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| Wait until the buzzing is at it's loudest, then the random swat |
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| Wait until the buzzing stops or I feel it land, then swat |
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| Try and be really still and not breath so it will fly on by |
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| zzzz....awwwmm...what? mosquito? who cares?!! ...zzzzzzzzz |
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touron
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 Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:55 pm |
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Your lying in bed just about to go to sleep after a long day of hiking. Then you hear it, a soft buzz, growing louder. It seems you have a few options.
1. Slap at your ear right at the moment that the buzzing seems loudest
2. Wait until you feel it land, then slap
3. Hope that it is just accidentally flying by and doesn't realize you are in the room
What do you do?
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. swat at this point?
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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captain jack
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I reach over, very quietly, and gently pull the covers down, exposing one of Spindys juicy arms, then I burrow in my bag and count to 30.
Usually does the trick.
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Kat
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Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:10 pm |
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ActionBetty
Im a dirty hippie!
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ActionBetty
Im a dirty hippie!
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Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:43 am |
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| captain jack wrote: | | I reach over, very quietly, and gently pull the covers down, exposing one of Spindys juicy arms, then I burrow in my bag and count to 30.
Usually does the trick. |
I hate to see what happens when you run across a bear...pour berry juice all down her backpack...oops, shouldnt have given you any ideers 
"If you're not living good, you gotta travel wide"...Bob Marley
"If you're not living good, you gotta travel wide"...Bob Marley
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jenjen
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jenjen
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Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:00 am |
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The other option is to wake your hiking partner up, light up the entire tent with headlamps and mount a full out assault on every little buggy thing you can find.
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
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Tricky
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Tricky
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Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:08 am |
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"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
-Christie Todd Whitman
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about??
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about??
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Skinem
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Skinem
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Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:10 am |
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I'm with Jen on this one...find it and kill it!
Earth First! We'll strip mine the rest of the galaxy later.
They call me the thread killer...
Earth First! We'll strip mine the rest of the galaxy later.
They call me the thread killer...
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captain jack
Serving suggestion
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Backpacker Joe
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They've never really bugged (ha) me much.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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RayD
the griz ate my pass
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RayD
the griz ate my pass
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Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:13 pm |
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| Quote: | | Old ziplock bag with half a can of Rainier beer, and 2 glazed Crispy Cremes in it. |
umm....where are you hiking next?
don't believe everything you think
don't believe everything you think
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Old ziplock bag with half a can of Rainier beer, and 2 glazed Crispy Cremes in it. 
