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Noted in Passing: He came and he went.

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  • Bill in Tennessee October 12, 2021, 12:40 PM

    His last words were, “Aaaaaahhhhhhh……it was worth it!” Thud.

  • Univ of Saigon 68 October 12, 2021, 1:20 PM

    At least he died happy.

  • ghostsniper October 12, 2021, 1:33 PM

    If you listen close you can hear him ask, “Hoosier Daddy?”.

  • jwm October 12, 2021, 1:42 PM

    I can think of worse fates.

    JWM

  • Mike Seyle October 12, 2021, 2:01 PM

    That devotion to charge ahead, no matter the bleak outcome, is about how I feel about beer. At my age, it’s better than sex. And will likely kill me as well.

    • Mike Austin October 12, 2021, 7:00 PM

      A friend once told me, “Booze at first saved me. Then it tried to kill me.”

      Yep.

  • PA Cat October 12, 2021, 2:27 PM

    Could be worse– at least queen bees don’t remove the drone’s head during copulation. The female praying mantis, on the other hand . . . As David Attenborough tells it, a decapitated male can continue copulating even after the female has bitten off his head:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os3OBJSlpUc&ab_channel=BBCEarth

    From one of the commenters: “Wouldn’t be the first or last time a man lost his head over a woman.”

  • gwbnyc October 12, 2021, 3:07 PM

    …aint the first time I seen it. why, I myself was near-mortally inj…

  • Skorpion October 12, 2021, 5:27 PM

    Spectacular clip. *Eros* and *Thanatos* always seem to go together, even in the animal kingdom.

    • Mike Austin October 12, 2021, 7:05 PM

      Always. The French call the orgasm “la petite mort”, the “little death”. It is as it is.

      I once knew a woman like that queen bee. She attracted many a man, and then destroyed them in a number of ways—some quite colorful, some quite comical, but in every way deadly. She invited me into her arms, but I was by then a mature man and careful in love. I spurned her and, to be honest, I enjoyed doing so.

      • jwm October 13, 2021, 9:18 AM

        Hmmm. I’m tempted to tell about Apache Rita, and the most painful orgasm…

        JWM

  • Callmelennie October 13, 2021, 8:53 AM

    If I may ressurect the oldest sex joke on the books

    He came and went at the same time

  • Callmelennie October 13, 2021, 8:57 AM

    Did you enjoy her BEFORE you spurned her, Mike?

    • Mike Austin October 13, 2021, 5:00 PM

      No. That would have been ungentlemanly of me. I watched over time some guys I knew fall into her trap. One never recovered.

  • Dirk October 13, 2021, 3:57 PM

    my grand kids and me were bee keepers when they were really young. Gave our 12 plus hives to a bee keeper friend. He gives us a case of honey at least yearly. Honey is one of a few foods which will never spoil. Some say the perfect Prepper food. That’s a case for us, and the boys each get their own case.

    We would watch the bees for hours. Queens and breeding queens is an interesting process. My friend makes queens and sells em to keepers who’ve lost their queens. Good money to be made.

    VI

  • Kerry October 13, 2021, 7:01 PM

    That’s remarkable footage. No end to the wonders of nature.

  • Zaphod October 13, 2021, 9:11 PM

    Going out with a bang.

    Wait until you see how the Blowfly got its name.