[billorites]

Good night, sleep tight...

[dasboot]

Archaeologists say the louse is around 2,000 years old.

A Kerry ancestor?

Bill relates, "That's a good-lookin' louse; I could have gotten with that!"

[Leroy S. Mort]

She said: "The louse is one of the largest and most complete ever found in the Roman world."

Wasn't France part of the Roman world? They have some big ones there to this day.

[Savage Beast]

I wonder if this could be related to the Roman obsession with hair removal. I know that hair was removed for cosmetic reasons, but prevention of louse infestation could have been its original basis.

[FreedomCalls]

I would have never guessed that Roman soldiers had ANYTHING in common with anti-war protesters, but live and learn.

[GMMAC]

.... lousy Romans.

[txhurl]

As many parents now realize, this is truly a horrific thing, these lice.

As you know, blam, anthropo-bio-cauldo-entero-galaxospherical type dude you are: bugs develop immunities to human-developed toxins real quick.

Study was done at HARVARD about 10 years ago showing human head lice here in the US were no longer killed by our Pronto, Rid, etc. They'd developed immunity.

Lice can't be gotten rid of short of a GD turban, anymore, once it sets into a elementary school group.

[eddie willers]

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
An’ ev’n devotion!

[SunkenCiv]

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