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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 1:31 pm 
A weird movie I thought. Why am I thinking there was an equally bad sequel?
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 4:35 pm
Aww, John Wyndham is one of my absolute favourite authors. Trouble with Lichen and Chocky outrank Triffids but read it a few times and have seen the movie with Howard Keel (also a fave!!) as well as one other adaptation that is a blur at the moment.
ETA: I didn't know about a sequel but took a look for you and there is one! Written by Simon Clark and called: Night of the Triffids
Also Spielberg has purchased film rights to Chocky FYI. Wish someone would take a big screen stab at The Chrysalids. Lol
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 4:58 pm
There was an old film, that I haven't seen, but what I remember most was a tv miniseries, which - I suppose I was young at the time - was absolutely terrifying! Hiding behind the couch stuff! Although having found it on youtube a few years ago I'm not quite sure how I was so scared, the triffids moved so slowly.
There was a sequel that didn't do so well, and then another tv series remake, which, as is often the way, should have been left undone.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 5:06 pm
I'm familiar with the Rocky Horror Picture Show song.
Thanks for another great image of plants against Karin. 
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, June 16, 2017 - 8:25 am
Funny, I've heard that song probably a hundred times (at least) and never caught the triffid reference...LOL!
And ever since the discussion got started I keep thinking about tribbles, another 60s reference (Star Trek).
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 04, 2017 - 5:09 pm
New Q: So where do June bugs go? Do they just have a short life span.
I never see them for more than a couple of months, all of a sudden they show up and then all of a sudden they are gone.
things that I wonder about, LOL.
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Chewpito
Member
01-03-2004
| Tuesday, July 04, 2017 - 10:41 pm
I look forward to the answer Dipo, I have no idea.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, July 05, 2017 - 3:33 am
i don't know, dipo but you come up with some great questions
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, July 05, 2017 - 5:06 am
Interesting question as I was just wondering why this year was relatively light for June bugs. Not a June bug expert and actually don't like them as we like to sit out on our patio and at night they're attracted to the light. Some years we can literally get forced inside by them but not this year. Easy answer might be to turn off the patio lights and sit in the dark but then we get four legged critters like raccoons, skunks, and possum dropping by. I know from previous experience that June bugs have a very short adult life, about four or five weeks. I also know that they can, if there are enough of them, wreck havoc on plants and lawns.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, July 05, 2017 - 8:38 am
Apparently nobody knows where the June bug goes! I have been reading about them and they talk about their long (relatively for a bug) life before they reached adulthood, but very little about their adult life. I guess they eat, mate and die! And get all over my laundry area in my garage.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 05, 2017 - 2:04 pm
OMG, too funny. I have been busy and haven't managed to do any research. Thanks Roxip!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, July 05, 2017 - 2:06 pm
Probably eaten by crows.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, July 07, 2017 - 9:21 am
As far as I know we don't have any junebugs here in Portland, but I do remember them when I was a little girl in WV.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Friday, July 07, 2017 - 10:59 am
Absolutely despise junebugs, gross flying missile bugs. Once upon a time, I had an apartment where there were so many of these little horrors flying into me whilst I was unlocking the main door, I'm surprised I don't have permanent dings on my head. I can still hear it hitting my headband, ugh! My apartment was on the 1st floor by that main entrance door as well, so I could never go outside.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, July 07, 2017 - 11:01 am
i remember them being around when i was very young but do not remember seeing them recently. of course, i haven't thought of june bugs until your question dipo.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, July 07, 2017 - 2:33 pm
LOL, I only have 2, but I remembered that they just sort of appear every year.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 16, 2017 - 1:44 pm
Oddly enough, after this discussion started, I actually saw a June bug, which is a beetle, when I was walking! At the time I was pretty sute, but just looked up online and yes it was. It was just on the ground.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, July 16, 2017 - 1:48 pm
I hope you stepped on it.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, July 16, 2017 - 1:56 pm
I've never minded june bugs, but then again I've never had them hitting me in the head either. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 16, 2017 - 3:04 pm
No, didn't step on it.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 5:42 pm
New Q: I am watching a fascinating show on National Geographic Channel about the Airport Security in the Colombian Airport. Man that sure seems like a scary airport, I think I would get nervous even tho I would never smuggle drugs.
Anyway, I just wondered who do you know when you need a visa to travel to a country, does the airline tell you? I haven't ever flown anywhere that I needed a visa so I don't have a clue how you figure that out.
I imagine if you use a travel agent they would tell you but since so many people make travel arrangements online I was wondering how you would know.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 10:57 am
https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/americans-traveling-abroad.html
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 12:07 pm
You have to look it up yourself. Sometimes when you book a flight the booking site also reminds you you must have a visa to travel, or you have to enter pre-flight details that make it clear you need an extra document. But if you don't do it and get to the point of check in at the airport the agent at the gate will ask to see your visa or authorisation to travel and oopsie, guess you won't be taking that flight after all.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 1:56 pm
Oh, thanks Kitt. I know my friend had to get a visa for Russia but that was like a no brainer, LOL.
Do you visa for Canada? I know we didn't for Mexico, I was very bummed that they wouldn't/didn't stamp my passport, LOL, and it has been ages since I went to the Caribbean, and that was back in a time when I doubt visas were required.
So interesting.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 2:22 pm
I don't know of a Caribbean island that requires a visa and, in fact, I'm pretty sure none do. Tourism, and particularly the cruise variety, makes it counterproductive to require visas. Now you cruise far enough south out of the Caribbean to South America and visas can become a requirement. Luckily neither our immediate neighbors to the north or south require visas.
As for passports stamps.....that's kind of hit or miss with a lot of misses. While entry in and out of the European Union usually garners a stamp in the passport, and even that sometimes doesn't happen, the stamps themselves are nondescript. Gone are the days of what was at one time a unique stamp for each country in the EU. As for reentry into the US I don't remember the last time my passport got stamped. My present passport was issued in 2014 and in four trips out and back I have not one US reentry stamp.
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