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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:18 PM
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Are there any species you wish did not share the planet with you?
Me? Venemous Spiders. I can handle snakes and other things - but I am definitely of the "die spider" philosophy.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:20 PM
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1. Venomous Cheneys

:scared: :scared: :scared: :nuke: :nuke:
:hi:
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:25 PM
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4. We have a winner!!1!!
Same here!!

:hi:
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:22 PM
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2. Carnies
Edited on Tue May-27-08 12:25 PM by ohiosmith
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:23 PM
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3. Clowns.
:scared:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:30 PM
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7. Clowns don't SHARE the planet.
They INFECT it.
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:35 PM
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11. true, dat....
soul-less, balloon-animal-making, freaks...
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:28 PM
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5. Asian giant hornet
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:32 PM
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10. HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!


Now I have fucking nightmares, thank you very much
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 01:58 PM
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15. That's nothing. Find the video about them on You-tube.
I guarantee you will never set foot on the Japanese islands after you see that.
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 02:00 PM
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17. That's rich coming from the guy who posted that spider pic!
With absolutely NO WARNING! Talk about the stuff of nightmares!




:scared:
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:28 PM
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6. Hornets, Bumblebees, and Yellowjackets
I can tolerate honeybees. I can even tolerate regular wasps, so long as they stay the hell away from me. But hornets, bumblebees, and yellowjackets need to go away and die somewhere.

:scared:
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 03:40 PM
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21. But bumblebees are fuzzy and cute.
I'm alergic to yellow jacket stings...my skin breaks out and I get tunnel vision, all hot and stuff. But seriously, we don't want the bees to go away, it will cause a natural disaster on a global scale.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 03:46 PM
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22. I don't mind the GIANT ASIAN HORNETS going exctinct
Honest!
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:31 PM
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8. Repukes
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:44 PM
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12. Second that.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 12:32 PM
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9. Morans
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 01:10 PM
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13. People tend to annoy the bejeebers out of me. But I'll go with "flies".
Edited on Tue May-27-08 01:11 PM by WinkyDink
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 01:11 PM
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14. Republicans and Fundies.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 02:00 PM
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16. Black flies, mosquitos, horse flies.
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asteroid2003QQ47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:01 PM
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27. Jesus freaks...
black flies, mosquitos, horse flies and I'm in!
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gilpo Donating Member (601 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 02:13 PM
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18. Humans... eom
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:12 PM
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37. I wish I posted at 2:12PM instead...
:rofl:
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 02:56 PM
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19. How about an entire family of species?
Culicidae:



http://www.youtube.com/v/Lcrq5OOkQdk&hl">God's Cool Designs
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 03:10 PM
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20. mosquitos
Nasty little disease bearing monsters. Have you ever gotten a good look at one? They are nasty buggers..
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 12:12 AM
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60. Agreed.
I don't think mosquitoes have any positive qualities.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 03:49 PM
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23. what's with all the arthropod hate in this thread...?
As long as republicans walk the Earth, no arthropod should have to fear extinction!
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:10 PM
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28. ...
:thumbsup:

Call Me Wesley
The spider, hornet, ant, bee, wasp savior.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 03:49 PM
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24. My wife is arachnophobic, but neither of us...
Edited on Tue May-27-08 03:53 PM by Kutjara
...will intentionally harm a living creature, so I inevitably get the job of manhandling various multilegged monstrosities out of the house. So while the latest reject from a nightmare is deciding which of my fingers to sink its fangs into, my wife is shouting "Don't hurt it! Please don't hurt it!"

So spiders get my vote, for the sheer inconvenience factor.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 03:54 PM
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25. If I'm not allowed to call Mean Drunks a species....
If I'm not allowed to call Mean Drunks a species, then I'll limit it to fire ants, mosquitoes and roaches.

(But if I am allowed to consider Mean Drunks as a species, well... :) )
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 03:58 PM
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26. Snobs
x(
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:15 PM
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29. Deer flies and horse flies.
Every spring and summer they would come out and incesently buzz around your head.

