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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (32977)	7/25/1999 1:30:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Skeeters? Waht are those? We have no bugs in So Cal, except ants. Just big, fat, frigging crows. Let's see Gaugie meditate his way around those. Caw! Caw! Caw!

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (32977)	7/25/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

LRR, I am sort of allergic to mosquitos too. The Itchy and Scratchy Show. I wondered if bites obtained while in proto-nirvana wouldn't itch. I mean, they shouldn't, if you're nice enough to let them bite you. Or, you should be able to set fire to them psychically, when they sink their probosci into you. Poof. Snap. To a degree, I think it works, depending on the time elapsed. If you scratch the itch within the first oh say hour after the bite, it's history ~ the histamines or whatever burst into flames. But if you don't, because you're passing Triloki in the inner sky, and then remember not to scratch (you should be able to remember stuff after all that meditating) in the next hour or so, you're home free. Almost. Mosquito netting works better. But see, your option is to try to kill them. That can take several flailing minutes, interspersed with periods of trying to concentrate again, and having her fly around your head. It's easier to just let her eat you and shut up. Flailers with angry high blood pressure don't make it up the silver chord. You never hear, "Jesus was a fly-swatter."

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (32977)	7/25/1999 5:53:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<I wouldn't complain half as much (okay, maybe half) if those m...ommies didn't leave those infernal itchy welts I always scratch open. >> Back in about '93 I was helping a guy with some retriever training on my hunting club. Most of the summer had been dry but we had rain that day and during the prior week. The skeeters were out by the zillions. I was tossing the training dummy so I couldn't put repellant on my hands and being 85 degrees I hadn't though to bring gloves. By the end of the day I couldn't close my hands around the steering wheel because of the swelling from the bites. The next day I sanded my hands with some 60 grit and rinsed with a bottle of Camphophenique. That hurt but helped the itch.