Monsoon Season, Miami. Week 3, Day 4

[shereads]

Oh, look. It's raining.

 

[shereads]

Mosquitos suck.

Discuss.

 

[shereads]

Little Known Facts from the Subtropics

Given a sufficient amount of rain undisrupted by more than an hour of drying time per day, your wooden deck can liquify! Really. You can walk outside to get the paper and feel the planks sloshing beneath your feet as their populations of fungi celebrate the arrival of summer.

Deck soup.

 

[shereads]

It's still raining.

 

[Edward Teach]

Mosquitos suck.

Discuss.

Only the females. The males eat fruit.


Eddie The Entomologist

.

 

[shereads]

Only the females. The males eat fruit.


Eddie The Entomologist

.

But how do they eat the fruit? They suck it, right? Got no teeth.

Ergo, mosquitos suck.

 

[EnglishMuffin]

bzzzzzzzzzzz.













































sorry. stepped on ur bullet

 

[Guest]

the rain is good for the complexion. isnt this why the blue hairs move south? well that and the heat. its like a steam iron for the skin.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Okay, this is a hard one. Mossies and rain v winter. Hmmm...

We are experiencing a cold snap [the coldest couple of days this year]. It is meant to be winter, but we only have 2 seasons, hot and hotter. So the weather has dropped to 25 degrees, which I know is probably a lovely summer for most, but everyone here is wrapped up! (I've got my flannel jim jams on with lions, and woolly socks) But the forecast is good, it is expected to warm up for the weekend. In reality then, our winter lasted 4 days.

 

[Guest]

Dream ends on the Fourth of July.

Seems fitting.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Dream ends on the Fourth of July.

Seems fitting.

LOL!

CV, will you have my babies?

 

[Guest]

Why not.

I ain't getting any younger.

 

[wishfulthinking]

But you gotta stay at home so I can be the career wife.

 

[Guest]

Yea. But no cheating with black boss with huge dick!

 

[wishfulthinking]

Fuck. The nagging's already started.

(and it was a small willy, think little finger)

 

[Guest]

Yea, alright, then.

But you gotta buy me presents and flowers.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Deal. But no crappy names like Shania.

Better tell me now what your fav flowers are, and what kind of choc? Better not be dark bitter choc.

 

[shereads]

Deal. But no crappy names like Shania.

Start a new trend: baby names with no consonants.

 

[shereads]

the rain is good for the complexion. isnt this why the blue hairs move south? well that and the heat. its like a steam iron for the skin.

You are incorrect, but thank you for playing Jeapardy.

Wet cool weather is good for the skin. Wales, etc.

Blue hairs move south because they're always cold, which is why it's considered torture to visit an elderly relative in the southeastern U.S. during August. (Example: my mother. Thermostat set on 82 degrees; she's wearing a sweater; she keeps asking if you're warm enough; you wait until she's asleep before you quietly get out of bed to lower the thermostat by a degree; she wakes up and thinks you're looking for an extra blanket.)

 

[Edward Teach]

But how do they eat the fruit? They suck it, right? Got no teeth.

Ergo, mosquitos suck.

Ergo?

My name's Eddie and what are you doing checking mosquitos for teeth? I didn't see that listed in your fetisies.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Mosquitos suck.

Discuss.

The good news is, despite both the monsoon and the mosquitos, you don't have to worry about malaria. Or cholera. Or typhoid.

I, on the other hand, will find myself on the Indian subcontinent soon where I'll be taking a daily does of malaria pills. It wouldn't be so bad except my company keeps extending this little visit and now I won't have enough malaria pills to last through the whole trip, so I have to go back to the pharmacy. Did you know that health insurance companies require an exhorbitant co-payment for malaria pills? Those little suckers cost $7 each.

Don't get me started on the typhoid pills which they don't cover at all. They'll pay for the typhoid vaccine, and they don't seem to be concerned that the vaccine sends 5% of patients into psychosis, hallucinations, depression, and thoughts of suicide.

 

[shereads]

The good news is, despite both the monsoon and the mosquitos, you don't have to worry about malaria. Or cholera. Or typhoid.

West Nile virus. It's all the rage.

I, on the other hand, will find myself on the Indian subcontinent soon where I'll be taking a daily does of malaria pills.

Have a safe trip. And stay away from the West Nile!

 

[LadyJeanne]

West Nile virus. It's all the rage.
Have a safe trip. And stay away from the West Nile!

Do the West Nile mosquitos look any different from the malaria mosqitos? How can I tell them apart?

 

[wishfulthinking]

There is a bit of a bad outbreak here with dengue fever mozzies. (see winter and mozzies! but we have sunshine 290 days a year )

These mongrels are twice the size of 'normal' mozzies, and have white specs on them.

Symptoms may include:

fever
headaches
muscle and joint pain
loss of appetite
vomiting and diarrhoea
skin rash
bleeding, usually from the nose or gums.

ie, you think you could have anything, including paranoia as you slap the little bastards!

 

[McKenna]

Start a new trend: baby names with no consonants.

I shall henceforth be known as Eioáe. The aspirated "i" is the tough part. The gutteral stop at the end is easy.

That's gotta be a eight-bear name.