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What are your experiences with bugs and bees? Have you had any bad stings? Do you attract mosquitos, or do you never get bitten? And are you a killer or a saver when giant mother fucking spiders come into question?
-- Tim (tim@almighty.co.uk), September 02, 2000
Normally I don't have too much trouble, but a couple of summers ago we spent a couple of weeks camping next to a lake in France in July. It was terrible. No, the camping was great, but the insects were terrible. I came home with bites everywhere and couldn't stop scratching, especially my legs. I swear I was surgically attached to the Anthesan.btw, Tim, just so you know...spiders don't have wings
-- Helen (breathe@oceanic.nu), September 02, 2000.
I live not too far from the Everglades. I've had terrible mosquito problems throughout my entire life! One time, when we went to Key West, the mosquitoes were everywhere! It was like a plague! Everywhere was out of mosquito repellant, we would have to run from the hotel to the car, flailing our arms in the air, yelling. I think I came out of it with about 50 bites!THEN! oh, my! Then there was the time where I was innocently sitting in my room, reading. When all of a sudden, there was this HUGE "BZZZ!" I look under my bed, I grab a remote, ready for the kill. When on my wall was THE BIGGEST COCKROACH IN THE ENTIRE WORLD! AND IT FLEW! You thought your spider was big! It was bigger than that spider. AND IT FLEW! I threw the remote down, ran out of the room as fast as humanly possible, and slept on the couch that night.
I even drew a comic of it, but never could find it again. Bugger. Umm, no pun intended.
-- Krysten (krysten@geek.com), September 02, 2000.
I generally don't kill bugs, except for ticks. I hate them with a passion. When I was younger I used to spend a lot of time walking in the woods that connected the two farm houses, and ticks would just latch onto me.Mosquitos seem to love me, too. Bees not so much. A bee did fly into my mouth once when I was a seven-year-old at day camp, but I wasn't stung.
-- Lauren (lauren@blueshoe.org), September 02, 2000.
The first time I got stung by a bee, I got stung by about thirty of his best friends too.I was digging a hole in the backyard, to pour some concrete into, and when I put the shovel in the ground, I sliced right into a wasp hive. Who knew they had hives underground? I tore open their home, and they immediately came after me. They went into my pants, under my shirt, into my hair... the entire time I was running towards the house. I got into the house, and began quickly tearing off clothes, not realizing that now they are all over the house. My mom is screaming, I'm screaming... but finally we managed to get them all off. After being stung more than fifty times, my first bee sting was in their somewhere, I started to feel dizzy. Eventually it all wore off. I haven't been stung since.
-- Greg Barber (gbarber@gbdesigns.com), September 02, 2000.
When I was seven, I saw a dead bee lying on the playground and I thought, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I touched its stinger?" Duh. That was the only time I've been stung. If that even counts.I don't like killing bugs. I think the last bug I killed was the cockroach that got into my bedroom earlier this year ... probably February or so. I knew there was no way I was going to catch it and get it out of the apartment alive, and it was about to run under my bed, so ... I went after it with one of my Doc Martens. When I finally squashed the little guy (actually, he wasn't so little. It was the biggest cockroach I'd ever seen), he left quite a stain on my carpet. Ew. I haven't killed a bug since.
-- Laurie (Laurie317@prodigy.net), September 02, 2000.
(Hey, how come all you people managed to answer before me, when you're all - even you, Helen - are in a stupid Tim-free timezone? Eh?)I've never been stung. However, I have been bitten. My worst experience of this was when I stayed with Sarah Joy in Canada this summer. (Hear that, Yoj? Your [soon to be former] country is evil!) I could actually feel mosquitos brushing against my legs as they got to work. I ended up with a circle of bites on each leg after my trousers ended and before my socks began. So great was the itchiness as I lay in bed at nights that I'm tempted to write a journal entry called "One More Night Of Insect Bites" and fill it with, um, biting wit, such as, "Do I have a sign saying 'Bite me' on my forehead?"
