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Detlef Sping:
I am. it's called 'Nearly everyone I know is dead'.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:54:27 am)

Froupie:
i draw the line at wichity grubs. and cockroaches.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:54:36 am)

Froupie:
reserve me a copy. and sign it.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:54:52 am)

Detlef Sping:
I've got 3 chapters.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:55:09 am)

Detlef Sping:
wichity grubs
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:55:36 am)

Detlef Sping:
wichity grubs really make a mess of my Delta mitre saw.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:56:33 am)

wichitty grubs
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:56:46 am)

Chewing Wax:
It's the big seven year cicada hatch this year right? I know people eat them like they're shrimp.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:56:52 am)

Chewing Wax:
17 years.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:58:28 am)

Detlef Sping:
17 years? oh, The big ones
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:59:21 am)

Froupie:
what are they?
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 11:59:35 am)

Detlef Sping:
huge insects. we eat them.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:00:14 pm)

Detlef Sping:
like shrimp.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:00:42 pm)

Chewing Wax:
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/02/29/loc_cicadas29.html
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:01:40 pm)

Chewing Wax:
You bread them and then deep fry those suckers.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:01:59 pm)

Detlef Sping:

(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:02:09 pm)

Detlef Sping:
big flies.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:02:25 pm)

Froupie:
you freaks
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:02:32 pm)

Detlef Sping:
There's not much left after you gut them and take the head off, but they make a lovely gravy.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:03:14 pm)

Chewing Wax:
You don't have them in England?
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:03:25 pm)

Chewing Wax:
They noise they make is a big part of summer in these parts. It's hard to describe.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:04:07 pm)

Detlef Sping:

Mmmm.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:04:56 pm)

Froupie:
no but we have jellied eels
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:05:02 pm)

Detlef Sping:
Kind of a huge buzzing shreiking noise.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:05:29 pm)

Froupie:
and theyre going to explode up out of the ground?
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:05:51 pm)

Chewing Wax:
When my brother brought his kids from L.A. for the first time in the summer, the noise freaked them out.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:06:12 pm)

Chewing Wax:
There are huge broods of them that lay under the ground for 17 years and then go nuts. We don't get that here in New York. We get them every year in a regular dose.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:07:05 pm)

Detlef Sping:
buzzing buzzing then a shriek, it's summer.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:07:09 pm)

Chewing Wax:
I'm going to Ohio to get my fill of them this year.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:07:29 pm)

Detlef Sping:
Mentor is the capital of cicadas.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:08:08 pm)

Froupie:
oh they only live for 6 weeks
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:08:13 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Starts out quiet, slowly builds to a deafening crescendo, and then dies down quickly with a few taps. It's great.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:08:32 pm)

Froupie:
mentor? i thought that was a made up town from a spiderman comic.
(Tue Mar 23, 2004 - 12:08:36 pm)