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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:32 PM
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A ladybug just bit me on the neck.
:wtf:
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:33 PM
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1. Did ya smoosh it?
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:35 PM
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5. No.
I was a bit too startled. Just knocked it off.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:33 PM
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2. Since when do ladybugs bite??
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:34 PM
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3. They're Japanese ladybugs.
They've wiped out the native population in the Upper Midwest.

No idea why they bite, but they do.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:39 PM
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13. Huh. Hope they stay away from Maine.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:56 PM
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21. We've already got them I think.
The lite orange ones.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:58 PM
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22. I think I have seen those.. never been bitten by one though
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 04:36 PM
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30. I swear I got bit by a ladybug when I was about 8
and I have not trusted them since.

"I was just a skinny lad
never knew no good from bad
but I knew life before I left my nursery ..."

That was in 1970 or so, long before the onslaught of the dreaded Japanese Beatle.
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GardeningGal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:34 PM
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4. Maybe there was an aphid on your neck too!
:P
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:35 PM
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6. Possible, but unlikely.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:37 PM
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7. I knew my ladybug was cheating on me.
:grr: Go get her, Captain Flamechin!
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:38 PM
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10. That struck a nerve.
:cry:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:40 PM
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14. In MY country....
Nerve strike you!

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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:37 PM
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8. Did you bite back?
Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 02:37 PM by JackBeck
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:38 PM
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11. No.
Ew.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:37 PM
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9. Better pick up one o' these
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:38 PM
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12. Is that how it works?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:45 PM
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17. Well, see...
When a ladybug and an aphid-encrusted neck love each other very, very much...
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beyurslf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:41 PM
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15. What did you do to her to make her bite you? :)
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:43 PM
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16. Stood there like an aphid-infested plant, I suppose.
:shrug:
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:45 PM
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18. I've never heard of such a thing.
maybe it was actually a spider, cleverly disguised as a ladybug.

:shrug:
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:48 PM
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19. That bastard!
:grr:
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:54 PM
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20. OR, Bitch, as the case may be.
:evilgrin:
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riona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 03:36 PM
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23. ah, a strain that's been modulated by a moderator
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 03:39 PM
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24. You're cheating on me
:cry:

Maybe that's where you got hillbillies. :grr:
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 03:41 PM
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26. I got hillbillies when they moved in with me.
:eyes:
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 03:40 PM
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25. Cute plus bitey equals FUNNY!
If you give the ladybugs some coffee with a lot of sugar and cream, and maybe a marshmallow, they won't bite you.

Tucker
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 03:43 PM
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27. Cute plus bitey only equals funny with birdies.
And only when the bitey doesn't hurt.
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 04:33 PM
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28. Your neck must resemble a pulsating green aphid.
That is the only logical explanation.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 04:33 PM
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29. That's what the wife says.
:(
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 06:13 PM
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32. Just tell her that aphids can reproduce without having sex
That ought to give her a reason to appreciate you.

oh, wait, it's the girl aphids that can reproduce without sex. oh well. sorry.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 05:58 PM
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31. It would never have happened if you were a redneck.
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