tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post3537259622881512977..comments2024-03-08T17:48:05.678-05:00Comments on Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: This Offs Me Tics !Rodger the Real King of Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11349261387199416434noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-39036605921039156072016-04-18T09:19:07.869-04:002016-04-18T09:19:07.869-04:00[From "Ticked Off" by Stu Tarlowe, Paw P...[From "Ticked Off" by Stu Tarlowe, <i>Paw Prints</i> Magazine, ©2005]<br />But it's not enough to merely detach it and let it wander off to find another host; you should render it lifeless. I believe that ticks should be slain, whacked, zapped, smoked, dusted, croaked, bumped off, rubbed out. <br /><br />I consider it my duty to help reduce the world’s tick population, one by one, so after I’ve yanked the tick out, or caused it to back out by covering its body with oil or by touching it with the lit end of my cigar, I put the tick on a flat surface and, before it can crawl away, I terminate it with extreme prejudice! I cut it right in half, and sometimes in quarters, with my pocketknife. And sometimes, in a slice-and-dice frenzy, I just “Ginsu” the little sucker into oblivion!<br /><br />I make sure that tick’s metabolic processes are history and it will never bother anybody again; it is deceased, it is demised, it has ceased to be; it is an EX-tick!<br /><br />Or, if I've extracted the tick with the needlenose pliers of my Leatherman Tool (everybody should have one of these, or something similar), I use those to hold it while I whip out my Zippo and vaporize the little b*****d. Be careful if you try this, though, because a tick that's been attached for awhile and is really "full" will explode (double Yechhhhh!!).<br /><br />I remember one summer when my dog and I were driving home from a walk in the woods and, in the car, I felt a tick crawling up my bare leg. I picked it off just as it was about to enter the leg of my shorts, where who knows WHAT it might have attached itself to (TRIPLE Yechhhh!!), and held it tightly between my fingertips while I tried to figure out what to do. <br /><br />It wouldn't be enough to flick it out the window; I wanted to totally incinerate and annihilate the miserable pest. So, while steering with my elbows and knees, I grabbed a nail-clipper that was handy and, while using that to hold the tick, I reached for a Bic lighter I kept on the dashboard. <br /><br />I was touching the lighter’s flame to the tick held in the improvised clip, and it was glowing red, when I noticed that a VW bus covered with Grateful Dead stickers was keeping pace alongside me, with a bunch of tie-dyed hippie-types inside. They were all watching me and smiling broadly and giving me the "thumbs up" and the “OK” sign.<br /><br />They must have hated ticks as much as I do!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12505066066594153737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-34552280525156636302016-04-17T18:09:19.903-04:002016-04-17T18:09:19.903-04:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tiPndMqxLQ&li...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tiPndMqxLQ&list=PLEA7D906C9E896428&index=23<br />Ticks<br /><br />--mechAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-61997536762395985922016-04-17T12:37:48.886-04:002016-04-17T12:37:48.886-04:00Ron in Ohio Sez:
I gotta' change the tone of t...Ron in Ohio Sez:<br />I gotta' change the tone of this frivolity with a bit of nostalgia about growing-up in the wilds of rural Indiana. We would go strawberry and blackberry picking every year and of course we'd be on the parasitic insect's turf and subject to their appetites.<br /><br />Our old preventative was to take a few scraps of rags, soak them in kerosene, wring them out and tie one around each ankle, making sure to wash our hands before beginning the picking. It kept the bugs off of our legs and prevented both ticks and chiggers from crawling up our legs.<br /><br />When the rag strips were tied around our wrists they sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, depending on how deep in the brush we got. Thinking back, I sure wish the lint rollers were around then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-68251886997608598652016-04-16T23:35:18.288-04:002016-04-16T23:35:18.288-04:00^ Ralph - Her doctor said her body clock is near t...^ Ralph - Her doctor said her body clock is near there.<br />Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-5119663521064007832016-04-16T21:48:21.949-04:002016-04-16T21:48:21.949-04:00^Ralph - Wallowing around in thick bushes.
Lt. Col...^Ralph - Wallowing around in thick bushes.<br />Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-24609083877211193572016-04-16T19:24:58.867-04:002016-04-16T19:24:58.867-04:00How did your wife get a tick in her central vagina...How did your wife get a tick in her central vagina???Ralph Gizziphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923672128816386548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-48984176171820455282016-04-16T16:03:49.986-04:002016-04-16T16:03:49.986-04:00Jim - I remember a neighbor having guineas when I ...Jim - I remember a neighbor having guineas when I was a kid. Their voices made me think of a rusty manual well pump, or a failing bearing.<br /><br />I pulled a tick out of my wife's skin yesterday here in central Virginia.<br /><br />Do guineas stay home, or do you have to fence them in?<br />Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-59477117808675596332016-04-16T15:46:24.931-04:002016-04-16T15:46:24.931-04:00Where does one buy a guinea fowl outside of Safewa...Where does one buy a guinea fowl outside of Safeway?Rodger the Real King of Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349261387199416434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-29824145267311153712016-04-16T14:20:34.309-04:002016-04-16T14:20:34.309-04:00Just get a couple guinea fowl and let them live i...Just get a couple guinea fowl and let them live in your wooded yard...They run around and eat ticks all day, but do not dig in gardens like chickens. They are also the best home alarm you could have and will simply roost in a big tree at night!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677301643226999865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-75961572616144383882016-04-16T12:17:58.913-04:002016-04-16T12:17:58.913-04:00The Moose says putting pepper on the O man's g...The Moose says putting pepper on the O man's gerbil is always good for a laugh.toadoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12821769510849208141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-81104406852626202822016-04-16T12:07:43.602-04:002016-04-16T12:07:43.602-04:00Them damn ticks are active all year. I found the f...Them damn ticks are active all year. I found the first one this year last month, there was still snow on the ground. Lyme disease is rampant in northern NY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com