I kill all bugs I can get my hands (well, my possessions, more commonly) on. I always feel bad for doing so immediately afterwards (both for practical and moral reasons), but it's an animal instinct there's no way I can get rid of. Heck, I wrote a journal entry about *that* too. Anyone know where I can get a life from?
-- Zed (zed@swansongs.net), September 02, 2000.
Spiders, I save and release outside or someplace. Cockroaches and ants and mosquitos and gnats and those bugs that eat flour and slugs and snails (okay, I just expanded the definition of bugs a wee bit too far) are all out of luck. But I try not to squish or pick up anything with my fingers, so they get a big advantage and usually get away before I find something to pick them up with. I'm a squeamish girl.
-- Ashley (alienora@calweb.com), September 02, 2000.
Choose your own adventure:1) In school I knew a girl who swallowed a wasp. No, a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. Well instead of feeding her a spider that would wiggle, and wriggle and jiggle inside her, to catch the fly.. the teacher's fed her icecubes. Apparantly this helps?
2) I think I've been bitten by cockroaches. On holiday when I was younger I slept in a room that was fit to be Ibiza for 'roaches. I awoke to find that they must have mistaken me for some kind of banquet because.. wel
-- Heidi (paperwindows@hotmail.com), September 03, 2000.
The only time I've ever been stung I was sitting on a bench eating an ice cream cone. I watched this bee fly up and land on my arm. Everyone always said if you left 'em alone, they'd leave you alone. That's a load of bunk. The little guy up and stung me for NO REASON. And here's the fun part. He left the stinger behind, so I plucked it out and accidentally dropped it back on to my arm again... so I got two stings for the price of one. What a bargain.
-- Julie Vandenboom (vandenboom@msn.com), September 03, 2000.
It's spider mating season here in the UK (according to my husband, anyway), so I've been seeing way too many spiders around here. I tried to get my cat to kill one the other day, but he ran out of the room in fear. I swatted it with my NME and killed it. Two more appeared.Roll on December.
-- Jackie Danicki (nein@freeuk.com), September 03, 2000.
Bugs love my basement. One night, I creeped into the bathroom and as I pulled a hairbrush up to my head, this giant reddish-brown creepy crawly thing comes jumping out from overhead and landing on the floor and staring at me with its beady eyes. I don't like to kill anything, so I left it as it was. Still, I like to shudder at these experiences. We don't have bugs except for the basement. I run around barefoot (my basement's carpeted) and I've found dead bugs I've squished. Um, I should was my feet more often, I guess. Get those bug remnants off! Uh, that sounded a bit disgusting. Hehe. I've never been stung by a bee ever. My mom didn't until she was around 40 years old, so I'm thinking it's going to be the same with me. I really can't squishing bugs. I feel terrible about it. I used to torture bugs to death when I was little, though, but as we all know, it's much more humane to just kill those little things instantly rather than watch them hobble around into a corner to curl up and die-which is, of course, I did when I was little. I learned my lesson, though. I pity them and leave them alone.
-- Stephanie (starlinsk@hotmail.com), September 03, 2000.
I went camping (at Reading Festivle) the other weekend and due to my lack of tent I slept on the ground - when i woke up i had bites all over my lower legs and ancles - they didn't itch to much while i was there (probly due to chemicle intoxication) but when i got home they where REALLY annoying - i would kill a fle or midge on sight and if i could i would kill EVERY single flea and Mindge in the world (and mostiquo) but i'm nice to non-annoying slighly large bugs and i won't kill then
-- Pob (Mr_Music2000_uk@yahoo.co.uk), September 03, 2000.
