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I honestly have never seen so many mosquitos in my life as I did during this afternoon's trail run. They were swarming...I didn't even know mosquitos could swarm. I thought they were flies until Heather and I stopped briefly (that was very short-lived) and they were ON us in seconds...*shudders* It has been so wet here and we have a lot of marshy areas...perfect haven for the little blood-suckers.
Gotta get my hands on some DEET before the trail relay in 2 weeks. BTW, does anyone know what bug repellant does to the Garmin? I have a feeling it could eat at the plastic.
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Try dealing with bees and hornets. DAMN.
Once in Hawai'i, I got chased by a big swarm of bees. And I swear that they made the shape of a giant arrow, just like in the cartoons.
Just for fun, here's The Mosquitos. They visited Gilligan's Island.
The Mosquitos sing "He's a Loser"
The names of the Mosquitos: Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving.
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I absolutely, 100% knew that. That is one of about 11 trivia items of the most obscure nature I have committed to memory for use in emergency triva situations.
Mosquitos. Bah. Try dealing with bees and hornets. DAMN. Once in Hawai'i, I got chased by a big swarm of bees. And I swear that they made the shape of a giant arrow, just like in the cartoons. Just for fun, here's The Mosquitos. They visited Gilligan's Island. The Mosquitos sing "He's a Loser" The names of the Mosquitos: Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving.
Yeah...me no likey bees, either.
Gilligan's Island...can't believe how much I loved that as a kid.
It goes something like this:
Da doodly doodly doot dah doot doot
Doodly doodly doot dah doot doot
Boom chicka chicka chicka boom chick chicka chicka
Apparently, it's ye olde Mosquitos who cut that record, because that's the first song we see them playing when the helicopter drops them off on the island.
And there is NO GOOD REASON why my brain holds that information but can't remember useful stuff.
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It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
we drank DEET in chem lab. We smelled bad.
It is a wonder any of you passed the class...
we made DEET in chem lab. it smelled bad.
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indeed. we were also taught how to synthesize heroin. unfortunately, we didn't get to practice that one in lab.
SRL - Hi Perry. didn't know you and AP were twins too.
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Not at it at all.
Horseflies are much worse than mosquitos. One of those little shits got me on the neck last year. Damn that hurt.
They aren't so little, either. I am SO glad that they don't seem to be a problem here. When I was a pre-teen I used to go to a church camp up in the Upper Peninsula of MI for a week each Summer. Horseflies were BAD there. They'd land on our heads to bite us while swimming. We could duck under the water for a bit, but they would be hovering above waiting for us to come up for air. Bastards.