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NIGHT-FEEDERS ON THE MARCH
Repulsive parasites infest San Francisco’s Bay Area. Also, there are bed bugs.
Eric Cartman on Hippies: “Hippies. They’re everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.”
“I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about “protectin’ the earth” and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate ‘em! I wanna kick ‘em in the nuts!”
In a later episode of South Park, he presents the solution.As a child, I learned this song from my Dad:
One night while I was sleeping, I looked upon the wall
The Bedbugs and the Beetles were having a game of ball!
The score was eight to nothing, the Beetles were ahead!
The Bedbugs hit a homerun, and knocked me out of bed bed bed!!!It took me years to understand that bedbugs actually existed…..it’s just that they were pushed out of the American bedroom between the time of Dad’s childhood and mine.
And now they are back. Perhaps this song will re-appear on the playgrounds, eh? Yays for environmentalists.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 25 at 11:13 AM • permalinkThere is a simple cure for this problem. It was used successfully for many years on a variety of insects and is quite harmless to humans and other mammals (There is even a study that indicates it may have internal medical benefits). It took a bad rap due to political nutjobs but may be making a comeback. Yes, that’s right… DDT.
Oh what a good one. I am so stealing that line for an article, Tim. When you see it again, it will be in an article with a guy unconvincingly claiming it as his own.
Posted by mencken_cynic on 2006 08 25 at 01:07 PM • permalinkTwo thoughts come to mind:
From childhood: Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite. I don’t think my mother thought this through.
From later years: They got so many bedbugs, it’s the bugs that give the correct change.
I can’t think of people I’m happier to hear are infested than the Frisco hippies.
It is easy to forget what living a bedbugless life took. It is easy to sneer and take your wonderful life full of unimaginably luxuries for granted. We’ve spent a couple of generations allowing those who sneer to run things.
Bedbugs are just one sign. There are others. If we don’t stay on our toes, nature will do what it can to thin the species, the pox, the plague, death that leaves few resourses to the living. There is no “ecology” on earth as fragile as civilization.
I thought the link was going to an article about Oakland Raiders fans. Course I didn’t check to see if the little critters were painted in silver and black.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 08 25 at 05:51 PM • permalink#2 Dan Lewis,
Ah yes, Cartman. One of my role models. Is there anything Wikipedia can’t do?.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 08 25 at 11:05 PM • permalinkMy father used to tell me of his childhood in Washington DC during the depression. To keep bedbugs away the legs of his bed were put into cans filled with kerosene. He never could stand the smell of kerosene after that. Then again he used to chew lumps of new roof tar like it was bubble gum, and I think nothing smells worse than roof tar. Carpet glue, maybe.
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An Iranian student who had been in the country for only a week discovered the creepy crawlers on his bed last Friday
Wouldn’t ya know that San Francisco would be the refuge for the refuse from the Scumballah trenches in Lebos. And this “student” brought some of his Paleo pals to share his bed but “discovered” they were sucking his blood instead of those of the infidels. So he reported him. San Francisco has locked them up but they can furlough on weekends, like Willie Horton.