East About To Be Overrun By Billions Of Cicadas

Associated Press ^ | May 6,2013 | Seth Borenstein

[Salamander]

I was much more subtle so that my victims went unawares.

:)

[Average Al]

Now this is what I was thinking. Lots of different broods on different cycles. I hear these things every year in the
SE. We also have tree frogs yacking away each year too.

[Salamander]

I am a wellspring of pointless trivia.

:)

[Salamander]

Well, they’re bugs, they look alien and they’re unpredictable and unreasonable.

[the last two traits are common to Ibizan Hounds so I’ve grown numb to such things]

:)

[Exit148]

Not a good time to get Chinese take-out!

[dalereed]

everyone living there are being penalized for living in a hell hole!

[Norm Lenhart]

OK, now the Cooper thing makes sense ;)

[Antoninus II]

Growing up in North Texas, my brother and I would catch them and tie a string around their head, just behind the eyes. Turn them loose and they fly around as you “walk” them like a pet.

[OldMissileer]

...I was 10 in 1950 and it was a few years later, about 1952 when they swarmed in MD.

This type is the 17 year version and the last one was in 1996. The 2004 hatching in the DC/Maryland area was a different variety, although they were just as bothersome.

[ErnBatavia]

A month or so ago, in the very early morning hours, somebody was being interviewed on TV from their home via Skype...in the background was the open door to the kitchen.

There was a stroll-through the kitchen by a fambly member in his undies, scratching his bung.

Not a peep from the TV interviewer...

[Norm Lenhart]

Ahem....er....sorry about that...;)

[Average Al]

"I am a wellspring of pointless trivia."

That's what we used to call a teacher decades ago? ;-)

[Average Al]

"Not a good time to get Chinese take-out!"

Don't give them any ideas....

[Salamander]

Wow...maybe it does.

;D

[Average Al]

Come think about it, how does the board of health grade a Chinese restaurant? Every time they find something crawling around the place they claim it is on the menu......

[Salamander]

Wish I’d thought of that.

;]

[I had a crow who walked with a harness, one time]

[Salamander]

Drat!

I missed my true calling!

[or a Jeopardy contestant]

;]

[Norm Lenhart]

I love the dead was a giveaway...

[Salamander]

I once lived in an apartment above an Asian restaurant.

I’d sit on the flat roof outside my place and watch the rats come and go.

Somedays, they seemed to come but never went.

That was in the early 80’s and I haven’t eaten Asian food since.

[Salamander]

But I have other uses for you, darling.

:)