What's the origin of 'bees knees'?

it'll cost you a brass razoo

<smorgs chucks a brass razoo in moodgoggy's direction>

well aint that the the cat's pajamas

ain't you a teasin' bugger! :wink:

maaaate, nothin but the elephant's instep for you!

why your the camels toe!

You should google camel toe sometime, or have you already?

now thats the bees knees!

ahem...Am I not a woman of a certain age...from Manchester! We invented term camel's toe!

Give it up now moondoggy...don't make me google it myself

all hail the camel toe

... the camel toe

...or else...

I'll get in a taxi, on to a cheap charter, fly for 92 hours, stop over in timbuctoo, get on another charter, fly for 27 hours, get in a taxi, come round to yours (with duty free of course) and bitch slap you...

Top Toe!!!!!

occasionally (when the toe won't show), I have reverted to this method;

http://www.ogmac.co.uk/sidcup/cameltoeannie.htm

"the bee's knees"
(Phrase Origins)

A bee's "corbiculae", or pollen-baskets, are located on its
tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase "the bee's knees",
meaning "the height of excellence", became popular in the U.S. in
the 1920s, along with "the cat's whiskers" (possibly from the use
of these in radio crystal sets), "the cat's pajamas" (pyjamas were
still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less
sense and didn't endure: "the eel's ankle", "the elephant's
instep", "the snake's hip". Stories in circulation about the
phrase's origin include: "b's and e's", short for "be-alls and
end-alls"; and a corruption of "business".

bugger the bees knees - the Toe's the go

So much about bees - so little about their knees!

Babylon English-English

• bee's knees

person or thing that is wonderful, marvelous person or thing (Slang)

• bee [biː]

n. type of flying insect; gathering for the purpose of carrying out a certain task (quilting bee, spelling bee, etc.) Australian Slang

• Bee's knees

the greatest

• Bees and honey

money

• By the breadth of a bees dick

by a narrow margin

• The birds and the bees

human sexual reproduction, as explained metaphorically to children Afrikaans-English Online Dictionary

• bees

bovine, bovine animal

Tom van der Meijden Aotearoa

• Bees

Social bees were introduced to NZ as they have long tongues which enable pollination. Native bees are solitary with short tongues that cannot reach far enough into the flowers of the introduced plants.

• Bombyliidae

Fly family (bee flies)
NZ genera include: Tillyardomyia

• Bumble bees

Successfully imported to NZ in 1885. They are especially important in the South Island where they pollinate clover and Lucerne. (Native and honey bees do not do this).

• NZ bees

New Zealand's native bees are generally thought of as primitive: they are solitary and only active above-ground for the warmer months. There are about 40 species of native bees in New Zealand, about 36 of which belong to the Colletidae, and four or five to the Halictidae.
Additional species of Australian Colletidae and Halictidae have since spread despite the presence of introduced honeybees and bumble bees.
Species of native bees include:
hylaeus agilis
Lasioglossum sordidum
English-Bulgarian

• bees

пчелен; Rakefet

• Bee

Bee(s) Greek and Roman writers, having in mind the terminology of the Mysteries, used the term bees (melissai) to denote both priestesses and women disciples. Thus it was used for the priestesses of Delphi and other Mysteries, and by the Neoplatonists for pure and chaste persons. Honey and nectar are symbols of wisdom.
Vergil says that bees have a portion of the divine mind, from which aethereal particles stream, and that divinity permeates the whole earth so that all beings draw from it the streams of life (Georgics 4, 320). The spiritual or monadic consciousness (the nous) manifests itself in innumerable ways, and this same consciousness is in man. A little later Vergil says that bees are born from the carcass of a slain bullock or bull. The bull or cow is a symbol of the moon, and the moon has always stood as a symbol of the psychic intelligence or lower human mind; thus the meaning is that out of his perfectly subordinated ("slain") bull -- the lunar body or psychic nature -- is born the "bee" of the disciple, the will and the urge to enter into the solar life or the spirit. In the Finnish mythology of the Kalevala, a bee is the messenger between this world and higher realms. In Scandinavian mythology bees again play an important part with the world tree (Yggdrasil).
Phobia

• Apiphobia

Fear of bees Middle-earth v2.2b

• Bees

Honey-making insects.
Buzzing domestic insects kept for their ability to make honey. Particularly famous were those of Beorn, which reached an enormous size. hEnglish - advanced version

• bees



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to tang bees
to line bees WordNet 2.0

• bee


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Noun
1. any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
(hypernym) hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter
(hyponym) drone
(member-holonym) Apoidea, superfamily Apoidea
2. a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions
(hypernym) social gathering, social affair
(hyponym) quilting bee

But - more interestingly - what of their NEEDS?

Well, perhaps these are few - th eoverwhelming number of them being infertile females - and there being so few drones - and them reserved for the damned Princesses!

Bluddy caste system!

But - perhaps all that humming is not because they have forgot the words - but because they, sweet sisters, - with their wondrous tongues as ever were - and pollen combs - have found each other and a sweeter honey therein?


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Well - that is the buzz I heard...