Conference kaosws::canada

    
    Cal, the Sunbeam should work OK just about anywhere.
    
    BTW I was in Stratford, Ont. last weekend and all I saw was three
    house flys..........NO Mosquitos at all even sitting outside the
    motorhome at 2 am. (beautiful area......)
    
    
    Jim

    Southern Ontario isn't Ottawa.  I lived in London Ontario for 20 years,
    and the "bugs" were hardly a problem.  Moving to Ottawa 3 summers
    educated me to mosquitos.  This certainly isn't the bush, and I
    know that other area are MUCH worse, but southern Ontario has nothing
    like Ottawa. Your dad is right...blast the little suckers! 

I live in the Glebe (centre of ottawa) and we have NO bugs.  If your folks 
lived in centre_town area than there would be no problem.  get them to move!

Fred

Here in Indiana, when you get out in the back woods, or in a swampy area by a 
lake, the horseflies can be miserable--unless you've got the right connections. 

Each spring, a friend from Ottawa sends me his leftover snowbags.  I just cut 
two arm holes and a head hole in one and slip it on.  There's no way you can 
get bit through one of those things.

Just another tip from the HANDY HOOSIER.
Keep those cards and letters coming, folks!

Russ Schwartz.

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                          -< no problem on my porch! >-
>>>get them to move!

Fred

They moved from Vancouver to Orleans where they have a new house.
Right, get them to move again since they moved there in April.
Perhaps them bugs likes only new residents!

Re .4

Snow bags seems to do the trick since they freeze them critters
on contact; freeze dried, you might say.

cal

    Having lived in the Ottawa valley for the better part of 40 years
    I have come to recognise that the best way to deal with these problems
    is to take the advise of the people who work in these environments
    daily. The authority on Mosquitoes are the Lumberjacks, no question..
    I understand that there is only two things that can repell the pest.
    One is old Jack Frost the other is a steady diet of Homemade baked
    beans, beer (canadian of course) and Garlic laced pickled eggs with
    a side order of Back bacon.  It works. It has to. Ever seen a mosquito
    on a lumberjack?      I rest my case

    re.6
    How did you get close to the lumberjack to ask him??
    
    Sounds like that diet would keep even bears away.....:-)
    
    Jim........still relying on Cutters

    I find those bug zappers to be quite annoying.
    
    ZAP! Sizzle Sizzle.. CRACK BUZZAPP! BUZZZZZZZZZZAP!
    
    It gets unbearable when it's moth season! In fact, I find it down
    right nauseating. Ulp.
    
    
    Why not get a fogger and kill them all at once instead of one at
    a time? Why do you hate moths?
    
    
    Glenn
    
    Noted moth activist 8^)

     Seriously,
    
     If you are sitting out in your backyard, light up a PICK coil and
    the little buggers will stay away.
     If you are heading out into the woods, use AVON's Skin So Soft
    or Muskol.

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                     -< Chemicals, Chemicals, Chemicals. >-
<<Seriously,

	Give me a break, Richard, you're always serious, as a matter of
	fact you wouldn't know a good time if it walked up and slapped you
	in the face.  And what's wrong with chemicals?

	I live in a small Mexican village west of Ottawa where the sparrows
	use guard dogs to protect themselves from the larger mosquitoes.  This
	year is so bad that the Town Council is considering a tax levy on the
	mosquito population.  And how do we cope with these whiners?  We FOG
	'em!!

	Go out and buy a 'Burgess' propane powered insecticide fogger from your
	local Canadian Tire and Used Snow Removal Implements Museum for about
	85 clams.  Get a 2lb bottle of propane and a 4 litre container of
	fogger insecticide.  This brute puts out an incredible fog that covers
	not only my property (1 acre) but also part of the neighbouring county.
	All biting insects are eliminated with this one application which lasts
	for about 5 days in our area, but should last for 10 years in other
	locations.

	An alternative to the fogger insecticide is to use kerosene in place of
	the chemical.  Additionally, you should place large quantities of
	raw chicken and beef around your property before using this alternative
	method.  Then, once you have produced the dense fog of kerosene, you
	set it alight.  This kills everything enveloped by the fog as well as
	taking off all of the peeling paint on your house, cooks all of the
	raw chicken and beef, gets rid of your unwanted guests and keeps the
	grass trimmed for the entire season.  Try to do this around 1-4 July
	as it will enhance the usual festive activities and provides for an
	excellent large scale marshmallow roast.

