Weblog of Peter ( from the Greek rock---Petrified has the same origen ).

Mood: tired
Listening to: noisy fan-new weapon

Africa. Land of darkness. Particularly after sunset. Its is then, above the din of frogs, crickets and night birds, that you hear them.

At first one thinks it is a thin whine coming from the computer lazily  left on. Then it gets louder, closer almost in my head--------------MOSQUITO. No more than one-thousands!

I stick most of my southern regions out from under the sheet as a decoy. Alas they are CO2 freaks. Round and round the ears at full throttle. Minature Blackhawks they cause a definite gust as they pass, engines screaming. Must counter-attack. Light on. Rolled up socks to hand. Wham on roof. Red smear. Didn't even feel that one had alraedy got to me. Silence. Light off. Dozing off.

Do I hear a faint whine?

Mood: anxious
Listening to: frogs

Can anyone help an ignoranr outsider with the following:

1 Why to the two US parties use a donkey and an elephant as emblems/mascots?

2 Why is the World Series so named.

3 Is it possible to tell a democrat from a republican from the way they look and/or talk.

4 Are there really 3 guns per citizen on average.

5 Is your national dish a turkey.

6 Do only 10% of the citizens have passports. ( Your deputy ambassador to the UK said this ).

7  Are 50% of the people there overweight.

8 Do all your B movie stars go to the same dentist.( Scurrilous romour in some english tabloid.)

9 Are small towns all run by bad sherrifs/mayors.(See B movies above as source.)

10 Was there a coverup at Roswell.

11 Has Dan Quail/Quaile/Quale really got a job as an english teacher.