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Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin

Posted by samzenpus on from the certain-mariah-carey-notes-make-dolphins-abduct-and-eat-small-children dept.

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.

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  1. PC police by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The crickets devastate crops, cause slicks on the highway and evidently love rap.

    That's racist.

    1. Re:PC police by Gat0r30y · · Score: 5, Funny

      They are Mormon crickets dude.

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    2. Re:PC police by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because no white (or any other ethnicity) person has ever created a rap song/album.

      It's because of comments like yours, that parent is +5 Funny.

      (In case you haven't noticed, the parent comment doesn't contain words such as "white" or "black". It's funny how he could make all your stereotypes fill in the blanks at once with just two words.)

  2. Most hated song by diablovision · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess they really must hate "Trampled Underfoot".

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  3. copyright violation by castironpigeon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Playing copyrighted music out in the open like that?! Better hope the RIAA doesn't get wind of this.

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  4. Re:Well... by jo42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "rap" 75% of the word "crap".

  5. Re:the Devil's music. by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Informative
    "More proof that Jimmy Page was a satanist!"

    Or that Keith Richards can scare the hell out of anything....

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  6. "Unemployed college professor"? by zindorsky · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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?

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  7. Re:The joke writes itself. by bgray54 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  8. "Mormon Crickets: Neither mormon nor cricket.... by weston · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... 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.

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