Fakers will take it on the poor overrated spurts this Tuesday.

[Crickets]

Faker fans...rejoice...you can now beat the crap out of the overrated spurts this Tuesday Night..

You can not beat the Heat

You can not beat the Celts

You can not beat the ringless Mavs

But...You can certainly beat the crap out of the overrated spurts.

:rollin

[DMC]

Do you mean "take it out"? I don't know what "take it on the poor overrated...." means. Take what?

[DJ Mbenga]

i think its more likely a scrub like neal goes for 27

[ElNono]

Hola Louis

[Man In Black]

Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects somewhat related to grasshoppers, and more closely related to katydids or bush crickets (family Tettigoniidae). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. There are about 900 species of crickets. They tend to be nocturnal and are often confused with grasshoppers because they have a similar body structure including jumping hind legs. Crickets are harmless to humans.
Contents [hide]
1 Cricket chirping
2 Diet and life cycle
3 In popular culture
4 Taxonomy
5 Gallery
6 Footnotes
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
[edit]Cricket chirping

Only the male crickets chirp. A large vein running along the bottom of each wing has "teeth," much like a comb does. The chirping sound is created by running the top of one wing along the teeth at the bottom of the other wing. As he does this, the cricket also holds the wings up and open, so that the wing membranes can act as acoustical sails. It is a popular myth that the cricket chirps by rubbing its legs together.
There are four types of cricket song: The calling song attracts females and repels other males, and is fairly loud. The courting song is used when a female cricket is near, and is a very quiet song. An aggressive song is triggered by chemoreceptors on the antennae that detect the near presence of another male cricket and a copulatory song is produced for a brief period after a successful mating.[citation needed]
Crickets chirp at different rates depending on their species and the temperature of their environment. Most species chirp at higher rates the higher the temperature is (approximately 62 chirps a minute at 13°C in one common species; each species has its own rate). The relationship between temperature and the rate of chirping is known as Dolbear's Law. Using this law it is possible to calculate the temperature in Fahrenheit by adding 40 to the number of chirps produced in 14 seconds by the snowy tree cricket common in the United States.[1]
Crickets, like all other insects, are cold-blooded. They take on the temperature of their surroundings. Many characteristics of cold-blooded animals, like the rate at which crickets chirp, or the speed at which ants walk, follow an equation called the Arrhenius equation. This equation describes the activation energy or threshold energy required to induce a chemical reaction. For instance, crickets, like all other organisms, have many chemical reactions occurring within their bodies. As the temperature rises, it becomes easier to reach a certain activation or threshold energy, and chemical reactions, like those that occur during the muscle contractions used to produce chirping, happen more rapidly. As the temperature falls, the rate of chemical reactions inside the crickets' bodies slow down, causing characteristics, such as chirping, to also slow down.
Crickets have tympanic membranes located just below the middle joint of each front leg (or knee). This enables them to hear another cricket's song.



The calling song of a field cricket.
In 1975, Dr. William H. Cade discovered that the parasitic tachinid fly Ormia ochracea is attracted to the song of the male cricket, and uses it to locate the male in order to deposit her larvae on him. It was the first example of a natural enemy that locates its host or prey using the mating signal[2]. Since then, many species of crickets have been found to be carrying the same parasitic fly, or related species. In response, a mutation leaving males unable to chirp was observed amongst a population of field crickets on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
[edit]Diet and life cycle

Crickets are omnivorous scavengers who feed on organic materials, as well as decaying plant material, fungi, and some seedling plants. Crickets eat their own dead when there are no other sources of food available, and exhibit predatorial behavior upon weakened, crippled crickets.
Crickets have relatively powerful jaws, and have been known to bite humans, mostly without breaking the skin. The bite can, however, be painful when inflicted on sensitive skin such as the webbing between fingers.[citation needed]
Crickets mate in late summer and lay their eggs in the fall. The eggs hatch in the spring and have been estimated to number as high as 2,000 per fertile female.[citation needed] Subspecies Acheta Domestica however lays eggs almost continually, with the females capable of laying at least twice a month. Female crickets have a long needlelike egg-laying organ called an ovipositor.
Crickets are popular as a live food source for carnivorous pets like frogs, lizards, tortoises, salamanders, and spiders. Feeding crickets with nutritious food in order to pass the nutrition onto animals that eat them is known as gut loading. In addition to this, the crickets are often dusted with a mineral supplement powder to ensure complete nutrition to the pet.
[edit]In popular culture

