I have been scarce lately due to my deployment in the War on Bugs and a few fishing trips. While the current surge in buggery(poor phraseology perhaps) has kept me way too damned busy, i have stopped in every now and then for a quick check but it did not take long for me to realize i will never catch up. The days of reading every word of every post are long gone for me.

Did i miss anything cool or Earth-shattering?

Please limit your replies to 200 words or less...

To all of you newbies - welcome!

yes...but i don't remember what it was....

on a side note i will emphasize that you, in turn, have been missed...
welcome back

I just assumed you were superpissed. Loads of new folks; mostly witty, bright, thoughtful,self-centered know-it-all's. Just like the rest of us.

The Euro Zone appears to be right at the edge of a huge cliff.

Germany is now offering two year bonds at 0.07% interest

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Welcome back!

Oh, and there's a new member named troutkiller...

AmirMortal wrote:The more things change, the more they stay the same. Welcome back!

Oh, and there's a new member named troutkiller...

Killing is good. As far as i am concerned, a man can kill anything he wants as long as he eats it.
Unless, of course, your name is Ladykiller.

goosekiller wrote: Killing is good. As far as i am concerned, a man can kill anything he wants as long as he eats it.
Unless, of course, your name is Ladykiller.

Then, you just eat it.

goosekiller wrote:

AmirMortal wrote:The more things change, the more they stay the same. Welcome back!

Oh, and there's a new member named troutkiller...

Killing is good. As far as i am concerned, a man can kill anything he wants as long as he eats it.
Unless, of course, your name is Ladykiller.

Is it OK if I eat ladies without killing them?

DukeNukemIncarnate wrote:

goosekiller wrote:

AmirMortal wrote:The more things change, the more they stay the same. Welcome back!

Oh, and there's a new member named troutkiller...

Killing is good. As far as i am concerned, a man can kill anything he wants as long as he eats it.
Unless, of course, your name is Ladykiller.

Is it OK if I eat ladies without killing them?

JINX!

DukeNukemIncarnate wrote:

goosekiller wrote:

AmirMortal wrote:The more things change, the more they stay the same. Welcome back!

Oh, and there's a new member named troutkiller...

Killing is good. As far as i am concerned, a man can kill anything he wants as long as he eats it.
Unless, of course, your name is Ladykiller.

Is it OK if I eat ladies without killing them?

Damn you guys beat me to it.

goosekiller wrote:Killing is good. As far as i am concerned, a man can kill anything he wants as long as he eats it.

But, but, but, didn't you say you were in the bug killing business?

Welcome back, anyway.

Simmer down wrote:I just assumed you were superpissed. Loads of new folks; mostly witty, bright, thoughtful,self-centered know-it-all's. Just like the rest of us.

SD summarized well the happenings or non-happenings here. So tell us about the War on Bugs, it sounds more interesting than the war on drugs.

larrymod wrote:

goosekiller wrote:Killing is good. As far as i am concerned, a man can kill anything he wants as long as he eats it.

But, but, but, didn't you say you were in the bug killing business?

Welcome back, anyway.

He keeps a jar of cockroaches on his desk when he gets peckish.

Welcome back! We missed you!

We have a crap-load of new members and I agree that it's now impossible to read all the posts...

Which I guess is a good thing.

highdesert wrote: So tell us about the War on Bugs, it sounds more interesting than the war on drugs.

Neither is winnable.
Last "winter" was so warm that survival rates for ants were the highest in my lifetime. New business! Odorous House Ants in particular. They were pretty scarce around these parts 20 years ago(hitching a ride in landscape products from down south), but the milder winters have allowed them to survive here. They are kinda quirky and if an inexperienced bugman does not identify them properly, a standard treatment can make things much, much worse for the homeowner in a hurry. I have stolen enough business from the major companies this year that i am shopping for a new truck and a boat for behind it.

gendoikari87 wrote:Germany is now offering two year bonds at 0.07% interest

I think that's 0.007%, juxtaposed to Spain's 7.1%.

goosekiller wrote:

highdesert wrote: So tell us about the War on Bugs, it sounds more interesting than the war on drugs.

Neither is winnable.
Last "winter" was so warm that survival rates for ants were the highest in my lifetime. New business! Odorous House Ants in particular. They were pretty scarce around these parts 20 years ago(hitching a ride in landscape products from down south), but the milder winters have allowed them to survive here. They are kinda quirky and if an inexperienced bugman does not identify them properly, a standard treatment can make things much, much worse for the homeowner in a hurry. I have stolen enough business from the major companies this year that i am shopping for a new truck and a boat for behind it.

Welcome back.

Xela

highdesert wrote:

Simmer down wrote:I just assumed you were superpissed. Loads of new folks; mostly witty, bright, thoughtful,self-centered know-it-all's. Just like the rest of us.

SD summarized well the happenings or non-happenings here. So tell us about the War on Bugs, it sounds more interesting than the war on drugs.

This is your brain on bugs....

goosekiller wrote:

highdesert wrote: So tell us about the War on Bugs, it sounds more interesting than the war on drugs.

Neither is winnable.
Last "winter" was so warm that survival rates for ants were the highest in my lifetime. New business! Odorous House Ants in particular. They were pretty scarce around these parts 20 years ago(hitching a ride in landscape products from down south), but the milder winters have allowed them to survive here. They are kinda quirky and if an inexperienced bugman does not identify them properly, a standard treatment can make things much, much worse for the homeowner in a hurry. I have stolen enough business from the major companies this year that i am shopping for a new truck and a boat for behind it.

Just the cockroach problem in the State Building should get you enough for that cabin cruiser.

ErikO wrote:Just the cockroach problem in the State Building should get you enough for that cabin cruiser.

With four Gubnahs going to the Gray Bar Motel in the last few decades, i believe you owe an apology to roaches worldwide, sir. There is no vermin so low as he who robs the people when charged with protecting them.

GlockLobster wrote: This is your brain on bugs....

Cool ink. I have been thinking about getting a realistic looking pencil tat for the upper crack of my ass.

goosekiller wrote:

ErikO wrote:Just the cockroach problem in the State Building should get you enough for that cabin cruiser.

With four Gubnahs going to the Gray Bar Motel in the last few decades, i believe you owe an apology to roaches worldwide, sir. There is no vermin so low as he who robs the people when charged with protecting them.

I stand corrected. Living things whose death keep someone knee deep in mashland blinds are things of wonder and beauty.

Who are the other two? Big Jim went to a quiet retirement, didn't he? Also, I'm pretty sure that Edgar Scissorhands is a free man as well.

Then again, with the SEC 'looking into' Hollinger International, Big Jim may just join The Haircut and Georgie Boy yet.

Simmer down wrote:I just assumed you were superpissed. Loads of new folks; mostly witty, bright, thoughtful,self-centered know-it-all's. Just like the rest of us.

Either that or he had gotten hauled in for indecent acts with animals....


We had a minor flameout as well. Not a particularly long term forum member, but a flameout nonetheless. Over some restriction of freedom of speech issue...

Caliman73 wrote:

Simmer down wrote:I just assumed you were superpissed. Loads of new folks; mostly witty, bright, thoughtful,self-centered know-it-all's. Just like the rest of us.

Either that or he had gotten hauled in for indecent acts with animals....


We had a minor flameout as well. Not a particularly long term forum member, but a flameout nonetheless. Over some restriction of freedom of speech issue...

Indecent is in the eye of the beholder.

Couldn't have been superpissed. I think(?) i would remember why AND would have to care about what dummards think to qualify.
I have learned to live by the following over the years:
You can lead a fool to logic, but you can't make him think.