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[thehefner]

Bizarre question: anyone know where I can find one of those LJ questionnaire memes usually reserved for teenage girls, or something of the like? Y'know, turn-ons, turn-offs, that sort of thing.



Also, y'all should read heykidzcomix's webcomic Goodbye Chains, about a cheery Boston Communist and a nymphomaniac drug addict bank robber. It's delightful.



Finally, have a list of The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go dip myself in a vat of OFF!

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[spacechild.livejournal.com]

I JUST read the bugs article myself befotre seeing your post.

Creepy.

Aaaaaand.. one of the guys on my team in Africa got Bot flys.. it wasn't pretty. He had to carve them out of his leg.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Cracked.com is so great.

That said: GAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! GAH GAH GAH GAH!!!

[skalja.livejournal.com]

I'm really sad now that the guy who got one in his scrotum now requires paypal access to his website because his bandwidth overloaded, because BOY linking you to that would have been fun. *pout*

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

You're a monster.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Well, there weren't any photos that I recall, and he wrote the whole account with a great deal of humor, all things considered. Doubt I could have managed that.

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

It was foul.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Bugs don't bother me that much. Worms? Yeah, worms bother me. Guinea worms freak me the hell out.

Oh, and loa loa? nematodes in your eyeballs for the win!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Have I started the single most horrifying comments thread in the history of LJ? It's sure shaping up that way.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

I'll be merciful and refrain from the YouTube videos.

[angrylemur.livejournal.com]

I'm very phobic of bugs and small, crawly things in general so I refuse to click any link that I know will just make that worse.

I will however commend you for plugging Goodbye Chains. Is good comic. One of the handful of very few webcomics I read on a regular basis.

Quizilla has a lot of girly memes?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're better off. You don't want to know.

So far, all I'm finding are multiple-choice quiz things, no response questionnaires. Hrm.

[morganashkevron.livejournal.com]

I have some memes in my backlog of LJ entries - here and here. I know there are a bunch more, but those ones were tagged.

Also, you cannot have a scary bug list without the huntsman spider and the brown recluse.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, I am locked out of the first one! But the second one at least will give me some ideas if I can't find the exact thing I'm looking for. Thanks!

Oh don't get me started on the brown recluse. I live in abject terror of running into one of those fuckers anytime I'm in a dark basement or attic fumbling for a light switch.

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

maybe you need to carry a nail gun with the safety catch jammed so that you can shoot one of those fuckers while it's on fire?

I had nightmares for months after seeing Arachnophobia when I was ten. I think it was on TV. Yeeeeeeeeesh.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

GOD me too. I think I was around ten as well. I couldn't get past the first fifteen or so minutes. The spider under the blanket in the beginning, that alone...! Ugh!

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

the only relief to that movie is that spiders (or any bugs, really) can't be built that big with the same kind of mechanics of the small ones - they'd collapse under their own weight and not be able to move. But even stationary gigantic venomous spiders are pretty nightmarish.

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

ugh, now that I've actually looked at the link, I am NEVER EVER EVER EVEREVEREVER going into the Amazon. The nice thing about winter: IT KILLS BUGS.

[nymphgalatea.livejournal.com]

So very glad I live on a small, cold island in the northern hemisphere that lacks all these DEVIL SPAWN BUG-THINGS.

The nearest I hope to ever come to one of these things is when it's safely taxidermised and inside a glass case in a museum. (Seriously, I would be totally okay with every single one of those demonbugs being extinct)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

God, I envy you in that regard.

Even when I went to Ireland, I marveled at how I could freely walk through nature without constant fear of something in the grasses coming up to bite or latch onto me.

Meanwhile, my cat is still covered in ticks. *shudder*

[nymphgalatea.livejournal.com]

The British Isles is remarkably free of horrifying nature. The worst is basically the Dread Highland Midgie, which is roughly the size of a dust mote, but gathers in their millions and are actually capable of turning a well-trained unit of hulking SAS officers into a gaggle of whimpering, itchy little babies in 0.02 nanoseconds. True fact!

[fiveseconddelay.livejournal.com]

Me watching Japanese Hornets decimating hive in "Insect Wars" on Discovery Channel, while humming theme from Terminator.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Please tell me you're adding in the appropriate "CLANG!" sounds.

[ortugatay.livejournal.com]

MySpace always has ridiculous misspelled teen girl memes. Just browse through the bulletins of people you're friends with. You'll find em.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Rock! Let's see what I can find. Thankya!

[droidboy010101.livejournal.com]

Ah, Bullet Ants... they ain't so tough against this even smaller bug (Poison Ivy would be proud...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOQ0VU24xw

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Good lord! That is highly unsettling!

I wonder if there's ever been a sci-fi/horror story of such a fungus infecting people? Sounds like an X-FILES episode ready to go...

[jellied.livejournal.com]

Next time someone asks me what kind of insect I want to be, I'm answering Japanese Giant Hornet. Holy shit dude, that's awesome. (Did I ever tell you that I won a bug-eating contest?)

As for the questionnaire-- why don't you just read some old Playboy's?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Egads, no! Story?

Ha! Excellent. I wonder if any are online...?

[jellied.livejournal.com]

October of 2005. The Leeches threw a Halloween-themed show at the Sheep, complete with bug-eating conteset (there were a lot of other things going on that night, like bands and stuff-- but that was the opener). Since there weren't that many contestants, and I'm a good friend of both Adam and Heather-- I volunteered.

And I won. There's a trophy sitting on my desk from it.

Mealworms, hissing cockaroaches, earthworms, silkworm eggs, etc, I've eaten them all. Not that bad actually-- which I guess makes me the Anthony Bourdain of the COS set. Sidenote: trick to eating roaches is to keep chewing. Because after the first bite is when the legs start to move frantically in your mouth.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Damn. You've already won the title of Most Hardcore Girl I Know, you didn't need to go that far!

That's kinda pretty awesome, honestly. For no specific reason, I think I should add you to the list of people I'd want with me in the zombie apocalypse.

[jellied.livejournal.com]

You mean I wasn't on there already? Ha.

I think you should update your list. I think I might get a kick reading my perceived strengths and weaknesses come the zomibe apocalypse.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Well heck, that's the thing, I've only got the e-version of you. As such, I'm just going by what you let me know of yourself and what I can figure out otherwise.

Really, though, it all boils down to the gut feeling I have that you'd have the balls to do what it takes to survive (but not to the extent that the rest of us would necessarily be fucked).

Hopefully we'll eventually meet and maybe then I'll have a fuller answer. Just generally, it's nice to discover that my LJ friends are actual living people, and not just AI constructs. Heck, I don't think I even know your full name!