Could it have been fleas? The behavior and experience you describe sounds a lot more like fleas.

Thank you, but I'm on Windows or sometimes a Linux machine. The key command for the circumflex in Windows is alt+0226, but hell if I can remember that ever. I have no idea what the key command is for my Linux environment. I have a brain like a steel sieve.

I am so NOT eating anything that has been within the orbit of her personality, because COOTIES. But then again, it is cake. Hmmm. What a dilemma.

Thank you!. I have no idea how to get that mark either. I copy/paste it from elsewhere.

Yes! Please evangelize others, because nincompoop deserves a big comeback.

We're bringing it back! I like to couple it with "fascist" for an extra-festive effect.

Okay. Now I want a cake with one of the fake headlines I wrote. Because eating a piece of cake with the word "dunderheaded" on it sounds really excellent.

Oh! Thanks!

Extra! Extra!

Wait. There's a movie called "The Bucket List"? Jesus, I'm glad I don't pay attention to this stuff. I'm not even going to look that thing up on wikipedia because I don't have time for a Silkwood shower today.

The idea that hygiene could make a person immune to bed bugs, fleas, lice, or cockroaches is largely inaccurate.The continued belief that getting lice, etc. is somehow linked to cleanliness gives rise to the belief that such infestations are a moral failing. Such a viewpoint is scarcely helpful.

Since pyrethroids ARE (synthetic) pyrethrin-based pesticides (you know, the ones the entire article is talking about), it sounds like you were merely lucky.

Um. Since I have no idea what you are talking about, I would like to recommend firefox and adblock, because they will get rid of this nightmare you seem to be experiencing. I am not seeing what you are seeing because ADBLOCK.

I made a comment, but now I realize I don't want to have made that comment. Since there is no real way to delete comments, here is my filler non-comment.

I will continue to be grateful to you personally for my introduction to this Fabulous! New! Phrase!

Okay, maybe "broseph douchcanoes" is a standard Thing the People Say and I just don't know it. Maybe I'm tired. But I'm crying laughing over here.

Hearted. It's a real relief to have my exact issue with his writing so nicely-articulated.

This is the 5th time in the last month that io9 has used "stunning" in the headline for something. I would like to submit that I am still conscious and not stunned. Also, I'm a nitpicky weirdo.

Here to calm your non-boiling blood, WPA posters for marionette theater productions of R.U.R.:

Thank you. I'm here to help! To help you see how terrible poor sick people are, that is.