Remember this?

[ohiosmith]

[tk2kewl]

1. thank goodness no

but my father does

[ohiosmith]

3. It was always a highlight of summer vacation for the kids in my neighborhood.

[tk2kewl]

5. I wonder how many cancer deaths are a direct result of the insanity

[ohiosmith]

6. An old buddy and I were talking a few days ago about how we used to run behind the trucks.

We both have COPD!

[tk2kewl]

7. Crazy Old Peoples Disease

sorry... that is what always comes to mind when I hear that acronym

but, hey, its plausible. did you have any respiratory problems as a kid?

[ohiosmith]

8. A shit load. But,...I also smoked for several years and ran and biked daily in Los Angeles.

Who's to say?

[trof]

12. My wife did too, in Houston.

She loved the smell and 'being in the clouds'.
Happily she seems to have no adverse effects from it.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. I would run behind the DDT truck, too

It made its rounds once or twice each summer in the '60s. I don't know why now, but the smell was somehow attractive to a lot of us kids.

[HarveyDarkey]

2. You mean those parties in college

in the late 60's early 70's?

[DryHump]

4. Joseph Smith

gets the Book 'O Mormon (angels pictured here smokin some fab Moroni!)

[HopeHoops]

9. I call uncle - WTF is that all about?

[ohiosmith]

10. DDT truck.

[RedCloud]

15. That shit only killed the weaker mosquitos.

[HopeHoops]

16. Oh fucking gross. They only spray the water around here. What we need are minnows.

Minnows eat a hell of a lot of mosquito larva in a single day. The Asian Tiger mosquitoes pretty much took over this year and they can breed in a soda cap filled with water. On the plus side, so far they haven't been found to carry West Nile - give it a few years.

And, anytime we discuss mosquitoes...

[NecklyTyler]

14. Could call the gear head down the street

[HappyMe]

11. No.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I only remember them spraying twice. They came through at 3am. There was some bug that was chewing the hell of of trees and killing them.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. No. Thank god.