Dan Padova said:
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Are you serious? You can actually hear that? My son had ants in his loft roof. He claimed he could hear them chewing away all night. Wow, what hearing!!
Dan,
From what I hear, there are people who can hear the grass grow, too. 
Dan Padova said:
Steve Featherkile said:
Vic Smith said:
That’s great, what have you got for black ANTS…?
We’ve been overrun by the little buggers, tried everything in my arsenal, from diatimatious earth to bait traps, they go away for a week but then come back, then come back with a vengeance.
Borax mixed with sugar. The ants eat the borax with the sugar, then go back to the nest to tell their buddies about the bonanza. While there, the borax starts to make gas. Since they can’t burp, their bellies explode, killing them. Then their buddies eat them, eating the unused borax, and the carnage continues in the nest.
The only downside is listening to the popping sounds all night. On the other hand, to paraphrase a line from “Apocalypse, Now,” “I love the sound of popping in the evening, it sounds like Victory!”
Are you serious? You can actually hear that? My son had ants in his loft roof. He claimed he could hear them chewing away all night. Wow, what hearing!!
I can hear a spider crawling through the jungle 200 meters away. I can grin a griz out of a tall redwood, and bark a squirrel with a muzzle loader from 200 feet, too. 
No, Dan, not being serious. However, the lookouts aboard ship used to think that I had alien eyes because I could always pick out the lights of a ship over the horizon before they could see them. I was just using a trick taught to me by my Scoutmaster of looking for the reflection of the target ship’s lights on the clouds, just before the ship came over the horizon. Depending on relative course and speed, that could sometimes be as long as 20 minutes. I drove them nuts, and never let on the secret.
Come on Steve , you sneaked a peek at the radar before going on watch .
Mike Brit
Mike Morgan said:
Come on Steve , you sneaked a peek at the radar before going on watch .
Mike Brit
Shhh, Don’t tell all of my secrets.
All of the watch standers knew that a ship was coming from that general direction, because the info was passed up from Combat Information Center. I would just quietly ask, “Port Lookout, tell me what you can about that light at 350, relative.” Invariably, I would get the answer, “I don’t see anything, Chief.” “Wait for it, I see the mast head light.” It had to be the mast head light, because the light on the clouds was invariably white. Within a few minutes, there it was. “Damn, Doc, how did you know?”
Thus are the Legendary Chiefs made .
Mike Brit
Hans, Huh? Say again?
David Maynard said:
Hans, Huh? Say again?
OK if you would like me to.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Dan,
From what I hear, there are people who can hear the grass grow, too.
Well , I understood it Hans , I thought it was funny .
Mike Brit
Huh? Didja say something Mike? 
Steve, fortunately, for me, I was a Seabee. The only time I spent aboard ship was on a destroyer for two weeks as part of my boot camp training. I was stationed at Dong-Ha, 68-69. Most of our work was with the Marines. We were building gun pads for them, up at Con-Tien, just this side of the DMZ, so they could get their 175 mm and 8" guns out of the mud. On a cloudy day, if I stood just behind and slightly to one side of an 8" gun, I could actually see the round leave the end of the barrel. It was visible for probably a tenth of a second. Being young with 20/20 eyesight helped I guess. And that’s the truth.
David Maynard said:
Huh? Didja say something Mike?
Tee hee .
Ya hafta see the funny side , even if ya can’t hear it .
http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/mike_m/potd-seal__3012948k.jpg
Mike Deaf Brit
Edit ps , I could not manage to get the picture onto here from the Freight Shed .
Joe , thanks .
Mike Brit
Gee, I wonder if I could get something like that to keep my ex-girlfriend away. She definitely qualifies as a pest.
hmmm
David , you asked—
“Gee, I wonder if I could get something like that to keep my ex-girlfriend away. She definitely qualifies as a pest.”
Did you mean the animal scarer or the laughing seal ?
Looking at those teeth , either would do .
Mike Brit
Mike Morgan said:"
Did you mean the animal scarer or the laughing seal ?
Looking at those teeth , either would do .
Mike Brit
Especially if ex-gf is fishy
I meant the animal scarer.