anotherben said at 3:19 PM 06-01-2001: the eggs are white...i think thats what they were looking for on those special days in elementary school when the nurse sifted through everyones hair with a pencil and her hoary superannuous fingers. i escaped my days at walker elementary without any pesky parasites... but many of my peers were sent home for harboring those vile nits.
thomas said at 3:26 PM 06-01-2001: Alas many of my kinsmen and fellow pupils were torn from the bastion of pedagogical (?) splendor that was Bains Elementary for no offense save providing a safe, tasty (if lousy) scalp for brooding vermin.
anotherben said at 3:57 PM 06-01-2001: perhaps the most pernicious aspect of those infestations of the damned were the long lasting socio-political implications that reverberated through those poor souls times in elementary academia with parochial minded peers. why, there was one fellow who long years after having donned a clean scalp still wore the tarry name "lice head".