Cicadas: I dont stand a chance.

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My house: dominated.
My yard: dominated.
My trees: dominated in a gross way.
My sidewalk: Crunchy. (dominated)

― Spinktor au de toilet, Monday, 17 May 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Throw some on the barbie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The cicada scene in central Kentucky is frustratingly not delivering.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

My girlfriend boiled some. Fuck that noise.

Brood X up in this bitch. Severn, MD is ground zero aparently. Sure as shit sounds like it.

Im going to get some Raid and a lighter, then take back my yard. Just imagine a scene from "Starship Troopers". Just like that.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Spinktor, seriously, take some photos and put them on this thread! Do it now!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I cant at the moment. Im in a Sun Solaris class all week. Blarg. I have a bunch of pics at home though, and I'll post them later I guess.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sun Solaris? How very tautological.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahh the the joy of operating system names.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Im not going to look that word up, but if it means "sucks ass"...then you're right on. Otherwise, i suggest you revise your choice of adjective.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

it means needless repetition.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Cicadas finally arrived in my yard this morning (Bethesda MD). That shit is blowing up. The local bird and squirrel community is loving it, but I am not. The thereminesque hum gets louder and louder by the minute.

― tobo (tobo), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

My cat Angus brings them into the house and puts them in my shoes. He has long hair and they latch onto it...he rolled around in the dirt yesterday, came out with 3 cicada shells stuck to him. It looked really odd.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone must record this sound and post it so we may hear.

also

OMG PICS!!!

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Its about as annoying as hearing your neighborhood highschool band practicing in the distance. Except its in my back yard.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The male cicadas mating call, the buzz that you hear, averages 110 dbs at 5-20 yards. I pulled this statistics out of my ass.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

There are some great sounds here.

This is my favorite.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

For some reason my neighborhood in DC has yet to see them in any numbers at all. I haven't even heard them, not at home, not downtown at work, not anywhere we went this weekend. I'm kind of disappointed actually.

I think that the bodegas must emit some kind of radiation. A special bodega anti-cicada radiation. Save us from the cicadas, bodegas. Spinktor, you have no bodegas, so you get cicadas.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 May 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I too have nothing in DC. But they're out in Arlington and sound like small propeller aircraft.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

In leafy northern Baltimore, the air teems with a low-level hum/whirr that sounds like a '50s-movie flying saucer. Plenty of actual cicadas about too, but I suspect we're nowhere near critical mass yet.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(d/led the sounds)

OMG! It's like the Dr. Who insect!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Spinktor, you have no bodegas
Spinktor, you have no bodegas
Spinktor, you have no bodegas
Big fat hairy black tarantula
&c.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

You ever seen that Stephen King movie 'Langdaleers' or whatever its called? It sounds like that weird sound they hear on the tarmac of the airport.

You are right, no bodegas. I live in an old school neighborhood. But the cicadas have only come out seriously over the weekend. And its getting worse and worse...my tree was moving last night, there were so many. Branches are wiggling under the weight of these red-eyed focks.

None were in Richmond, but i dont think they're expected there. Its only in certain areas...but those of which im not even sure.

We should move to a hightened state of national alarm. I say yellow at least, if we arent already.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you home yet, Spinktor? Photobucket.com!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Im in class till 5pm Eastern. Or until I cant take this class any longer and foam at the mouth.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Cicada

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

AHAHAHA

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

So, it rained really hard the last two hours and knocked a lot of the cicada carcasses down from the trees. But I got some pics anyway. I will update this thread if/when it gets to be worth doing so.

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0062.jpg

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0061.jpg

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0005.jpg

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0041.jpg

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0004.jpg

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0003.jpg

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0001.jpg

Hopefully this photobucket works...

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Very nice! I haven't yet seen them when they're white like that.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I messed this up, no image thingees.

http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v207/mawill5/PICT0001.jpg

This part was my girlfriend's idea. Im having no part in it. The issue remains that I have about a dozen boiled or fried cicadas frozen in my freezer next to my Coffee Ice Cream.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was a kid... the last time I dealt with cicadas around Nashville, I remember it being particularly hard to mow the lawn because the cicadas would all converge on any lawn mower or weedwhacker since the engines of those devices sounded a lot like the whine of cicadas themselves.

