Comments on: New Great Lakes quiz http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/11/03/new-great-lakes-assesment/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Some of our favorite reader comments of 2009 | Great Lakes Echo http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/11/03/new-great-lakes-assesment/comment-page-1/#comment-3618 Some of our favorite reader comments of 2009 | Great Lakes Echo Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:03:31 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=13143#comment-3618 [...] New Great Lakes quiz Comment: “My ex is definitely an Asian carp. He’s huge, gross-looking, and he frequently [...] [...] New Great Lakes quiz Comment: “My ex is definitely an Asian carp. He’s huge, gross-looking, and he frequently [...]

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]]> By: Cover the Planet » Blog Archive » Can you commit journalism while comparing your ex to an invasive species? http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/11/03/new-great-lakes-assesment/comment-page-1/#comment-2539 Cover the Planet » Blog Archive » Can you commit journalism while comparing your ex to an invasive species? Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:14:55 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=13143#comment-2539 [...] We just asked readers to help us create a new quiz: Which Great Lakes invasive species is your former significant other? Judging by private e-mails and the comments on the site we’re succeeding with the engagement piece. But just maybe we’re delivering content as well. Check out this comment on that post: Spotted knapweed – a loner with a toxic personality – sucks the fun and energy out of life (poor palatability for herbivores and takes up all the water in the area, possibly releases a toxin that kills other plants), likes chaos and disorder (colonizes disturbed locations) [...] [...] We just asked readers to help us create a new quiz: Which Great Lakes invasive species is your former significant other? Judging by private e-mails and the comments on the site we’re succeeding with the engagement piece. But just maybe we’re delivering content as well. Check out this comment on that post: Spotted knapweed – a loner with a toxic personality – sucks the fun and energy out of life (poor palatability for herbivores and takes up all the water in the area, possibly releases a toxin that kills other plants), likes chaos and disorder (colonizes disturbed locations) [...]

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]]> By: Rebecca http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/11/03/new-great-lakes-assesment/comment-page-1/#comment-2520 Rebecca Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:48:21 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=13143#comment-2520 House Sparrow - aggressive, walks over other people to get their own way (kills other birds and their young and takes over their nests), determined (will nest anywhere...even where means are taken to prevent them) Purple loosestrife - nice to look at (beautiful purple flowers), needy or a money drain (difficult or expensive to get rid of), jealous - forces you to eliminate your normal social schedule to spend time with them or drop friendships (disrupts water flow and decreases biological diversity) Spotted knapweed - a loner with a toxic personality - sucks the fun and energy out of life (poor palatability for herbivores and takes up all the water in the area, possibly releases a toxin that kills other plants), likes chaos and disorder (colonizes disturbed locations) House Sparrow – aggressive, walks over other people to get their own way (kills other birds and their young and takes over their nests), determined (will nest anywhere…even where means are taken to prevent them)

Purple loosestrife – nice to look at (beautiful purple flowers), needy or a money drain (difficult or expensive to get rid of), jealous – forces you to eliminate your normal social schedule to spend time with them or drop friendships (disrupts water flow and decreases biological diversity)

Spotted knapweed – a loner with a toxic personality – sucks the fun and energy out of life (poor palatability for herbivores and takes up all the water in the area, possibly releases a toxin that kills other plants), likes chaos and disorder (colonizes disturbed locations)

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]]> By: Thea http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/11/03/new-great-lakes-assesment/comment-page-1/#comment-2519 Thea Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:04:29 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=13143#comment-2519 My ex is definitely an Asian carp. He's huge, gross-looking, and he frequently pops up when I least expect him too. I wish there was an electric fence to keep him away from Michigan. My ex is definitely an Asian carp. He’s huge, gross-looking, and he frequently pops up when I least expect him too. I wish there was an electric fence to keep him away from Michigan.

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]]> By: Jeff Alexander http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/11/03/new-great-lakes-assesment/comment-page-1/#comment-2518 Jeff Alexander Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:51:43 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=13143#comment-2518 Is your ex: As bug-eyed as a round goby? Did your ex give you a disease, like the foreign mussels that trigger botulism outbreaks. Did your ex leave your house a filthy mess, the way zebra and quagga mussels soil beaches with algae. Did your ex lay around the house and stink up the place, the way alewives do when they wash up on beaches. Okay, enough. I could go on all day (and I'm happily married for 25 years). Is your ex: As bug-eyed as a round goby?
Did your ex give you a disease, like the foreign mussels that trigger botulism outbreaks.
Did your ex leave your house a filthy mess, the way zebra and quagga mussels soil beaches with algae.
Did your ex lay around the house and stink up the place, the way alewives do when they wash up on beaches.
Okay, enough. I could go on all day (and I’m happily married for 25 years).

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