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Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin
The residents of Tuscarora, Nevada are getting ready to fight the annual invasion of mormon crickets with the power of Rock-N-Roll. Trial and error has shown that the crickets don't think much of Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones. The residents circle the town with boomboxes at regular intervals to drive off the millions of crickets. "It is part of our arsenal. You'll wake up and there'll be one sitting on your forehead, looking at you." says Laura Moore, an unemployed college professor and one of the town's 13 residents. The crickets devastate crops, cause slicks on the highway and evidently love rap.
I suppose that ends all speculation that rap isn't cricket, eh, old man?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
More proof that Jimmy Page was a satanist!
The crickets devastate crops, cause slicks on the highway and evidently love rap.
That's racist.
At first, I thought they were trying to get rid of haughty Englishmen with funny bats!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I wonder how they feel about Buddy Holly?
I'll go ahead and hit myself for that one.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
Finally another species that hates Led Zeppelin as much as I do.
FTA: Rock music blaring from boomboxes has proved one of the best defenses against an annual invasion of Mormon crickets.
Yeah, but you get one alone and he'll drink all your beer.
I guess they really must hate "Trampled Underfoot".
120 characters isn't enough to explain it.
In addition to Rock n Roll, the mormon crickets are repelled by alchohol, caffine, premarital sex, and gay marriage.
Just put each cricket in a little box with a caterpillar. That will teach them not to screw with your town.
... says Laura Moore, an unemployed college professor and one of the town's 13 residents
If you're unemployed, you're not a college professor. You're a former college professor, or a wannabe college professor. Also, maybe a town of 13 doesn't have a lot of college professor openings?
If the geiger counter does not click, the coffee, she is not thick.
So what are you going to do - sue the crickets for being illegally repelled by Led Zepplin?
ps. That's a sentence I'd never thought I'd write
Not that shocking -- they normally listen to the beetles.
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
Mormon Crickets are also not only not Mormons, they're not crickets either. They're shieldbacked katydids.
"... shieldbacked katydids?" Please do not use these abstruse metric or imperial system units. What are they in Texan talk: Varmints or Critters?
They're also cannibals.
Great house pets. No need to buy pet food, they just "feed themselves."
And polygamists.
Well, that sounds interestings. Send some over. I hope they will be more entertaining than the Presbyterian Toads.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
They're also ... polygamists.
So they at least used to be Mormon?
Playing copyrighted music out in the open like that?! Better hope the RIAA doesn't get wind of this.
Did you even read the summary? Their music wards off pests.
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Can't they use Iron Butterfly?
How about Iron Butterfly?
Just because you can, does not mean you should.
You must have read it in Quarks voice. I say Mor-man like Quark used to say Hu-man. Pretty funny actually.. well I'm amused.. doesn't take much... this whole thread has been a riot!
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