How do you get roaches out of your luggage?
Oct 26th, 2005, 07:41 AM
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A cossack in the house??
Well, maybe I'd be willing to put up with one if he could do a daily pogrom on the cokroaches...but where would I keep his horse? I'd have to buy a really good beard trimmer for him. A herd of goats to keep him and his buddies--where there's one cossack, there are bound to be more--fed. On the plus side, they could entertain me with that really cool knee-kicking dance they do, play their balalaikas of an evening. It wouldn't be all bad, I guess.
But a can of Raid would still be easier.
IMHO.
Well, maybe I'd be willing to put up with one if he could do a daily pogrom on the cokroaches...but where would I keep his horse? I'd have to buy a really good beard trimmer for him. A herd of goats to keep him and his buddies--where there's one cossack, there are bound to be more--fed. On the plus side, they could entertain me with that really cool knee-kicking dance they do, play their balalaikas of an evening. It wouldn't be all bad, I guess.
But a can of Raid would still be easier.
IMHO.
Oct 26th, 2005, 07:57 AM
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I never minded cockroaches on Kauai...but I drew the line when they lay their leg over mine while we're watching TV in bed.
Oooops...sorry...<popping my medicine>
"There are no roaches on Kauai..it is perfect...There are no roaches on Kauai..it is perfect..."
I picture Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd shooting away at a "varmint"...
Oooops...sorry...<popping my medicine>
"There are no roaches on Kauai..it is perfect...There are no roaches on Kauai..it is perfect..."
I picture Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd shooting away at a "varmint"...
Oct 26th, 2005, 08:28 AM
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Obviously, no one has had a "Garden Spider" from Florida crawl across your wall.
You would not have missed it. All creatures in the vicinity would have already been hiding and most adults with a lick of sense will run for cover..preferably back to NY where they came from and where Gardens do not have spiders as big as a raccoon.
Perhaps this is what Hawaii needs? a spider that eats roaches ? Or should we just send you a snake?
This is most likely payback for not having snakes on the islands..
You would not have missed it. All creatures in the vicinity would have already been hiding and most adults with a lick of sense will run for cover..preferably back to NY where they came from and where Gardens do not have spiders as big as a raccoon.
Perhaps this is what Hawaii needs? a spider that eats roaches ? Or should we just send you a snake?
This is most likely payback for not having snakes on the islands..
Oct 26th, 2005, 08:46 AM
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My friend, when she first moved to Australia, went to pick up a pipe-cleaner that seemed to be wedged between her daughter's pillow and the wall and it turned out to be the leg of a spider.
Arggghhhhh!
Arggghhhhh!
Oct 26th, 2005, 09:14 AM
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This thread has now spilled over into the "Bear" thread. I don't like thinking about cockroaches and dead bears, but all this talk of cossacks has given me some wild ideas. I am going to buy DH a cossack costume for Halloween. I hope he will model it for me tonight. ;-)
Thanks for bringing that up, peeky.
Thanks for bringing that up, peeky.
Oct 26th, 2005, 09:27 AM
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Oh stop! Stop! Walking styrofoam cups, Peeky doing the hula, GoT shooting roaches (and/or the suitcases they come in), E's cossacks vs. can of Raid....
Stop! I'm laughing so hard I'm crying.
Goatman, will you ever forgive us?
Stop! I'm laughing so hard I'm crying.
Goatman, will you ever forgive us?
Oct 26th, 2005, 11:06 AM
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Goatman has surely run screaming from the room by now, after encountering this band of loonies.
E, ROTFLMAO about your Cossack riff!
Jamaica -- heh heh -- we weren't even out of the airport before we were accosted to buy drugs. At one restaurant, at the end of the meal instead of asking if we wanted coffee and dessert, our waiter offered to sell us "nose candy". Unbelievable.
Scarlett, a spider the size of a raccoon? Omigod, that totally creeps me out!
E, ROTFLMAO about your Cossack riff!
Jamaica -- heh heh -- we weren't even out of the airport before we were accosted to buy drugs. At one restaurant, at the end of the meal instead of asking if we wanted coffee and dessert, our waiter offered to sell us "nose candy". Unbelievable.
Scarlett, a spider the size of a raccoon? Omigod, that totally creeps me out!
Oct 26th, 2005, 12:16 PM
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Jamica, we got offered so many "goodies" my husband thinking this would stop the solicitations said "don't bother me I am a policeman". The guy looked at him and said "sooo, they are some of my best customers mon!"
All these stories about roaches and other creepy things is given me the creepy crawlies!! Ick! I do hope Goatman doesn't let his wife read this thread or he will never talk her into going to Hawaii.
All these stories about roaches and other creepy things is given me the creepy crawlies!! Ick! I do hope Goatman doesn't let his wife read this thread or he will never talk her into going to Hawaii.
Oct 26th, 2005, 12:41 PM
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I lost count of how many times we were offered drugs in Jamaica. One guy even offered my husband a prostitute, with me standing right there!! The guy whispered it to DH, but I was well within earshot. >
Oct 26th, 2005, 02:10 PM
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dan, that used to happen to me all the time in San Francisco in the '70s. I would go there with my high school honor society, and I remember trying so hard to pretend I wasn't a tourist. All the while my friends (we went to a small high school in the Sierra foothills) would be saying, "Did you hear that? That guy offered some pot/cocaine/whatever!" "Wow!! Did you hear that fire siren? Oooh, where's the engine?"
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