Bugsy Sielgel?

Chem trails!

Like moths to a flame?

I know! Luminescent silly string! ;-)

I dated a blonde whose hair looked exactly like that.

Accelerated Particle Bugs®

Heisenbug's Uncertainty Principle.

i thought that was michele bachmann's brain scan

Arachni-strobia?

That's not a power pole, that's a triffid !

re: #11 pre-Boomer Marine brat

That's not a power pole, that's a triffid !

I still call mine "The Power Pole". ;-)

re: #12 Truck Monkey

I still call mine "The Power Pole". ;-)

Q: What's the worst possible screen name for a male porno actor?
A: Microsoft.

This is a lot like the last thread, The Party of Ron Pole.

That is the GOP circling the flame formerly known as Luap Nor.

World wide flight patterns...

That bug turned left
The Zapper flashes
One wrong turn
He's turned to ashes

Burma Shave

re: #17 buzzsawmonkey

Falling in Love Again

"Men cluster to me like moths around a flame
And if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame"

*rimshot* for Dietrich !

re: #14 wrenchwench

This is a lot like the last thread, The Party of Ron Pole.

It all makes sense now. The film is a metaphor- pests attracted to the spot light spiraling out of control.

re: #16 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

World wide flight patterns...

Must have been a Friday - check out all of the flights going to Hawaii and the very few leaving.

You should see the video during the Bug Traffic Controllers strike.

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These flashing lights are probably what Mark Sanchez sees as he looks at the Ravens Defense

Mark, meet windshield

Jets fans should be very nervous

re: #17 buzzsawmonkey

Just for you, Buzz.
Dietrich, Lili Marlene, German version.
(video sucks, but the audio's very good)

0:14 seconds in - there is a subliminal message ad that says vote for Ron Paul. No Lie.

Dudes, that was "far out"...pass the bong./

Here is a document done in 2002 showing some minor aspect of our live spiraling out of control.

[Link: www.cbo.gov...]

that's actually sort of interesting, shows the coverage of space by bugs in the environment at night, in response to artificial light, which has been pretty common on the planet for about a hundred years now, somewhat common on a lesser scale for the past several thousand, plenty of time for bugs to evolve new behaviors.

I guess a moth circling a flame is still a bad behavior for the moth, but I'll bet moths in general behave rather differently now then even a hundred years ago.

but not all, I guess - when I go to a night game at Dodger Stadium, there are swifts galore gobbling bugs in front of the stadium lights! I guess the swifts have learned, if the bugs haven't!

re: #28 itellu3times

Stupid bugs.

re: #5 Gang of One

I dated a blonde whose hair looked exactly like that.

Carpet or drapes?

re: #30 Racer X

Carpet or drapes?

I'm guessing carpet.
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re: #29 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Stupid bugs.

individually stupid, in the aggregate they do OK.

re: #27 karmic_inquisitor

Here is a document done in 2002 showing some minor aspect of our live spiraling out of control.

[Link: www.cbo.gov...]

We're ahead of the curve, federal spending now wis 45% of GDP, it will be close to 60% if health care is added.

re: #25 Racer X

0:14 seconds in - there is a subliminal message ad that says vote for Ron Paul. No Lie.

I don't think it's working.

re: #33 jcm

We're ahead of the curve, federal spending now wis 45% of GDP, it will be close to 60% if health care is added.

What could go wrong?
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re: #34 jaunte

I don't think it's working.

You have to turn your head sideways. It's in bug sky writing.

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re: #35 Truck Monkey

What could go wrong?
/

I'm just all wee wee'd up...

re: #34 jaunte

I don't think it's working.

Only teh loons can see it.

re: #32 itellu3times

individually stupid, in the aggregate they do OK.

Stupid FBV...

re: #36 Gus 802

Watch out for voters with compound eyes.

re: #40 jaunte

Watch out for voters with compound eyes.

Men in Black: The Election

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Honeybees perform optimal scale-free searching flights when attempting to locate a food sourceThe foraging strategies used by animals are key to their success in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments. We hypothesise that when a food source at a known location ceases to be available, flying insects will exhibit search patterns that optimise the rediscovery of such resources. In order to study these searching patterns, foraging honeybees were trained to an artificial feeder that was then removed, and the subsequent flight patterns of the bees were recorded using harmonic radar. We show that the flight patterns have a scale-free (Lévy-flight) characteristic that constitutes an optimal searching strategy for the location of the feeder. It is shown that this searching strategy would remain optimal even if the implementation of the Lévy-flights was imprecise due, for example, to errors in the bees' path integration system or difficulties in responding to variable wind conditions. The implications of these findings for animal foraging in general are discussed.

How many of you can perform optimal free scale searching?
Careful who ya'll call stupid!

;-P

re: #39 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Stupid FBV...

