China's Latest Enemy of the State -- Add locusts to China's list of calamities

-- Micky's humble opinion: What a fiasco with Chinese characteristics! Could it be the ghosts of
Tian An Men Square massacre coming seeking for revenge ? --

Add locusts to China's list of calamities
Riots -- check. Earthquake -- check. Flood -- check. Plague -- check. Such a concentration of woes
in this high-profile year has fanned rumors and superstition.
By Mark Magnier
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

July 3, 2008

BEIJING ― First there was the freak snowstorm in February. Then the Tibetan riots in March. Then in
rapid succession the controversial torch relay, Sichuan earthquake, widespread flooding and an algae
bloom that's tarnishing the Olympic sailing venue. Just when it seemed that nothing else could go
wrong this year in China, the locusts arrived.

Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack only a famine,
frogs and smiting of the first born.

The Middle Kingdom's parade of problems has threatened to put a major damper on China's anticipated
moment of glory less than five weeks before the start of the 2008 Beijing Games.

"This sure has been a weird year," said Ma Zhijie, 20, who works in a coffee shop. "There are so
many disasters, it's hard to know what's happening."

On Jul 4, 7:54 pm, Micky Wong wrote:

On Jul 4, 4:54 pm, Micky Wong wrote:

Wacky Wrong, you got it all wrong as usual. Locust is NOT a problem
in China. It is a feast to the Chinese people, fried crispy locust,
yummy, tasty. Go get your net and catch as much as you can. It's
MILLER time, Oooops, tasty crispy fried locust time. It's like
Maryland's blue crap season.

EXTERMINATORS, my ass! The Commies have ordered the peasants to
capture as many locusts as possible for use in a special salsa they
plan to export to the U.S.

rst0wxyz wrote:

What makes this crap blue, O Wizened One? Bombay Gin?

Crappy Pig

Feulin Yewup wrote:

U.S. has enough green grasshoppers. A locust is just a grasshopper
undergoing a special phase of its life.

U.S. prefers Chinese hot sauce and mustard sauce to pour over American
chop suey. And Thai chilli sauce is starting to worry Mexican chili
sauce makers.

On Jul 6, 5:33 pm, Dirty Sick Pig pigs_lodge_1.org> wrote:

I see you have never been to a Maryland blue crap feast. You buy them
by the buckets, and it comes with wooden mallets. yummy yummy.

rst0wxyz wrote:

Why use wooden mallets? Isn't a 5-pound sledge hammer more effective on
Maryland blue crap? And, I don't need to cross the state line to MD
just to feast on blue crap; all I need to do is bend over and slurp.
Fresh, steaming and slushy brown crap tastes better, if I may say so myself.

I see now that you haven't been to a Virginia brown crap banquet!

Craposseur Pig

In article ,
Dirty Sick Pig pigs_lodge_1.org> wrote:

Say uh, Resty, you might want to check your spelling here!

You're making me long for the old days ;-)