Only a Drosophila worker can truly appreciate this cartoon, because one of the banes of our existence is mites in our fly cultures. There’s nothing worse in a fly lab than a mite infestation. Anyway, for your delectation:
Thursday dipteran humor
June 13, 2013 • 2:16 pm
Ba Da Bing….he will be here all week.
Remember to tip the waitress. 😉
… and the 10 o’clock show gets a little blue.
Drum-roll for the mighty mite!
A memorable English lesson.
The principle parts of mite:
mite mote mitten
All words in the dictionary. 😉
It needs a third for a zinger, that doesn’t overlap on previous meanings. A pity the adjective “fly” (Knowing, sharp, wide awake)
is pretty much obsolete or you could have
You’re mighty ugly!
You’re pretty fly!
In the third frame, the fly could simply say, “Bite me!”
That’s good.
This wins.
What about, “OMG, is it open?”
Oh, wait: That’s for the “blue” 10:00 show, isn’t it? (h/t: @Gregory C. Mayer, above)
*groan*
As punsters say: “A groan is as good as a laugh.”
The following is a translation of a French joke.
Diner: Waiter, there is a fly in my soup.
Waiter: Don’t worry, it’s had swimming lessons.
Diner: Waiter now there is a fly in my ice cream.
Waiter: Now its practicing winter sports.
You seem to have left out the punch line.
That’s the joke, there is no punch line
following. Sorry to disappoint you.
But why are there so few fly jokes when
there are so many fklies??
I think the set-up was wrong. This is how I heard it:
Angry customer: “Waiter! What’s this fly doing in my soup?!”
Waiter peers into bowl: “I’m not sure, I think it’s the breast stroke.”
I only heard the French version that
I entered. I am sure there are other
versions besides yours or mine.
The version going around Australia was,
Waiter: ‘yes Sir, goodness he is doing the backstroke!’
The version in Alaska, probably general USA, circa early 70s…
waiter: “shhh… not so loud, or everyone will want one.”
Recent cartoon.
Praying mantis couple leaving on a date. Father praying mantis admonishes: “Bring her back by midnight and you’d better still have your head!”
LOL!
!
There was a New Yorker cartoon in which Mrs.
Mantis opens the door and Mr. mantis is standing outside without his head.
You’ve been cheating on me she exclaims.
Do the mites have parasites?
Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum.
I laughed out loud – loudly.
here’s a link about the felines you like so much, from a west seattle blog
http://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/help-oskar-the-blind-cat-provide-up-to-2000-cans-of-food-to-kitty-harbor
OK, -someone- has to say it, may as well be me:
Mites aren’t bugs!
So they’re not allowed to bug you?
They aren’t insects alright, but isn’t “bug” just a catchall for all sorts of small creepycrawlies?
It mite bee
+1
Au contraire. Bugs are members of the order Hemiptera.
Aw, knock it off! 😀 (In case the smiley isn’t enough, that was said in good humor.)
There is a very well accepted colloquial definition of “bug” that includes all manner of creepy crawlies, and even most entomological pedants accede to that.
The “tomatoes are actually fruit” crowd think they’re clever, but only make scientists sound smug, IMO. Plus, I’d rather save our semantic battles for the scientific-vs.-common-use of theory debate.
From the show “The Big Bang Theory”:
Stewart: “You couldn’t be more wrong.”
Sheldon: “Wrongness is a state, you are either wrong or you’re right. There are no gradations.”
Stewart: “Au Contraire! It is wrong to call a tomato a fruit, it is really wrong to call it a suspension bridge.”
Exactly.
😀
“even most entomological pedants accede to that”
Key word: “Most”. 🙂
😉
Why not study the mites instead?!
Could be tricky coming up with a dipteran humour entry every Thursday. I just checked in my daughter’s joke book to see if there were any fly jokes, but there antennae.
AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!!!!
+ 1
Haha, that’s great. My roommate studies drosophila too, she laughed pretty loudly 🙂