between eating tacos everyday or being skinny, would you choose hard tacos or soft tacos? *crickets*. More *crickets*. Get it??? I kept seeing the word crickets used in tweets and online time wasters and I didn’t know what it meant. Finally did some research and know way too much about the small to medium sized insect with a mostly cylindrical, vertically flattened body and slender antennae. Which of course is not the cool, slang use of the word. This Boomlennial ventured on and now I get it and want to use it. So back to my one liner at the top of this blogue. Someone tells a joke. Not funny. No one laughs. Awkward silence. CRICKETS! Or, you’ve been emailing back and forth and then no communication. They’ve gone CRICKETS! Who comes up with this sh*t? And how do you go from an insect related to the grasshopper where the male produces a characteristic rhythmical chirping sound and has a smooth, robust pronotum behind the head to silence which is pretty much the anti-crickets? This is the question Googs isn’t answering for me. Much like when you were young and looked up bad words in the dictionary and couldn’t figure out why they were bad. Why are they calling that girl a hoar when she looks nothing like white ice crystals? Just confusing. But I do know there are 900 species of crickets with about 100 being found in the US. Now I am boring myself which is hard to do since I am oh-so-fascinating. Ok I’ll tell a joke. Broccoli- “I look like a tree.” Walnut- “I look like a brain.” Mushroom- “I look like an umbrella.” Banana- “Dude! Change the topic.” CHIRP! CHIRP!