"Don't let the bed bugs bite....."

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 09-20-2010, 10:40 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749...etown-21990658

**Spaz** · 09-20-2010, 10:45 AM

you never heard of them???

**FSANE** · 09-20-2010, 10:46 AM

welcome to NY. #1 place for shopping and take some bed bugs home with you as a reminder how great this place is.

***SMWS6TA*** · 09-20-2010, 10:48 AM

one more reason to stay away from NYC

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 09-20-2010, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by Spaz

you never heard of them???

Yes I have, but Nike???

**SiggyZ** · 09-20-2010, 10:49 AM

They should call in Chuck Norris to take care of them damn bugs.

**Spaz** · 09-20-2010, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by FORD RECOVERY EXPERT

Yes I have, but Nike???

yup... you get some douche who's house is infested with them... he/she gets egg's on thier socks and goes to nike to try on some new shoes... eggs get stuck in the shoes and hatch... the bed bugs spread all over the store...

**tornado** · 09-20-2010, 02:05 PM

You can thank foreign countries for this

**Schmalgar** · 09-20-2010, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by tornado

You can thank foreign countries for this

International commerce, tourism, and immigration. Combined with how hard it is to kill these things, and with how long they can live without feeding...

**Smkn_TA** · 09-20-2010, 02:53 PM

Bedbugs are the "it" thing this year. Last year never heard of them. This year, macys, hotels, nike, victoria's secret. They everywhere. So hide yo wife, hide yo kids!!

**Schmalgar** · 09-20-2010, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Smkn_TA

Last year never heard of them.

You hadn't heard of them because they had been mostly eradicated in this country over 50 years ago by DDT. Now we don't use DDT, and they've become resistant to it anyway...

**INMY01TA** · 09-20-2010, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by FORD RECOVERY EXPERT

Yes I have, but Nike???

Yes. What is so funny?

**Zapper2003** · 09-20-2010, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by Smkn_TA

Bedbugs are the "it" thing this year. Last year never heard of them. This year, macys, hotels, nike, victoria's secret. They everywhere. So hide yo wife, hide yo kids!!

hahahaha

**67CamaroRSSS** · 09-20-2010, 08:44 PM

Good night, Sleep tight, But don't let the bed bugs bite...

Bonus points if you know where the "Sleep tight" party of the ditty orginated...

**Schmalgar** · 09-20-2010, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by 67CamaroRSSS

Bonus points if you know where the "Sleep tight" party of the ditty orginated...

Seems like I knew that at one time, but if so the knowledge has left the brain...

**67CamaroRSSS** · 09-20-2010, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Schmalgar

Seems like I knew that at one time, but if so the knowledge has left the brain...

I'll give others the chance to answer before I give out the correct answer.

As always, no fair Googling...

I am the trivia KING!!!!!!

**Zapper2003** · 09-21-2010, 03:30 AM

I know "ring around the rosie" originated during the plague...dont know about sleepin' tight though.

Micheal Jacksons house? Maybe?

**67CamaroRSSS** · 09-21-2010, 09:21 AM

The "sleep tight" part comes from back in the day when the prairie was 1st being settled by the white man. They called them "Sod busters" cuz that's what they did. Also due to the lack of wood they built houses out of sod. Beds lacking a proper wooden bedframe were constructed with interlace ropes to suspend the mattress above the floor. It was a constant effort to keep the hemp ropes taunt (tight) and keep the bed off of the dirt floor. Hence the "sleep tight" part of the ditty...

**Schmalgar** · 09-21-2010, 10:05 AM

Ah. Hearing that, I will change my answer to 'no I didn't know that' as that does not sound at all familiar. Everything I know about prairie living comes from Little House on the Prairie! And they had wooden beds. Of course, on the show they were in Wisconsin, not really out on the Kansas plains...