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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 04:36 am
@Roberta,
That dog was made for running and a flying. What a lucky and happy pooch!! Very Happy
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 12:07 pm
@Roberta,
Couldn't resist, Roberta.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!

http://coloradodisasterhelp.colostate.edu/prefair/images/Dz/Melophagus%20ovinus%20ked.jpg

Smile
Roberta
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 01:11 pm
@Letty,
Glad you didn't resist, Letty. Good to read those words again. Good to see what inspired them.
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 02:31 pm
Can someone explain two things:
1. what does that insect have to do with that poem?
2. what is that insect?
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 03:50 pm
@littlek,
I think I can explain either question with one word:
EEEEGADS!
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 03:51 pm
@tsarstepan,
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0602/02/8053462-1-eng-US/02_full_600.jpg
Quote:
Taronga Zoo nurse, Gemma Watkinson, holds an overweight, adult, female, laughing Kookaburra before weighing it at the zoo's medical facility in Sydney on Wednesday. The Australian kookaburra, who weighs 565 grams (1.2 pounds) nearly 40 percent heavier than a normal adult bird, is beginning a personal training regimen after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages.

Tim Wimborne/Reuters

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-06-02/(photo)/2
One of the happiest birds I have ever seen!
Very Happy
Letty
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 03:58 pm
@tsarstepan,
Fabulous, tsar. Laugh Kookaburra laugh; how gay your life must be HA HA

Little K. That's a head louse. Robert Burns wrote a poem called To a Louse.

Anyone remember Greyfriars Bobby. He's a Scottish Terrier

http://www.21st-century-christianity.com/images/002.jpg

He lay upon his master's grave and wouldn't leave
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Roberta
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 01:27 am
Sorry, Letty, I'm pretty sure that Greyfriar's Bobby was a skye terrier. Not a Scottie in the photo you're showing.

A loyal and famous little dog, whatever the breed.

Yes, littlek, my signature line comes from a poem about a bug. Bobby Burns is one of my favorite poets. Bugs, mice. He could write.

Just reread To a Mouse. Thanks, Letty, for getting me there.

Quetzal:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2296/2239594078_80afa9dd14.jpg
Francis
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 01:35 am
Quote:
That's a head louse.


Sorry to disappoint you, Miss Letty, the image is of a Melophagus Ovinus (Sheep ked).

Here's a head louse (pediculus humanus capitis) :

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/headlice/images/louse.jpg
Ionus
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 01:41 am
@Francis,
Obviously your head is bigger than the usual... Very Happy
Francis
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 01:43 am
@Ionus,
While the content of yours....
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Francis
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 12:58 pm
The thief:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gismonda/voleuse.jpg
gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 01:17 pm
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/esser_kels/prayingmantis.walkup..OK.jpg
gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 01:18 pm
Of all the spectacular things in nature, nothing excites me more than the visage of a praying mantis consuming a hummingbird.
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CarbonSystem
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 01:37 pm
http://mi9.com/datawallpaper/data/4/4136/summer-wallpaper_65/summer-wallpaper-
ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 04:36 pm
@Francis,
Terrific..
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 04:39 pm
@Roberta,
Oh, my, I love the quetzal photo. I think I remember that when I was in Guatemala, the coins were quetzals..
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 04:41 pm
@gustavratzenhofer,
neat, in its way.
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Letty
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 05:15 pm
@Francis,
Thanks for the correction of the louse. Is that a cuckoo? I recall that those birds steal eggs from others nest and that the word cuckold may have come from that.

Yikes, Gus.

I second Osso on Roberta's bird.

Well, the rocket Falcon just left the Cape, so in honor of that...

http://thepeopleofpakistan.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/peregrine-falcon-fastest-animal-in-the-world.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 05:59 pm
@CarbonSystem,
I can't see this on my computer, CS..
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