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2004-05-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Man Becomes Ill After Gorging on Cicadas
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Posted by Mike 2004-05-18 6:43:48 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Yeah that garlic bad stuff.
Posted by Shipman 2004-05-18 7:21:35 AM||   2004-05-18 7:21:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Man Michael Moore Becomes Ill After Gorging on Cicadas
Posted by Bill Nelson  2004-05-18 7:34:15 AM||   2004-05-18 7:34:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 One estimate I've heard has 5 billion of them appearing in the Cincinnati area.

Anyone up for some stir-fry?
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-05-18 8:07:35 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-05-18 8:07:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmmmm,a new defenition to the ter"bugging out".
Posted by Raptor 2004-05-18 8:09:51 AM||   2004-05-18 8:09:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mmmm! Promptcare East Bloomington IN is a few blocks from my brother's house. Can't be him tho cos I'm the one who does dumb crazy things.
Posted by Phil B  2004-05-18 8:28:04 AM||   2004-05-18 8:28:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I was in law school in Cincinnati during the last emergence. One of the radio stations had a joke commercial for "cicada pizza" that they played to death.

Never thought anyone would actually want to eat one of those ugly little suckers.
Posted by Mike  2004-05-18 8:52:31 AM||   2004-05-18 8:52:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems to me like Darwin's ghost's nudging someone in the ribs here.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-05-18 8:57:04 AM||   2004-05-18 8:57:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wife: "damn i told u to get rid of the bugs, not eat them"
Posted by sakattack 2004-05-18 9:09:45 AM||   2004-05-18 9:09:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 This gives me a movie Idea: Cicadas vs. Killer Bees - Who's got bigger antenni?
Posted by Charles  2004-05-18 9:33:09 AM||   2004-05-18 9:33:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 every 17 years there's a group of a-holes that appear on the news all smiling and assuring that the red-eyed BUGS taste like chicken when prepared just so...no, they taste like BUGS dammit! If you're not in survival school training, and you eat bugs, you're an idiot, sorry
Posted by Frank G  2004-05-18 9:38:11 AM||   2004-05-18 9:38:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, Bulldog, I think this one deserves at least an Honorable Mention in the Darwin Awards.

Maybe his example will inspire some idiot to take it to the next level . . .
Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-18 9:48:23 AM||   2004-05-18 9:48:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 You don't seem to want to accept the fact that you're dealing with an expert in guerilla warfare. With a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, to ignore weather, to live off the land. To eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill, period! Win by attrition. Well, Rambo was the best!
Posted by Trautman  2004-05-18 10:29:03 AM||   2004-05-18 10:29:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 One of the radio stations had a joke commercial for "cicada pizza" that they played to death.

Heh. It wasn't the station's commercial, it was a commercial for the regional "Snappy Tomato" pizza chain. They've said they'll run the ad again this time, but I haven't heard it yet.

"Snap! Snap! Snappy Cicada Pizza!"
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-05-18 10:41:23 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-05-18 10:41:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Never eat anything with red eyes.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-18 11:32:59 AM||   2004-05-18 11:32:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 I should also state that I was in cicada-land in 1987 on vacation the last time they were around. Local TV news was full of cooking stories.

Some local chef was doing exactly as the man above, frying them in olive oil with basil and garlic.

He even coaxed the female reporter to try one.
I think it was a Baltimore TV station.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-18 12:30:18 PM||   2004-05-18 12:30:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 One is obliged to assume this moron thought that by ingesting cicadas he would get some sort of "buzz."
Posted by Zenster 2004-05-18 12:52:32 PM||   2004-05-18 12:52:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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