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To: Justin C who wrote (65975)	11/29/2004 11:45:23 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

In our pre-TV days of the early '50s, red ants provided some of our entertainment, including frying them with a magnifying glass.. ah, yes, little boys conducted similar physics experiments up here in Canada too. I never did such things, but my younger brother probably dispatched more than a couple that way. Around where I live, it's the bite of the large carpenter ant that is more feared. I don't believe they're at all venomous, but more that they're so large that their bite is quite significant. I once awoke with one biting onto my neck and knocked it off, but the biting seemed to continue just as before. I grabbed a mirror and looked, only to find that the ant's head was still stabbing into my neck. I finally pulled it loose and set it on a piece of paper and watched with horror and fascination as the jaws continued to snap open and shut for a couple of more hours. It was a delightful creature! In South Texas the red ant is the mascot of a small-town high school. The Progreso Red Ants -- the name alone must strike fear in their opponents. You're quite right. The name sounds fearsome. Sounds like the school that J.R. Ewing must have attended as a young lad. (o: croc

To: Justin C who wrote (65975)	12/5/2004 9:44:53 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

In South Texas the red ant is the mascot of a small-town high school. The Progreso Red Ants You do know the most quirky and unusual Texas trivia. The Red Ants went down to the Tarpons this year though. I had to look that up after doing a double take at the name, my eyes not being what they once were. It's a fish. Why would you name your football team after a FISH? My high school team was the Scarlet Hurricanes. We were more like little dust eddies though. We once lost to Robert E Lee Lancers 81-0. What a black night that was. Shameless yuppie bragging: Meanwhile the nation's #1 high school team, Yuppieville's fearsome Dragons are rolling over all opposition and heading for the state semi-finals. And USC finished their season undefeated. Ammo is still sure he is the common denominator.