Comments on: tick, tick, tick ...

tick, tick, tick ...

Wulfgar! — Tue, 20 May 2003 15:33:25 -0800

I mean small and really ugly! And they don't do us any favors at all. We can hold each other's hands, and share support. Our fight against them may lead to knowledge in other battles, but I think its time to go on the offensive. Its time to defang the beastie. (Maybe I should have posted this at Warfilter instead?)

By: Wulfgar!

Wulfgar! — Tue, 20 May 2003 15:35:27 -0800

There's a coupla New York Times links in there. I hope by now that you know the drill.

By: SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet — Tue, 20 May 2003 15:37:58 -0800

TickFilter.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 20 May 2003 15:41:42 -0800

When I was a child I had a huge tick removed from the back of my neck by a doctor wielding a can of Freon, or something like that. One shpritz was all it took.

By: Wulfgar!

Wulfgar! — Tue, 20 May 2003 15:47:16 -0800

Candle wax. Been there, done that. Nothin' erotic about it.

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Tue, 20 May 2003 15:50:28 -0800

As a non sequitur: spooooooooooooon!!!!!!

By: linux

linux — Tue, 20 May 2003 16:15:11 -0800

We are a hedge. Move along. Nothing to see here.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Tue, 20 May 2003 16:17:08 -0800

I grew up in Missouri where these things run amok. There's nothing like the feeling of terror of seeing hundreds of deer ticks making their way up your leg. No matter how furiously you scrape them off, a few slip by and burrow in, usually in the darkest, warmest, softest place they can find. I'll leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Tue, 20 May 2003 16:34:47 -0800

I *heart* Katemonkey.

By: Nothing

Nothing — Tue, 20 May 2003 17:11:43 -0800

They are ugly. [self link]

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Tue, 20 May 2003 17:29:09 -0800

Ticks suck.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Tue, 20 May 2003 17:45:23 -0800

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Tue, 20 May 2003 17:53:29 -0800

Damn you Nothing! I want a digital microscope!

By: kjh

kjh — Tue, 20 May 2003 17:53:31 -0800

i feel a tick in my head and he's sucking on my head in the morning i'll be dead if he doesn't leave my head why can't he go away why does he have to stay maybe he wanna play but i can only say: i'll get you i'll burn you i'll crush you i'll flush you, down down the toilet where you'll spiral, round round: awwwwwww tick! mmmmmm, tick, tick, tick!

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Tue, 20 May 2003 20:45:52 -0800

Eww, a sore (or rather paranoid-itchy) subject with me, as only a week ago my wife and I hiked around Yellowwood Lake and brought home 5 deer ticks, & we each had one feasting on us. Given our inclination to go off the beaten path, I'm a little worried about our upcoming move to the wilds of New Hampshire. Do the evil Lyme-infested ones really only range north as far as Brody says ("the Northeast from Maryland to Massachusetts")?

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 20 May 2003 21:11:21 -0800

My wife and I were privately engaged... "honey!...you've got a tick!!" There it was. A few weeks earlier, I found one burrowed into my inner thigh. It was a dumb tick: it hurt!! The tick had almost excavated a hole deep enough to fit it's little tick body into. Yick. Usually I just throw them in the toilet.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Wed, 21 May 2003 06:06:51 -0800

Nice thing about smoking a pipe: I've been outside, I notice a tick on my calf, I just stick the blade of my pipe tamper in my pipe's bowl of burning tobacco, let it get nice and hot, touch it to the tick. Tick disengages frantically. Put tick in trash, wash hands. Problem solved.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 21 May 2003 06:15:28 -0800

alumshubby - Nice method. Too bad I can't use it to get ticks off my dog - hey, maybe I could! Hmmm...pipe smoking...

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 21 May 2003 09:45:47 -0800

Of course you can, troutfishing. A la ye olde joke: How do you make a cat bark? Pour gasoline on it and light a match --- Woof! (How do you make a dog meow? Toss it in the freezer, then run it through the bandsaw.... meeeerooooww!)

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Wed, 21 May 2003 11:32:54 -0800

troutfishing, if you can get your dog to smoke a pipe, let me know. (My Siamese cat really likes Latakia tobacco in a carved meerschaum, by the way.)

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 21 May 2003 11:45:45 -0800

insert obligatory image of chipmunk smoking a joint here.