I vastly prefer the lizards. Poor things keep losing their tails to the cats, and we occasionally find little lizard mummies under the furniture, but they manmage to maintain a pretty sizable population.
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - Mar 02, 2005 6:30:31 am PST #4021 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Mar 02, 2005 6:33:59 am PST #4022 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If those are the choices, I'll take ants.
I'd prefer roaches. Easier to kill. Once either one gets into the food, it's over. But I've never had roaches in my fridge, nor in my dishwasher.
-t - Mar 02, 2005 6:38:47 am PST #4023 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I find roaches intrinsically more digusting than ants. I'm trying to justify that rationally, and coming to the conclusion that I can't.
Deena - Mar 02, 2005 7:13:17 am PST #4024 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Robin, I'm so glad your neice is getting the help she needs.
Nora, insent.
I'm caught up. Hugs and hairpats to those who want them, and back to work for me.
SailAweigh - Mar 02, 2005 7:48:34 am PST #4025 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Wandering ants can really get themselves in trouble if they aren't careful. A horde of them wandered into my car once, they shorted out the radio. Until they started dying, shriveling up and falling off. It took a few weeks, but the radio started working again. Except for when I drove over the railroad tracks right outside work. Then, whatever poor little ant carcass was still in the radio would short it out and the signal would crackle in and out until I was back on smooth pavement. That lasted about a year before the dead ant either blew away or something else in the radio ate it.
Calli - Mar 02, 2005 7:52:01 am PST #4026 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Goodness, SailAweigh. I'm picturing such a wee steampunk existence for the ants in your car. All hot and noisy, with death one wire away.
I want someone to make an animated film about this.
SailAweigh - Mar 02, 2005 7:54:32 am PST #4027 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I know! I'd never had ants get in a car before. It was the strangest thing. And I had no idea how to get rid of them, but they seemed to find their own method of mass destruction so I just left them to it.
brenda m - Mar 02, 2005 7:55:47 am PST #4028 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I've never had ants in my car. Once I had just started to drive to work and a cat popped up from inside the hatchback.
Ginger - Mar 02, 2005 7:58:11 am PST #4029 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I know a car radio that nuked an ant, then crackled and popped 'til service was scant
I don't know why it nuked the ant
Perhaps I can't.
(I know. I probably need drugs.)
Steph L. - Mar 02, 2005 7:59:22 am PST #4030 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I have a headache and I think hotmail ate all my saved e-mail (which goes back about 4 or 5 years).
I would really like to go back to bed.