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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 11, 2013 10:39:48 GMT -5
Yes, been there, done that. What fun!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 11:31:15 GMT -5
good thing we never burned a house down. dang we coulda really got some trouble!
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2013 14:16:33 GMT -5
It is Friday and me and Cliff are 15 years old and live in a middle class neighborhood. We are poorer than most so we improvise. The jocks that bully us or act obnoxious are our target. They bring their dates home between 12-1:00 AM. It is 9:00 PM and we are throwing sticks tied to 6 pound test monofilimant over the phone lines that go over the lane from the main road there in the hood. We are
on our ten speed bicycles and working quickly and covertly and a hoodie on. We swing the monofilimant over to the power pole, tape an egg to the string, then tape the egg to the pole for quick release.
We have 3 eggs tied off about 100 yards apart-taped to the power poles ready to quickly release and swing out in to the road at car window level.
It is now midnight. We bicycle down and swing all the eggs out into the lane coming from the main road. Ditch the bikes and hide well away in the woods up from the first egg. The guy is driving and hits the first egg.You can't see it so he thinks it got thrown at his car and the punks are close. So he jumps out of the car is yelling and looking for us punks ,and we are 2 eggs up the road and yell back at him from the woods of course . He jumps in the car and burns rubber up to the next egg splatter. Quickly stopping the car to kill us. We advance further while he was on his way to egg #2. He knows we gotta be close to have just "thrown" the egg. He jumps out of the car and starts yelling and we yell back we got naked photos of his girl(we often knew who was in the car w/them). Here he comes burning rubber again to egg #3. We are so having fun. Used to leave the lines tied to the power pole if the car did not pull them down. They were snobby jocks in izod shirts and Johnson Murphy loafers. We hated those jokers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 14:54:50 GMT -5
a freekin' engineer before finishing high skrool.
haha
great prank!
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 11, 2013 16:54:17 GMT -5
Ok,so we are going there now!!! LMAO
I have a buddy that lives in Montana,he is a third generation trapper(he is 67 years old)...While in school(high school)they had a bully that picked on them alot.
So to get even with the butthead bully,he asked his Grandpa to mix up the best batch of coyote bait they could do,for trapping that week-end.
Well my buddy (Keith)took a bit of it to school and had one of his buddies keep an eye out for the bully as he got into the dudes car and popped a door panel loose and put a dab of stink bait on the steel of the inner panel,than he popped the door panel back into place...
After a few days the car started stinkin' bad,the guy would wash it,scrub it,even changed the headliner out on the car,the stink never left!
He finally ended up getting rid of the car and to this very day,Keith never told the bully anything about it!ROTFLMAO....
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 11, 2013 17:06:15 GMT -5
My Dad was a roughneck on the Drilling rigs(oilfield) for over 40+ years..He had some great stories..The best one was about a new guy,they called them "Worms"....
Well in the 50's and 60's,the rigs were not insulated like the rigs now days,so they just hung up tarps to keep the wind,snow,rain and weather off them!
If they had to potty,they went to the engine room and found a corner to use,if they had to poop,they would use a scoop shovel to poop on and than throw the waste out the door into the recovery mud pit...
Well this new guy had to poop,so they told him where and how to do it...
They waited a peace than snuck up to the tarped wall,peaked inside as the guy was unbuckling his overalls,he squated down,did his job,than stood up to buckle up again.
As he was doing that,one of the guys grabbed the shovel and threw the poop out the back,slid the shovel back into place...Than they hid again..
As the guy turned around to empty the shovel,he seen that it was empty!!! He looked around and seen nothing,than unbuckled his overalls again,checked inside found "Nothing"!!!
He looked around again and than just walked back to the rig and never said a word..
Dad said they were laughing so hard on the inside that they could have exploded!!!
They never told the guy nothing,just let him stew......ROTFLMAO
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Post by 150FromFundy on Sept 11, 2013 18:17:14 GMT -5
It's not always what stings you, but where it stings you. Earlier this summer I had a paper wasp fly into my mouth. Obviously, I spit it out because I don't like crunchy things with juicy centers. Before I could completely eject the little bugger, it stung the inside of my lip. The pain almost made my cry. There's far too many nerves around your mouth to be a tough guy.
