Original Message 1/22                 Date: 15-Feb-03  @  09:45 AM   -   HA!

influx

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anyone NOT seen one of these ever?

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Message 2/22                 Date: 15-Feb-03  @  10:38 AM   -   RE: HA!

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circle dance inside the cave

all movement brings a message

larvae, in their holes

waiting for a summer daze

i, for one...

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Message 3/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  12:03 AM   -   RE: HA!

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HAHAHAHAHA, i've never seen one! This is funny though.

Q: I have potato bugs in my vegetable garden. How can I rid myself of these pesky critters?
A: Drench your entire yard with gasoline and set it ablaze. Once the fire has burned itself out and the ground has cooled, cultivate the soil to a depth of seven feet, saturate the area with battery acid and top the surface with gasoline. After a few minutes, most of the surviving potato bugs, now irritated, will burrow up for air. Set the yard on fire again, and let it burn itself out. The remaining bugs should be crisped. Add water. Only then, and only maybe, will you rid yourself of potato bugs.

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Message 4/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  12:23 AM   -   RE: HA!

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did you read the "Ive never seen one" thing?

"consider yourself LUCKY!"

they really are incredibly revolting. They're related to crickets I think, but...they look like a monster cricket on steroids...just...EWWWWWWWWWWWWww

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Message 5/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  12:47 AM   -   RE: HA!

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i've never seen one either. do you get many of them in the city?

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Message 6/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  01:47 AM   -   RE: HA!

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Thanks alot INFLUX! Now I keep one eye open when I sleep! ONE EYE!

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Message 7/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  02:13 AM   -   RE: HA!

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They are actually burrowing insects...and they hang out in moist, vegetated areas (theyre called potato bugs for a reason)

dont see them a lot around my area, THANK GOD...but I used to live in this apartment that was below street level so our back yard was real moist and we would find these things fairly regularly.

my dad was sleeping on the floor once and woke up to one staring him in the face from about 3" away

a friends uncle put on a pair of pants and felt something odd down there....pulled off his pants and lo and behold...

funniest part of the whole thing is that I emailed the person who designed the site to tell them how funny it was and I got this as a response:

"thanks. now go back and buy a potatobugs.com shirt, mug, frisbee or thong. our electricity has been turned off and we haven't eaten since Wednesday night. thanks.

potatobugs.com"

WTF was THAT?

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Message 8/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  07:48 AM   -   RE: HA!

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ewww gross!!
i can't believe i actually went to that site!
but do they attack (even tho they just burrow)?

if i saw one that size... man i'd freak! and if you tried to squash it all the guts and --gross! WHY AM I SAYING THIS!?

no sleep for me tonight, nightmares...  
-j

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Message 9/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  12:01 PM   -   RE: HA!

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I dont think they actually attack. They...if you mess with them they rear up on those meaty drumsticks for legs and flail at you...and the mandibles..ewww man.

heh. funny how we talk so much about things that are so nastay

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Message 10/22                 Date: 16-Feb-03  @  08:45 PM     Edit: 17-Feb-03  |  09:44 AM   -   RE: HA!

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lol. when we first moved into this place we had a rather serious roach issue (which has since been resolved). I can remember once taking a puff on my inhaler only to find a baby roach at my lips. Luckily he didn't shoot down my throat into my lungs but I was freaked fo' sho'. I check it each and every time now.

I don't even want to talk about my week in the Bahamas on a mission trip in the cabin we dubbed "auschwitz" with the flying ant and spider infestation.

psy

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