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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 imagine that it might drive the crickets off in such a way that it actually *kills* them...
Did you mean Yanni?
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That makes him overqualified for a career in the music industry.
Or that Keith Richards can scare the hell out of anything....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Hints from Helen: diatomaceous earth (from a pool store) and borax scratch open the shell of these bugs and they dry up. Little is needed unless it blows away. D.E. can irritate the nose, but otherwise earth friendly. D.E. is tiny fossils. I guess it can take out other insects, too, but in that town, it doesn't seem that there are any other insects.
If a Led Zeppelin song is broadcasted but there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound^H^H^H^H^Hvalid claim of copyright violation?
Probably not, because US copyright law defines "publicly" as "at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered", and a cricket isn't a "person" except perhaps in works of fiction written by Carlo Collodi or George Selden.
Seriously, though, this is why they should play from a radio station broadcast -- then the royalties were already paid.
The royalties to ASCAP and BMI were already paid, but not for performance in an establishment "open to the public". Such royalties are the responsibility of the owner of the establishment "open to the public" unless the performance qualifies under 17 USC 110(5), which was enacted as a rider to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Just to clarify, the LDS church has never taken a stand against caffeine. It's been coffee and tea, but never caffeine specifically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Wisdom
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.
+1 Funny. Unfortunately, it probably went over the head of anyone who hasn't lived in Utah.
Always take at least two Mormons fishing with you or the damned Jack Mormon will drink all your beer.
I think that interpretation is less common today than it was 30 years ago or so.
NEITHER crystalline (the pool store kind) nor amorphous (raw) silica in DE causes cancer. They CAN cause silicosis if inhaled though.
Silicosis is NOT a cancer - but it is quite nasty and there is no cure as the damage to the lungs is permanent.
It can't metastasize like a cancer though - but you can't fight it with chemo either.
BOTH kinds of DE will do just fine against the bugs as they work by absorbing moisture and causing dehydration.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens