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Old September 25th 04, 04:25 PM
jmcquown
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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
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Old September 25th 04, 04:38 PM
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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


These sound like what my family always called "cave crickets",
although I don't know if this is the usual name for them. They live
in dark places, such as caves or house basements, or your storage
room. At my father's house, the crickets would climb up the water
pipes into the bathroom. He accidentally discovered that they
apparently can't jump straight up, only at an angle, so he kept
several open wide-mouthed glass jars on the floor under his sink to
serve as cricket traps. He would then carry the crickets out to the
bushes at the rear of his yard and let them go.

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Old September 25th 04, 04:38 PM
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:25:29 -0500, "jmcquown"
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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


These sound like what my family always called "cave crickets",
although I don't know if this is the usual name for them. They live
in dark places, such as caves or house basements, or your storage
room. At my father's house, the crickets would climb up the water
pipes into the bathroom. He accidentally discovered that they
apparently can't jump straight up, only at an angle, so he kept
several open wide-mouthed glass jars on the floor under his sink to
serve as cricket traps. He would then carry the crickets out to the
bushes at the rear of his yard and let them go.

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John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from
http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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Old September 25th 04, 04:38 PM
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:25:29 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

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


These sound like what my family always called "cave crickets",
although I don't know if this is the usual name for them. They live
in dark places, such as caves or house basements, or your storage
room. At my father's house, the crickets would climb up the water
pipes into the bathroom. He accidentally discovered that they
apparently can't jump straight up, only at an angle, so he kept
several open wide-mouthed glass jars on the floor under his sink to
serve as cricket traps. He would then carry the crickets out to the
bushes at the rear of his yard and let them go.

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John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from
http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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Old September 25th 04, 04:58 PM
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John F. Eldredge wrote:
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:25:29 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:
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.
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


These sound like what my family always called "cave crickets",
although I don't know if this is the usual name for them.


Yeah, I think that's what they are. And they are totally gross!

They live
in dark places, such as caves or house basements, or your storage
room. At my father's house, the crickets would climb up the water
pipes into the bathroom. He accidentally discovered that they
apparently can't jump straight up, only at an angle, so he kept
several open wide-mouthed glass jars on the floor under his sink to
serve as cricket traps. He would then carry the crickets out to the
bushes at the rear of his yard and let them go.

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


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Old September 25th 04, 04:58 PM
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John F. Eldredge wrote:
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:25:29 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:
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.
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


These sound like what my family always called "cave crickets",
although I don't know if this is the usual name for them.


Yeah, I think that's what they are. And they are totally gross!

They live
in dark places, such as caves or house basements, or your storage
room. At my father's house, the crickets would climb up the water
pipes into the bathroom. He accidentally discovered that they
apparently can't jump straight up, only at an angle, so he kept
several open wide-mouthed glass jars on the floor under his sink to
serve as cricket traps. He would then carry the crickets out to the
bushes at the rear of his yard and let them go.

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


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Old September 25th 04, 04:58 PM
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John F. Eldredge wrote:
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:25:29 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:
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.
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


These sound like what my family always called "cave crickets",
although I don't know if this is the usual name for them.


Yeah, I think that's what they are. And they are totally gross!

They live
in dark places, such as caves or house basements, or your storage
room. At my father's house, the crickets would climb up the water
pipes into the bathroom. He accidentally discovered that they
apparently can't jump straight up, only at an angle, so he kept
several open wide-mouthed glass jars on the floor under his sink to
serve as cricket traps. He would then carry the crickets out to the
bushes at the rear of his yard and let them go.

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


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Old September 25th 04, 05:08 PM
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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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


Persia, Moe says that crickets are fun to eat as well as play with. They
don't taste that good, but they are very crunchy!


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Old September 25th 04, 05:08 PM
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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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


Persia, Moe says that crickets are fun to eat as well as play with. They
don't taste that good, but they are very crunchy!


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Old September 25th 04, 05:08 PM
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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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


Persia, Moe says that crickets are fun to eat as well as play with. They
don't taste that good, but they are very crunchy!


 




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