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>
>
> If Halo 3 is really being made, and...
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> If Halo 3 comes out when PS3 is launched in the U.S. that would probably
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> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/591/591818p1.html
>
> Halo 3 In Production
> Yes, we have news about Halo 3. IGN learned last week while drinking
> secretly imported beers with its informants that Microsoft is prepared for
> the battle of its life in this upcoming console war. From what we
> understand, Bungie is hard at work on, not so surprisingly, Halo 3, which
> will be ready day and date with the launch of PlayStation 3.
>
> So, while Bungie said it's working on something else, well, we have
> different news. Sure, the smart creative guys at Bungie are working on
> something else, but you had better bet your bottom dollar they're also
> working on the next Halo. The release of Halo 3 at the precise launch of PS3
> is a pure, military tactical move, similar to the PS2's greatest lineup ever
> launching simultaneously with the launch of the Xbox and GameCube. It's
> designed to counter Sony's upcoming launch with the best weapon Earth has on
> its side, Master Chief. Go, John 17, go! Save Earth from Sony!

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>
> __________________________
>
>
> If Halo 3 is really being made, and...
>
> If Halo 3 comes out when PS3 is launched in the U.S. that would probably
> make Halo 3 a "real" Xbox2 game,
> and not a pre-firstgen game made on non-Xbox2 hardware, like most of the
> games we've heard about for
> Xbox2 like Project Avalon, Dark Sector, Heavenly Sword, War Devil,
> Condemned, etc.
>
> the original Halo was being made before the first Xbox was even completed.
>
>
>

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> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/591/591818p1.html
>
> Halo 3 In Production

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> Whoa! Lots of sleeping bees!

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>
> On 2/26/05 11:12 AM, in article 38boveF5hku8qU1@individual.net, "redTed"
> <redted@nthellworld.com> wrote:
>
>

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> Who cares!
> We want perfect port of Half Life 2 and the new Quake 4 on the XBox 2 this
> Fall.
>
>

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>
> "Devala Rees" <darkeagle@lisco.com> wrote in message
> news:BE460B50.2232%darkeagle@lisco.com...
>
> Bees don't make noise when they sleep.
>

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> In article <7r-dnbkU_qNXdb3fRVn-gg@comcast.com>,
> Estoscacahuates@comcast.net says...
> Now come on. How the f would ya know that?
> --
>

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>
> <I Won't>; "But Me Mate Will" <RodHullsAerialFittingService@aol.com> wrote
> in message news:MPG.1c8afbf2ef9af6d8989731@News.individual.net...
>
> Perhaps Mattinglyfan is a beeoligist ;)
>
>
>

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> In article <7r-dnbkU_qNXdb3fRVn-gg@comcast.com>,
> Estoscacahuates@comcast.net says...
> Now come on. How the f would ya know that?

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>
> <I Won't>; "But Me Mate Will" <RodHullsAerialFittingService@aol.com> wrote
> in message news:MPG.1c8afbf2ef9af6d8989731@News.individual.net...
>
> They don't.
> I had a hive the size of a beachball in my backyard last year and you could
> hear it from 100' away during the day time.
> At night you could stand directly under it and there was absolutely no sound
> coming from the hive.
> That is when we took them lil bastards out! :-)
>
>
>

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> In article <gdOdnQir5MSpmrzfRVn-pg@suscom.com>, tellmeyou@loveme.please
> says...
> I'm educated and amused. Job done. ;-)
>

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>
> <I Won't>; "But Me Mate Will" <RodHullsAerialFittingService@aol.com> wrote
> in message news:MPG.1c8afbf2ef9af6d8989731@News.individual.net...
>
> Perhaps Mattinglyfan is a beeoligist ;)
>

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>Seriously though, Valve (bow before their might! ;) ) could possibly require
>online activation/validation before allowing play, steam on the next xbox!

