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Road-ents

Posted in Wanderings, tagged , , , , , , on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Katie called me today with some disturbing news.
“Murph,” she said.  “You know how before I left you warned me about that tick you found on your dashboard today?”
“Yeah,” I responded, recalling the large eight-legged blood-sucker skittering around my volume control, nearing digging into my skin like a mole.  “The parasite was big too.  I nearly [...]

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Pest Propaganda

Posted in Malarchy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Ehrlich Pest Control just posted a new series of commericials that had the boys and me cackling on the drive to school this morning.  Taking a cue perhaps from the Grimm fairy tales or the more bloody inspirations behind many nursery rhymes, the folks at Ehrlich (or their skilled ad agency) have devised the following [...]

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Mouse and Trap

Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged , , , , , , on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I failed to construct a better mousetrap yesterday. Wait . . . scratch that. I successfully built a Fudd-ian wabbit twap that failed to capture a tiny field mouse nibbling at my doorstep. Now this should not have surprised me as old Elmer could never really catch Bugs, but once again I [...]

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