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Aren't you glad you aren't an ant?
(From the Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader...and yes, we have them all *G*)
About 100 ant species have no queens. All the workers in these species are wingless, fertile females and one usually takes on the dominant egg-laying role. To mate, she leaves the nest, performs a mating dance of sorts, releases pheromones, and attracts a male. She then copulates with him and, in some species, carries him into the nest and bites off his genitalia. The genitalia will continue supplying her with sperm for an hour or more. The male dies. ALSO!! Fun lil ant fact (Other than the fact that I HATE them) Queens of some ant species can live for as long as 30 years and can produce hundreds of millions of eggs over a lifetime. (No wonder there are so many ants!) |
Three toasts:
May we never flatter our superiors or insult our inferiors. What shall we drink to? About three in the morning. Here's to a clear conscience - - - or a poor memory! |
I recently watched this:
http://cdn-9.nflximg.com/en_us/boxsh...d/70123329.jpg Netflix Instant Overall it was a good film. I was perplexed by a few things though. In the film, the researcher and film crew are attacked by one of the bears and the researcher shoots and kills the female bear (notoriously one of the slowest reproducing mammals). He cries about this, and seems genuinely distressed about it. Who wouldn't be right? What I don't understand is why a man who has been researching these bears for 30 years hasn't come up with a different deterrent. The second part that bothered me was that the same researcher feels that if he helps bear hunters to hunt and kill the male bears only, that he is helping to prevent unnecessary female bear kills. IMO I feel that he is a part of the problem. The population/habitat of these bears is dwindling because of clear cutting and hunting (yet there is still a bear hunting season), and I just cant fathom why/how he can be a party to their further demise. Maybe I'm just a tree-hugging fool, but I just wanted to put my feelings about this out in the world somewhere. So, I randomly posted this here. |
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*irritated* In terms of females killing the males, my two favorites are the praying mantis and the black widow spider. |
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(A quick cheap fix - if you have a container you can keep pets out of...) Borax, water and sugar - you can find the exact measurements on the web :) Also, there are certain grains you can sprinkle that they will eat & die from because they expand and blow the ants up :) |
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remember this? feeling a little retro today
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Just opened my Snapple bottle and it said this:
"Hawaii is moving toward Japan at the rate of almost 4 inches per year." :| |
"Somewhere James Carville is thankful that Bill Clinton didnt have a cellphone with a camera back in the 90s," tweeted a Republican state representative from Minnesota. Indeed.
Read more: http://jezebel.com/5809142/political...#ixzz1OdBsznp9 |
I don't like the way that Casey Anthony looks at her lawyer.
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It's 91 degrees @ 10:33 PM. :wtf:
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Married...With Children
Seven : Where do babies come from?
Al Bundy: Generally speaking, a 6-pack and 2 horny teenagers. |
Happy Birthday, Mommy (f).
You are incredibly missed. :candle: |
Moms got to love them
Did I mention that my mother joined FB? I am sure I didn't That's right! Anyway, she joined and immediately forgot her password. So she used the "reset password" option, but the security settings on their computer filtered the auto-response out. (My theory)
So then she e-mailed "the Facebook people" and "proved that she's who she says she is" (I have no idea what this involved) and still couldn't get in. So I asked her if she tried to get in using her other computer. They have so many different security programs on their computer that it's a wonder they can access anything. I pull my hair out every time I visit. Apparently that did the trick, because today she was back in business. And today she posted this: Am I here? Hello? |
Fried Green Tomatoes
{{ Bumped into this Trivia, I did enjoy learnin' some stuff from the Movie, I prefer the Book for most reasons obvious in the Trivia }}
Director Jon Avnet referred to Mary-Louise Parker as "Lou" and Mary Stuart Masterson as "Stu" on the set because their names are so similar and he had to say them so often. There really is a Whistle Stop Cafe that does indeed serve fried green tomatoes (among other Southern foods) just north of Macon Georgia. It is in the actual area where many of the scenes were filmed. After the film became a huge success, the Whistle Stop Cafe set was turned into an actual restaurant, and its surrounding area into a tourist attraction. Although they may have filmed in Georgia, the true Whistle Stop Cafe is in Irondale, Alabama (a suburb or Birmingham, where Author Fannie Flagg grew up.) Author Fannie Flagg is the woman telling the classroom of disaffected women, "You can get that spark back into your marriage!" Mary Stuart Masterson did all of the bee stunts herself because her stunt double quit at the last minute. In July 2008, afterellen.com reported that Mary-Louise Parker said that she, her costar Mary Stuart Masterson, and screenwriter (and original novel author) Fannie Flagg were all strong advocates for depicting in the film the lesbian relationship between Ruth and Idgie that had appeared in the book, but the director, Jon Avnet, and the producers of the film chose instead to excise the romance and just make the two characters into friends. In the DVD extras, Avnet does say that he considered Idgie and Ruth's food fight scene in the movie as an analogy for a love scene between the two that he chose not to include. |
I am not liking how cool the downstairs is and how bloody HOT the upstairs is--I need the cool air up here where I sleep!
boo. |
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On another note...
My son just recorded a video in his room. A strange sorta video but my son is a computer geek and most everything he does in life is sorta strange...to me. Anywho, when he played it back you can see this very weird "think" come out of no where...looks sorta like an orb and hit the frame of his computer within his room. It is loud and it "hits" the computer. He was right there, saw and heard nothing. We've played it back a bunch and can't figure out what it is. I wish i knew how to post it here. It's freaking weird and i'm sleeping with both eyes open tonight....so is he. |
Indiana is just a clusterf***. And I thought Kentucky was bad.
Praise Hello Kitty that Mitch Daniels isn't running for President like we feared. |
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I needed a haircut. It was hot and sticky out. I made the mistake of saying, take it all off. It is annoying me. Guess I better get used to being called "sir" for a few weeks. Nice cut tho. |
Erupting Chilean Volcano A Jaw Dropping Sight
http://a57.foxnews.com/latino.foxnew...olcano-Six.jpg Here is the link to the full website http://latino.foxnews.com/slideshow/...rupts/#slide=1 |
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There is an adult condo community next door to me. I finally got around to calling them for info. I chuckled when I discovered I was "too young" for them. I havent been too young for anything in decades. |
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wonders quietly if this is a P.A. post. :} |
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cracking up at the poor kitty * |
Yummy-ness-ness
Oh my heavenly mapley-bacony donutty deliciousness.
I just ate 4 of these. :| They are only two inches in diameter! (and what were you thinking? LOL) I wish this photo was the actual size though. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3616/...a32f3ee485.jpg |
I may need a nap.
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I was just briefly outwitted by a fly. He snuck in when my mom went out for a walk. He was flying ALL OVER until I stealthily picked up the fly swatter. Suddenly, he was a NINJA. Damn fly.
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Ya never know lol
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MUFASA!!!!
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