I remember vividly riding in the car with my mom and passing a guy mowing his lawn on a riding lawnmower, steering with one hand and wielding a tennis racket in the other to clear a path through the swarming cicadas attacking his head.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Thats what Ive heard, that they like the sound...and think its a mate or something. I certainly didnt live here 17 years ago, but i bet it would have given me a complex at that age.

― Spinktor, Monday, 17 May 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hee. Yet another reason to ditch the two-stroke engine: every seventeen years, cicadas will attempt to gang rape you. Vespa lovers, beware!

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew if I posted these pics, no one would give a damn.

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for the pics.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The close-up of the white grub coming out of its (final molt?) cocoon-carcass-thing is gorgeous.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yarrgh. I've just finished reading A Storm of Wings by M. John Harrison, which has all these giant locusts in it. These pictures are therefore scary.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

TEP R U OK???

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Listening to the cicada-song linked upthread on a loop + staring at the optical illusions threads == BEST THING EVAH.

― oo i feel a little funny now (cis), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

They are are over our street, but are particularly concentrated in the tree right in front of our door. This is downtown Bethesda and so lots of people walking around. Everyone stops in front of our tree to get a closer look--the husband wants to open up a cicada information booth and pass people informational pamphlets from our front window.

The noise is not as loud as I recall 17 years ago. It is a very peculiar frequency, however--50's alien spaceship film soundtrack OTM.

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Just so you all know, I am never eating again.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It wasn't me! I heard about that guy, but on the radio they said he'd baked the cicadas into a pie, which is some kind of fucked-up mentalism.

I love how an article on the dangers of cicada-eating ends with a link to a cookbook.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that frying pan shot was a bit more photo than I needed this morning.

Xpost

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

& wouldn't you get crunchy little bits of exoskeleton stuck in your teeth?

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You only eat em when they're white (i.e. have just molted) and are softed -- like soft-shell crab, I imagine, although probably slightly tougher (crunchier? chewier? I don't know) than that since crabs are aquatic.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It strikes me that if you eat cicadas that have been feeding on sap from a heavily pesticided or otherwise chemically-treated tree, you may very well stand to get yourself in a lot of gastronomical trouble. I mean the damn thing has been eating the same stuff every day for 17 years, if there's any toxin which is harmful to you but not to it, you have to believe that's some kind of massive buildup. Trace heavy elements to thread etc.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, my girlfriend is going to make something with them...cover them with chocolate or sprinkle them on ice cream like nuts. She's crazy.

Sorry, I posted those last night. Was not meant to be seen in the morning hours.

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

CICADA CREME PIE

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

...bleah nickalicious i hate you...

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Spinktor I was here 17 years ago as a kid when my dad worked at the Pentagon and I remember seeing them on the Mall and all over the place in Northern Virginia. You can see for yourself what that experience did to me.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Are they in your neighborhood? Are they supposed to be?

I cant take a walk in my yard without hearing crunching sounds. And when you kick them or touch them, they go apeshit with all this flapping and noise making. Thats when my cats switch to kill-mode. They play with them until they die, or just stop moving all together. I found two in my right shoe this morning, courtesy of Angus.

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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Cicada barbequeue!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Cicada kebabs!

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Cicada tostada.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerk Cicadas.

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

CICADA REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN EXTRACT TESTICULAR HEALING OINTMENT

― nickalicious loves dan perry (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ON TOAST

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

LIVE-CICADA-STUFFED SAUSAGES FEAR FACTOR STYLE BAYBEE MMM CRUNCH BZZZZZZZ CRUNCH

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://homepage2.nifty.com/kensama/bucket.jpg
KFC STANDS FOR KENTUCKY FRIEND CICADA
ORIGINAL RECIPE OR EXTRA TASTY BUZZING CRISPY OR ALIVE!?!?!

