Can jumping Mexicans cause an earthquake?

[Mike!]

It would have been an order of magnitude larger if they had jumping beans in there pockets.

Everytime I look at the thread title, my mind puts beans in there somehow.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Everytime I look at the thread title, my mind puts beans in there somehow.

I think we all do.

 

[William Parcher]

I think we all do.

Including myself when I made the title. I thought, "is there a way that I can include beans in there?" It didn't work out. The closest I thought of was, "Can Mexican jumping beings cause an earthquake?"

 

[Wolrab]

Have Mexicans jumping been recorded as an earthquake?

 

[Trebuchet]

Is anyone else here old enough to remember when you could buy real Mexican jumping beans at the five and dime? You could also get the kind that were basically a medication capsule with a little ball bearing in it. Those were probably better.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Is anyone else here old enough to remember when you could buy real Mexican jumping beans at the five and dime? You could also get the kind that were basically a medication capsule with a little ball bearing in it. Those were probably better.

Yeah, I had a little tin of a half dozen or so... mid-sixties I guess.
No idea where the folks picked it up... Knottsberry Farm, Scott's Valley or some similar local tourist spot.

Don't even recall how long the little worms/larvae lasted.

 

[Mike!]

Is anyone else here old enough to remember when you could buy real Mexican jumping beans at the five and dime? You could also get the kind that were basically a medication capsule with a little ball bearing in it. Those were probably better.

Yep, I remember the cardboard stand up display, with a few of them each in their own little clear plastic box, noisily jumping all over the place at the checkout counter of the local 5 & dime in the 60's.
Kids today, with their hand held video games, will never know the simple joy of holding an imported worm, in a bean, that's jumping around in a box, in their hand.
Somehow the world seems a little less magical now.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Well... we've still got that wicked ass fast shrimp that blasts open clams. I'd like to see that TBH