The Cellar - 11/18/2004: Swarm at the pyramids

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The plague of pink locusts coincided with the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library.

The end is nigh.

AHHHHHHHH !!!!!!
She is right !!!

The only reason he ended up in the while house was to get him OUT of Arkansas !!!!

As a child I remember hearing about people in biblical times "feasting" on wild locust and honey.
Isn't there a botanical version of locust? I hope so.....................
"and in the year of the famine, hunger and black death raced across the land, many were tortured and set sail for the Americas. For some there was hope, but some couldn't cope, so they spent their lives in search of fools gold" Thin Lizzy

No, they just ate locusts, you still can, dipped in chocolate to boot.

There is indeed a plant called locust, but it is an extremely hard, thorny tree, so I'm guesing it's the bugs they were eating.

Honey Locust

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Fruit forms on the female trees, and do not require male trees to produce this although they are required for full seed production. The pods contain up to 20 seeds embedded in a brown sugary pulp. The seeds are 21-36% of the weight of the pods. Honey locust trees are biennial in nature, bearing heavy crops every other year. The pods drop gradually after ripening from October to late winter. The pods make excellent fodder.

Black Locust

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Fruit: 2-4" (5-10 cm) long; a dark brown, narrowly oblong flat pod; maturing in autumn, remaining attached into winter, splitting open; 3-14 dark brown, flattened, beanlike seeds.Fruit: 2-4" (5-10 cm) long; a dark brown, narrowly oblong flat pod; maturing in autumn, remaining attached into winter, splitting open; 3-14 dark brown, flattened, beanlike seeds.

Warning Seeds are poisonous and can be fatal to humans and animals. Leaves, twigs, and bark may also be toxic. Sensitivity to a toxin varies with a person’s age, weight, physical condition, and individual susceptibility. Children are most vulnerable because of their curiosity and small size. Toxicity can vary in a plant according to season, the plant’s different parts, and its stage of growth; and plants can absorb toxic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and pollutants from the water, air, and soil

:vomit:

So I take it that the lord didn't leave the second kind laying around in the desert ...

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Honey Locust

Black Locust

:vomit:

I think I'll just have some of the insects, Au Jus :yeldead:

Eeek! My hair! My hair!

"Bugs Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!"

Conditions are right to produce swarms of these buggers. The real test would have been an Aesopian ant-grasshopper thing; are you prepared to have your crop stripped clean overnight? Did you work enought to have some surplus stored? In this case though, they're just creepy and delicious roasted.

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Or you're anthropomorphizing the ecosystem, the same way the greeks said the reason the sun went over the sky was because it was the wheel of Apollo's chariot.

Well, as we now have the theory/myth of evolution, one could quite rightly, IMHO, say that we have been antropomophized by the ecosystem.

It would only be kind to return the favor.

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While it certainly is becoming an icon of sorts I'm not so convinced of the Infinate, call me down to earth but it looks like a tired soldier grabbing a fag and keeping an eye out for stray Iraqis with automatic weaponary.

O.k., I shall call you down to earth in that case. :) No one can tell you what the matrix is...it is something must be believed to be seen. A curious conundrum, that.

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They've made it to southern Israel now

LET THOSE PEOPLE GO!!!

:(

Now they are in the Canary Islands. I guess they went from Africa to Israel and then all the way around the globe back around to the other side of Africa again.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...arm-afp203.jpg

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Internat...511291829.jpeg

http://surfersvillage.com/img/news/15025.jpg

That couldn't be another swarm, could it? I mean who's to say that one swarm is comprised of all of the pink locusts that exist in that area?

Or perhaps the bugs turned south and skimmed the southern coast of the Mediterraean Sea...?

Or maybe they appear on one horizon, move across a landscape and vanish into nothing on the other horizon like in that game Cleopatra?

Different bugs bugging buggers. :o