Y-Y-Y-YIKES !!!

[BigSwede]

I think I borrowed the name from a Simpsons episode...Homer had a pet possum or something.

I seem to remember him saying: "I call the little one Bitey"

There is another episode where Bart has a pet Lobster he called "Pinchy"...and another one where he called his pet elephant "Stampy"...

[BigSwede]

Just remembered a water-bug related incident from my "mis-spent yoot"

(Judge Munster: "A what? What's a yoot?")

Twas in about junior high I suppose...the neighborhood girls were having a "sleepover" in the neighbor's pop-up camper. The bored neighborhood boys were hanging out on the street nearby.

All the girls went into the house for cookies or something...right about the time a huge water bug (much bigger than the one you caught Larry) started circling the streetlight we were under. It fell to the ground, and, well, we tossed the water bug into the camper.

Not much later the girls all came out and piled back into the camper. We didn't have to wait too long for the gratifying screams to begin...

The sleepover was held indoors that night.

[Ldub]

Just remembered a water-bug related incident from my "mis-spent yoot"

(Judge Munster: "A what? What's a yoot?")

Twas in about junior high I suppose...the neighborhood girls were having a "sleepover" in the neighbor's pop-up camper. The bored neighborhood boys were hanging out on the street nearby.

All the girls went into the house for cookies or something...right about the time a huge water bug (much bigger than the one you caught Larry) started circling the streetlight we were under. It fell to the ground, and, well, we tossed the water bug into the camper.

Not much later the girls all came out and piled back into the camper. We didn't have to wait too long for the gratifying screams to begin...

The sleepover was held indoors that night.

LOL...I loved "Stampy"...

What I wouldn't give to have hung out with Big Swede as a Yoot!

Still fun as an adult, but boggles the imagination...