Re: CHAT: mosquitoes [was: Re: CHAT: Texas weirdness [was Re: CHAT: Californian secessionists] [was Re: Likin...]

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> Tristan wrote:
> >In short, mozzies don't bother me.
>
> You've never been in a nice, humid, mosquito-infected taiga glade. The
> little bastards'll eat anything even resembling a living creature. Any
> exposed skin'll become covered in bite-marks (exposed being defined as
> protected by less than three layers of fabric).
My case is, usually, like Tristan's.  For some reason, I don't
usually get bitten.  The exception was this summer:  a tropical
storm just sat on Houston for about a week, causing, inter alia,
billions of dollars worth of flood damage and a wonderful
environment for mosquito eggs to hatch.  It was estimated that
100 million mosquitos were out and about.  I musta gotten at
least a good thousand of them.

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