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Parasitic Hairworm Charms Grasshopper Into Taking It for a Swim
NY Times ^
| September 6, 2005
| NICHOLAS WADE
Posted on 09/06/2005 2:59:45 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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This is pretty amazing. Zombie grasshoppers...
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posted on
09/06/2005 2:59:45 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: PatrickHenry; aculeus; thefactor; blam; cyborg
File this one under "truth is stranger than fiction."
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posted on
09/06/2005 3:01:49 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
To: Pharmboy
Think of all those poor hairworms who thirsted to death before one of them thought up this trick.
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posted on
09/06/2005 3:02:12 AM PDT
by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
KHAAAAAN!!!!!
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posted on
09/06/2005 3:03:29 AM PDT
by
KneelBeforeZod
( I'm going to open Cobra Kai dojos all over this valley!)
To: Pharmboy
Night of the Living Grasshoppers...
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posted on
09/06/2005 3:05:55 AM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(The Democratic Party-Jackass symbol, jackass leaders, jackass supporters.)
To: Pharmboy
The Goa'uld have enslaved the Tari in such a manner for centuries.
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posted on
09/06/2005 3:11:52 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
To: Pharmboy
I've often wondered how some otherwise intelligent people could vote for a democrat. They must have some sort of a 'wild hair' worm some where that makes them seek out a polling place.
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posted on
09/06/2005 3:45:14 AM PDT
by
Jaxter
("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
To: Pharmboy
"Hordes of infected grasshoppers - more than 100 a night..."
So is it 100 hordes or 100 grasshoppers? Is 100 grasshoppers a "horde"?
Whatever. It certainly gives a new meaning to the phrase "have a wild hair up your..."
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posted on
09/06/2005 4:03:45 AM PDT
by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
To: Pharmboy
Why does this story remind me of my ex-wife
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posted on
09/06/2005 4:08:52 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: Pharmboy
That is not unusual. Women do that to men all the time.
To: Jaxter
Its' called Liberalism..Its a cancerous Condition, spreads mainly in schools...the prime vector is the N.E.A...the most virulent form afflicted the stupid (and rich).
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posted on
09/06/2005 4:11:59 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: Pharmboy
Even the NYT is worth reading - if they would just stick with facts and science.
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posted on
09/06/2005 4:18:12 AM PDT
by
manwiththehands
(If the Left offends you, stick around. They are just getting started.)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
09/06/2005 5:01:04 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(I'm having the best day ever.)
To: Pharmboy
charm is deceptive, beauty is vain....
To: Pharmboy
Them Intelligent Designers have a sense of humor.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:34:19 AM PDT
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: Pharmboy
It's probably worth noting that the rabies virus does much the same thing to its host. It also manipulates the host's behavior - an infected animal flies into a rage and attempts to bite virtually any other animal it encounters, which works out nicely for the rabies virus, insofar as it's spread through saliva. There is also, IIRC, a species of fluke that manipulates the behavior of the ticks it infects.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:41:44 AM PDT
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: Pharmboy
Much like the MSM who eat their readers minds and then get them to buy the stuff they advertise.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:54:32 AM PDT
by
Panzerlied
("We shall never surrender!")
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
09/06/2005 7:34:30 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
To: Pharmboy
The biologists captured grasshoppers before their suicidal plunge and removed the worms.Saving the world one grasshopper at the time :)
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posted on
09/06/2005 7:37:41 AM PDT
by
Quinotto
(On matters of style swim with the current,on matters of principle stand like a rock-Thomas Jefferson)
To: Junior
Interesting, but not worth a ping to the list. We have a couple of active ID threads going already.
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posted on
09/06/2005 7:37:49 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Discoveries attributable to the scientific method -- 100%; to creation science -- zero.)
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