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Old 12-21-2006, 06:36 AM   #1
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too many moths to feed...
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Old 12-21-2006, 07:33 AM   #2
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Does Visine get the moth out?
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Old 12-21-2006, 08:27 AM   #3
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I accept evolution as the most likely explanation for how we all are what we are, but DAMN. That's just amazing. You gotta wonder what steps were taken over the eons for the moths to form a nasty barbed proboscis like this.

I mean, the moths had to be smart enough in the first place to sneak up on sleeping animals and suck their tears, which I suppose isn't such a leap. We've all seen flies buzzing around the eyes of cattle or starving Ethiopian kids. These moths just do it at night. But then they had to evolve barbs at some time. Amazing. Just amazing.
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Old 12-21-2006, 08:44 AM   #4
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...I mean, the moths had to be smart enough in the first place to sneak up on sleeping animals and suck their tears, which I suppose isn't such a leap. We've all seen flies buzzing around the eyes of cattle or starving Ethiopian kids. These moths just do it at night. But then they had to evolve barbs at some time. Amazing. Just amazing.
Agreed. But before they even got smart enough to sneak up, they had to somehow know that the tears were even there to be gotten. How did they know? Smell?

I also wonder how this is for the birds. A good thing? Does it benefit them somehow? Or does it depelete them of needed tears that keep their eyes moistenened?
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Old 12-21-2006, 09:08 AM   #5
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Several thoughts:

1) I'll never complain about eye boogers again.

2) Somebody missed out on a chance to have made Mothra a lot more interesting when he battled Godzilla.

3) Literary: "He was drawn to her willowy beauty, as a moth with a barbed proboscis is drawn to the eye of a teary magpie robin at rest."
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Old 12-21-2006, 09:24 AM   #6
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Thank you for the sig.
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Old 12-21-2006, 11:28 AM   #7
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Thank you for the sig.
Damn YOU! That's a great sig!

(els is especially talented, no?)
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Old 12-21-2006, 12:19 PM   #8
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Thank you for the sig.
You're welcome. I was pretty proud of that, my intended replacement for "like a moth to a flame".
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Old 12-22-2006, 01:18 AM   #9
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"He was drawn to her willowy beauty, as a moth with a barbed proboscis is drawn to the eye of a teary magpie robin at rest."
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