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To: Real Man who wrote (88941)	8/19/2002 4:05:18 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116795

Taking the order is a pain. Sure, exercise the future, and take delivery, but what are you going to do with a rail car full of squealing hogs and a tanker full of orange juice?

To: Real Man who wrote (88941)	8/20/2002 1:59:48 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116795

Might that OJ be in short supply? How to stop giant grasshoppers? 'Hit 'em with 2-by-4,' expert says By Ramsey Campbell \| Sentinel Staff Writer Posted August 20, 2002 EUSTIS -- Monstrous grasshoppers -- too nasty-tempered and toxic to be eaten by natural predators and too big to be bothered by conventional pesticides -- are on the rampage in Central Florida this summer. Alice McKinstry Davis, curator of the Eustis Historical Museum and Preservation Society, first saw the 4-inch creatures chowing down on a flower-garden smorgasbord outside the museum in downtown Eustis a few weeks ago. "We didn't know what to think," Davis said. "I'd never seen anything like them. They were devouring all our broadleaf plants." Davis ran for the bug spray. The king-sized grasshoppers just sneered. Alarmed, she called experts for help. "About all you can do is hit 'em with a 2-by-4," said Pris Peterson, master gardener at the(cont) orlandosentinel.com