Haha -- * chased by a cicada

[CatWoman]

Bring It On, But Keep the Cicadas Away
We were going to mock Drudge for going with the 75-point type lead, "CHASED BY CICADAS." But then we thought, what the fuck? The president is fleeing from a fucking bug? He must read the Washington Post after all.


http://www.wonkette.com/archives/bring-it-on-but-keep-the-cicadas-away-009788.php

[JHB]

1. Lounge thread on this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1182789&mesg_id=1182789&page=

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Haha!! Funny!

[jackstraw45]

For a second, I thought it was Cheney in his bat form

:)

[allalone]

14. You know

I think you're right

[jackstraw45]

19. If you look REALLY closely, you can see the little cape

flapping in the wind.

[sundog]

23. lol-- you made me laugh :)

--

[Mandate My Ass]

3. Insects like to nest

in empty gourds, or so I've heard.

[peekaloo]

4. sure that isn't a carpenter bee...they like to bore into wood.

[displacedtexan]

5. hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

RUN, GEORGIE!

[NNN0LHI]

6. Like flies on shit n/t

[Shakespeare]

7. And another GD thread on it!

Mine. :P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1664359

[yellowcanine]

8. My guess is it is a female looking for a mate. They fly to the males

when the males make their squawky sounds. Was George vocalizing?

[Canuckistanian]

9. Oh, great. Now all his venues are gonna be fumigated

Anything to protect Emperor Chimpy from the real world.

[mmonk]

10. why waste those 17 years

in the ground?

[Lisa]

11. What a grotesque creature!

George W., I mean. I think cicadas are actually rather cute. There they are, able to get along by themselves, which is certainly more than * can do (even though he's much older than 17 years ...)

[calimary]

12. They are kinda cute, actually!

I actually saw the cicadas the last time they hatched (SHEESH! That was 17 years ago???) when I was being interviewed for a job at the AP. I had to go to Washington. One of the execs advised me with a chuckle that I might enjoy coming to town then because "yeah, the cicadas are here." And I really enjoyed 'em. They're funny. They reminded me of little flying Volkswagens. Not terribly bright. I can remember walking through Georgetown and stepping on dozens of them on the sidewalk after they'd crashed and burned - they were littering every horizontal surface in town. Sometimes they'd fly right into me, headlong into my stomach or chest or back with a big BONK! and then fall right to the ground, and (presumably) die. THey were kinda cute in a weird way. It was rather amusing. Big green funny-looking bugs all over the place and I wasn't a bit grossed out. And you'd go CRUNCH-CRUNCH-CRUNCH every time you walked around outside.

[Lisa]

13. the "bonk" thing is pretty funny ...

They have tough little exoskeletons so it's like they're as well-armoured as ... well, as Bush on his bike.

Anyway, back home in southern Ontario, in the summers I would hear the loud "BZZZ!" of a (regular) cicada revving up, then promptly colliding with a tree trunk or the aluminum siding on our house. Adorably klutzy. I felt sorry for them and would go around rescuing them from the roads and sidewalks. Put them on your finger and they'd perch there, docile, for hours if you'd let them.

[MoonRiver]

15. Is that his sidekick BEEzlebub?

}(

[mike1963]

16. The phrase "bee in his bonnet" keeps intruding on my beautiful mind...

:evilgrin:

[Lou_C]

17. A Fly knows shit when it sees and smells it

:puke:

[Sparkly]

18. I assume the Secret Service wrestled the cicada to the ground

Whew -- and the Chimp with no helmet! Close one!!

[pinniped]

20. Attempting to dock with the mother ship.

n/t

[kentuck]

21. The symbol of the 17-yr scandal...

2004? - the Abu Graib prison abuse scandal
1987? - the Iran contra scandal
1970? - the Cambodia bombing scandal and the beginning of Watergate.
1953? - The McCarthy hearings and following scandal

Republican scandals all.. :)

[Oilwellian]

22. Don't cicadas...

look for the deadest piece of wood to land on? }(