[Sca-cooks] OT: Weather in Oertha

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 3:25 PM, ysabeau wrote:

> I remember camping near Valdez around '77. We actually packed up
> and left in the in middle the night because of the mosquitos. Big,
> Huge, Gigantic mosquitos...everywhere, all over, no place to hide!

I'm sure that was horrible. But living, as I do, in an area that's  
not especially mosquito-intensive, all I can immediately think of is  
the scene in "The In-Laws" (the real one, not the heretical recent  
semi-remake). Peter Falk's character speaks of his time in Guatemala,  
which, he says, has giant tse-tse flies, which raid villages and fly  
off into the sunset with small, brown babies clutched in their beaks.  
He then explains that nothing can be done about this because the tse- 
tse flies are protected by the Guacamole Act of 1917, and generally  
decries the enormous amount of red tape in the jungles of Central  
America...

Adamantius




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