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May 21st, 2004, 03:30 PM
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Re: OT: THEY are here...
Oh, YES, I do. I don't need protein that badly.  |
May 21st, 2004, 04:14 PM
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Re: OT: THEY are here...
Heads up. I read on the wierd news that some guy got real sick eating just a few. Seems he knew he had a shellfish allergy, but didn't make the correct connection...
Shrimp, lobster = marine arthropod
Crayfish = aquatic arthropod
Cicada = terrestrial arthropod
Don't snack if you can't handle it.
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May 21st, 2004, 07:23 PM
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Re: OT: THEY are here...
Cicadas? Oh, they're just the XiChung invasion force coming to enslave Earth... remember that part in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" where the entire battle fleet got swallowed by a small dog? 
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May 21st, 2004, 08:56 PM
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Re: OT: THEY are here...
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We could box them up and ship them to China. I hear that the Chinese think they are tasty!  I wonder how much we could get per pound?
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I often wonder why some entrepreneur doesn't get into this sort of animal husbandry. I heard that some grasshoppers being sold in local stores in southwestern US for comsumption were contaminated with dangerous levels of lead. If someone in the midwest farmed them in an enclosure, fed them clean grain stalks, froze and shipped them out in colorful packaging... So what if it never sold to Americans, we could be on the threshold of a lucrative foreign market.
It's a little OT, but a woman in my area has quite a lucrative business selling dragonfly larvae as natural mosquito control. With the West Nile Virus and all, she can't harvest enough for the orders and she's charging top dollar. I wonder if there's a natural predetor of cicada... |
May 21st, 2004, 09:11 PM
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Re: OT: THEY are here...
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I wonder if there's a natural predetor of cicada...
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Well, pretty much everything kills them.  But there is the Cicada Killer Wasp that's even named after them.
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May 22nd, 2004, 12:57 AM
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Re: OT: THEY are here...
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Besides, how am I supposed to eat them if you burn them to ashes?
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Cicadas + napalm = BBQ
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Re: OT: THEY are here...
Morning report... this morning, I went out to my car to find about 20+ cicadas perched on the wheels, the roof, the wiper blades... with about 100 on the ground surrounding it. The surprising thing is, there were still about 5 of the buggers hanging onto the car by the time I got to the parking garage. I gave one to a co-worker whose kids haven't yet seen one.
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