	Failing this, one could use the Tomkins MK-1 mosquito repellent.  This
	requires the use of the 6 foot model Richard in the middle of your
	property.  Set it alight, and watch him smoulder slowly.  It's
	re-useable but maybe toxic to those within hearing range, as it were.

	Hasta la bye-bye,

	Pat

    Re: 10
      
    Are you serious Pat?
    
    Re: 4
     
    Hey Russ why do they call natives of Indiana "Hoosiers"?
    (Let 'er rip Rushie)
    
    Ted.

>>>    Hey Russ why do they call natives of Indiana "Hoosiers"?

Well, we're getting a little off the topic, here, but I can never resist 
answering this question.

No one knows for sure where the term came from, but there are a number of folk 
tales which serve as theories.  The one you hear most often goes like this:  
When they carved Indiana out of the old Northwest Territory, it was settled, 
especially in the south, by people who came from Kentucky and Tennessee.  These 
folks typically had pretty thick accents.  When a caller would knock on their 
door, they would answer a twangy "Hooze 'ere?" which eventually became 
"Hoosier".  (Let that be a lesson if you Canadians ever carve up YOUR northwest 
territory!) ;-)

Then there's MY favorite story.  I've studied Indiana place names, and this 
story is very typical of how places got their names here: Once there was a big 
construction project down in Louisville, Kentucky.  A man named John Hoosier 
won the project with the lowest bid.  The reason his bid was so low was that he 
used laborers from across the Ohio River (in Indiana) because they would work 
for less.  These people were not well received because they took jobs away from 
the local Kentuckians.  Hence, they were snearingly referred to as "the Hoosier 
men", or "Hoosiers" for short.

That may sound a little far out, but consider this other story about Hoosier 
place names.  Down by Greencastle is a beautiful 3-arched concrete railroad 
viaduct over Little Walnut Creek.  Yet this bridge is known as "Four Arches".
Why?  The railroad for which it was originally built was known as "The Big 
Four" (for "Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnatie & St. Louis").  Thus, the bridge 
was originally named "The Big Four Arched Bridge".  This was corrupted into 
"The Big Four-Arched Bridge" and finally shortened to "Four Arches".  The funny 
thing is, the bridge is pretty long, and you come up on it on a winding road at 
an angle which makes it hard to see the whole thing at once.  For about 8 years 
I actually believed the bridge had 4 arches until I looked at a wide-angle 
photograph of it and saw that it only had 3 !!!

Russ Schwartz.

Re: .4, .10 and .12

Hey, Russ:

	Thanks for the partial answer to Ted's (.10) question.  However,
some of us thought that a 'hoosier' might be a couch potato from Fort
Wayne who lives in a Ford pick-up truck and who has a predisposition to
wearing pantyhose over his head whilst rolling boy scouts for Hershey bars on
the freeway.

	Or, are they people with mouths shaped like an Edsel who can't
pronounce 'hoser' because of the excessive amount of Skippy peanut butter
jammed-up their nostrils?

	Oh, ya, er what street is Indiana on anyway?

From a hoser,

Pat

    
    
    On a more serious note; Tests have been shown that those annoying
    bug-zappers don't do a thing to control the mosquito population.
    
    Fact is mosquitos are not attracted to light but to Carbon Dioxide
    emitted from your body. Tests conducted by counting the types of
    insects killed  by bug zappers indicated that less than ten percent
    of the total kill was mosquitos. Many of the bugs zapped are not the
    pest variety. In fact it has even been suggested that installing a
    bug zapper might attract more bugs to your area.
    
    Save your money, don't buy one.
    
    Want to control your mosquitos? Get some bats or dragonflies!
    
    

>>> However,
>>> some of us thought that a 'hoosier' might be a couch potato from Fort
>>> Wayne who lives in a Ford pick-up truck and who has a predisposition to
>>> wearing pantyhose over his head whilst rolling boy scouts for Hershey bars on
>>> the freeway.

Oh, you've been to Fort Wayne, I see!

>>> 	Or, are they people with mouths shaped like an Edsel who can't
>>> pronounce 'hoser' because of the excessive amount of Skippy peanut butter
>>> jammed-up their nostrils?

And Terre Haute, too!

>>>	Oh, ya, er what street is Indiana on anyway?

Just head out Albon Pond Road till yuh get t'the Round Barn and turn left.  Go 
till yuh cross Crow's Bridge out thar by Bill Rossock place (you know old Bill 
Rossoc?  Carries mail in town).  Then look up on the big hill. Y'cain't miss 
it!

The HANDY HOOSIER strikes again,

Russ Schwartz.