Crickets are FUN!

Takayuki wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote:

When I was in school studying broadcasting the instructor turned off
the lights in the classroom and made us listen to 'War of the
Worlds', the original radio broadcast in 1932 by Orson Welles, with
our heads down on our desks. We were told to just imagine what it
was like to have nothing more than radio stimulus like our parents
and grandparents had. People actually *believed* it; it caused the
FCC to create a law stating they had to say it was a radio program,
not actual news. My mom remembers when it happend; she was a child
of 4 or 5.

We listened to the broadcast, too, when we were doing a module on
science fiction in 6th grade. The funny thing was, they said that it
was not real during every commercial break, and there were several!
We didn't understand how it could have caused a panic. Maybe some
people had poor radio reception, or didn't hang around for the
commercial breaks.

There were no commercials during the original broadcast, silly. It was an
hour+ of what was purported to be "news", not sci-fi; they didn't know what
sci-fi was back then. Scared the crap out of some people to the point of
committing suicide.

Jill

On Sat, 25 Sep, Takayuki wrote:

Jill wrote:

Still don't like those sqooshy crickets, though. Sic'em, Persia!

If they're the same things I'm thinking of, I prefer them to regular
crickets. They're quieter, easier to catch, and less aggressive.
Plus, the mice like to eat them.

Does this mean you've gone into mouse ranching to supplement the
kitties' diets? If Weeble wanted to send Persia a mousie, would you
take a credit card?

Regards and Purrs,
O J

On Sat, 25 Sep, Takayuki wrote:

Jill wrote:

Still don't like those sqooshy crickets, though. Sic'em, Persia!

If they're the same things I'm thinking of, I prefer them to regular
crickets. They're quieter, easier to catch, and less aggressive.
Plus, the mice like to eat them.

Does this mean you've gone into mouse ranching to supplement the
kitties' diets? If Weeble wanted to send Persia a mousie, would you
take a credit card?

Regards and Purrs,
O J

On Sat, 25 Sep, Takayuki wrote:

Jill wrote:

Still don't like those sqooshy crickets, though. Sic'em, Persia!

If they're the same things I'm thinking of, I prefer them to regular
crickets. They're quieter, easier to catch, and less aggressive.
Plus, the mice like to eat them.

Does this mean you've gone into mouse ranching to supplement the
kitties' diets? If Weeble wanted to send Persia a mousie, would you
take a credit card?

Regards and Purrs,
O J

I seem to have an infestation of crickets. I suppose it is due to the
changing of the seasons. But these are not normal crickets; they are big
pale brown ugly suckers with striped thoraxes. They live in my built-in
storage room off the patio; I open the door wide and try to let the birds
who eat bugs have a party with them. But sometimes they find their way into
my apartment. The storage room adjoins my master bedroom closet; oh uh...
no!

Persia finds them in my bathroom and even in the bathtub. She chases them
all around. Has a big time batting them around; oooh look! A hoppy toy!

Get'em, girl! Please??? They are just gross. I don't mind regular
crickets but these things are just too big and ugly for words. Sic'em,
Persia! Get them out of my house!

Jill
--
Yup, it's cricket season. We have such hoards of them now, they cats are just
bored with them. They act now like the crickets get on their nerves.

I seem to have an infestation of crickets. I suppose it is due to the
changing of the seasons. But these are not normal crickets; they are big
pale brown ugly suckers with striped thoraxes. They live in my built-in
storage room off the patio; I open the door wide and try to let the birds
who eat bugs have a party with them. But sometimes they find their way into
my apartment. The storage room adjoins my master bedroom closet; oh uh...
no!

Persia finds them in my bathroom and even in the bathtub. She chases them
all around. Has a big time batting them around; oooh look! A hoppy toy!

Get'em, girl! Please??? They are just gross. I don't mind regular
crickets but these things are just too big and ugly for words. Sic'em,
Persia! Get them out of my house!

Jill
--
Yup, it's cricket season. We have such hoards of them now, they cats are just
bored with them. They act now like the crickets get on their nerves.

I seem to have an infestation of crickets. I suppose it is due to the
changing of the seasons. But these are not normal crickets; they are big
pale brown ugly suckers with striped thoraxes. They live in my built-in
storage room off the patio; I open the door wide and try to let the birds
who eat bugs have a party with them. But sometimes they find their way into
my apartment. The storage room adjoins my master bedroom closet; oh uh...
no!

Persia finds them in my bathroom and even in the bathtub. She chases them
all around. Has a big time batting them around; oooh look! A hoppy toy!

Get'em, girl! Please??? They are just gross. I don't mind regular
crickets but these things are just too big and ugly for words. Sic'em,
Persia! Get them out of my house!

Jill
--
Yup, it's cricket season. We have such hoards of them now, they cats are just
bored with them. They act now like the crickets get on their nerves.

Hmmmm, I'll have to get some canning jars and try that. Persia loses
interest after a while. But they are making me crazy! I stepped on one
(squoosh) in the middle of the night the other night while going to the
bathroom and was completely grossed out. I had to take a bath (after making
sure there were none in the bathtub) to get over the shuddery ewwww!
feeling.

Jill


What's really fun (not) is when one gets in the bedroom chirping its little
fool head off and you *can't* *find* *it*. I swear I had a little
cricket-ventriloquist the other night. Would NOT shut up.

Sherry

Hmmmm, I'll have to get some canning jars and try that. Persia loses
interest after a while. But they are making me crazy! I stepped on one
(squoosh) in the middle of the night the other night while going to the
bathroom and was completely grossed out. I had to take a bath (after making
sure there were none in the bathtub) to get over the shuddery ewwww!
feeling.

Jill


What's really fun (not) is when one gets in the bedroom chirping its little
fool head off and you *can't* *find* *it*. I swear I had a little
cricket-ventriloquist the other night. Would NOT shut up.

Sherry

Hmmmm, I'll have to get some canning jars and try that. Persia loses
interest after a while. But they are making me crazy! I stepped on one
(squoosh) in the middle of the night the other night while going to the
bathroom and was completely grossed out. I had to take a bath (after making
sure there were none in the bathtub) to get over the shuddery ewwww!
feeling.

Jill


What's really fun (not) is when one gets in the bedroom chirping its little
fool head off and you *can't* *find* *it*. I swear I had a little
cricket-ventriloquist the other night. Would NOT shut up.

Sherry