― WHAT'S THE MATTER COLONEL SANDERS!?! (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I note Dan has finally fled.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

My neighborhood sounds like the setting of a horrible horror film. Its kinda erie.

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan:

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/May/20045188911807903359413.jpg

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I really wish that the cicadas would come here.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm thinking the same thing, it sounds like walking around in a Main album. But with more bugs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

From summer camp in Missouri I seem to remember that they explode if you throw them on a campfire.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Which was promptly followed by a lecture from the counselor.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

In Texas we had a couple bonfires and they'd fly right into them. Idiots. I dont think im allowed to set fire to stuff in Anne Arundel county to test that theory...but it would be totally sweet.

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

For nickalicious:

http://obeymiffy.com/breathe/i/actions/kick_in_crotch.gif

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yum yum:

Unlike annual cicadas, which are quick and agile, periodicals are sluggish and apparently dull-witted. They make an easy meal for anyone who fancies it, so blending into the crowd is their only hope.

"With periodical cicadas it is entirely safety in numbers," explained Dr Jadin. "You can walk up to these things and pluck them off a leaf."

Racoons, foxes, skunks - and evolutionary biologists - are enjoying the rare feast.

Dr Jadin, who has actually written a cicada recipe book, admitted: "Chocolate-covered cicadas are my favourite.

"I am a fan of British chocolate myself - so I have been covering them with Galaxy or Cadburys."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, Aero Cicada, that's what I need.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

So, last night we had the worst storm here Ive seen since that 'hurricane' last year that didnt do shit...except flood out all of baltimore. The winds sent my BBQ grill 20 yards down a hill and knocked off most of the cicadas and their left over shells. I went out to see how bad it was this morning, and there were twice as many cicadas running around playing grab ass as there were before.

More pictures to come...

(im going to baltimore first to buy a bike, maybe)

― Spinktor, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Cicada MANIA!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Paging the Atkins freaks

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 24 May 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Meanwhile...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A man who cooked and ate nearly 30 cicadas sought medical treatment after suffering a strong allergic reaction to the sauteed insects.

The man showed up at a Bloomington clinic Thursday covered from head-to-toe in hives, and sheepishly told a doctor he'd caught and ate the cicadas after sauteing them in butter with crushed garlic and basil.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 24 May 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I had to close all my windows last night and turn on the A/C, not because it was that hot...but because those motherfuckers have gotten to be that loud.

― Spinktor au de toilette (El Spinktor), Monday, 24 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

man I sure hope Tep is all right!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i was out in the burbs over the weekend and it is fucking crazy how loud they are. it is the soundtrack to alien abduction.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 24 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040525/i/r2552058483.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040527/lthumb.gh10205271919.bush_cicadas_gh102.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040525/s/r447209995.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040602/lthumb.cra10106021808.memorial_cra101.jpg
CICADA GOLF RAVER

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I still haven't seen a one, dude. Apparently they're big on campus right now (Lindsey inadvertantly brought one into class on her backpack). Cincinnati has been designating "Cicada-free zones" (i.e. stupid gimmicktising), so maybe that means I'll see some this weekend.

Possibly the legendary and newly-expanded Jungle Jim's will have the soft-shell ones!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

How coincidental that this morning I had the exact experience described in teeny's photo spread. It bounced off my head, landed somewhere on the back of my shirt, crawled up my collar onto my neck and was summarily snatched and pitched onto the sidewalk with my non-smoking hand.

They aren't that bad downtown at all. But when I take the red line back to my neighborhood and I have to walk across the Duke Ellington over Rock Creek, I can hear them thick as thieves. We did have one actually infiltrate all the way into our office about a week ago, that was rather amusing.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Thick as thieves"?

― Allyzay, Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad got this message from a friend. so roxy in case you were wondering what that Palestinian man was doing hanging out in my parents' driveway now you know!!

