A Dutch museum is appealing for donations: they need crab lice - or at least one louse. No questions asked . . . and they are afraid for the species, reports Toby Sterling for the Associated Press :
A Dutch museum said Friday it is having trouble getting its hands on a parasite that just about everybody else is anxious to avoid: crabs.The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody--anybody--to give it a single crab louse for its collection, amid fears they may be dying out.
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The article, titled "Did the Brazilian Kill the Pubic Louse?" found that crabs rates had fallen first in women, and several years later in men in Leeds. The authors hypothesized that the bikini wax known as "The Brazilian" that removes all or most pubic hair, might be to blame.
"When the bamboo forests that the Giant Panda lives in were cut down, the bear became threatened with extinction. Pubic lice can't live without pubic hair," Moeliker said.
Read the whole article at the link above. What's next? Will the EPA add crab lice to the "Endangered Species list" and prohibit "bikini waxing" in order to preserve the species? They do it for other worthless varmints . . .
My late father related getting a case in the Navy in WWII. Back then, there weren't the plethora of OTC remedies, so he relied on the folk remedy suggested by a fellow sailor: "Douse the affected area in kerosene, then immediate rinse it off, and they'll be gone."
Dad decided he had a particularly bad infestation, though, so he thought he would leave the kerosene on for a minute before rinsing it off, just to be sure. "That," he confided to me, "was a mistake."
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Comments (13)
He made a mistake. You are ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Scrapiron | October 22, 2007 6:40 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
He made a mistake. You are supposed to shave one side, soak the other side with gas and set it on fire. Stab those trying to excape with an ice pick.
1. Posted by Scrapiron | October 22, 2007 6:40 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 18:40
2. Posted by Maggie | October 22, 2007 7:03 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Okay, that earned a LOL, but that's about it.
Not even crocodile tears for these guys!
2. Posted by Maggie | October 22, 2007 7:03 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 19:03
3. Posted by Jim Addison | October 22, 2007 7:35 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Scrappy ~ Sure, but this was 1944, and we didn't have all those modern medical techniques . . .
;-)
3. Posted by Jim Addison | October 22, 2007 7:35 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 19:35
4. Posted by marc | October 22, 2007 8:02 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
A Dutch museum is appealing for donations: they need crab lice
Well ok, I might see if I can help.
But not until confirmation they have exhausted all known resources.
Have they contacted Britney, Paris and the rest of the Pop Tarts? Not to mention Rosie.
4. Posted by marc | October 22, 2007 8:02 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 20:02
5. Posted by McGehee
| October 22, 2007 8:12 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Since when do crabs get lice? No wonder they're endangered.
5. Posted by McGehee
| October 22, 2007 8:12 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 20:12
6. Posted by Imhotep | October 22, 2007 9:17 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Paris and Brittany both have Brazilian's Marc!
Jeez, look at the pic's on Wizbang Pop!
6. Posted by Imhotep | October 22, 2007 9:17 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 21:17
7. Posted by charlie | October 22, 2007 9:26 PM | Score: -10 (10 votes cast)
Crab lice endangered?
Hell no, not as long as there are Republicans to host them..
7. Posted by charlie | October 22, 2007 9:26 PM |
Score: -10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 21:26
8. Posted by marc | October 22, 2007 10:01 PM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
charlie:
"Hell no, not as long as there are Republicans to host them.."
I believe you have your terminology incorrect. We don't host them, we raise them to be sold when full grown to the likes of Fat Boy Kennedy and Slick Wille's consorts.
And of course the bugs have "bugs," so we can spy on them illegally.
8. Posted by marc | October 22, 2007 10:01 PM |
Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 22:01
9. Posted by Tom Blogical | October 22, 2007 11:34 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
marc:
You're right, they should definitely contact Paris Hilton.
Jim:
"That," he confided to me, "was a mistake."
LOL--so your Dad basically had his "Home Alone" moment...on the opposite (and wrong) half of his body.
9. Posted by Tom Blogical | October 22, 2007 11:34 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on October 22, 2007 23:34
10. Posted by kim | October 23, 2007 6:42 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
I'm sure this 'Brazilian' is a warming phenomenon.
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10. Posted by kim | October 23, 2007 6:42 AM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on October 23, 2007 06:42
11. Posted by TGScott | October 23, 2007 11:54 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Paris Hilton has a healthy farm of them, most likely. That solves that problem. That is a gross clip though. LOL
11. Posted by TGScott | October 23, 2007 11:54 AM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 23, 2007 11:54
12. Posted by Spurwing Plover | October 23, 2007 2:52 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
And let use also list dragons,griffins,unicorns and a phoenix on the ESA after all liberals are as wacky as they can be and while were at it lets add some of those savage man eating birds that hycules scared away they have beaks and claws of brass and they likes nice tender liberals SQUAWK SQUAWK, BURP
12. Posted by Spurwing Plover | October 23, 2007 2:52 PM |
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Posted on October 23, 2007 14:52
13. Posted by kim | October 24, 2007 6:10 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
SQUAWK, SQUAWK, SPLAT
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13. Posted by kim | October 24, 2007 6:10 AM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 24, 2007 06:10