This idea comes from one of the weirder Facebook conversations
after innocently asking if anyone recognised a close-up shot of an everyday object.
Everyday object viewed here -
http://tinyurl.com/6n64vc6
Matt - Can you tell what this is?
Lee - Tea bag on a string?
Matt - Damn it, Lee, you're right.
Lee - Wow, time to buy a lottery ticket!
Matt - It cup, I mean could be you!
Cath - Lee, it's worrying that you guessed that. It could have been two silver beetles
one trying to fly a kite and finding it too hard, so the other coming to help pull on the rope!
Matt - Okay, I must've been mistaken about the tea bag. Cath's explanation is far
more plausible and so has to be true. No doubt there is a homemade beetle kite
on the end of that rope flying with the combined strength of two silver beetles. :)
Cath - I believe they use beetle saliva as an adhesive as double sided sticky tape
is too dangerous. Early prototypes were found to contain tiny prongs of silver later
identified as legs from unfortunate beetles relying on tape. Very unfortunate as they
could no longer hold onto the rope and the kite was made useless!
Matt - Wow, the sacrifices those pioneer beetles made. A minute's silence, please.
Cath - Don't worry they knew they could be in danger. You should feel sorry for the pewter
flea slaves strapped mercilessly to the kite tail.
Matt - True, we should never forget those trailing fleas either and their
involuntary daredevil loop de loops. The little pewty beauties.
~
I wish I'd managed to get the beetle a bit better. But what the heck, if it can still lift its kite
high up into the air with the best of 'em, wonky legs notwithstanding then all is well
in the surreal insect world.
http://tinyurl.com/7gfam5d