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> In article <MPG.1c8b1858abed3a54989735@News.individual.net>,
> RodHullsAerialFittingService@aol.com says...
wrote[vbcol=seagreen]
could[vbcol=seagreen]
sound[vbcol=seagreen]
> So howdya get rid?

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>
> <I Will>; "But Me Mate Won't" <KissMyShinyMetalArse@aol.com> wrote in
> message news:MPG.1c8b1931179fe4e9989736@News.individual.net...
> wrote
> could
> sound
>
> Sprayed with lighter fluid, dropped it into a 50 gallon drum, struck a match
> and covered it with a perforated lid.
> bee-kaa-bob
>
>

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>My stepbrother tried to drown them with a hose once. He found out fast that
>water doesn't work as well as fire. But then I filled the hose with Raid,
>and that worked a lot better. It sprayed the garage with toxic slime, but it
>killed the bees.

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> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/591/591818p1.html
>
> Halo 3 In Production
> Yes, we have news about Halo 3. IGN learned last week while drinking
> secretly imported beers with its informants that Microsoft is prepared
> for the battle of its life in this upcoming console war. From what we
> understand, Bungie is hard at work on, not so surprisingly, Halo 3,
> which will be ready day and date with the launch of PlayStation 3.

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> Devala Rees <darkeagle@lisco.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bees, shmees. It doesn't get at all interesting until you start taking
> out hornet's nests. I'd rather sleep with a beehive by my bed than
> walk past a hornet's nest. They will sting anyone who comes near. And
> the sting is nasty ... most people have like a low-grade alergy to
> hornet venom. A sting will cause severe pain, swelling, numbness, and
> nausea for up to three days.
>

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> Our neighborhood got an infestation of them when I was a kid. My dad
> had the time of his life getting rid of them. He had these huge gas
> blow-torches (with a 4-inch wide flame) that they used in the Klondike
> to un-freeze equipment in the winter. Well if you get it within the
> first day ot two a hornet's nest isn't that big. So he'd just wait
> until dusk and insta-torch the thing in like a quarter of a second. My
> dad was the kind of guy who liked to help out, but got a real kick out
> of doing it in a flashy way.
>
> I've heard that an older technique (from when fire regulations were
> not so strict) was that in the Fall a leaf-fire under their nest would
> make them so drunk and sleepy that you could just knock the nest into
> a bucket of water and drown it.
>
> We had one by our back alley last summer and the young guys (like
> college age) who lived across the street decided to try this ... but
> without the fire, just whacking it with a bat into a bucket. And in
> broad daylight! We saw one of them later that day with his arm all
> swelled up. To their credit they did kill the nest though.
>

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> (I heard another trick is to crumple up a paper bag and hang it from
> your trees, as they are highly teritorial and will see it as another
> nest. This is an especially good idea if you've killed a nest, because
> if the queen somehow survives they'll rebuild in the same spot.)
>
> Joe

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> Devala Rees <darkeagle@lisco.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bees, shmees.

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> And the first Halo was originally not even being made for Xbox; it started
> as a PC game.

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> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, "NEXT BOX" wrote:
>
> <snip the usual console crap propaganda>
>
> i'm so sick of your continuous console propaganda!
> i know i can't do anything about it but it really suites consoles
> being for "lazy" and "challenged" gamers
>

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>
> "Joe62" <NOSPAMjmcginn@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:keh221ptrkpkhkqs1nrloiskfg4lu4aiud@4ax.com...
>
> Indeed and those hornets are pussy's ALSO. Want
> pain? Want an Invasion? Play with fire
> ants...evil, demonic, vindictive creatures. Those
> are the NICE things I think of them. You can get
> super colonies of them with 3-6 queens allied with
> other super colonies to the point that acres of
> land are unusable...
>
>

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> On 2/26/05 11:04 AM, in article 4MadneY2zqa3Mb3fRVn-2A@comcast.com, "NEXT
> BOX" <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> His number isn't 17, it's 117
>
>
>
>
> And the first Halo was originally not even being made for Xbox; it started
> as a PC game.
>