Spiders, I'm ok. Mosquitos I will smack, b/c the bites itch like bad - same with fleas. Most other buggies I will rescue and put outside. The exceptions - camel crickets ( I don't know what regions of the world people have these things - but they are NASTY - think a combination of a cricket and a spider, only fat and with a stinger. My cat won't even eat them, and she'll usually eat any bugs. They are disgusting) and roaches, which give me the screaming mimis. The worst was when I was staying at a friend's house in Valdosta, Georgia (for non southerners or non-americans [lucky bastards] think subtropical climate) and I reached for a towel in the morning, and a fucking TWO INCH (not lying) cockroach ran up my ARM. I spazzed, for real. The other thing I hate is when you've seen one run across the room, or across your desk, and you KNOW it it's the room, but you don't know where... that's the worst feeling. well, next to having a roach run up your arm.
-- Libbet (allegreta@hotmail.com), September 03, 2000.
I am extremely arachnophobic. Spiders get no quarter in my house. I smack 'em, smoosh them, squoosh them, bash them, smash them ... you get the picture.As for skeeters -- I fair no worse and no better than most. They bite me, but mostly it itches a little and goes away.
Bees, I've been stung twice by, once on the upper arm when a bee got trapped in the sleeve of my shirt and once on the finger, oddly enough by a bee that flew right into my hand and got stuck on my ring.
The worst though, was the wasp that stung me on my upper thigh. Far up on my upper thigh while I was waiting outside a church for a wedding rehearsal to start. It got stuck there after it stung and I could hear it still buzzing around in there as I ran into the church and tore my dress off in the bathroom. I jumped up and down on the gown a few times and shook it out then.
Painful sting though that widened to about a 2 inch red circle and heated up massively with the entire rehearsal still to be done, plus the rehearsal dinner ... the actual wedding and reception on the following day.
-- Beth (owl@littleowl.com), September 03, 2000.
for some reason bees are attracted to me. I don't know if they dig my hair or what but its so damn annoying.and when it comes to big spiders i whip out my big black docs and beat the crap out of them with it. forget saving them. theyre overpopulated anyway.
-- amy (amy4logs@aol.com), September 04, 2000.
Um, yeah, what's with spiders having wings? As far as I'm concerned, they're bad enough on the ground. The thought of flying spiders? No way...Maestrojo urnal
-- David (david@collegium.cjb.net), September 04, 2000.
I hate bugs. I'm a big sissy girl when it comes to them, but I think that I've had enough bad experiences to warrant the fear. But the worst is spiders, if I see one bigger than a dime I REALLY freak out. I start crying and everything (I'm 22). I'm too scared to get close enough to kill them, so I have to get someone else to do it for me. The worst was when I had taken a bath and had just stood up when one fell into the bath tub with me. HUGE bugger! I had been living by myself for about a week, so I called my mom, hyperventilating, while I shot spider killer at it from about 5 foot away. I hate that I'm such a baby about bugs.
-- Kristi (muguet27@yahoo.com), September 05, 2000.
I had three quarters of my face chewed off by a camel spider in Bali. It was during a sandstorm while I was asleep.
-- Shane Knucklephone (shane@knucklephone.net), October 18, 2000.
And your face was yummy, too. But how were you able to see to type this message? I thought I chewed off both of your eyes...
-- The Camel Spider (camel@spider.com), October 20, 2000.
Al said that it only took his eye lids - not his eyes.
-- Geno33 (geno33@sagoons.com), August 13, 2001.
I blame the Italians.
-- Breakit23 (breakit23@teche.com), August 15, 2001.
I think you learned a valuable lesson, shane...DON'T GO TO BALI!!
-- Dipdac (dipdac@smurfs.com), August 18, 2001.
Hey Camel! How ya doin' buddy? Wanna come over later? We can go over to the stupid human station and get a bite to eat!
-- The Whip Scorpion (Whip@Scorpion.com), August 19, 2001.
you wouldn't have had your face devoured if you GOT TEH POWARUP ADN WIN TEH GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1@!#
-- D-RoCk (foo@bar.com), August 20, 2001.
