May 13, 2004

The cicadas are coming!

Beware!
I lived through the (13 year) brood XIX in smyrna, tn while in kindergarten and during a summer internship after my first year of college. Now the (17 year) brood X is sprouting here in the DC area. Wonderful summer approaching... ;-)

Posted by smc at May 13, 2004 09:33 AM
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The Day Of the Cicada

Should that happen, a Cincinnati dry cleaner named Sam Luning wants you to be ready. He is the inventor of a repackaged badminton racket -- Luning calls them "bad bug" rackets -- that will soon be on sale in Cincinnati area drugstores and perhaps on the Web for $3.99.

Luning says he got the idea after watching his son chase bugs on a camping trip and seeing "the thrill and excitement in his eyes." Swat 20 cicadas and you may call yourself a "hunter," according to the wrapper on Luning's rackets. Take out 70 and consider yourself a "predator"; if you reach 100, wear proudly the title: "CICADANATOR!!!"

Posted by: joseph at May 14, 2004 10:31 AM

sounds hilarious! do you have a link??

Posted by: smc at May 14, 2004 10:41 AM

oh yeah, i tried to anchor it in the first time but i forgot that it stripped my tags:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28974-2004Mar27.html

Posted by: joseph at May 14, 2004 11:45 AM