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Maybe this is where we can reach people and make them understand climate change is real, winter ticks are winning the arms race and your iconic species is losing. – Pete Pekins	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Let the adjuster do his job. he does not need any help from you. It honestly ticks them off! – Brett Rostochil	added by anonymous 2 years ago
Moose densities greater than one per square mile support high numbers of winter ticks which negatively impact moose health and survival. – Vermont Fish	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our plan ticks every box of conservative orthodoxy. – Ted Halstead	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If true, what were the parameters of the program ? Who ordered it ? was there any accidental release anywhere or at any time of any of the diseased ticks ? – Chris Smith	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Rocky Mountain's not the first time ticks have been found in unusual places. – Neeta Pardanani Connally	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all. – Davy Crockett	added by Normando 3 years ago
Originally it was just for injured troops but I get enquiries all day, every day, from disabled people saying 'how can I get into motorsport?', so last year we decided to open up our doors to everybody. Anybody with a disability that ticks the right boxes can be eligible to join our race team. – Dave Player	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I grew up my whole life running around with ticks on me, and I never thought anything of it, but this was just one extremely special tick. – Jennifer Slone	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I never understood why it was illegal in the first place, it kind of ticks me off. Twenty-four hours ago, sports betting was illegal, now it’s like whatever. – Marisa Lankester	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It kind of ticks me off. Twenty-four hours ago, sports betting was illegal, now it’s like whatever. – Marisa Lankester	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It enables these ticks to expand to new areas. Where there are ticks, there comes diseases. – Lyle Petersen	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It enables these ticks to expand to new areas, where there are ticks, there comes diseases. – Lyle Petersen	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It makes sense that people who have pets, especially dogs, are more likely to be around fields or areas where ticks could be hanging out, pets can bring these parasites into the human environment, especially if they sit on couches or sleep in beds with owners. – Bruno Chomel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
When we found him abandoned in an empty lot he was so skinny and ravaged by ticks that we called him Costela. – Andrea Beckert	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I have to admit yesterday when I saw that cartoon -- not much ticks me off -- but making fun of my girls, that'll do it, all of us learned in kindergarten -- don't hit little girls. It's not complicated. Don't make fun of a 5-year-old girl and a 7-year-old girl. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 7 years ago
At the moment, a Wels catfish ticks more of the boxes than any of the other contenders for the explanation, i would like it to be something new and undiscovered rather than something a little bit mundane. People do report four- or five-feet long necks sticking up out of Loch Ness. That's not going to be a Wels catfish. – Steve Feltham	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Let us pop our head lice, we must remove ticks and place them outside in the sun. We ask foreign nationals to pack their belongings and be sent back. – South Africa Zulu king	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Let us pop our head lice. We must remove ticks and place them outside in the sun. We ask foreign nationals to pack their belongings and be sent back. – Goodwill Zwelithini	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
With the increased forestation in the state and in the Northeast, the deer herd have increased exponentially, then the ticks have increased, and now the virus. – Theodore Andreadis	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Examine yourself closely when you leave the area because these ticks will attach and begin to feed very quickly, they like to attach around the waist, behind your knees, and even below your hairline. You want to check yourself quite closely. – Theodore Andreadis	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
These ticks will transmit this virus when they feed within a matter of hours, whereas with Lyme disease, for example, ticks generally have to feed up to two days before they’re capable of transmitting it. – Theodore Andreadis	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living. – Max Lerner	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. – James Thurber	added by anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe this is where we can reach people and make them understand climate change is real, winter ticks are winning the arms race and your iconic species is losing.

– Pete Pekins

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Let the adjuster do his job. he does not need any help from you. It honestly ticks them off!

– Brett Rostochil

added by anonymous
2 years ago

Moose densities greater than one per square mile support high numbers of winter ticks which negatively impact moose health and survival.

– Vermont Fish

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our plan ticks every box of conservative orthodoxy.

– Ted Halstead

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If true, what were the parameters of the program ? Who ordered it ? was there any accidental release anywhere or at any time of any of the diseased ticks ?

– Chris Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Rocky Mountain's not the first time ticks have been found in unusual places.

– Neeta Pardanani Connally

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

– Davy Crockett

added by Normando
3 years ago

Originally it was just for injured troops but I get enquiries all day, every day, from disabled people saying 'how can I get into motorsport?', so last year we decided to open up our doors to everybody. Anybody with a disability that ticks the right boxes can be eligible to join our race team.

– Dave Player

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I grew up my whole life running around with ticks on me, and I never thought anything of it, but this was just one extremely special tick.

– Jennifer Slone

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I never understood why it was illegal in the first place, it kind of ticks me off. Twenty-four hours ago, sports betting was illegal, now it’s like whatever.

– Marisa Lankester

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It kind of ticks me off. Twenty-four hours ago, sports betting was illegal, now it’s like whatever.

– Marisa Lankester

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It enables these ticks to expand to new areas. Where there are ticks, there comes diseases.

– Lyle Petersen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It enables these ticks to expand to new areas, where there are ticks, there comes diseases.

– Lyle Petersen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It makes sense that people who have pets, especially dogs, are more likely to be around fields or areas where ticks could be hanging out, pets can bring these parasites into the human environment, especially if they sit on couches or sleep in beds with owners.

– Bruno Chomel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When we found him abandoned in an empty lot he was so skinny and ravaged by ticks that we called him Costela.

– Andrea Beckert

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I have to admit yesterday when I saw that cartoon -- not much ticks me off -- but making fun of my girls, that'll do it, all of us learned in kindergarten -- don't hit little girls. It's not complicated. Don't make fun of a 5-year-old girl and a 7-year-old girl.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
7 years ago

At the moment, a Wels catfish ticks more of the boxes than any of the other contenders for the explanation, i would like it to be something new and undiscovered rather than something a little bit mundane. People do report four- or five-feet long necks sticking up out of Loch Ness. That's not going to be a Wels catfish.

– Steve Feltham

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Let us pop our head lice, we must remove ticks and place them outside in the sun. We ask foreign nationals to pack their belongings and be sent back.

– South Africa Zulu king

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Let us pop our head lice. We must remove ticks and place them outside in the sun. We ask foreign nationals to pack their belongings and be sent back.

– Goodwill Zwelithini

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With the increased forestation in the state and in the Northeast, the deer herd have increased exponentially, then the ticks have increased, and now the virus.

– Theodore Andreadis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Examine yourself closely when you leave the area because these ticks will attach and begin to feed very quickly, they like to attach around the waist, behind your knees, and even below your hairline. You want to check yourself quite closely.

– Theodore Andreadis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

These ticks will transmit this virus when they feed within a matter of hours, whereas with Lyme disease, for example, ticks generally have to feed up to two days before they’re capable of transmitting it.

– Theodore Andreadis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

– Max Lerner

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

– James Thurber

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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