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http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates030.html wrote:
<<The Wasps (Greek: Σφῆκες / Sphēkes) was an Aristophanes play brought out in 422 B.C under the phony name of Philonides. The purpose of the Wasps was to satirize the love of litigation common to the Athenians, whose delight it was to spend their time in the law-courts and to live on the judicial fees which Pericles had established, and which Cleon was pledged to maintain. In the Wasps, a father, Philocleon, who, as his name denotes, is warmly attached to Cleon, has surrendered the management of his affairs to his son Bdelycleon--the word meaning the detester of Cleon. The son regrets his father's fondness for judicial business, and weans him from it partly by establishing a law-court at home, in which the house-dog is tried for stealing a Sicilian cheese, with all the formalities of a regular process in the dicasterion. In the second half of the play Philocleon is induced to turn his attention to music and literature, whereupon he is congratulated by the chorus.>>

owlice wrote:beyond, it might be a mud wasp; I thought they wouldn't sting unless directly threatened, though. Despite having dozens, maybe even hundreds, of these various wasps in the mints, I've never been stung by one.

I often have another wasp-thing that is wicked cool-looking; it's black with red markings, about the size of the mud wasp or perhaps a little bigger. I saw only one today and couldn't get a shot of it.

BMAONE23, lol; love that money, hmm?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minthe wrote:
<<In Greek mythology, Menthe (also Minthe, Mintha or Mentha; Greek: Μίνθη or Μένθη) was a naiad associated with the river Cocytus. She was dazzled by Hades' golden chariot and was about to be seduced by him [Hades = Philo-n(a)i(a)des?] had not Queen Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Menthe into the pungently sweet-smelling mint, which some call hedyosmus. The –nth– element in menthe is characteristic of a class of words borrowed from a pre-Greek language: compare acanthus, labyrinth, Corinth, etc.. In ancient Greece, mint was used in funerary rites, together with rosemary and myrtle, and not simply to offset the smell of decay; mint was an element in the fermented barley drink called the kykeon that was an essential preparatory entheogen for participants in the Eleusinian mysteries.>>

StarstruckKid wrote:Here's a thought: how many of you guys/gals aren't in the 99th percentile in intelligence?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International wrote:

<<Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher. Mensa means "table" in Latin as is symbolized in the organization's logo.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_%28constellation%29 wrote:
<<Mensa is a constellation in the southern sky, created in the eighteenth century. Its name is Latin for table. Other than the south polar constellation of Octans, it is the most southerly of constellations. As a result, it is essentially unobservable from the Northern Hemisphere. Mensa contains part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Mensa contains no bright stars, with Alpha Mensae its brightest star at a barely visible magnitude 5.09, making it the faintest constellation in the entire sky. Alpha Mensae is a solar-type star (class G5 V) 33 light-years from Earth, and is considered a good prospect for harboring an Earth-like planet. Pi Mensae, on the other hand, while also solar-type (G1) and at 59 light-years, has been found to have a large gas giant in an eccentric orbit crossing the habitable zone, which would effectively rule out the existence of any habitable planets.>>

BMAONE23 wrote:
I never felt the need to join Mensa myself.
It seems like a club where they tend to pat themselves on the back.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_it_difficult_to_rub_your_stomach_and_pat_your_head_at_the_same_time wrote:
Q: Why is it difficult to rub your stomach and pat your head at the same time?

A: Because most people have only one dominate side
of the brain that they use. Such as right or left handed.
If you are an experienced piano player, you have taught yourself to be both
right and left handed and doing the pat head rub tummy trick will be easy for you.

BMAONE23 wrote:I never felt the need to join Mensa myself. It seems like a club where they tend to pat themselves on the back.

neufer wrote:The -nth- element

beyond wrote:

neufer wrote:The -nth- element

Shouldn't that be "The -mth- element?

neufer wrote:

beyond wrote:

neufer wrote:The -nth- element

Shouldn't that be "The -mth- element?

I Menthe what I said and I said what I Menthe.

orin stepanek wrote:Owlice; your moth picture reminded me. The other day I was in the back yard with my dog. I have a lot of morning glories growing on the fence and it attracts a lot of butterflies. I stuck my hand out and a black swallowtail crawled on my finger. I wish someone was around to take a picture of it. After a few moments I lifted it up and let it fly away. It was really a cool experience.

beyond wrote: Hey Orin, have you ever petted bees They're a little bit fuzzy

orin stepanek wrote:

beyond wrote: Hey Orin, have you ever petted bees They're a little bit fuzzy

No; but when I was in jr. high; i was walking home from school and a honey bee decided to roost on my finger. Now that was a prickly situation. It sat on my finger for the better part of a block and a half. I was walking along wondering how to rid myself of this nasty bug, My eyes dead on that bee on my finger. Finally I took a deep breath and blew it off and ran the rest of the way home. True story; honest.