[television is just wrong]

open for discussion. found this interesting.

[LIConFem]

Good night, sleep tight, ...

[stm]

NYC lawyers, bed bugs. What's the difference?

Know why sharks don't attack lawyers? Professional courtesy.

I think this would be a perfect thread to start a long list of lawyer jokes!

[sionnsar]

There was an article somewhere (FR? WSJ?) a few months back that said that there's a resurgence of bedbugs in the country.

[samtheman]

New York lawyer. Probably brought the bed bugs with him. It's a pretty sleazy scam to run, especially when your wife is already sick. But as already stipulated, he's a New York lawyer.

[GSlob]

Well, in Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group these had to be mandarin oriental bedbugs. The hotel chain must have done its utmost to provide the genuine flavor.

[meowmeow]

I've noticed a lot of hotels have a "green" policy, meaning they encourage us to "save the planet" by not having our room sheets replaced with clean ones every day. Last time I saw this, I declined the "service" and then made a little mark on my sheet with a pencil to see how honest the staff was. Sure enough, they didn't bother to change my sheets even though I requested it. God knows if they even changed the sheets before I got there!

[dinoparty]

I simply do not want to know anything about cleanliness problems in hotel beds. See no evil, hear no evil.

[Mamzelle]

I guess bloodsuckers don't give professional courtesy.

[Lady Jag]

Friends of mine went to Cal from Mass and got bitten by bed bugs in Califormia.

They brought the bugs home with them, too, flying all the way back to Mass. They had to throw everything away from their bedrooms and luggage. It was expensive, especially since they travelled with two children. That meant tossing 3 bedrooms and treaing the floors and walls.

Major suction.

[garyhope]

All you ever wanted to know about bed bugs from that "liberal" bastion of higher learning, Harvard here:

http://www.uos.harvard.edu/ehs/pes_bedbug.shtml

Who wants to pay London hotel prices when I can get the same bed bugs much cheaper right here in America or Mexico at a quaint, colorful, charming motel?

[Vaquero]

Oh the filty little beggars.....

(ok...ok..so these were leeches...sue me to.)

[television is just wrong]

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef636.htm

pictures of bed bugs.

[Gay State Conservative]

And lawyers wonder why used car salesmen are considered to be more respectable than are they.

[Bon mots]

Ooooh... I stayed there last spring!

[goldstategop]

It does happen. The critters can either be eliminated by heating the core of a building to 300F or by tented fumigation. Needless to say, no one likes putting up with bedbugs. Its not a pleasant experience to discover you're being fed upon in the wee hours of the morning.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Rb ver. 2.0]

My son stayed at a hotel along the Interstate in KY for a couple of weeks last year. He got bed bugs and was bit by a brown recluse. The hotel "compensated" him with coupons for free stays.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Anyone ever read Graham Greene's "Travels with My Aunt?" Great book I read in high school, his "Aunt" always travelled with bedbugs in a match box. Part of her scam to stay for free in all the best hotels.

[Vaquero]

Time to re-think DDT

[Darnright]

Bedbugs are becoming a problem again in this country. They are very resistant to most methods of eradication. People whose homes are infested often end up having to throw out almost everything they own to get rid of the insects, which can live up to 18 months in a dormant state.

Of course, they were once eradicated in this country by DDT.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I got poison ivy last summer, where's my millions?