In the aggregate, bet FBV does OK too.

re: #43 jcm

re: #45 jcm

Trying to fix link... honey bee smarter...

Honeybees perform optimal scale-free searching flights when attempting to locate a food source

re: #43 jcm

How many of you can perform optimal free scale searching?

That's easy, you just follow the bees!

re: #48 buzzsawmonkey

So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?

The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?

The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?

The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?

...add your own!

The light is Obama, and the bugs are how we got here today.

re: #48 buzzsawmonkey

So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?

The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?

The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?

The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?

...add your own!

KILL THE LIGHT!

re: #48 buzzsawmonkey

So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?

The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?

The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?

The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?

...add your own!

The bug zapper is the people.

The light is me, calling forth my hordes.

The flight patterns are citizens (and maybe illegals) trying to navigate their way through another government bureaucracy.

re: #5 Gang of One

I dated a blonde whose hair looked exactly like that.

Was she as tall and skinny as that pole also?

re: #42 buzzsawmonkey

Excellent--and heartrending.

I tried to find a German version of Dietrich doing "Falling in Love Again," but they are all the studio versions, not the clip from the movie--and the studio versions are bloodless by comparison.

You are a connoisseur.

My parents had 78s of Dietrich. I became hooked at a young age, but I don't know near that much about her and her music. For me, it all boils down to the simple fact that there is only one "Dietrich".

re: #53 solomonpanting

The flight patterns are citizens (and maybe illegals) trying to navigate their way through another government bureaucracy.

Actually, it's the map guiding Car Dealers thru the maze of Cash For Clunkers paperwork

The light is all the non-issues and the bugs are the people in a tizzy about them - all the while ignoring the big issue represented by the windshield in the next screen.

They found the missing watergate bugs

re: #48 buzzsawmonkey

So, let's go for the symbolism, shall we?

The light is Health Care Reform, and the bugs are legislators?

The light is the Nirth Certifikit, and the bugs are Nirthers?

The light is Ron Paul, and the bugs are disaffected voters?

...add your own!

In the night, insects swarm towards the artificial lights as humans swarm towards their televisions.

Looks like the hairs on the end of my daughter's hair brush.

re: #60 calcajun

Looks like the hairs on the end of my daughter's hair brush.

NOTE TO SELF

Never ask to borrow calcajun's daughters hairbrush

Come into the light, children!

What's with the helical flight patterns? Is that like an old bug with a bad wing?

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re: #62 calcajun

Come into the light, childrenZZZAP!

\fyft

re: #64 sattv4u2

fyft

FTFM
(Fixed That Fo ME)!

Do I see helical flight paths? Are the bugs literally "loopy"?

re: #59 Gus 802

In the night, insects swarm towards the artificial lights as humans swarm towards their televisions.

So what's the difference?

:D

re: #64 sattv4u2

fyft

ich bin ein bugkiller

The light! The end of the tunnel!

OH! *&%$ it's a train!

Manfred Mann...

re: #25 Racer X

0:14 seconds in - there is a subliminal message ad that says vote for Ron Paul. No Lie.

I saw one that said "Surrender Dorothy"

I posted this same vimeo on August 5. I got an upding from KT. It's the old "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" again. :-)

re: #68 pre-Boomer Marine brat

So what's the difference?

:D

Not much according to Kafka? ;)

re: #60 calcajun

posts on previous thread noted and thanks...had to cut out for a few

re: #30 Racer X

Carpet or drapes?

Prepare to either be offended or laugh -

An American businessman is on a trip to Morocco. He has been there for a week and is feeling a bit "randy" and decides to seek out the services of a local brothel.

The brothel is run by a small gentleman in a fez named Hakim. Hakim tells the businessman that he is lucky because he has chosen the BEST brothel in all of Morocco - there is nothing that Hakim can not provide his guests. No request has ever been refused.

"Well I have a modest request, actually" says the businessman after the pitch. "I would like a blonde. A ... um ... complete blonde."

Hakim's face looked a little confused. The businessman motioned and said "I want the top and the grill to match."

"Oh - I see! I have just what you want!" responded Hakim enthusiastically.

"Go up the stairs, go to your right and she is in the 3rd room on the left!"

So the businessman goes upstairs, goes right and opens the third door. He walks in to see a naked woman sprawled out on the bed. Blonde on top. Black on the grill.

The businessman returned to Hakim to tell him of the problem.

"No. This cannot be. Perhaps it was the wrong room - let me take you!"

So Hakim and the businessman go upstairs, then right and walk into the 3rd room on the left.

"See?" asks the businessman.

Hakim smiles and says "I see the problem - let me fix it."

Hakim then runs toward the bed waving his arms shouting "Shooo fly! Shooo!"

re: #65 buzzsawmonkey

I inherited a pile of old 78s and a Victrola from my great-grandfather. They were all political speeches by presidential candidates like William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech.

