Tom Baker

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

Actor

P. J. O'Rourke

Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

American Comedian

Viv Albertine

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.

British Musician

Eskinder Nega

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

Ethiopian Journalist

Desi Arnaz

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

American Actor

Murray Kempton

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

American Journalist

Yvonne De Carlo

Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.

Canadian Actress

Theophile Gautier

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

French Poet

Leonard Maltin

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

American Critic

Rain Dove

I had lice in third grade, and my mom shaved all my hair off.

American Model

The plural of 'louse' is 'lice.' Remember, just changing 's' to 'z' doesn't make it plural.

Plural Form

'Louse' is often used when talking about personal hygiene issues related to hair or skin.

Physical Context

'Louse' applies to several species, but 'head louse' is most common in conversations about children.

Specific Species

Calling someone a 'louse' is insulting. It suggests that they are unpleasant or unethical.

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When 'louse' refers to a person, it's used more informally and can sound harsh or rude.

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Avoid using 'louse' as an insult in formal writing or speech. It's too informal and disrespectful.

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 trunks to scoop up dust and throw it over their bodies however the rest of them the rest of the mammals kind of have to roll around like this and what that will do is that helps suffocate any of little parasites that are living on their body so particularly lice will end up being suffocated maybe the small tick

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 which they also bought with slaves. The slave trade had become an arms race, altering societies and economies across the continent. As for the slaves themselves, they faced unimaginable brutality. After being marched to slave forts on the coast, shaved to prevent lice, and branded,

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 as a pigment is rare and since good pigments are so rare in nature they often come from unexpected places so there are lots of unusual ways of making pigments and i mean one of them is to get insects and crush them so you you could get the kermis lice or you could get

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 so being small gives animals a low energy requirement and an adaptive advantage. And yet, the sea is also the land of giants. Here, gargantuan squids can reach 18 meters long. Isopods scuttle around the sea floor like enormous wood lice.

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 I think first it's important for us to recognize what it is to be blind. Everywhere I went looking for work, they said no, what use do we have for a blind woman? I couldn't thread a needle or see the lice in my hair.

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 And she's... you can see in this picture she's got so many head lice so she shaved all her head off. So, you know, just in a few months since I took this picture her entire life and world has completely changed.

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 mullets price edible tastes as usual mmm oh oh Nitz what I'm afraid sir you have headlights on I'm not gonna be able to deal with you today you're joking how embarrassing but what a head lice really

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 and more offensive. I was asked to move my toothbrush from the bathroom, I was asked to not share towels, and I was even asked to wash my clothes on a hotter setting. This wasn't head lice, y'all.

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 embodiment of Buddhist wisdom known as the Monkey Temple the complex draws more than worshipers and tourists these rhesus macaques are regarded as sacred descendents of the lice that plagued the

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 several times a day to keep these lice alive I need to feed them on me these little pots should keep them safe while allowing them to bite me thank you very

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