Bronx posted on May 16, 2007
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I really mean the non-human kind....heeheehee.
Do you spray, puncture, squish, pin, stamp, fumigate, swipe, blow, swat, punch, squash, zap, blast, drown....them all out to oblivion? Haha!
How often do you perform these - haha - debugging exercises?
BTW, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT ACADEMICS AND OTHERS IN A PROFESSIONAL FIELD REALLY HAVE FUN?
Hard to say, right? Unless, of course you take a peek at the shenanigans on NIP/TUCK, Chicago hope, ER.....The list at the movies and on TV never seems to end, does it?
CAN YOU RECALL SOME MORE SUCH PROGRAMS/MOVIES/PROFESSIONS WHERE FUN IS IN?
Well, these guys certainly have a peculiar way of having their own laughs in a hospital setting:
According to Jack C. Horn, three doctors from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and one from Louisiana State University - K. O'Toole, P.M. Paris, R.D Stewart, and R. Martinez - have provided an 'elegant therapeutic trial'.
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, they provide the answer to the vexing problem of 'removing cockroaches from your ears or those of your loved ones'.
Heeheehee....ever come across a tale or problem like that?
Anyway, Jack reports on what they wrote:
[ Two common remedies are putting mineral oil or lidocaine spray in the ear canal.
When a patient appeared at the hospital with cockroaches in both ears, the doctors seized the opportunity for what they call "an elegant comparative therapeutic trial"- mineral oil in one ear, a 2 percent lidocaine solution in the other.
On the mineral oil side, the doctors report, "the cockroach succumbed after a valiant but futile struggle, but its removal required much dexterity on the part of the house officer.
In the opposite ear...the response was immediate; the roach exited the canal at a convulsive rate of speed and attempted to escape across the floor.
A fleet-footed intern promptly applied an equally time-tested remedy and killed the creature using the simple crush method." ]
SO, HOW DO YOU GET RID OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD BUGS AND PESTS?
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silverwhisper said on May 16, 2007....
i will have to remember mineral oil should i ever need to be concerned about such things. but i honestly hope i never do--yuck!
btw--apparently, squishing a cockroach is a bad idea b/c that releases the likely-fertilized eggs to be spread around by your shoe.
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harriedpsychmajor said on May 16, 2007....
In our last house, we had a sustained roach infestation. That spray stuff isn't effective after a certain amount of time. We tried going away one week during the winter with the heat off in the house to reduce the population, but that didn't help as much as it does for other houses. Believe me, we did everything short of burning the house down. The next best thing is boric acid.
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Bronx said on May 16, 2007....
SW: definitely something to put one off many things ASAP?
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Bronx said on May 16, 2007....
harried: WELCOME TO MY BLOG!
Boric acid works? Interesting, very. Thanks for the info.
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sweet_cookie01 said on May 16, 2007....
we fumigate our house every two weeks so far it seems to control the pest problem but if a bug shows up i have news paper at hand! (",) -
flytimes said on May 17, 2007....
my advice is keeping everything clean really helps, if you cant do that get cats but there fussy and wont eat all types of bugs. If i do get a bug and... "I" ..have to deal with it i throw a big telephone book on it and leave it until someone can come round to clean up, wooosy i know but im allergic to bugs n spiders and the symptoms are as follows... i scream like a girl and get all sweaty lol TMI i know F-T -
Bronx said on May 17, 2007....
sweet: yep...I can see how only reading the news to them will not do the trick! Haha. -
Bronx said on May 17, 2007....
flytimes: hi. WELCOME TO MY BLOG!
Hmmm....remember that the longer you leave them dead, the more scavenger bugs will come visiting!
I'll bet those last two lines would be a great hit on YouTube as well! Heehee.
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flytimes said on May 17, 2007....
you bet Bronx: heh,thanx, I also heard that we have more bugs living on our bodys, than there are human beings on this planet...!! and no amount of cleaning is gonna ged rid of "them"!! i just got a chill run through my body :( F-T -
Bronx said on May 19, 2007....
flytimes: yep....quite scary the millions of 'bugs' a little old sneeze can scare up!