Bugs 'n' Bees greenspun.com : LUSENET : I Wasn't Built to Get Up at this Time : One Thread ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- What are your experiences with bugs and bees? Have you had any bad stings? Do you attract mosquitos, or do you never get bitten? And are you a killer or a saver when giant mother fucking spiders come into question?-- Tim (tim@almighty.co.uk), September 02, 2000 Answers Normally I don't have too much trouble, but a couple of summers ago we spent a couple of weeks camping next to a lake in France in July. It was terrible. No, the camping was great, but the insects were terrible. I came home with bites everywhere and couldn't stop scratching, especially my legs. I swear I was surgically attached to the Anthesan. btw, Tim, just so you know...spiders don't have wings
-- Helen (breathe@oceanic.nu), September 02, 2000.
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I live not too far from the Everglades. I've had terrible mosquito problems throughout my entire life! One time, when we went to Key West, the mosquitoes were everywhere! It was like a plague! Everywhere was out of mosquito repellant, we would have to run from the hotel to the car, flailing our arms in the air, yelling. I think I came out of it with about 50 bites! THEN! oh, my! Then there was the time where I was innocently sitting in my room, reading. When all of a sudden, there was this HUGE "BZZZ!" I look under my bed, I grab a remote, ready for the kill. When on my wall was THE BIGGEST COCKROACH IN THE ENTIRE WORLD! AND IT FLEW! You thought your spider was big! It was bigger than that spider. AND IT FLEW! I threw the remote down, ran out of the room as fast as humanly possible, and slept on the couch that night.
I even drew a comic of it, but never could find it again. Bugger. Umm, no pun intended.
-- Krysten (krysten@geek.com), September 02, 2000.
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I generally don't kill bugs, except for ticks. I hate them with a passion. When I was younger I used to spend a lot of time walking in the woods that connected the two farm houses, and ticks would just latch onto me. Mosquitos seem to love me, too. Bees not so much. A bee did fly into my mouth once when I was a seven-year-old at day camp, but I wasn't stung.
-- Lauren (lauren@blueshoe.org), September 02, 2000.
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The first time I got stung by a bee, I got stung by about thirty of his best friends too. I was digging a hole in the backyard, to pour some concrete into, and when I put the shovel in the ground, I sliced right into a wasp hive. Who knew they had hives underground? I tore open their home, and they immediately came after me. They went into my pants, under my shirt, into my hair... the entire time I was running towards the house. I got into the house, and began quickly tearing off clothes, not realizing that now they are all over the house. My mom is screaming, I'm screaming... but finally we managed to get them all off. After being stung more than fifty times, my first bee sting was in their somewhere, I started to feel dizzy. Eventually it all wore off. I haven't been stung since.
-- Greg Barber (gbarber@gbdesigns.com), September 02, 2000.
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When I was seven, I saw a dead bee lying on the playground and I thought, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I touched its stinger?" Duh. That was the only time I've been stung. If that even counts. I don't like killing bugs. I think the last bug I killed was the cockroach that got into my bedroom earlier this year ... probably February or so. I knew there was no way I was going to catch it and get it out of the apartment alive, and it was about to run under my bed, so ... I went after it with one of my Doc Martens. When I finally squashed the little guy (actually, he wasn't so little. It was the biggest cockroach I'd ever seen), he left quite a stain on my carpet. Ew. I haven't killed a bug since.
-- Laurie (Laurie317@prodigy.net), September 02, 2000.
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(Hey, how come all you people managed to answer before me, when you're all - even you, Helen - are in a stupid Tim-free timezone? Eh?) I've never been stung. However, I have been bitten. My worst experience of this was when I stayed with Sarah Joy in Canada this summer. (Hear that, Yoj? Your [soon to be former] country is evil!) I could actually feel mosquitos brushing against my legs as they got to work. I ended up with a circle of bites on each leg after my trousers ended and before my socks began. So great was the itchiness as I lay in bed at nights that I'm tempted to write a journal entry called "One More Night Of Insect Bites" and fill it with, um, biting wit, such as, "Do I have a sign saying 'Bite me' on my forehead?"
