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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.
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
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.
TFA: "...best defenses against an annual invasion of Mormon crickets"
Mormons and Zeppelin don't mix?
Tuscarorans are preparing once again to get out their extension cords, array their stereos in a quarter-circle and tune them to rock station KHIX
Sounds like another Burning Man festival.
Playing copyrighted music out in the open like that?! Better hope the RIAA doesn't get wind of this.
mmmm...forbidden donut
Did you mean Yanni?
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The TFA doesn't say they love rap. What it says is that the 2007 and 2008 crickets had "hipper tastes" (i.e. weren't as deterred by heavy-metal music as the 2006 crickets were). Apparently samzenpus mis-read "hipper" as "hip-hop" and assumed they love rap.
Le Sigh.
Also means the residents of Tuscarora might be applying selective pressure on the cricket population by playing loud rock music.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
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.........
... 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.
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.
... Discuss." ;)
They're not called Mormon Crickets because they're considered adherents to the faith, they're called Mormon Crickets because they're one of the fine local features the Mormons found waiting for them when they settled in Utah the mid 1800s. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Gulls .
Mormon Crickets are also not only not Mormons, they're not crickets either. They're shieldbacked katydids.
They're also cannibals.
And polygamists.
Tweet, tweet.
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?