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> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, "NEXT BOX" wrote:
>
> <snip the usual console crap propaganda>
>
> i'm so sick of your continuous console propaganda!
> i know i can't do anything about it but it really suites consoles
> being for "lazy" and "challenged" gamers
>
> we in this group are devoted pc gamers!
> we don't waste our precious money in console crap!
> we want and support pc games done from the start for the pc!
> we say NO to all those crappy console ports!
> the pc is the cheapest and most powerful gaming platform!

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> pc games are the best!

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> consoles are crap!

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> so go away from our pc game group!
> stop infecting us with your usual crap!
>
> --
> post made in a steam-free computer
> i said "NO" to valve and steam
>
> against steam campaign
> http://nosteam.afterdarknet.at/
>
> steamwatch - independent observatory about steam
> http://www.steamwatch.org/
>
> please sign petition "Say NO! to Steam!" available at:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/nosteam/petition.html

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>Despite all these great stories we have of Hornet Wars (I think the purpose
>of aggressive creatures is to give us bragging rights for having killed
>them), they're not the meanest I've seen.

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>Indeed and those hornets are pussy's ALSO. Want
>pain? Want an Invasion? Play with fire
>ants...evil, demonic, vindictive creatures. Those
>are the NICE things I think of them.

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>
> I'd rather not mess with fire ants. I stepped
> barefoot in one of their
> anthills once. If I'm taking on fire ants, I
> want a fuel air bomb.

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>
> "Devala Rees"
> SNIP
>
> Indeed, I've recovered Bee swarms(for cash) played tag with hornets and
> LARGE spray can of WD40/lighter combo. But nothing equals the feeling you
> get when camping, wake up in the night to hit the bushes and find that 500
> females are in your pants...

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>
> Sounds like you party a little too hard there
> Keith.

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> "Keith Schiffner" <schistan@3rivers.net> wrote:
>
>
> Well come on you can't leave it there man ... out with the stories!

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> Cheapest and most powerful cannot be used in the same sentence unless

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> I enjoy pc games just as much as you guys. There are a lot of good ones
> out there, but also a lot of bad ones.

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> "Joe62" <NOSPAMjmcginn@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:pa3421hmlhvqvo5vtmpjvbop00ualn3dod@4ax.com...
>
> I worked for a cable company after highschool, and I had just knocked on a
> lady's door when this giant, loud, iridescent green/black, crazy flying bug
> flew into my face. I was swinging my clipboard wildly and screeching in
> panic when this pretty lady opened the door and in a sweet southern accent
> said, "Hon, don't panic, it's just a junebug!"
>
>

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> On 2/27/05 8:51 PM, in article 4HvUd.82024$Yu.56400@fed1read01, "Thoth"
> <thoth@notlisted.net> wrote:
>
>
> He meant about fire ants.
>
>

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> Who cares - I'm already in luurve with that
> Southern Belle...

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>
> <I Will>; "But Me Mate Won't"
> SNIP
>
> I luurve them also...do you prefer that chemical
> ali method of attack, fuel air attacks(petrol,
> diesel mix) OR like me the simple organic attacks
> that are slow but effective? When we lived in
> Tejas I'd just dump about 500cc of corn meal on
> and around the fire ant den. Wait 6 weeks and
> you'd have a dead den.
>
>

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> On 2/27/05 8:51 PM, in article 4HvUd.82024$Yu.56400@fed1read01, "Thoth"
> <thoth@notlisted.net> wrote:
>
>
> He meant about fire ants.