My lip swelled around the sting site to about the size of a golf ball and I began to drool profusely as my lips would no longer seal shut. Laura had a great laugh as I played the role of a drooling idiot (literally) until the swelling went down about four hours later.
My mother told me not to eat bugs. I never was a very good listener.
Darryl.
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2013 19:53:53 GMT -5
I took a sip out of a Coke and got stung by a bee. And another time got a mouth full of fire ants. The bee hurt so much my eyes were soaked.
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Post by jamesp on Sept 11, 2013 19:55:24 GMT -5
Looks like Fossilman was taught by the finest. That stuff is fun when you are doing it to someone else. The bully deserves it though.
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 11, 2013 21:08:48 GMT -5
My son Travis was drinking a "Red Bull" drink and got stung by a bee that was inside the can!!! I got the pic somewhere..LOL (Found it)  Well,I don't know if I should tell this story or not,but when your a country kid,your not much into bathing everyday(if you can get away with it)(This was in the early 60's)..LOL We always tromped the bush,trees,mountains,rivers and swamps in Montana in the summer months,well long story short I had a wood tick on me for a few days-it dug in good too!My two brothers and I just took a pocket knife out heated the blade up and cut it out(OMG,that hurt!!!) But worked! Also had one on my HOHO and we did some minor repair on it too,it was only embedded a bit... As adults,we told Mom and Dad some of these stories,they just rolled their eyes and laughed! As an adult I had a favorite fishing place north of town in North Dakota-you had to walk a bit to get to it and it was tick heaven!! Usually averaged 30 to 50 ticks in one visit.... I took some out of staters up there one summer for some great fishing,told them of the ticks(I don't think they believed me-LOL).. After the fishing was done we headed back to the trk....I than told them to start checking themselves for ticks,between us three we found about 75 or so of them..LOL Got their limit of fish though...LMAO My brothers and I just pick em' off and keep going,its just a bug!!!LOL |
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Post by Pat on Sept 11, 2013 22:45:44 GMT -5
Ouch ! Yuck! Yeeewwwww! Some really good stories here! Etymology for me. You can keep the entymology. Agree with rockpickerforever --- Japanese beetles are the worst looking. Nightmare stuff! |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 12, 2013 3:05:12 GMT -5
The ticks did Pat in Fossilman. Too funny. Ticks are about as personal as it gets. My cousin almost died from eating red meat a month ago from this believed to be tick born disease:
You’ve heard of Lyme disease, one of several diseases caused by tick bites. Now new research reveals how a bite from the lone star tick may cause red meat allergy.
Unlike food allergies to peanuts and milk, which are triggered by certain proteins, red meat allergy may be triggered by alpha-gal, a carbohydrate released in the lone star tick’s saliva, according to the research. When an exposed person eats red meat, such as beef, lamb or pork, which contain sugars similar to alpha-gal, he or she experiences an allergic reaction, perhaps anaphylaxis, usually within 3 to 6 hours. Eating poultry, fish and chicken does not cause the reaction, according to one source.
Alpha-gal tests are now available making it easier for a person bitten by the lone star tick to receive a diagnosis. Symptoms of any tick bite may include a rash, fever, headache, joint or muscle pains, or swollen lymph nodes within 30 days of exposure.
Tick-borne illnesses may be prevented by avoiding dense woods and brushy areas, using insect repellents containing DEET or permethrin, wearing long shirts, pants and socks, and performing tick checks after outdoor activity.
According to the CDC, the lone star tick has proliferated in recent decades. It’s native to southeastern U.S. But large numbers of lone star ticks have been reported as far north as Maine and as far west as central Texas and Oklahoma.
I had a dog almost die of tick born Rocky Mountain(or Lymes). Can't remember.