And horse flies dive bomb you and bite you when you are in the swimming pool.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:52 PM
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33. What about barflies?
JK :)
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:52 PM
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34. What about barflies?
JK :)
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:39 PM
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30. Japanese beetles.
They destroy any and all scented flowers, especially my roses and nothing preys on them.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:04 PM
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50. Good one!
I think birds eat the grubs, though....
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:40 PM
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31. Moles
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:43 PM
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32. I know you're expecting this...
neocons!
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:04 PM
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35. Cockroaches. I just can't see the purpos in them.
Except to dispove the faux-scientific notion of "intelligent design" cockroaches just don't have a reason to exist.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:11 PM
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36. Anyone who says "humans" will have me taking out their goolies and using them as these:


AND

if too many of you cynical lot say "humans", I'll make one of these instead:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:33 PM
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39. um...humans?
Edited on Tue May-27-08 05:33 PM by Taverner
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:39 PM
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42. ¡
:rofl:
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:19 PM
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38. American Idol contestants, viewers, judges and production staff.
Other than that, mosquitoes. Not quite as annoying as American Idol people, but close.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:34 PM
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40. Republicans
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:37 PM
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41. Mimes


Can't fucking stand 'em!
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:39 PM
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43. Fundies ... Oh, and any spider.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:42 PM
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44. mosquitoes, emerald ash borers, gypsy moths, earwigs,
and a few others.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:27 PM
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45. Palmetto bugs, or GIANT FLYING FUCKING COCKROACHES.
As if cockroaches aren't bad enough, they had to grow wings AND take steroids? No, thanks - check, please.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 07:19 PM
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47. Oooh you shoulda seen Thailand
Cockroaches that were 2-3 inches in length, not counting antennae.

The smaller ones flew better than the bigger ones.

And then there were these wolf spiders...don't start me on the wolf spiders.

You'd be sitting down, reading, and all of a sudden you'd feel this "thump" and see this tarantula looking spider with huge legs running off and you realize you've just been used as a springboard. They don't bite, and they have no poisons. It just kind of freaks you out.
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amitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 12:23 AM
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62. Yes, the ones in Texas are just like the ones in Thailand.
2 to 4 inches long, and they fly.

I hate them.
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:28 PM
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46. humans, please
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 07:56 PM
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48. This particular species (dial up warning) . . .
Edited on Tue May-27-08 07:56 PM by Bullwinkle925
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:00 PM
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49. House flies, deer flies, horse flies....
mosquitoes and hornets. Those three species make summer miserable IMO.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:17 PM
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51. Black flies, Republicans, June bugs, telemarketers, TV preachers,
gnats, buckthorn, zebra mussels, Tucker Carlson, slime molds.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:21 PM
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52. Ordinarily I'd agree with your choice....
I hate spiders.

But I'll have to go with anyone planning on voting for McSame next fall.
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:21 PM
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53. la CUCARACHA


I worked on an archaeological project 11 years ago in Belize and was awakened in the middle of the night by something crawling on my neck - in turn, I woke the entire camp. :shrug:

I can't stand cockroaches.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:26 PM
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54. DAMN, WARN people that you are posting a picture of something
like that, holy SHIT...I just about jumped out of my skin, eeeewwwwww OMG I hate spiders I hate hate hate hate hate 'em.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 01:49 AM
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64. Consider yourself warned




After a bite:
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:35 PM
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55. carpentr ants and nu metal bands
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:41 PM
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56. the hairless apes
I know I'm one okay but who else takes out whole forests and wipes out so many species?

The grossest critters though are grubs, they're nasty looking. I dig them up and feed them to the robins :headbang:
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 08:56 PM
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57. Staphylococcus Aureus
I have an abcess on my leg chock full of it, and man, does it hurt!
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halliburtonsux Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 10:11 PM
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58. Bush, Cheney Halliburton
n/t
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 10:14 PM
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59. Palmetto bugs
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InvisibleTouch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 12:21 AM
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61. Humans. n/t
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 01:38 AM
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63. flies, ticks and mosqutioes, cockroaches, too. I think that about
does it.
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 01:52 AM
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65. snakes
any snakes - I don't care if they're dangerous or not. Snakes are scary, and I hate them. I'm thinking of moving to Ireland or Iceland, just because they don't have snakes.
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