re: Wasp enthusiast of the OT. I give you a very HUGE and cool active wasp nest

I know, I think I'll just start playing RR since death is obviously imminent.

Can I have your duck camp/blinds/honey holes when you go?

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Had a friend that was cleaning up the deer camp this past Sunday. A damn wasp stung him in the left EYE BALL!!! He went straight to the ER and then to see an eye doctor Monday. His eye had so much swelling that it tore a muscle behind his eyeball. His pupil is a different size and eyeball shape is now oblonged. This has to be the worst sting I've heard of. It's not like you can slap some Copenhagen on it and keep going.

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That story made me think of a funny thing that happened to my Cousin who was big smoker. It was about 30 years ago, and we were outside throwing a football. I throw him the ball he catches it drops it, and starts to dig in his back pocked pulls out a pack of cigs, and starts shoving a cig up his nose. I was stunned thought he was having some extreme nicotine attack, and needed a fix or something. Turns out a wasp had stung him in the nose, and putting tobacco on a sting helps.

2004 UGA-LSU game, we were tailgatin downtown under some trees by the old Fed building. Our LSU friends were grilling up some spicy brats which I began eating, not paying any attention to my coke can. Took a bite of the sausage, took a sip of coke, and the next thing I knew I thought a gun had gone off in my mouth. At first I thought that I'd just pit into a chunk of pepper from inside the brat and that it was just hot. But then my tongue started to swell and I couldn't really talk. My dad was with us and saw that I was struggling so he told me to open my mouth and, sure enough, the damn stinger and venom sack was still attached to my tongue. He pulled it out and called my mom to tell her I might have to go to the hospital. I told him like hell and I marched my swollen arse to the stadium like a damn champ.

Look like paper wasps. They're actually supposed to be good for a garden