CHRIST!
(you evil fucker.)
Bumble bees and moths both flutter around and blindly bump into things, which, I admit, is scary. But not nearly as scary as... HAVING EIGHT CREEPY LEGS!
bye the way... how you like me now?
oooooffffff.
um, that spider appears to have 7 legs. I stayed overnite in my friends room in Japan and unexpectedly came accross the biggest spider i have ever seen. It was the size of my hand, very hairy and about two inches away from my face. when i mentioned to her how it scared the crap out of me, she calmly replied, 'oh thats just the spider that lives in my room.' Jeesh.
You are right about that spider! Maybe a bee ate one of his legs.
i have a persistent memory from childhood - though i am not completely sure if it was real or imagined - that i was standing outside my parenst bungalow under the overhang where there were bushes that bees often cruised. sitting on the railing was a big fat bumblebee and i remember petting it's furry body with my finger for what seemed to be about 10 minutes.
ohya - and that is probably the cutest bumblebee picture i have ever seen - it looks like a bumblebee sleeping baby bee
That's a good bee patting story! I think a big dog-sized bee would be a great pet.
I realised last weekend why bees are so cute as compared to other insects. It's because the biggish roundish friendly thorax looks like their head, and the dark patches where the wings come out kind of look like eyes. In fact they have a regular creepy bug head with weird reflecty alien eye thingys tucked underneath, facing downwards. I've got some really great pictures of this but I am honestly nervous about posting for fear of driving L.M. away from this blog forever.
hhhmmmmm, never took the time to pet a bumblebee, I was always too busy shrieking in terror. One friend of mine, S.R. is actually allergic and could die from a bee sting, and if you think I'd be embarrassed when she calmly witnesses me launching a full bee-buzzed-by-me-drama, you'd be wrong.
OH YES, Sally, do pop over for coffee real soon with your fucking dog-sized bee!
I'd rather have a dog sized bee than a bee sized dog. You could have hundreds of them! They could live in your hat. (or pants, I suppose).
The other day I invented in my mind a tiny robot dog like one of those quaking hairless things everybody seems to have in the city only this one would sit on your shoulder and whisper the names of people you've forgotten into your ear while you are making introductions at art openings.
Isn't that what Scientologists have on their shoulders? (but invisible)
"say, was you ever stung by a dead bee?"
...bit by a dead bee
Hey, bill, I googled that and found the Thailand Forum. (they are taking that question seriously)
werps. it is bit not stung. i saw that thai forum too. drop the say part and switch it from stung to bit and youll find the true source "to have and have not." and as far as im aware its true.
the same man who asked Lauren Bacall if she was ever bit by a dead bee also unmasked the conspiracy of helots.
My friend ben keeps going on about how bees don't bite. He has a point.
Ever since I learned the term in Grade 13 zoology, I take every opportunity I can to say mandibular mouthparts. Which bees don't got.
OK, I googled Helots and got: Helots. The Spartans conquered the Laconians and made them helots.
I like those nutshell explanations, and I look forward to the day when I can laconically declare: "The Spartans conquered the Laconians and made them helots" with some sort of impatient, and bored authority. (hopefully discouraging anyone from pursuing the subject, because that is all I know at this point) (actually, that's how I function all the time)
Mandibular mouthparts got me to a site with too too many closeups of insects that I'd prefer not to see. So M.Jean gets to keep that.
Walter Brennan plays an old coot in To Have and Have Not who asks everyone he meets "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" Part of the humor is bees don't bite--that makes it charmingly colloquial. Brennan plays an almost identical old coot in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, who is forever complaining about "helots" (materialistic modern people).
Ok, so I know now that my cheap conversational manipulations won't work on Tom, but I'll find somewhere to use it.
I appreciate the brushup on Peloponnesian history but feared the subject was straying too far from...Walter Brennan.
How can we get to see the "really great pictures" of the bees without offending LM? Might she not avert her eyes?
It's like the scene of an accident, M.Jean, I wouldn't be able to not look.
(it's also kind of sweet that she wishes to protect the sensibilities of one of her most insensitive friends) (I take that back, she's saving them for a special occasion, I'll never know when or where, but they'll appear someday)
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- sally mckay 7-11-2006 3:36 am
CHRIST!
(you evil fucker.)
- L.M. 7-11-2006 3:55 am
Bumble bees and moths both flutter around and blindly bump into things, which, I admit, is scary. But not nearly as scary as... HAVING EIGHT CREEPY LEGS!
- sally mckay 7-11-2006 5:15 am
bye the way... how you like me now?
- sally mckay 7-11-2006 5:17 am
oooooffffff.
- L.M. 7-11-2006 6:11 am
um, that spider appears to have 7 legs. I stayed overnite in my friends room in Japan and unexpectedly came accross the biggest spider i have ever seen. It was the size of my hand, very hairy and about two inches away from my face. when i mentioned to her how it scared the crap out of me, she calmly replied, 'oh thats just the spider that lives in my room.' Jeesh.