Further information: Crickets as pets

This "In popular culture" section may contain minor or trivial references. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture rather than simply listing appearances, and remove trivial references. (August 2009)
Crickets are popular pets and are considered good luck in some countries; in China, crickets are sometimes kept in cages (Carrera 1991). It is also common to have them as caged pets in some European countries, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. Cricket fighting as a gambling or sports betting pastime also occurs, particularly in Mexico and Southeast Asia.
Various species of crickets are a part of people's diets in some countries, and are considered delicacies of high cuisine in places like Mexico and China.
The folklore and mythology surrounding crickets is extensive.[3] The singing of crickets in the folklore of Brazil and elsewhere is sometimes taken to be a sign of impending rain, or of a financial windfall. In Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicles of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the sudden chirping of a cricket heralded the sighting of land for his crew, just as their water supply had run out. (Lenko and Papavero 1996). In Caraguatatuba, Brazil, a black cricket in a room is said to portend illness; a gray one, money; and a green one, hope (Lenko and Papavero 1996). In Alagoas state, northeast Brazil, a cricket announces death, thus it is killed if it chirps in a house (Araújo 1977). In the village of Capueiruçu, Bahia State, a constantly chirping cricket foretells pregnancy, but if it pauses, money is expected (K.L.G. Lima, unpublished data). The mole cricket locally known as "paquinha", "jeguinho", "cachorrinho-d'água", or "cava-chão" (genera Scapteriscus and Neocurtilla, Gryllotalpidae) is said to predict rain when it digs into the ground (Fowler 1994).
In Barbados, a loud cricket means money is coming in; hence, a cricket must not be killed or evicted if it chirps inside a house. However, another type of cricket that is less noisy forebodes illness or death. (Forde 1988) In Zambia, the Gryllotalpa africanus cricket is held to bring good fortune to anyone who sees it (Mbata 1999).
Since the days of radio entertainment, the sound of crickets chirping has been consistently used as an indication that a scene is taking place late at night.
In American comedy, the sound of crickets may be used to humorously indicate a dead silence when a response or activity is expected. For example, if a comedian in a TV show tells a bad joke, instead of the audience laughing, crickets may chirp. If this happens more than once, even the crickets may be stunned into silence. Similarly on political blogs, writers may use the concept of "crickets chirping" in a rhetorical sense to signal that the writer believes that he or she has made a point that a hypothetical opponent cannot answer. The space that would have been occupied by the nonexistent answer is instead occupied by the symbolic word *crickets* or *chirp chirp* to symbolize this silence.
Chester Cricket is the main protagonist in the popular book The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden.
The Walt Disney Company has used a number of notable cricket characters in their animated movies through the ages. Most of these characters represent good. For example, in the movie Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket is honored with the position of the title character's conscience. In Mulan, Cri-kee is carried in a cage as a symbol of luck, as in many Asian countries.
"Cricket" is musician slang for a harmonica. Van Morrison may be heard calling for the "cricket" in the studio version of "Bright Side of the Road", introducing the harmonica solo.
The Crickets were the band of legendary rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly.
A Lubbock, Texas baseball team in the Texas-Louisiana League were called the Lubbock Crickets, named after hometown hero Buddy Holly's band.
[edit]Taxonomy



