Comments | garyt: Evolution In Action

garyt

Evolution In Action

May 14, 2004 15:23

It appears that cicadas really are deadly killers after all, at least in a passive-aggressive kind of way. A quick search of the news reveals numerous reports of children that have variously

stabbed
run over
set on fire
smacked face-first into large immobile objects

... either themselves or their compatriots, attempting to either kill or flee from ( Read more... )

Comments 4

kungpaochibi May 14 2004, 12:45:22 UTC

It's Darwin-ism. We just need to have more deadly objects around to make it really work.

And the cicadas are after me. I KNOW it. They are going to suck out my fat and leave me a cold dry husk.

garyt May 14 2004, 14:26:08 UTC

On the other hand, if you can stop them partway through the sucking, then you'll be neither cold, dry, nor a husk.

Don't laugh. $2 million in startup capital and a storefront in Beverly Hills, and I'd be on the cover of People inside a month.

kungpaochibi May 14 2004, 14:44:38 UTC

WHA? You're moving to BH?!?!? OMG! You have to open the Peach Pit and we can relive the glories of 90210 (I know, your respect for me is at nil right about now)... :D

garyt May 16 2004, 13:13:25 UTC

"Nil" is such a strong word with respect to "respect". I think perhaps the term to use here is null, in the sense of "unknowable or undefined". You'll have work a bit harder to get to nil (which is reserved for the likes of war criminals, the sumbitch that keyed my wife's car, the dipshits that adopted my dog before we got her and returned her for being too much work, whoever thought up "freedom fries", those responsible for Highlander II, and furries).