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Real computer bugs in Houston!

#1 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu May 15, 2008 7:57 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_ ... texas_ants
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
And--what may be an ominous sign for the Bored--they're called "crazy rasberry ants". :shock:

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#2 Post by Bixby17 » Thu May 15, 2008 8:05 am

No no no.

I already had the weird rain shrimp bugs show up at my house last year.

And adolescent rats.

I do not need another thing to call exterminators about, Especially, when the exterminators aren't sure how to kill those suckers.

So far, I have not seen any crazy ants.

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#3 Post by Crazy Raspberry Aunts » Thu May 15, 2008 8:49 am

Everybody got an eccentric aunt, that doesn't mean you can call an exterminator.

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#4 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu May 15, 2008 8:51 am

Crazy Raspberry Aunts wrote:Everybody got an eccentric aunt, that doesn't mean you can call an exterminator.
Aunt Bee's not crazy!

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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu May 15, 2008 8:57 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:Aunt Bee's not crazy!
Might I suggest the Aunts from Arsenic and Old Lace? 8)

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#6 Post by Crazy Raspberry Aunts » Thu May 15, 2008 9:17 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Aunt Bee's not crazy!
Might I suggest the Aunts from Arsenic and Old Lace? 8)
Better now?

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#7 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu May 15, 2008 9:21 am

Crazy Raspberry Aunts wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Aunt Bee's not crazy!
Might I suggest the Aunts from Arsenic and Old Lace? 8)
Better now?
Much better! :twisted:

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#8 Post by Crazy Raspberry Aunts » Thu May 15, 2008 9:27 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Crazy Raspberry Aunts wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: Might I suggest the Aunts from Arsenic and Old Lace? 8)
Better now?
Much better! :twisted:
But now a signature line to make Bix's head explode!
Houston we have a problem

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#9 Post by earendel » Thu May 15, 2008 9:34 am

Raspberry ants in Texas, and Goliath beetles in Philadelphia, sent in a package marked as "toys, gifts and jellies".

http://tinyurl.com/4vvhmv
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#10 Post by Bob Juch » Thu May 15, 2008 10:04 am

Hey, at least they eat fire ants.
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