Houston braces for giant snail invasion

[Warpaladin]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...145916701.html

At least we know were the snails in ToT came from :P

[Speaknoevil]

Any texans want to send me one of those giant snails?

[Very Tired]

I've been bracing for years.... damn those snails are slow.

[Reg]

Dinner time!

[Deleted]

Hide yo plants, hide yo wife, there be snailz rappin eerywere.

[Talokami]

Was probably someone's pet. :/ They're illegal in the US mainly due to the fact that eat everything.

And carry meningitis apparently. O.o

Edit: False alarm. Turns out it's just a large local species of snail http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...od-4496997.php

[Komati]

Bring out the salt!

[Bakis]

Dinner time!

You are not a texan redneck with a shotgun over your shoulder.
No deep fried African snails for you Mr only Reeve are allowed to!

[Reg]

You are not a texan redneck with a shotgun over your shoulder.
No deep fried African snails for you Mr only Reeve are allowed to!

He can kill them and mail them to my favorite French restaurant!

[Laize]

Ugh... that reminds me...

My home state (NJ) is home to Brood II of the 17-year cicada...

Their last emergence was in 1996 which means we're due...

So... probably the end of May or early June you can expect the northeast to be covered in cicadas... and I DO MEAN covered. I believe the estimates are something around 750,000 cicadas per acre. Over the entire state.

[Speaknoevil]

Ugh... that reminds me...

My home state (NJ) is home to Brood II of the 17-year cicada...

Their last emergence was in 1996 which means we're due...

So... probably the end of May or early June you can expect the northeast to be covered in cicadas... and I DO MEAN covered. I believe the estimates are something around 750,000 cicadas per acre. Over the entire state.

I love cicada song.

[Reg]

Ugh... that reminds me...

My home state (NJ) is home to Brood II of the 17-year cicada...

Their last emergence was in 1996 which means we're due...

So... probably the end of May or early June you can expect the northeast to be covered in cicadas... and I DO MEAN covered. I believe the estimates are something around 750,000 cicadas per acre. Over the entire state.

It wasn't too bad in '96. I think it was a cool summer though, so maybe that was why.

[Laize]

It wasn't too bad in '96. I think it was a cool summer though, so maybe that was why.

Wasn't too bad in '96?!

Dude I was 12 at the time. The cicadas are ALL I remember from that year... the summer of '96 was like living through a B-horror flick. Fuckers slamming into your head just walking outside. I remember my parents having to bust out the snow brushes to clear cicada corpses and shells off their cars. And the noise... oh the noise, noise, NOISE, NOISE.

Oh and I'll never forget seeing areas they emerge from. While they're emerging it looks like the ground everywhere starts boiling.... and after they've emerged (and you're surrounded by flying, screaming hellbeasts as big as a man's thumb) the fields and forests look like a meteor shower hit.... "tiny" (as in "only" about as big around as your thumb) holes EVERYWHERE.

It's like a fucking nightmare landscape and is certain to traumatize my 6 year old niece and nephew. I plan on videotaping it.

[Reeve]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...145916701.html

At least we know were the snails in ToT came from :P

Oh hey, cool. I saw those while I was in Mozambique. Interesting to see they're making their way over here. I bet you could make a pretty good sized meal out of one of those!

[Airwaves]

This video is not available for iPad uses. Fuck I hate that.

[Dendrek]

Wasn't too bad in '96?!

Dude I was 12 at the time. The cicadas are ALL I remember from that year... the summer of '96 was like living through a B-horror flick. Fuckers slamming into your head just walking outside. I remember my parents having to bust out the snow brushes to clear cicada corpses and shells off their cars. And the noise... oh the noise, noise, NOISE, NOISE.

Oh and I'll never forget seeing areas they emerge from. While they're emerging it looks like the ground everywhere starts boiling.... and after they've emerged (and you're surrounded by flying, screaming hellbeasts as big as a man's thumb) the fields and forests look like a meteor shower hit.... "tiny" (as in "only" about as big around as your thumb) holes EVERYWHERE.

It's like a fucking nightmare landscape and is certain to traumatize my 6 year old niece and nephew. I plan on videotaping it.

Your rant reminded me of one from Southpark.

No no! I'm buying it to keep people out! Don't you see? Forever it has been my dream to have my very own theme park, so that I could be alone in it, all day, every day. I love theme parks. But the lines! Everywhere you go, people, crowds, the rides are great, but... All the lines, lines, LINES! If there's one thing I hate, all the lines, lines, lines, LINES!! And then there get to be so many people that they make FastPass. So then there's lines for FastPass. You stand in line to get a ticket to stand in line later. Then there's lines for the bathrooms, lines for the drinks, lines for cantakuras and rare Kartankulas Plinks! ...And, so you see, this park is for me. Nobody else will be allowed in it.

I half expected you to start rhyming during your rant.

[Adam Jensen]

I half expected you to start rhyming during your rant.

And with a perfect Jim Carrey impression on top of that.

[Shennanigans]

Well there goes Texas

[Agoonga]

Get the salt!

[Deleted]

At least we know you won't starve