But my cousin almost died last year from a reaction he had to a steak. So he quit eating beef. Then last month pork made him so sick he was in ICU for a week. He was a big kid and could whip all of us. Now he can barely make it to the mail box for running out of oxygen. Recovery will be over a year. He has 4 daughters from 8 to 16 years old.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 12, 2013 9:08:49 GMT -5
Ouch ! Yuck! Yeeewwwww! Some really good stories here! Etymology for me. You can keep the entymology. Agree with rockpickerforever --- Japanese beetles are the worst looking. Nightmare stuff! Etymology, entymology - I like them both. I was into bugs from a young age, always collecting and trying to ID them. Pat, it is Jerusalem crickets I can't stand to look at! |
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Post by Pat on Sept 12, 2013 9:18:48 GMT -5
rockpickerforever Pat, it is Jerusalem crickets I can't stand to look at!
I knew that! Don't know why I typed in Japanese beetles. We had a Jerusalem Cricket climbing up our family room door/window long ago. Then I figured out a new noise in the backyard was coming from them, so avoided that area. Do you know if they do make a noise? Definitely nightmare stuff. Part ant and part grasshopper. Yeewwww! You have always been interested in bugs; for me it has been rocks, and words and phrase structure.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 12, 2013 9:28:24 GMT -5
Pat, I think I liked bugs first, from like 6 or 7 years old (weird, huh?). I got into rocks a bit later, my parents bought me my first rock tumbler, a Star Diamond from Sears, when I was about 12 - still have it, too! I just ran across a few poppy jasper slabs that I tubmbled way back when. Forty-four years ago, damn... Was thinking of taking some photos, I'm sure they are Guadeloupes. I love word play, and double intendres. It's great to be able to spar with intelligent folks that don't need to have it diagrammed, LOL! A useful tool from my parochial school upbringing. Those nuns knew their words/grammer/ structure, etc., in fact, if you were bad, your punishment could be having to sit during recess, and copy pages (by hand) out of the dictionary! No wonder my penmenship sucks!
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 12, 2013 11:24:15 GMT -5
Dang James,thats sad on these people and the "ticks"!!! Maybe those hard winters in the North country was a good thing and would kill everything in the winter months.
No Lyme disease in the areas where I lived.....(Cross fingers)...
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 12, 2013 11:27:56 GMT -5
Use to catch huge grasshoppers as a kid in the 60's....My brothers and I would have a contest and see who could get the most hopper juice on them in a five minute time period..Letting hopper puke the brown juice on our hands...
It never hurt or burn....Gross,probably yes,but it was something to do....
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Post by jamesp on Sept 12, 2013 13:02:39 GMT -5
I can get help for you Micheal.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 12, 2013 15:36:42 GMT -5
rockpickerforever Pat, it is Jerusalem crickets I can't stand to look at!
I knew that! Don't know why I typed in Japanese beetles. We had a Jerusalem Cricket climbing up our family room door/window long ago. Then I figured out a new noise in the backyard was coming from them, so avoided that area. Do you know if they do make a noise? Definitely nightmare stuff. Part ant and part grasshopper. Yeewwww! You have always been interested in bugs; for me it has been rocks, and words and phrase structure. Pat, I don't know if they make a noise or not. Whenever I saw one (which, fortunately, wasn't all that often), I would go the other way. Wouldn't hang around long enough to hear it do anything! According to Wiki - "Similar to true crickets, each species of Jerusalem cricket produces a different song during mating. This song takes the form of a characteristic drumming in which the insect beats its abdomen against the ground." They go on to say that they can make a rasping, hissing noise by rubbing their hind legs against the sides of the abdomen that may serve to deter predators rather than to communicate with other crickets. That's the noise you probably heard. I shudder whenever I picture one in my head. The ultimate creepy bug! |
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 12, 2013 16:53:30 GMT -5
I can get help for you Micheal. James,now why would I want help!!! I'm having a ball in life!-LMAO When I reach heaven,I'm coming in at 100 MPH and sideways,screeching the brakes and raisin' dust-jump out of the car and yell,"YAHOOOOOO,what a heck of a ride!!!!!!!!!!!!! " |
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