Due to a comment by Todd, I came over and sat in your driveway for about 15 minutes the other day, just to listen and watch. Amazing. I have never before been around or heard a proliferation of cicadas. 17 years ago, I was living in N.C. 17 years before that, I was in California. 17 years before that, I was too young to notice consciously. The sound was remarkably loud, but part of the beauty was the waves of sound as it ebbs and flows. The sight at they fluttered in staggering numbers from branch to branch, leaf to leaf, was just fascinating to behold. And ah, the physical beauty. The gold etched and outlined gossamer wings are beyond words, so I will not try to go where one cannot. You may find them a nuisance, and that would be normal. But as a one-timer, it was just remarkable.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Times were so tough, but not as tough as they are now,
We were so close and nothing came between us - and the world -
No personal situations.
Thick as thieves us, we'd stick together for all time,
and we meant it but it turns out just for a while,
we stole - the friendship that bound us together -
We stole from the schools and their libraries,
We stole from the drugs that sent us to sleep,
We stole from the drink that made us sick,
We stole anything that we couldn't keep,
And it was enough - we didn't have to spoil anything,
And always be as thick as thieves.
Like a perfect stranger - you came into my life,
Then like the perfect lone ranger - you rode away - rode away,
rode away - rode away.
We stole the love from young girls in ivory towers,
We stole autumn leaves and summer showers,
We stole the silent wind that says you are free,
We stole everything that we could see,
But it wasn't enough - and now we've gone and spoiled everthing,
Now we're no longer as thick as thieves.
You came into my life -
Then like a perfect stranger you walked away - walked away -
walked away - walked away.
Thick as thieves us - we'd stick together for all time,
and we meant it but it turns out just for awhile,
we stole the friendship that bound us together.
We stole the burning sun in the open sky,
We stole the twinkling stars in the black night,
We stole the green belt fields that made us believe,
We stole everything that we could see.
But something came along that changes our minds,
I don't know what and I don't know why,
But we seemed to grow up in a flash of time,
While we watched our ideals helplessly unwind.
No - we're no longer as thick as thieves - no,
We're not as thick as we used to be - no,
We're no longer as thick as thieves - no,
We're not as thick as we used to be -

no it wasn't enough - and we've gone and spoiled everything
Now we're no longer as thick as thieves.

― THE JAM, Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

anyone know anything about their evolution?

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

They seem to be fairly scattered about. I went to Rocks State Park in Maryland and they were very loud, sounding like a police siren stuck on one pitch. Climbed to the top of a hill and they were everywhere, mostly dead on the ground though. Then we drove 10 minutes, checked out a waterfall, and couldn't hear or see them at all. And in Indiana, driving along the interstate, there seemed to be only one clutch of forest that housed them.

In D.C. I was entertained by seeing how long it took for people to notice that they had a huge ugly insect on their leg or back or whatever. Their flight patterns are so erratic that it's hard to avoid them and you end up looking like freak, bobbing and weaving out of the way.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Just saw my first one, dead by my mailbox. Didn't much want to eat it.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Felt the same way about girls once.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

TOM, I've seen that, but I'm wondering if they have any theories about when it arose, etc.

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

9901 years ago

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

582.41176470588235294117647058824 generations later...

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

It's that time of year. Yay! I love hearing the cicadas!

― dell (del), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 23:08 (thirteen years ago)

yeah one of my favorite things about summers here. I never heard them growing up in socal , kinda freaked me out the first time i did.

― carne asada, Thursday, 9 August 2012 17:46 (thirteen years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.sfgate.com/cnet/article/Millions-of-cicadas-to-emerge-after-living-15286464.php?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR00PQvJEI9SjfLMHfmTNrN__Alij7JV2anvePNnOCOr3FcgGAdmVw6NXnY&fbclid=IwAR3keZDCmiZowQo5lXQmYhVfzf7RkMZ1Smnmwj7uWgkgug3t1_lEZ7ko0HU

― medicate for all (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:48 (six years ago)

Covid shmovid. If we ever get cicadas in north Jersey like we had in 1979, I'm going to cower-in-place for a good 6 months.

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:19 (six years ago)

Now there's the Murder Cicadas...

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:36 (six years ago)

All cicadas have murder in their hearts.

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:41 (six years ago)

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