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« on: August 27, 2009, 07:01:45 pm » |
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Look at this thing! Seriously...it's been on our picture window all day. I don't know what it is but if it stays much longer we'll probably end up giving it a name and start feeding it.   |
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. --Allan Bloom
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Guardian Angel
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« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2009, 07:21:35 pm » |
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Kind of looks like a grasshopper............................ |
Be an angel, fly with God's flock.
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Radardude
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« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2009, 07:29:10 pm » |
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That's the money you could have saved if you switched to Geico.
(The eyes are busy at another location)
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Guardian Angel
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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2009, 07:38:22 pm » |
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Now that's funny....................... |
Be an angel, fly with God's flock.
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DejaVu
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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2009, 07:44:57 pm » |
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Kind of looks like a grasshopper............................ It kinda does...but then again it doesn't really look like any of the bugs I'm used to seeing. |
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. --Allan Bloom
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DejaVu
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2009, 07:48:08 pm » |
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That's the money you could have saved if you switched to Geico.
(The eyes are busy at another location)
Good one! I love it!  |
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. --Allan Bloom
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Winston
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2009, 10:30:55 pm » |
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What, you got Cooties? (Those plastic ones, I mean. Remember that game? $90 asking price for a set from 1966 on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Cootie-Build-a-Cootie-Bug-Game-1966-No-200-1949_W0QQitemZ380113762682QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:105And the value of a GIANT COOTIE: $150 - $250 (never saw one of those, unless that's what's on the window there)... http://www.angelfire.com/az2/gamesgoneby/giantcootie.htmlYep, good one, Radardude. Gosh, I love all the jokesters here! |
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DejaVu
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« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2009, 12:36:28 pm » |
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Well...if that thing on my window was a Cootie, he's gone now....so I don't have the Cootie anymore. Wow...I think I might have actually had one of those Cootie games...but not that Giant one. Never even knew it existed. Learn something new every day. |
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. --Allan Bloom
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Winston
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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2009, 03:05:57 pm » |
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Another thing I found rather humorous -- whenever I've checked this page, right under the heading of "There is a huge green bug on my picture window!" and above Google ads for other insects, there's a big photo of Sarah Palin.  Then it's replaced by an ad for pc game "Combat Arms - Armed and Contagious." Hmm. |
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Hhop
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« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2009, 04:29:01 pm » |
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You don't have to stop playing when you get old, but you get old when you stop playing.
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Pretender
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« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2009, 06:13:56 pm » |
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The katydids were out in full force at my place starting yesterday. I have a bug zapper and think a couple of them made it through the small openings in the guard which keeps butterflies and pets from getting into it. Takes awhile to zap something that big! Don't like zapping, but got a lot of gnats, etc. fluttering around the area.
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Winston
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« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2009, 07:24:30 pm » |
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Pretender, I think bug zappers, like tasers, are supposed to force Enlightenment into the bugs. At least, seems they "learn" not to bug anyone any further.  Thanks Hhop, I think you've solved the mystery. The only katydid evidence I've ever seen are the big brown shells clinging to trees, apparently after they've changed into their Superbug costumes and flown off, fighting bug crime. Not sure what all those antennae pick up, but I bet it's a better signal than I hear DTV converter boxes get... Here's a lady who definitely seems to have gone buggy over them... http://blog.hmns.org/?p=359 |
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Winston
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« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2009, 07:41:35 pm » |
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Oh no, beg your pardon bug-fans!  Sorry, I'm getting my crispy critters all confused. Now I'm thinking Cicadas are the brown crunchy things. Sorta remind me of crunchy pork rinds, although I've never actually eaten one (a cicada, that is) ... (although I do wonder what all's in the Chinese take-away I get on occasion...) http://www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/i00dis.htm |
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DejaVu
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« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2009, 09:40:49 pm » |
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Pretender, I think bug zappers, like tasers, are supposed to force Enlightenment into the bugs. At least, seems they "learn" not to bug anyone any further. Thanks Hhop, I think you've solved the mystery. The only katydid evidence I've ever seen are the big brown shells clinging to trees, apparently after they've changed into their Superbug costumes and flown off, fighting bug crime. Not sure what all those antennae pick up, but I bet it's a better signal than I hear DTV converter boxes get... Here's a lady who definitely seems to have gone buggy over them... http://blog.hmns.org/?p=359That's what it looked like! I wasn't about to get close enough to take a full frontal photo outside. Hmmmm...I wonder how it got all the way here from Malaysia???  |
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. --Allan Bloom
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Winston
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« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2009, 10:02:11 pm » |
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Hmmmm...I wonder how it got all the way here from Malaysia??? Well, right now with the bad economy, I keep hearing about all those cheap flights. And of course, he does have those extra longs legs that surely jump pretty far. Maybe he heard about your swell forum and wanted to hop in. |
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