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"Stephen!" writes:
(Tom Keats) wrote in
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You laugh, but garlic does keep away blood suckers... Eat a lot of
garlic and the mosquitos will leave you alone.
That myth has been busted.
By a couple jerks in Frisco with questionable techniques and personal
bias or by someone with real scientific training and reasoning?
No.
I could say: "Google on it."
and then you'd say: "No, /you/'ve gotta come up with the cites."
And then I would.
We can save a bunch of effort.
I'll tell ya what /does/ keep mosquitoes away -- smoking.
Fire up a Panter[tm] Rood, and kick back in the chaise longe
in the back yard, in unbitten and un-blood-sucken paradise.
Maybe while also sipping a gin & ginger beer on the rocks,
with the Cardinals game humming along on the radio.
--
Nothing is safe from me.
Above address is just a spam midden.
I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca