# Channeling my inner lizard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channeling-my-inner-lizard/922013>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channeling-my-inner-lizard/922013 "2020-10-02T06:14:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channeling-my-inner-lizard/922013/1 "2020-10-02T06:14:59Z")

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Okay, how about something about as mundane and pointless as it gets . . .

It seems I’ve been getting pretty good at catching mosquitoes. There’s certainly plenty of practice material around here these days. I snatch them right out of the air in mid-flight. I just caught #30 – and that’s just today!

I’m going to string up their little mosquito scalps and hang them on my belt.

(And BTW, they haven’t gotten a single bite out of me today. They rarely get more than one or two in a day at the most, if any.)

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channeling-my-inner-lizard/922013/2 "2020-10-04T02:59:38Z")

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Even more impressive if you can do that with your tongue.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channeling-my-inner-lizard/922013/3 "2020-10-04T03:03:11Z")

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> [@penultima\_thule](#):
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> Even more impressive if you can do that with your tongue

I have plenty of prehensile body appendages to work with.

Caught about 30 yesterday and about 30 the day before too. I’ve only seen about half-a-dozen today, and I got most of those. They seem to come in waves.