Well, guys.....

On Feb 3, 6:14 pm, Straydog <a... DeleteThis @panix.com> wrote:
> I'm shutting down the computer for the night...
>
> See y'all sometime tommorrow morning.
>
> SD
>
> (long live smart-ass-trouble-makers)

A friend of mine grew up in Hawaii, where they have flying
cockroaches. I hate bugs, and when I asked him how he coped with
that, he said "Don't sleep with your mouth open."

Marco
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On Feb 4, 5:18 pm, Marco <andymarcos....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 3, 6:14 pm, Straydog <a....TakeThisOut@panix.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm shutting down the computer for the night...
>
> > See y'all sometime tommorrow morning.
>
> > SD
>
> > (long live smart-ass-trouble-makers)
>
> A friend of mine grew up in Hawaii, where they have flying
> cockroaches.  I hate bugs, and when I asked him how he coped with
> that, he said "Don't sleep with your mouth open."

We also have here the flying cockroaches 5 cm long. But they fly only
for few months per year. If you throw them away through the door, they
will fly through the window. Thus, nobody fights them.
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Marco wrote:

> On Feb 3, 6:14 pm, Straydog <a....RemoveThis@panix.com> wrote:
>> I'm shutting down the computer for the night...
>>
>> See y'all sometime tommorrow morning.
>>
>> SD
>>
>> (long live smart-ass-trouble-makers)
>
> A friend of mine grew up in Hawaii, where they have flying
> cockroaches. I hate bugs, and when I asked him how he coped with
> that, he said "Don't sleep with your mouth open."

1. I love it. I'll have to remember that one.

2. I can tell some cockroach stories and folklore. Folklore: you can (at
least common folklore in Southern Illinois: your house will be infested
with either cockroaches or spiders and you can have a preference for one
or the other, but you will always get one but never both. My experience:
partial confirmation. The cockroach-spider wars are actually ongoing,
when the spiders are up, the cockroaches are down, and vice versa. Nobody
is winning. Its cyclic.

3. A female aquaintance (long long ago, now a physician) invited me to her
house for morning breakfast (I'd had been there before, at night).
Interesting experience. No matter where I sat, no matter where I looked,
the cokcroaches were running along all edges of all furniture, walls,
doorways, drawers, kitchen table, everything. I can tell you that a rough
estimate of surface visibility at any instant in time would be probably
about 200-300 cockroaches in the room, visible in any eyescan, anywhere.
Classic performance: She put two slices of white bread into the toaster,
plunged down the handle (to turn on the toaster and start up the heating
wires) and out came 50 more cockroaches out of the bread slice slots, the
handle slots, out the bottom, out the corners, etc., wherever there was an
opening to the interior.

I was totally quiet during all of this.

And, I am not making this up, either.

I don't like cockroaches.


> Marco
>
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On Feb 4, 7:18 am, Straydog <a....RemoveThis@panix.com> wrote:

> Gawd, don't bring up physicians. Only they are slightly better than
> lawyers.

What is it that you don't like about physicians, S-dog?

Going to med school was the path not taken for me. I wanted to be an
ER doc, but liked science better. Although I can handle the sights
and the gore, the *smells* are too much for me.
I'm fascinated by the difference in cultures and thinking styles
between scientists and physicians. Being fed royal jelly early on,
they sometimes have a surety that is not always warranted. But, I
suppose some ego is needed to deal with the public.

More later.
Marco
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