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TAPS
Teenagers and locusts share a lot of characteristics! Remember the regular devastation in your refrigerator?
posted by
Nautikos
on August 18, 2007 at 6:25 PM
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Nautikos
I love your comment at the end of this bit of news. I remember well when my four sons were caught up in the Star Wars mania.
for Dante and his "The Inferno".
posted by
TAPS.
on August 18, 2007 at 10:39 AM
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Corbin
the way those guys waddle, they look like they might need Prep H...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 8, 2007 at 6:57 AM
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Offy
mad scientists...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 8, 2007 at 6:56 AM
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spanish
posted by
Nautikos
on July 8, 2007 at 6:55 AM
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Locusts?....
what the? Hmmmm, I would've used anything
but locusts
posted by
dark_mistress
on July 7, 2007 at 11:26 PM
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Naut.......this was the same group of winners that included .......
"The winners of the Ig Nobel Fluid Dynamics prize—hailing from universities in Finland, Germany, and Hungary—won for calculating the pressure that builds up inside a penguin's bowels before it defecates." Pressure??? Are they planning on bringing out Preparation H for Penguins????
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 7, 2007 at 3:15 PM
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Naut
Hahaha...who thinks of this stuff anyway?
posted by
Offy
on July 7, 2007 at 1:00 PM
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posted by
spanish_dragon
on July 7, 2007 at 12:56 PM
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Re: I think teen brains, explorers as they are, learning many true facts
Pat, the main difference, as I see it, is that a plague of locusts descends upon us every seven years, if I remember my Bible correctly, which I may not. Teenagers, on the other hand, are a permanent plague...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 7, 2007 at 10:01 AM
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afzal .
yes, don't we all...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 7, 2007 at 9:51 AM
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Enigmatic
science is on the march...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 7, 2007 at 9:50 AM
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Re: OMG! hahaha............
hazel, your average locust's attention span beats that of your average teenager any day...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 7, 2007 at 9:49 AM
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Re: No dear Naut I can't agree. I think the brains of the Politicians
Your politicians have
brains? Amazing! Maybe they're getting then from chewing gum leaves! Maybe you should export them - not your politicians, we have enough of those, although they're the brainless type - but your gum leaves...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 7, 2007 at 9:47 AM
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I think teen brains, explorers as they are, learning many true facts
the hard way and for the first time, are more volatile and less centered than the average locust's. The locust's purpose in life is fairly straightforward: eat, reproduce, die. Whereas (don't you hate it when someone uses 'whereas'?) teens' purposes are too divergent and teen boys at least are too easily distracted by the sight of a thigh or a breast - be it human or fried chicken - beating their previous scores on some X-box game, getting laid, finding pizza, making up plausible excuses, finishing a paper, surfing My Space for a cute sexy girl, creating an avatar, getting out of yard work... it goes on. And with teen girls, there's shopping, styling, the craft of dissing, competing while pretending sisterhood, etc.
posted by
Pat_B
on July 7, 2007 at 5:12 AM
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I agree with Enigmatic .
posted by
afzal50
on July 7, 2007 at 12:34 AM
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Naut
It's always good to see people using the little time they have in this world, for such important, scientific experiments! 
posted by
Enigmatic68
on July 6, 2007 at 10:01 PM
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OMG! hahaha............
Didn't know a locust had an attention span big enough to watch anything.............hahahaha
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on July 6, 2007 at 8:14 PM
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By the way luv. Gum leaves are very beneficial
You can make a cup of tea with them....you can sniff them to clear the sinus's with a cold or chew the leaves to ease a sore throat. You can make oily perfume. You can probably shew them and clean your teeth too!Just ask any Koala how good they are!
posted by
Kabu
on July 6, 2007 at 8:14 PM
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No dear Naut I can't agree. I think the brains of the Politicians
ours anyway.....would be the biggest waste of time
posted by
Kabu
on July 6, 2007 at 8:12 PM
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