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29 January 2006

Red wigglers. The cadillac of worms.

post by: chewatadistance at: 21:48 | 16 comments

I would like to learn more about worms from someone named chewatadistance.

posted by iconomy 29 January | 21:55

I swear I thought turkeys could fly.

posted by jonmc 29 January | 22:09

Live bait!

posted by mygothlaundry 29 January | 22:15

I've seen those before, mgl. Filling that machine must be near the top of Crappy Jobs list.

posted by jonmc 29 January | 22:25

cleaning up tables in a restaraunt would be worse. worms are our friends.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 29 January | 22:41

Heh. I have actually used one. The worms are in dirt that is in styrofoam containers like from the deli, with plastic lids, and they're cold, so they don't move around much (until they warm up in your backpack, bleeargh!) and so, if it's cold enough outside too, they don't even move too much when you put them on the hook, which is seriously bonus, since the putting the worm on the hook thing is one of those really unpleasant things about fishing, which otherwise is one of the best ways I can think of to spend time.

posted by mygothlaundry 29 January | 22:46

We've got one at our local convenience store. Use it all the time. Let's go fishing sometime, MGL!

posted by jrossi4r 29 January | 22:49

I was just watching Grey's Anatomy with pips. It's a good enough show and all, but it annoys me on a certain level. The character's are all so...puposeful and striving and shit. Even their problems are interesting and complex and shit. Why can't they make a TV drama about people leading pointless lives full of tedium and bereft of deeper meaning. And no, the news dosen't count.

cleaning up tables in a restaraunt would be worse.

One of my first jobs (at 15) was as a busboy, it sucked shit through a sock, but jamming live night crawlers in to a jerry-rigged Coke machine would be worse me thinks.

worms are our friends.

Freinds who will eat your flesh when you die.

posted by jonmc 29 January | 22:54

Other people's scraps are far nastier than night crawlers, old bean. Truth.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 29 January | 23:35

I'd say it's a dead heat. Decaying yeast in an industrial dumpster on a hot day trumps em both, though. trust me.

posted by jonmc 29 January | 23:40

Two things about red wigglers:

First, I had a worm compost bin in Austin that way rocked. Those worms, they know how to make some really good, uh, shit.

Secondly, my first job in college was working for this creepy old man named Leon who ran a bait and tackle shop. In addition to sorting mail from his creditors, one of my responsibilities was counting worms into those styrofoam cups.

Five bucks an hour, baby.

Also, chewatadistance: Yay.

posted by mudpuppie 29 January | 23:54

I thought it was pretty much a given that the worst job in the world is jizmopper at a porn theater

btw, sand shrimp, which I've used as Steelhead bait, smell even worse when the've gone bad (i.e., dead).

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 January | 01:41

I thought this was a song from a commercial on WKRP or something. Cool, pupps! The mrs wants to get a worm thing that sits in the kitchen but it sounds like it might be smelly to me. Not to mention what the cats might do to it.

posted by chewatadistance 30 January | 08:50

Yay MeCha anglers!

posted by sciurus 30 January | 08:52

John the Baptist shower curtains.

posted by Orange Swan 30 January | 09:00

The mister and I fish but we only use flies (as in fake bugs). Yay for not having to kill worms! And most of the time we don't even kill fish (actually, I have yet to do so), just torture them a wee bit (barbless hooks) and release them.

posted by deborah 30 January | 14:37

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