It kind of symbolizes what I imagine goes on inside Barbara Boxer's head whenever she chairs a hearing.

re: #33 jcm

We're ahead of the curve, federal spending now wis 45% of GDP, it will be close to 60% if health care is added.

Change!

The light is indeed not light at all. It is only darkness disguised.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

re: #78 karmic_inquisitor

Change!

Hopeless Change!

If you run the film in reverse, it spells "Run Away, Dead Man! Run Away, Dead Man!" over and over.

re: #80 jcm

Hopeless Change!

Loose change...

No... wait...

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re: #65 buzzsawmonkey

Question, because from your response to the German Lili Marlene, I suspect that you speak it ...

In Judgement at Nuremburg, Dietrich tells Tracy that the German words are far more sad. Is that accurate?

re: #83 Gus 802

Loose change...

No... wait...

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Now you've done it...
Prepare for the influx of rabbit cage experiments.

RE-POST from earlier/ UPDATE

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have now been at work for 35 of the last 59 hours, with another 1 hour to go

I am getting punchy and silly
Anything I type for here on out should be taken with that in mind

That Is All!

OH ,, and throw in 5 one hour trips to and back from work

re: #2 karmic_inquisitor

Chem trails!

I was thinking Rods.

Goodnight, y'all.

re: #89 ArmyWife

Goodnight, y'all.

Cya AW

re: #73 Gus 802

Not much according to Kafka? ;)

'Tis better to turn off the TV and spend an evening with franz.

/OMG, are we gonna Sartre another one?

Later lizards

re: #75 karmic_inquisitor

You racist! I keel you!

re: #91 pre-Boomer Marine brat

'Tis better to turn off the TV and spend an evening with franz.

/OMG, are we gonna Sartre another one?

How do you turn ON a TV?

Dress sexier and talk dirty! !

re: #92 LGoPs

Later lizards

Lazer Lizards?

bugs == loons seeking truth (the light)

re: #95 sattv4u2

Lazer Lizards?

Raygun reptiles...
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Nirtherism got another boost from Limbaugh today. Apparantly he thinks Obama wants to give us all the same healthcare he had in Kenya. Link to the clip:

Seriously, with all the important things to talk about, can the nirthers go away? We've got Bachman and Paul getting cozy and now this.

re: #94 sattv4u2

How do you turn ON a TV?

Dress sexier and talk dirty! !

LOL! Ba-dum-bum!

re: #95 sattv4u2

Lazer Lizards?

The new weapon against Idiotarianism

LAZER LIZARDS!

Look! A light!

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re: #87 buzzsawmonkey

I don't speak German. But my understanding is that it is clear from the song that Lili Marlene is anybody's girl--i.e., a whore--and that the soldier knows that he is going to be killed and that she will forget him quickly in the arms of another.

Or if not a prostitute, a girl whose affection ... uh ... is not eternal.

Yes, heartrending. A soldier's nightmare.

re: #94 sattv4u2

How do you turn ON a TV?

Dress sexier and talk dirty! !

I don't know how you turn one on, but I danced around naked in front of mine and the filiament burned out in the picture tube.

/ < --- ego demands that I pretend that is a sarc tag

re: #86 sattv4u2

Another 12-hours or so and you'll be qualified to be self-employed!

:)

re: #103 buzzsawmonkey

WOW!

re: #105 WindHorse

Another 12-hours or so and you'll be qualified to be self-employed!

:)

I was for years. I thought these types of hours were done and gone with once I started working for "THe Man"

re: #104 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I don't know how you turn one on, but I danced around naked in front of mine and the filiament burned out in the picture tube.

/ < --- ego demands that I pretend that is a sarc tag

You'd a been better off saying your action turned your flat screen into a BIG screen.

re: #107 sattv4u2

I can tell that I'd hire you!!

re: #103 buzzsawmonkey

You have far too much time on your hands.//

re: #107 sattv4u2

(you deserve a raise!)

re: #108 solomonpanting

You'd a been better off saying your action turned your flat screen into a BIG screen.

Or that the television found the performance de-gauss-ting

/hmm, not one of my better ones

re: #110 calcajun

You have far too much time on your hands.//

Or, some folks just use their time very efficiently.

;P

re: #112 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Or that the television found the performance de-gauss-ting

/hmm, not one of my better ones

They can't all be weiners.

The unimaginative study things like flight patterns of insects.

Insects. I mean, really. Insects?

You waste your time studying the flight pattern of insects when there is the awesome awesomeness of the R/C Helicopter with .45 Caliber Handgun

Be able to kick your insect flight pattern right square in the ass, I'll betcha.

re: #115 razorbacker

Yeah, we couldn't possibly learn anything useful from the mechanics of insect flight. Unimaginative, indeed.
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