African field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
Subfamilies of the family Gryllidae:
Eneopterinae – (true) bush crickets
Gryllinae – common or field crickets; brown or black; despite the name, some of them enter houses (e.g. Acheta domesticus, the house cricket). This family includes the genera Gryllus, Platygryllus, Acheta and Gryllodes.
Nemobiinae – ground crickets
Oecanthinae – tree crickets; usually green with broad, transparent wings; frequent trees and shrubs.
Phalangopsinae - spider crickets
Podoscirtinae – anomalous crickets
Pteroplistinae
Trigonidiinae – sword-tail crickets
In addition to the above subfamilies in the family Gryllidae, several other orthopteran groups outside of this family also may be called crickets:
Cave crickets - also called camel crickets
Jerusalem crickets / Sand crickets
Mogoplistidae – scaly crickets
Mole crickets
Mormon crickets
Myrmecophilidae – ant crickets
Parktown prawns
Tettigoniidae – katydids or bush crickets
[edit]Gallery


Australian brown field cricket


Scanning electron micrograph of a spiracle valve—the organ that allows fresh air to pass into the cricket's respiratory system


A cricket

[edit]Footnotes

^ Urban Legends Reference Pages: Cricket Chirp Thermometer
^ Cade, W. H. 1975. Acoustically orienting parasitoids: Fly phonotaxis to cricket song. Science 190: 1312-1313.
^ "Cricket singing means rain: semiotic meaning of insects in the district of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, northeastern Brazil" [1]
[edit]See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gryllidae
Wikispecies has information related to: Gryllidae
Insect fighting
Chapulines
Nematomorpha
G. W. Pierce
[edit]References

Gorochov, A.V. & Mostovski, M.B. 2008. Apterous crickets of the tribe Gryllini from South Africa and Namibia (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). African Invertebrates 49 (1): 109-121. [2]
Lisa Gail Ryan, Berthold Laufer, Lafcadio Hearn (1996). Insect musicians & cricket champions: a cultural history of singing insects in China and Japan. China Books. ISBN 0835125769.
Franz Huber, Thomas Edwin Moore, Werner Loher (1989). Cricket behavior and neurobiology. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801422728.
[edit]External links

The cricket suicide
Intro on house crickets
[3]
Singing Insects of North America An online field guide
house cricket on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
tropical house cricket on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
field crickets, Gryllus spp. on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
Web article: The recent evolution of a population of silent Hawaiian crickets WhyFiles.org
Categories: Crickets | Pet insects

[ImDaNuts]

100-92 Spurs

[cherylsteele]

Louis/MyBalls/Princess Pimp/Crickets can't come up with something original so he uses spurts.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

The Bucks and Heat are very good defensive teams.

The Spurs.....well, let's just say this should be a high scoring game.

[rayray2k8]

Aw what happened Lous? you got banned from the spurs forum? :lmao

[Crickets]

Do you mean "take it out"? I don't know what "take it on the poor overrated...." means. Take what?
Take "it" as in all their fury...

Like also taking advantage on your team since they ca not beat the teams I just mentioned above

[DMC]

Take "it" as in all their fury...

Like also taking advantage on your team since they ca not beat the teams I just mentioned above
I am guessing English isn't your first language.

[lefty]

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[Banzai]

Crickets you are a fucking idiot.

[rayray2k8]

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[DMC]

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[Agloco]

Feel free to eat a big shit sandwich Louis. :lol

[Koolaid_Man]

Matt Barnes Twitter:


Real talk we are playing like $h!t, BUT its a marathon not a sprint. You can hop off the bandwagon if u want to but ull be sorry...

http://twitter.com/Matt_Barnes22/status/19974355253465088

[Agloco]

Matt Barnes Twitter:



http://twitter.com/Matt_Barnes22/status/19974355253465088

This shit again?

lol being a Matt Barnes disciple

[ElNono]

lol louis

[DMX7]

tee-hee @ this thread.

[slugger22]

crickets you are a fucking idiot.

+ 1

[ElNono]

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[Spursmania]

Dumb ass:lol

[phyzik]

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[crc21209]

:lol At anyone picking a name like "Crickets"....

[Chase_the_Bass]

The Bucks and Heat are very good defensive teams.

The Spurs.....well, let's just say this should be a high scoring game.
:nope

[Frenzy]

Wow..full of fail.

[TE]

Crickets, a troll, should just never post again.