I kill all bugs I can get my hands (well, my possessions, more commonly) on. I always feel bad for doing so immediately afterwards (both for practical and moral reasons), but it's an animal instinct there's no way I can get rid of. Heck, I wrote a journal entry about *that* too. Anyone know where I can get a life from?
-- Zed (zed@swansongs.net), September 02, 2000.
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Spiders, I save and release outside or someplace. Cockroaches and ants and mosquitos and gnats and those bugs that eat flour and slugs and snails (okay, I just expanded the definition of bugs a wee bit too far) are all out of luck. But I try not to squish or pick up anything with my fingers, so they get a big advantage and usually get away before I find something to pick them up with. I'm a squeamish girl.
-- Ashley (alienora@calweb.com), September 02, 2000.
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Choose your own adventure: 1) In school I knew a girl who swallowed a wasp. No, a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. Well instead of feeding her a spider that would wiggle, and wriggle and jiggle inside her, to catch the fly.. the teacher's fed her icecubes. Apparantly this helps?
2) I think I've been bitten by cockroaches. On holiday when I was younger I slept in a room that was fit to be Ibiza for 'roaches. I awoke to find that they must have mistaken me for some kind of banquet because.. wel
-- Heidi (paperwindows@hotmail.com), September 03, 2000.
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The only time I've ever been stung I was sitting on a bench eating an ice cream cone. I watched this bee fly up and land on my arm. Everyone always said if you left 'em alone, they'd leave you alone. That's a load of bunk. The little guy up and stung me for NO REASON. And here's the fun part. He left the stinger behind, so I plucked it out and accidentally dropped it back on to my arm again... so I got two stings for the price of one. What a bargain.
-- Julie Vandenboom (vandenboom@msn.com), September 03, 2000.
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It's spider mating season here in the UK (according to my husband, anyway), so I've been seeing way too many spiders around here. I tried to get my cat to kill one the other day, but he ran out of the room in fear. I swatted it with my NME and killed it. Two more appeared. Roll on December.
-- Jackie Danicki (nein@freeuk.com), September 03, 2000.
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Bugs love my basement. One night, I creeped into the bathroom and as I pulled a hairbrush up to my head, this giant reddish-brown creepy crawly thing comes jumping out from overhead and landing on the floor and staring at me with its beady eyes. I don't like to kill anything, so I left it as it was. Still, I like to shudder at these experiences. We don't have bugs except for the basement. I run around barefoot (my basement's carpeted) and I've found dead bugs I've squished. Um, I should was my feet more often, I guess. Get those bug remnants off! Uh, that sounded a bit disgusting. Hehe. I've never been stung by a bee ever. My mom didn't until she was around 40 years old, so I'm thinking it's going to be the same with me. I really can't squishing bugs. I feel terrible about it. I used to torture bugs to death when I was little, though, but as we all know, it's much more humane to just kill those little things instantly rather than watch them hobble around into a corner to curl up and die-which is, of course, I did when I was little. I learned my lesson, though. I pity them and leave them alone.
-- Stephanie (starlinsk@hotmail.com), September 03, 2000.
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I went camping (at Reading Festivle) the other weekend and due to my lack of tent I slept on the ground - when i woke up i had bites all over my lower legs and ancles - they didn't itch to much while i was there (probly due to chemicle intoxication) but when i got home they where REALLY annoying - i would kill a fle or midge on sight and if i could i would kill EVERY single flea and Mindge in the world (and mostiquo) but i'm nice to non-annoying slighly large bugs and i won't kill then
-- Pob (Mr_Music2000_uk@yahoo.co.uk), September 03, 2000.