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> In article <BE487B62.2281%darkeagle@lisco.com>, darkeagle@lisco.com
> says...
> Who cares - I'm already in luurve with that Southern Belle...

quote:

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>
> <I Will>; "But Me Mate Won't"
> SNIP
>
> I luurve them also...do you prefer that chemical ali method of attack,
> fuel air attacks(petrol, diesel mix) OR like me the simple organic attacks
> that are slow but effective? When we lived in Tejas I'd just dump about
> 500cc of corn meal on and around the fire ant den. Wait 6 weeks and you'd
> have a dead den.

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>
> --
> Keith Schiffner
> Assistant to the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Silly Walks.
> "terrorist organization" is a redundancy
>

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>
> "Keith Schiffner" <schistan@3rivers.net> wrote
> in message
> news:laWdnUIBO_Sfub7fRVn-sg@vnet-inc.com...
>
> Why?

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>
> "Mattinglyfan" <Estoscacahuates@comcast.net (deez nuts)> wrote in message
> news:jPudnevnGbVqUr7fRVn-1A@comcast.com...
>
> Only an NHL fan would ask something that stupid. ;^) Ever been bit by a
> swarm of fire ants? I'd rather play tag with Killer Bee's thankyou very
> much.

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>
> --
> Keith Schiffner
> "I was just out walking my rat and seem to have got lost." J. Bond
> Dum vivimus, vivamus
> <3 )3~ <3 )3~ <3 )~ <3 )~
> http://community.webshots.com/user/sciffners
>

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>
> "Mattinglyfan" <Estoscacahuates@comcast.net (deez
> nuts)> wrote in message
> news:jPudnevnGbVqUr7fRVn-1A@comcast.com...
>
> Only an NHL fan would ask something that stupid.
> ;^) Ever been bit by a swarm of fire ants? I'd
> rather play tag with Killer Bee's thankyou very
> much.

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>
> "Keith Schiffner" <schistan@3rivers.net> wrote
> in message
> news:NuOdnZmTTcIIS77fRVn-1A@vnet-inc.com...
>
> I mean why the hell would corn meal kill an ant
> den?

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>BTW, Don Mattingly is a professional BASEBALL
>player, the NHL is HOCKEY. I've never paid for
>an NHL game in my life. Minor league hockey,
>high school and college hockey but never pro.

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>
>Supposedly it does something to their guts.
>Apparently they love it but when it hits the
>stomach it swells up...I don't know the veracity
>of that but it does work ime.

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> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/591/591818p1.html
>
> Halo 3 In Production
> Yes, we have news about Halo 3. IGN learned last week while drinking
> secretly imported beers with its informants that Microsoft is prepared for
> the battle of its life in this upcoming console war. From what we
> understand, Bungie is hard at work on, not so surprisingly, Halo 3, which
> will be ready day and date with the launch of PlayStation 3.
>
> So, while Bungie said it's working on something else, well, we have
> different news. Sure, the smart creative guys at Bungie are working on
> something else, but you had better bet your bottom dollar they're also
> working on the next Halo. The release of Halo 3 at the precise launch of
> PS3
> is a pure, military tactical move, similar to the PS2's greatest lineup
> ever
> launching simultaneously with the launch of the Xbox and GameCube. It's
> designed to counter Sony's upcoming launch with the best weapon Earth has
> on
> its side, Master Chief. Go, John 17, go! Save Earth from Sony!
>
> __________________________
>
>
> If Halo 3 is really being made, and...
>
> If Halo 3 comes out when PS3 is launched in the U.S. that would probably
> make Halo 3 a "real" Xbox2 game,
> and not a pre-firstgen game made on non-Xbox2 hardware, like most of the
> games we've heard about for
> Xbox2 like Project Avalon, Dark Sector, Heavenly Sword, War Devil,
> Condemned, etc.
>
> the original Halo was being made before the first Xbox was even completed.
>
>
>

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> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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>

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> On 2/26/05 11:04 AM, in article 4MadneY2zqa3Mb3fRVn-2A@comcast.com, "NEXT
> BOX" <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote:
>
>
> His number isn't 17, it's 117
>
>
> And the first Halo was originally not even being made for Xbox; it started
> as a PC game.
>

