When I was about 9 or 10, a bee landed on my nose, and then flew away. I didn't feel a sting, but both of my eyes ended up swelling up something awful.

I got nuthin to add on the bug front. Other than insect bites = bad. We get skeeters in our house here and it sucks, but it's nothing like either Hawaii or Ohio.

Oh wait. I do have something to add. I did a backpacking trip in Yosemite for 5 days. When I got out of my sleeping bag to go pee at dawn, the mosquitoes were swarming the bag when I got back. They are attracted to both C02 and heat. Makes them hard to avoid.

Our leader had been in the Peace Corps in Honduras. She said that she wouldn't shower if, when she was in the shower and she lifted her arm up and down, she hit more than 20 mosquitoes. Um. yikes.

I did get chased by a moose once, though.

If the moose in question did not bite your sister, it does not count as an official moose encounter.

I am really disillusioned with my career choice this morning.

I so cannot settle down to do the things I am supposed to do. Grrr. Get to it, self!

I was an adult when I was first stung by a wasp. Wasps had built a nest over a door, and we were spraying it with pesticide. I said, "I've never been stung by a wasp" and as I finished the sentence, one stung me on the lip. I looked like a collagen injection gone wrong. It's the most instant karma event I've had.

My worst fire ant experience was when I was in high school working in a TriHiY car wash fundraiser. Both high school and TriHiY were painful experiences. The fates really didn't need to add a fire ant nest in the midst of the muddy field. My feet were covered with bites, and I spent the rest of the weekend with my feet soaking in baking soda and water.

The evolution conspiracy - EXPOSED!!

PZ complains that he didn't receive this email:

As for myself, I believe that science has proved that there has to be a creator (The best mathematicians, physicists, biologists, astronomers,etc all admit they cannot explain how the DNA data gets into each cell/gene and can only be put there by intelligent design. But a campaign of disinformation from the atheist scientific communtity was exposed on British TV (I have the documentary), that proves that even the atheists admitted in secret scientific unpublished journals that all organic life in the universe had to come from a designer creator, and cannot appear randomly. The documentary exposed these findings and carried the atheist scientists through to their final statement and conclusion (which was pretty weak) that all artificial intelligence can appear randomly, but they admit that all organic life has to have a creator. THAT WAS THE COVER UP! THIS WAS EXPOSED AND THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY WERE INFILTRATED BY OCCULT SECRET SOCIETIES AND PAID TO NOT PUBLISH THEIR FINDINGS. (MOSTLY HIGH RANKING FREEMASONS, ROSICRUCIANS, ORDER TEMPLAR ORIENTALIS,ETC). tHE DOCUMENTARY PART 2 STATES THAT 90% OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY DO NOT BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION BUT AGREE WITH CHRISTIANS SCIENTISTS THAT NATURAL SELECTION IS A CORRECT THESIS, BUT THEY CANNOT ADMIT THIS, BECAUSE THEIR FUNDS WILL BE STOPPED BY POWERFUL INSTITUTES CONTROLLED BY THESE OCCULT FREEMASONS/BUSINESSMEN WHO OWN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

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Don't Freemasons require belief in a deity in order to join? Why would they be part of the Atheist Conspiracy?

Don't Freemasons require belief in a deity in order to join? Why would they be part of the Atheist Conspiracy?

Um.... because they want to destroy America? (And you need atheism to destroy America, because Jesus keeps us safe?)

I swear I thought it was the Illuminati.