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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: exploding seagulls
Message-ID: <11847@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 00:31:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 00:31:45 1986
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Keywords: gross
Summary: exploding mosquitos

In article <130@nbs-amrf.UUCP> sauder@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Jeff Sauder) writes:
>                              Anyway, the rumor I heard is that one
>can cause a seagull to explode by throwing alka seltzer in the air
>and having the gull swoop down and eat the alka seltzer.  The
>reasoning behind this is the following:  seagulls' stomachs do not
>allow for the release of gas (belching), thus anything that
>releases air bubbles will swell the stomach to the point where it
>bursts.  Now don't tell me I'm gross and don't tell me to go out
>and try this, and then report back to the net.

You're gross and go try it and report back to the net, please!

For example, mosquitos have no mechanism to stop drinking your blood, except
by pulling out.  If you prevent the latter by tightening your skin so as to
trap the mosquito's probicis, the little creature will keep sucking until it
blows up.  This is not a rumor.  This is a gross experiment I used to do all
the time as a little kid and am now reporting to the net years later.  If I
can do it, so can you!

This is net.rumor, so I'll mention before anyone tries the above, that I've
heard that mosquitos can spread AIDS.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720