Tiny Town?

/fun movie

Wouldn't The Dead Kennedy's have been more apropos?

wonder what songs they blasted?

"immigrant song"?
"in my time of dying"?

once again proving that sometimes you just gotta get the Led out.

its good and good for you.

Third_Uncle_Eno: wonder what songs they blasted?

"immigrant song"?

That was my first thought. If Robert Plant screeching at the top of his lungs won't hold back a plague of insects, nothing will.

One year my son and I took a road trip from Southern California
to the Grand Canyon. I had a month's vacation so we took our time
and I took a scenic route that included a detour passing through
Pahrump, Nevada.

The year was 2003, and WoW, the Mormon crickets were EVERYWHERE.
And they are big fat beefy bugs too. The road was plastered and
slick with smashed crickets in two neat straight lines on the
roadway for miles. They were on the sides of the roads, on
sidewalks, in yards, in businesses and in empty fields and
everywhere else in biblical plague proportions.

We stopped to get gas and use the bathroom and there were so many
of those blood-red crickets in the urinals and toilets and on the
floor we had a tough time going. Even though they have huge heads
with huge mandibles they don't tend to 'bite' or sting people.
But trying to convince my dear lil son (10 at the time) of that was
futile. He was so scared to death he'd get bit on his pecker or
they'd jump into his underoos, he refused to go.

He wiggled and writhed in the car until we got out into the
desert again and in a place where there were fewer crickets
before he'd get out of the car and do his business.

Yup.

Here ya go. I found it.

Just.

Like.

This.

Here.

Meatzilla: There's only one thing for it.

WHY?!? Why would you live there?!?

A plagues of locusts! It's the end times!


/Man, those things are big.
//I know, I know; they're katydids. Let a guy have his fun.

That'll learn 'em.

This only works on Mormon crickets. Same with the coffee trick.

It's God's wrath for pronouncing it "Ne-VAAA-duh."

/sounds stupid
//refuse to say it that way

Following an unseasonably warm winter, some in Elko County fear a big crop this year of Mormon crickets...

Can someone provide proof that Elko had an unseasonably warm winter this year?

That article was descriptive and hilarious.

Also, I was in Vegas once when one of these swarms came through. Gross, but largely harmless.

Yeah I uh...I approve.

/long as they don't play In Through the Out Door

But do their speakers go up to 11?

Gecko Gingrich: Wouldn't The Dead Kennedy's have been more apropos?

I'd say Slayer.

Why don't they just slam the door on the mormon crickets, that's what I do.

What happens if they play the Crickets or the Beatles?

We get twice a year disgusting swarms of lake flies that are good eat'ns for the fish. They make a walk impossible. Harmless but coat lake side homes completely and you see just gobs of darkness in the sky as you drive through. At night they are super creepy as the streets are quiet but you just hear a high pitched buzzing from the tens of thousands of flies just hanging in the air nearby.

Party-sized bucket of flan: WHY?!? Why would you live there?!?

That's what I was thinking. I mean how could the realtor guy even think he could get a sale during the plague of insects? I know I'd keep driving right by the house if a broom was necessary to clear a path of bugs to the door of my potential new home.

ummm. Billy Squire "In The Dark" will do nicely.

Gecko Gingrich: Wouldn't The Dead Kennedy's have been more apropos?

The Dead Kennedy's what?

ElLoco:

[Heptachlor Pic]

That'll learn 'em.

I'd try DDT first; less toxic to humans and all.

Gentlemen, behold. The power of Slayer will save you!

I do believe hat Rammstein would work nicely.

I should think that Yoko Ono music would be far more deadly, or Rap.

So, playing the Crickets is completely out of the question then I guess?

How about the Bee 52s?

I'd think that a liberal application of crop dusters filled with gasoline and matches would solve this problem pretty farkin' quick.

you ever see a cloud of gnats fly into a campfire?

/*fwoosh!*

DDT did a job on me
Now I am a real sickie
Guess I'll have to break the news
That I got no mind to lose

Immigrant Song FTW!

Immigrant Song (new window) now that it's in everybody's mental playlist.

crazy late but still first with a dead milkmen post on a headline like this?

things are getting very strange on the fark

/we hate punks but we love the F.U.'s
//lets do it!

Mormons don't like hard rock music and objectionable lyrics. surprise!

"I don't think they care about Mormons or Baptists," says Lynn Forsberg, who runs Elko County's public-works program. "I don't think they care about anything."

Now that's my kind of cricket.

I suggest they use the Electric Wizard album "Dopethrone" and lay waste to the countryside.

Third_Uncle_Eno: wonder what songs they blasted?

"immigrant song"?
"in my time of dying"?

"The Crunge" sounds like a brand of really nasty insecticide.

But the most obvious choice comes from The Who.

tagjim: Yeah I uh...I approve.

/long as they don't play In Through the Out Door

It reminds me of a woman!

Ghoulthulhu: I suggest they use the Electric Wizard album "Dopethrone" and lay waste to the countryside.

I just discovered Electric Wizard and holy shiat, they rock my world.

austerity101: It's God's wrath for pronouncing it "Ne-VAAA-duh."

/sounds stupid
//refuse to say it that way

On a very high level, I concur with you. But then, the people who live there probably dictate how it is pronounced. You know, cuz they live there and all. You can't go to different places, pronounce their locations all weird, and expect to not be treated as a foreigner or tourist.

Amateurs.

2004 cicada infestation.

RAP music would kill them and that would be inhumane.

You know who else used Zeppelin and tried to get rid of an unwanted population?

How about THIS version of Immigrant Song?

Link (new window)

Why not dig trenches across the front of attack. They will fall in and you can burn them.

Or call Salt Lake City and tell them to come get their damn crickets.

Yay, my 50th greenlight! :)

Oh come on guys, the obvious Zeppelin song just flew right over everyones head.
Its just gotta be "Misty Mountain Hop"


/All punishing intended.

Yankees Team Gynecologist: You know who else used Zeppelin and tried to get rid of an unwanted population?

Oh man that was a good one.