Most of you can't understand this, but just look at the picture... all those little red dots are LOCUSTS.
They flew in from Egypt, and are now swarming in Eilat, in the south of Israel... they're everywhere, people can't walk without protective anti-locust gear! It's like what the cicada season was SUPPOSED to be like this year, or something. The picture here isn't as good as the one that was in the actual paper today, but I'll look for another article (in English, hopefully), and post it here if I find it. Isn't that crazy?
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Also, you can see some more pictures on Y-net!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
To the African Igbo culture, locusts are a good sign.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Well, in the Israeli/Jewish culture, it's a plague...
That's the reason that it's so funny that they're coming from Egypt!
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
quote: To the African Igbo culture, locusts are a good sign.
So the destruction of one's crops is a good thing?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'd be painting my doorway with ram's blood (was it a ram or an ewe? I'm drawing a blank) just in case, if I were you. You can't be too careful.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
lamb?
And I wouldn't be too worried about Raia...she doesn't have a first-born son.
[ November 22, 2004, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Maybe they're a good sign when they descend on your *enemy's* crops.
Or maybe something in the environment prevents their populations from building up to crop decimating swarm levels in west Africa.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Okay, lamb. Good, that was going to drive me nuts. I guess you're right though, Raia's safe. She should just encourage all the people she knows with children to do so.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I read it in a book "Things Fall Apart" but Chinua Achebe...
This is from an analysis of the book:
quote: The locusts come. They are not a threat to Umuofia's staple crops, as they come after harvest, during the cold harmattan season. First, a small swarm of scouts comes, and then a larger group arrives. Their coming fills the Igbo with joy, because the locusts come only once every seven years, and they are delicious to eat.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I don't mean to say that it's any less of a problem, especially with crops. I was merely offering an interesting piece of information.
It is rather unusual that it's coming from Egypt though.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this thread title was "Cicada's at Tylers!"
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
Raia... You HAVE been behaving... Right?
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Teshi, I read that! I forgot about the locusts...
Mayday... Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
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