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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:13 PM
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I threw a banana out onto the deck and killed a firefly. Ask me anything.
:cry:
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:14 PM
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1. Did you do it on purpose?
If Yes, why?
If No, don't be sad about it... it was just fate or something.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:15 PM
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2. No, I didn't kill the firefly on purpose.
And I only know I killed it because it blinked several times rapidly then slowly faded off. :cry:

I know . . . I'm still a little sad. Sigh.
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:19 PM
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4. Sorry to hear it.
But look at it like this...

Maybe you killing it spared it some worse fate. Like isn't there some weird bug that has a fake firefly light on it and it lures male fireflys in and kills them? AlienGirl would know...
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:42 PM
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6. Hmm...
Calling AlienGirl... calling AlienGirl... :bounce:
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:51 PM
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9. It's a female firefly of a predatory species, Photuris
Here's a picture:
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:18 PM
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3. was the banana food for the nocturnal visitors - raccoons,
possums, etc.?

Don't worry, you've just helped the firefly move on to its next reincarnation a little early. Perhaps it is now a butterfly, or a hummingbird, or a dolphin or whatever it wanted to be. If it was an accident, and I'm sure it was b/c I don't think you'd purposefully ever harm anything, then no worries. Honest.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:41 PM
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5. Yes. Intended for Roxanne, a pregnant raccoon, or for whatever
possum or critter comes along who likes bananas.

Thank you for your kind words.

(Boy, this thread'll get me branded a moonbat quicker than you can say "GW Bush hates everyone who doesn't lick his boots, and he certainly isn't a Christian." :P)
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 09:01 PM
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10. well then, moonbats unite! The world would be a much
better place if there were more of us. You should see me trying to drive when there are Monarch butterflies around, or in the springtime when the robins are playing their dart-across-the-road games. I can't help it; I'm crippled by my instinct to not hurt a single creature.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:48 PM
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7. The old Devil is in you and, as an aside, why do you hate God?
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 08:50 PM
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8. What?? Already?? They made GW Bush GOD?!
No. :packsforCanada:
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