trying to avoid a red-eyed monster flying right at me.

Think of it this way. They slept for 17 years and then found
you. You're quite the cicada magnet, bub... a regular Prince
Charming of the insect world.

Whadda guy!

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

sf said:

I was home alone in the house the first time I ever
handled jalapenos. My eyes itched, so I rubbed them. I
thought I was going to be blind for life! Fortunately, I
managed to feel my way over to the sink, turned on the
water full blast and ran it over my eyes for a little
while to flush them out. Don't know how long it would have
taken to recover if I hadn't done that.

This ain't no [censored]... (veterans will recognize that)

I was stationed in Misawa, Japan with the Air Force when my
unit had an IG inspection (Inspector General). Those things
always kicked off with a unit-wide recall and everyone had
to report to work within a specified amount of time in
uniform, wearing your ballistic helmet and vest, web belt
and with full canteen, pouch with gas mask, and the rest of
your chem-gear in a duffel bag.

Those of us who weren't actually on duty when recalled had
to wait in a manpower pool until released.

We're all sitting there when one of the IG Inspectors
entered the room and started passing out scenario cards. The
cards contained situations for which we were supposed to be
trained and we had to either tell what we'd do or actually
demonstrate what we do for each scenario.

One mental midget was handed a card that read something to
the effect of, "A chemical contaminant has gotten into your
left eye. Demonstrate the proper procedure for flushing
eyes." The proper procedure was to lean down with the bad
eye towards the floor and flush *away* from the good eye.
Our mental midget managed to get that part right. His only
problem was that he'd been partying before the recall and
didn't want his party to end. - so he'd filled his canteen
with vodka and orange juice.

That's right, instead of admitting what he'd done and
accepting his punishment (easily the loss of a stripe), he
poured vodka and orange juice into his own eye, screamed
out in pain, accepted a canteen of water to actually
demonstrate the proper way to flush an eye, was led away
to the Commander to tell him what he'd done, and lost a
stripe anyway.

--

-Jeff B. (some people are born stupid while others strive to
it) yeff at erols dot com

Katra said:

Did you know that the army calls Grasshoppers "brush
shrimp"?

Just don't eat the legs. They'll kick your ass on the way
out.

--

-Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com

CindyC said:

They are unbelievable here in Harford County Maryland
right now!

You're in Harford County? Where at? I grew up in Edgewood
and graduated from Joppatowne High School. I'm now up in
Cecil County in Perryville.

--

-Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com

Katra said:

Did you know that the army calls Grasshoppers "brush
shrimp"?

K.

I'm old enough to have had grandparents who actually bought
things like fried grasshoppers and chocolate covered ants. I
was a kid, so I didn't have the gross out factor fully in
place at the time.

Grasshoppers were sort of like eating those fried green
seeds (the name escapes me at the moment - a mexican pumpkin
seed?) - very crispy and hollow.

BTW: I never could find an ant in those chocolates, no
matter how tiny my bites were.

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

sf said:

BTW: I never could find an ant in those chocolates, no
matter how tiny my bites were.

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

I used to think it was like eating Chunky Bars.
--
Alan

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the relig-
ion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home."
-- James Michener

In article <[email hidden]>,

sf said:

Katra said:

Did you know that the army calls Grasshoppers "brush
shrimp"?

K.

I'm old enough to have had grandparents who actually
bought things like fried grasshoppers and chocolate
covered ants. I was a kid, so I didn't have the gross out
factor fully in place at the time.

Grasshoppers were sort of like eating those fried green
seeds (the name escapes me at the moment - a mexican
pumpkin seed?) - very crispy and hollow.

Pepitas. :-)

Quoted message said:

BTW: I never could find an ant in those chocolates, no
matter how tiny my bites were.

<shiver> Ewwww!!!

K.

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Katra said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

sf said:

Grasshoppers were sort of like eating those fried green
seeds (the name escapes me at the moment - a mexican
pumpkin seed?) - very crispy and hollow.

Pepitas. :-)

That's it... thanks!

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

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Quoted message said:

sf [email hidden]

BOB said:

Quoted message said:

Cook the cicadas. They're related to shrimp.

Cicadas are insects, shrimp are a decapod crustacean.

Quoted message said:

abbot.si.educicadasOpen ↗

Q. What are the higher level taxonomic classifications
for the three cicada species expected in Brood 10?

A. Well first, taxonomy, or "taxonomic classification,"
is the orderly classification of living things based
on seven major zoological categories or levels in
hierarchical order as Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, and Species. The higher level
taxonomies for the three Brood X species are:

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Homoptera Cicadidae
Magicicada septendecim Magicicada cassini Magicicada
septendecula

Those lowest three must be the 'talians; Guido, Carmine,
and Strunz.

No, Larry, Curly, and Sheldon..... <lol>

<hugs>

K.

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Yeff said:

- Walk to the store, mainly to see how many cicadas are
about.

- See so many that you're reduced to nothing but a girlish
scream.

- Get to store, buy Gatorade and a can of wasabi peas.

- Walk home, screaming like a girl the entire way.

- Drink Gatorade, eat peas.

- Rub your right eye that's itching.

- Realize that there's still horseradish powder on your
fingers.

--

-Jeff B. (freaked out, screaming like a girl, blind in one
eye.) yeff at erols dot com

When I was young and less squeamish than I am now (I can't
believe I ever tried to keep a praying mantis as a pet -
shudder) we would take the empty cicada "shells" and stick
them on our shirts like brooches. Their little claw thingies
would hold them on reallly well - sort of like velcro. Now I
cringe if I just see one from afar. I remember one year when
they were particularly plentiful. They were everywhere! I
used to walk downtown (Small Town, USA) in my bare feet in
the summer. This year I started out in my bare feet and had
to turn around and go home for sandals because the sidewalks
were littered with the beasts. Yuck!

Kate
--
Kate Connally “If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead
already.” Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.” What if the hokey pokey
really *is* what it's all about? "][email hidden]

BOB said:

Yeff said:

- Walk to the store, mainly to see how many cicadas are
about.

- See so many that you're reduced to nothing but a
girlish scream.

- Get to store, buy Gatorade and a can of wasabi peas.

- Walk home, screaming like a girl the entire way.

- Drink Gatorade, eat peas.

- Rub your right eye that's itching.

- Realize that there's still horseradish powder on your
fingers.

--

-Jeff B. (freaked out, screaming like a girl, blind in
one eye.) yeff at erols dot com

Cook the cicadas. They're related to shrimp.

That was a cruel remark. Now I may never be able to eat
shrimp again. :-P Kate

--
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already.” Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.” What if the hokey pokey
really *is* what it's all about? "][email hidden]