Stupid Guest Tricks

darph nader wrote:I'm confused also (no shit huh?).
Is this about SDTs or VWs with the #53 on them?

Swarms of bugs that mate (seemingly for days) on the wing. They swarm over warm air upwellings (like pavement). So motor vehicles traveling on those roadways get thickly covered by their demised bodies (still linked together). If that wasn't bad enough, they contain some very caustic fluids that eat through a wax job in hours and paint in days.

The best advise that I have heard is to liberally coat your car with non-stick cooking spray (Pam) and reapply every two days for the entire swarming season, which goes on for a few weeks a year for a given location but due to the swarm season beginning a few days to a few weeks different as you move north, it may last for a month or so somewhere in the state.

Of course I am not a floridian and so I am only going on what I have gathered over the years, so take local info over mine. :)

Randy

drcorey wrote:bugs killed during sex?
wow, that must be some experience, coming and going at the same time.

What about the ones who survive the traffic? The male winds up dying still attatched to the female and she has to drag him around until she dies.

Wikipedia has a good article on the blasted things. There's more to those swarming, tiny, paint-eating, annoying SOBs than I ever thought.

Big Wallaby wrote:It's about Stupid Bug Tricks (SBT) of suicidal bugs who decide to mate within five feet of and directly over Interstate 4...

oh, and the car is moving anywhere between 55 mph (my car) and 146 mph (almost everyone else), or if you happen to meet the Mears bus travelling along at 162 mph.

I-4 can be a scary place I bet. I travelled up and down it with my brother going between his apartment and the World a few times and the times we went weren't so bad but from what I saw I knew it must get hair-raising on there at times.

Shorty82 wrote:I-4 can be a scary place I bet. I travelled up and down it with my brother going between his apartment and the World a few times and the times we went weren't so bad but from what I saw I knew it must get hair-raising on there at times.

Try it on a motorcycle from Deltona to WDW and back.

Cranbiz wrote:Try it on a motorcycle from Deltona to WDW and back.

Ever hit a B-29 bug at speed?

hobie16 wrote:Ever hit a B-29 bug at speed?

Yup. June bug. Back road. 65-70mph. Saw a black spot far out in front. Watched it all the way to the middle of my helmet windshield. Cracked windshield. Sore neck from collision. Kept bike upright and between the lines. :D: Another time. In town so speed was about 35. Another June bug. Center of my chest with a tee and windbreaker jacket. Bug hit and remained stuck to jacket. Left a quarter size welt. When I stopped, bug walked away.

One other bad one. Late for class. No jacket. Tee shirt. Sudden downpour. Felt like shotgun hitting constantly for an entire mile at 40mph. SOAKED. When returned from class, 3 hours later, found I still had a red and purple welt that covered my entire chest.

Randy

drcorey wrote:bugs killed during sex?
wow, that must be some experience, coming and going at the same time.

What's the last that goes thru a bugs mind when he hits a windshield?

His asshole.

Randy B wrote:...The best advise that I have heard is to liberally coat your car with non-stick cooking spray (Pam) and reapply every two days for the entire swarming season...

If you are on a motorcycle, should you coat yourself in Pam?

BRWombat wrote:If you are on a motorcycle, should you coat yourself in Pam?

Always. It helps with your gas mileage, although I don't know what it'll do for your junebugs that hit with force.

BRWombat wrote:If you are on a motorcycle, should you coat yourself in Pam?

Since the Pam is to prevent the bugs from sticking to the paint and to protect the paint from the corosive fluids it wouldn't hurt to coat the farring and possibly your helmet. But since it doesn't protect from the impacts you're out of luck with getting your clothes and exposed skin liberally covered. BTW one thing I forgot to add to the previous suggestion. DON'T get the Pam on the windshield. It causes blurring and when it gets wet it goes almost opaque. And windshield washer and wipers won't cut through it!

On second thought getting coated with Pam could be nice, if you use the right Pam (Anderson comes to mind). :D:

BTW, how do you recognize a happy motorcyclist. By counting the bugs in his teeth. :D:

Randy