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Spiders, I'm ok. Mosquitos I will smack, b/c the bites itch like bad - same with fleas. Most other buggies I will rescue and put outside. The exceptions - camel crickets ( I don't know what regions of the world people have these things - but they are NASTY - think a combination of a cricket and a spider, only fat and with a stinger. My cat won't even eat them, and she'll usually eat any bugs. They are disgusting) and roaches, which give me the screaming mimis. The worst was when I was staying at a friend's house in Valdosta, Georgia (for non southerners or non-americans [lucky bastards] think subtropical climate) and I reached for a towel in the morning, and a fucking TWO INCH (not lying) cockroach ran up my ARM. I spazzed, for real. The other thing I hate is when you've seen one run across the room, or across your desk, and you KNOW it it's the room, but you don't know where... that's the worst feeling. well, next to having a roach run up your arm.
-- Libbet (allegreta@hotmail.com), September 03, 2000.
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I am extremely arachnophobic. Spiders get no quarter in my house. I smack 'em, smoosh them, squoosh them, bash them, smash them ... you get the picture. As for skeeters -- I fair no worse and no better than most. They bite me, but mostly it itches a little and goes away.
Bees, I've been stung twice by, once on the upper arm when a bee got trapped in the sleeve of my shirt and once on the finger, oddly enough by a bee that flew right into my hand and got stuck on my ring.
The worst though, was the wasp that stung me on my upper thigh. Far up on my upper thigh while I was waiting outside a church for a wedding rehearsal to start. It got stuck there after it stung and I could hear it still buzzing around in there as I ran into the church and tore my dress off in the bathroom. I jumped up and down on the gown a few times and shook it out then.
Painful sting though that widened to about a 2 inch red circle and heated up massively with the entire rehearsal still to be done, plus the rehearsal dinner ... the actual wedding and reception on the following day.
-- Beth (owl@littleowl.com), September 03, 2000.
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for some reason bees are attracted to me. I don't know if they dig my hair or what but its so damn annoying. and when it comes to big spiders i whip out my big black docs and beat the crap out of them with it. forget saving them. theyre overpopulated anyway.
-- amy (amy4logs@aol.com), September 04, 2000.
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Um, yeah, what's with spiders having wings? As far as I'm concerned, they're bad enough on the ground. The thought of flying spiders? No way... Maestrojo urnal
-- David (david@collegium.cjb.net), September 04, 2000.
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I hate bugs. I'm a big sissy girl when it comes to them, but I think that I've had enough bad experiences to warrant the fear. But the worst is spiders, if I see one bigger than a dime I REALLY freak out. I start crying and everything (I'm 22). I'm too scared to get close enough to kill them, so I have to get someone else to do it for me. The worst was when I had taken a bath and had just stood up when one fell into the bath tub with me. HUGE bugger! I had been living by myself for about a week, so I called my mom, hyperventilating, while I shot spider killer at it from about 5 foot away. I hate that I'm such a baby about bugs.
-- Kristi (muguet27@yahoo.com), September 05, 2000.
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I had three quarters of my face chewed off by a camel spider in Bali. It was during a sandstorm while I was asleep.
-- Shane Knucklephone (shane@knucklephone.net), October 18, 2000.
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And your face was yummy, too. But how were you able to see to type this message? I thought I chewed off both of your eyes...
-- The Camel Spider (camel@spider.com), October 20, 2000.
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Al said that it only took his eye lids - not his eyes.
-- Geno33 (geno33@sagoons.com), August 13, 2001.
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I blame the Italians.
-- Breakit23 (breakit23@teche.com), August 15, 2001.
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I think you learned a valuable lesson, shane...DON'T GO TO BALI!!
-- Dipdac (dipdac@smurfs.com), August 18, 2001.
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Hey Camel! How ya doin' buddy? Wanna come over later? We can go over to the stupid human station and get a bite to eat!
-- The Whip Scorpion (Whip@Scorpion.com), August 19, 2001.
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you wouldn't have had your face devoured if you GOT TEH POWARUP ADN WIN TEH GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1@!#
-- D-RoCk (foo@bar.com), August 20, 2001.
-- no (yeah@peoplearedumb.com), August 20, 2001.