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> On 2/27/05 7:54 AM, in article wLCdnW-a04iUTLzfRVn-qg@vnet-inc.com, "Keith
> Schiffner" <schistan@3rivers.net> wrote:
>
>
> I'd rather not mess with fire ants. I stepped barefoot in one of their
> anthills once. If I'm taking on fire ants, I want a fuel air bomb.
>

quote:

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> On 2/26/05 10:05 PM, in article
> keh221ptrkpkhkqs1nrloiskfg4lu4aiud@4ax.com,
> "Joe62" <NOSPAMjmcginn@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>
> I've also done hornets. Believe me, I've seen a lot of stinging insects
> where I live. My stepbrother also tried to use a hose on hornets, but boy,
> did he pay (two stings before he got away, and his allergy was more than
> low-grade). He lived, and no permanent damage done, but he learned his
> lesson. We live out in the country, and we have a barn that we've turned
> into a storage shed that the hornets had taken over. I tried going in
> there
> to do the classic Raid spray attack, but they guarded the door so well I
> couldn't get through. So I did a quick spray to clear them out enough for
> me
> to grab the back of our go-cart, which we keep in there, and I pulled it
> out
> and sprayed the Raid hose on it in the threshold of the barn so it sprayed
> off the top and shot in every direction. It cleared them off enough for me
> to go in and see where their nest was: in a light. I turned the light on,
> threw a rock into the bulb to expose the live wires, and sprayed it,
> covering the nest with electrified water. I must have fried the queen,
> because they were gone the next day.
>
>
> Yeah, that was pretty dumb. I did manage to kill a single hornet with a
> nail
> once, but there's no way I could've done it to a whole hive.
>

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> "Joe62" <NOSPAMjmcginn@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:pa3421hmlhvqvo5vtmpjvbop00ualn3dod@4ax.com...
>
> I worked for a cable company after highschool, and I had just knocked on a
> lady's door when this giant, loud, iridescent green/black, crazy flying
> bug flew into my face. I was swinging my clipboard wildly and screeching
> in panic when this pretty lady opened the door and in a sweet southern
> accent said, "Hon, don't panic, it's just a junebug!"
>

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> An Iraqi field mouse and a scorpion together in
> a Mason jar provides a good hour of
> entertainment.

quote:

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> (I heard another trick is to crumple up a paper bag and hang it from
> your trees, as they are highly teritorial and will see it as another
> nest. This is an especially good idea if you've killed a nest, because
> if the queen somehow survives they'll rebuild in the same spot.)

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> In alt.games.video.xbox Joe62 <NOSPAMjmcginn@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>
> That might explain what I've been seeing... In the past two falls, I've
> noticed about 4 or 5(!) nests starting to form on the eaves that run along
> the front of my house. One, maybe two I could understand, but some of the
> would-be nests were less than a foot apart. I ended up getting some
> RAID foam type stuff, waited until late evening, and basically soaked
> each nest site with the stuff. Even then, I'd notice a few of them
> starting to build more nests in the same spot.

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>That might explain what I've been seeing... In the past two falls, I've
>noticed about 4 or 5(!) nests starting to form on the eaves that run along
>the front of my house.

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> Well I was going to sign your petition, but now I'll just laugh at you.

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> if you don't sign the petition the bad is for you!
> a gamer signing the petition is making a favour to HIMSELF!
> as for the putting down, you must understand that xboxer hasn't stop
> posting spam to our pc game group
> yes i think its spam what he does cause its simply propaganda and
> advertisement to a product we don't use and we don't like!
> the only thing i want is for him to leave us alone!

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>
> "Mattinglyfan"
> SNIP
>
> Party hell we were working...weal's all OVER me
> from the waist down. The bees hardly stung me but
> once or twice...no gear. The Hornets were easy,
> get the can warm and light that nest up!