From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #165 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Tuesday, April 22 2003 Volume 02 : Number 165 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:39:00 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: CDWOW > Not at 20-odd quid for a ticket.... Outrageous price.. And besides, what with the missus and a 16 year old stepdaughter, there just ain't enough eye-liner in the house. > > Actually, I'm getting worried.. the sun is shining at the moment, sunset isn't for another hour or so.. Are the goths gonna make it to the venue on time ???? ROTFLMAO.... we are actually having a very grey day here that wasn't forecasted.... for once it was *me* using windscreen/shield wipers while driving! When it rains *at all* here there are loads of car crashes. (It doesn't rain that often.) So the bats (we have the Largest Mexican Freetailed Bat Colony In The World(TM) here) and the goths would be okay to come out *now* and it's only 3.20pm. But it's far too warm for all those heavy black clothes here. Better weather for that there. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:51:07 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stu=20Bird?= Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: CDWOW I watched a documentary once about the huge bat population in Austin. Apparantly, there's one bridge that is home to thousands and thousands right in the city.. You should see the size of the fruit eating bats in Australia..massive, and they make a hell of a mess too.. Most of the bloodsuckers here reside in the Houses of Parliament ( present company excepted ) Stu Amy Moseley Rupp wrote: So the bats (we have the Largest Mexican Freetailed Bat Colony In The World(TM) here) and the goths would be okay to come out *now* and it's only 3.20pm. But it's far too warm for all those heavy black clothes here. Better weather for that there. - --Amy - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:11:16 -0400 From: Rob Maher Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: CDWOW I think I saw that same documentary. That was pretty wild. They actually used Doppler radar to track them, and in one night they covered a pretty substantial area of northern Texas and other Midwestern states. They actually had a huge impact on the insect population. There are plenty of insects in Texas to eat from what I understand. Rob > From: Stu Bird > Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:51:07 +0100 (BST) > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: CDWOW > > I watched a documentary once about the huge bat population in Austin. > Apparantly, there's one bridge that is home to thousands and thousands right > in the city.. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:11:46 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: CDWOW > I watched a documentary once about the huge bat population in Austin. Apparantly, there's one bridge that is home to thousands and thousands right in the city.. Yes, the Congress Street bridge over Lake Austin / Colorado River is the one. People gather every dusk to watch the bats come out. We actually have a fairly livable downtown / city centre with all of the restaurants and bars and clubs and music. In the summer, when *everyone* is nocturnal due to the heat of the day, the *people* come out as well. In the suburbs where I live, 15 miles south of that bridge, there is precisely one bat per streetlight flitting around all night (to eat the bugs). > Most of the bloodsuckers here reside in the Houses of Parliament ( present company excepted ) Interestingly enough Congress Avenue leads up to the State Capitol where we have the state layer of government blood suckers divided into a state house and senate. However, they only meet for four months every *two* years, the thinking here being that the less government, the better. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:24:01 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: CDWOW > I think I saw that same documentary. That was pretty wild. They actually > used Doppler radar to track them, and in one night they covered a pretty > substantial area of northern Texas and other Midwestern states. They > actually had a huge impact on the insect population. There are plenty of > insects in Texas to eat from what I understand. Oh yeah. I wouldn't recommend living here if you are squeamish about insects. Here they can be enemies, they can be pets, but they can't be escaped. I actually think it's a good thing that there are a lot of insects here, because it means that the environment is not yet poisoned so much that the insects have been killed off. My daughters, growing up in an almost airtight house, don't like bugs when they occasionally encounter one inside or out of doors. Growing up as I did with no air conditioning in the heat, and flimsy torn screen doors and windows, there were bugs *everywhere*. My youngest and I saw a worm-centipede like creature, about four inches long and somewhat thin, with a black body and hunter orange horns and legs, that lives in the holes in our porous limestone. I was like, cool! but she was scared :-( We used to take cicadas, which we erroneously called locusts, and tie strings about their middles. They could then be flown as sort of tethered airplanes. June bugs, which here hatch in May, are always fun too. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:10:41 -0700 (PDT) From: MCH Subject: Re: seven-seas Free The Locusts! > We used to take cicadas, which we erroneously called locusts, and > tie strings about their middles. They could then be flown as sort > of tethered airplanes. FREE THE LOCUSTS!! I'm calling PETA... er, PETI. The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #165 ********************************