- mnobody (guest) 7-11-2006 8:25 pm
You are right about that spider! Maybe a bee ate one of his legs.
- sally mckay 7-11-2006 9:07 pm
i have a persistent memory from childhood - though i am not completely sure if it was real or imagined - that i was standing outside my parenst bungalow under the overhang where there were bushes that bees often cruised. sitting on the railing was a big fat bumblebee and i remember petting it's furry body with my finger for what seemed to be about 10 minutes.
- myfanwy (guest) 7-11-2006 9:11 pm
ohya - and that is probably the cutest bumblebee picture i have ever seen - it looks like a bumblebee sleeping baby bee
- myfanwy (guest) 7-11-2006 9:13 pm
That's a good bee patting story! I think a big dog-sized bee would be a great pet.
I realised last weekend why bees are so cute as compared to other insects. It's because the biggish roundish friendly thorax looks like their head, and the dark patches where the wings come out kind of look like eyes. In fact they have a regular creepy bug head with weird reflecty alien eye thingys tucked underneath, facing downwards. I've got some really great pictures of this but I am honestly nervous about posting for fear of driving L.M. away from this blog forever.
- sally mckay 7-11-2006 9:23 pm
hhhmmmmm, never took the time to pet a bumblebee, I was always too busy shrieking in terror. One friend of mine, S.R. is actually allergic and could die from a bee sting, and if you think I'd be embarrassed when she calmly witnesses me launching a full bee-buzzed-by-me-drama, you'd be wrong.
OH YES, Sally, do pop over for coffee real soon with your fucking dog-sized bee!
- L.M. 7-11-2006 9:41 pm
I'd rather have a dog sized bee than a bee sized dog. You could have hundreds of them! They could live in your hat. (or pants, I suppose).
- joester 7-11-2006 10:27 pm
The other day I invented in my mind a tiny robot dog like one of those quaking hairless things everybody seems to have in the city only this one would sit on your shoulder and whisper the names of people you've forgotten into your ear while you are making introductions at art openings.
- sally mckay 7-11-2006 10:31 pm
Isn't that what Scientologists have on their shoulders? (but invisible)
- L.M. 7-11-2006 10:56 pm
"say, was you ever stung by a dead bee?"
- bill 7-11-2006 11:00 pm
...bit by a dead bee
- tom moody 7-11-2006 11:13 pm
Hey, bill, I googled that and found the Thailand Forum. (they are taking that question seriously)
- L.M. 7-11-2006 11:14 pm
werps. it is bit not stung. i saw that thai forum too. drop the say part and switch it from stung to bit and youll find the true source "to have and have not." and as far as im aware its true.
- bill 7-11-2006 11:22 pm
the same man who asked Lauren Bacall if she was ever bit by a dead bee also unmasked the conspiracy of helots.
- tom moody 7-12-2006 12:08 am
My friend ben keeps going on about how bees don't bite. He has a point.
- sally mckay 7-12-2006 12:57 am
Ever since I learned the term in Grade 13 zoology, I take every opportunity I can to say mandibular mouthparts. Which bees don't got.
- M.Jean 7-12-2006 1:45 am
OK, I googled Helots and got: Helots. The Spartans conquered the Laconians and made them helots.
I like those nutshell explanations, and I look forward to the day when I can laconically declare: "The Spartans conquered the Laconians and made them helots" with some sort of impatient, and bored authority. (hopefully discouraging anyone from pursuing the subject, because that is all I know at this point) (actually, that's how I function all the time)
Mandibular mouthparts got me to a site with too too many closeups of insects that I'd prefer not to see. So M.Jean gets to keep that.
- L.M. 7-12-2006 2:29 am
Walter Brennan plays an old coot in To Have and Have Not who asks everyone he meets "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" Part of the humor is bees don't bite--that makes it charmingly colloquial. Brennan plays an almost identical old coot in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, who is forever complaining about "helots" (materialistic modern people).
- tom moody 7-12-2006 2:48 am
Ok, so I know now that my cheap conversational manipulations won't work on Tom, but I'll find somewhere to use it.
- L.M. 7-12-2006 3:13 am
I appreciate the brushup on Peloponnesian history but feared the subject was straying too far from...Walter Brennan.
- tom moody 7-12-2006 4:52 am
How can we get to see the "really great pictures" of the bees without offending LM? Might she not avert her eyes?
- M.Jean 7-14-2006 9:31 pm
It's like the scene of an accident, M.Jean, I wouldn't be able to not look.
(it's also kind of sweet that she wishes to protect the sensibilities of one of her most insensitive friends) (I take that back, she's saving them for a special occasion, I'll never know when or where, but they'll appear someday)
- L.M. 7-14-2006 10:07 pm