Yaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!!! MAGGOTS!!!! (08-26-03)

[AugustWest]

Now I'm gonna have the willies all day....

Strip.

[satchel]

Maggots are a fucked-up part of life. I remember my first experience with them as a child. In rural Oklahoma I was visiting my great-grandmother’s nursing home; my parents were inside and I played out back. I picked up an old milk carton that had been smashed and lying in the sun, and looked inside. A quarter-pint of writhing maggots filled the bottom. It repulsed me, it was almost traumatic.

I lived with a girl in Fayetteville, Arkansas, once. We had some smashed cans of cat food that we stuck beneath the sink, and in a week, the smell of spoiled meat arose. I investigated to find mature fat maggots swarming in the rot. I told the girl to look away.

During the summer, my cat lives outside, so I feed him out there. He has several different food bowls that I rotate, and once in a while I leave one outside. I commonly find plugs of old cat food filled with maggot colonies. I scatter them in the sun to feed the birds.

Maggots are an inescapable aspect of life’s grotesque underbelly. Wash your hands if you touch them, you can get ringworm, etc.  Sometimes I wonder if the world’s ecosystem could stand the extermination of all flies. I think it’s a worthy goal.

[Asherdan]

The style of Mr. Bear's narration makes the topic endurable.  Point to point and matter of fact without any undue emotion, it's a simple retelling of the morning's events.  Deadpan as it is, it made the horrible hilarious for me.

Now excuse me, I must go bathe thoroughly.

[CortJstr]

I can't even imagine how one would go about cleaning that up. ::shudder::

I did not need the image of a waterfall of maggots in the walls while eating my frosted mini-wheats this morning.

[Schabe]

Sometimes I wonder if the world’s ecosystem could stand the extermination of all flies. I think it’s a worthy goal.

Aside from their marginal role as food source for actually beneficial creatures, like birds and spiders, according to the Discovery Channel they serve no other purpose, are worthless parasites, and that the ecosystem would not be harmed at all if flies vanished.  And, yes, it is a worthy goal.

[satchel]

I lived in Africa and the flies there are slow. You can swat them easily with your hand. Here in America the flies are fast.

[CortJstr]

I'm now tempted to try the fly erradication techniques from God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater with the rubberbands and soapy water

[Choop]

In Communist Russia, fly swats YOU!

[V-Adore]

Is anybody else picturing Teodor pitching a giant fit when he sees the maggots all over his beautiful kitchen? Histrionics ahoy.

Also, does Mr. Bear look like he's on a hangover to anyone else, or is it just me?

[Steve Hogan]

BLEAGH.  I've been fighting with grain moths.  I'm thinking of investing in lizards.

[misterhaan]

Also, does Mr. Bear look like he's on a hangover to anyone else, or is it just me?

well, he did just wake up, and that's almost the same thing

[andalucia]

Choopernickel, I love you for that reference.

[Nabubrush]

Please do not encourage that behavior.

[The Wonderous Me]

I'm wondering how Mr. Bear started the narration in the style of Twain when it was Phillipe and Ray that went back in time..?

[slink]

I'm wondering how Mr. Bear started the narration in the style of Twain when it was Phillipe and Ray that went back in time..?

Because that's how he talks anyway? I mean come on his forename is Cornelius... Is it that surprising he writes like that?
And we all know he is a writer. Not that being a writer automatically makes you write in the prosic style of Twain, or I'd be doing far better by now!