More One Liners To Tickle Your Mind Twice On The Same Day

• With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.


• You're never too old to learn something stupid.


• Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.


• Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.


• Good girls are bad girls that never get caught.


• I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.


• Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.


• The sole purpose of a child's middle name, is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.


• He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.


• Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.


• You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.


• Crowded elevators smell different to midgets.


• Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.


• It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.


• Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.


• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.


• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.


• If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
  Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.


• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

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Blink Twice If You Love Me

I have always liked fireflies, or glow-worms as some people would call them. I never knew before until fairly recently that there are many varieties of them, but all with the same characteristic that they glow at night. Maybe they glow too during the day, it's just that they are not noticeable in broad daylight. As a child I used to try to catch some, put them in a clear glass jar, to test whether I could read a book purely by the light they gave. I could! I now know that it's cruel, but children tend to be selfish until they learn to have a conscience.

After leaving the suburb and becoming very much a city girl soon after, I didn't get to see any fireflies any more. I still like them but, frankly, apart from very intrigued by them as a very young child, I seldom gave them a second thought. Therefore it's once again quite intriguing for me to read about their love life.

They apparently communicate a lot with one another and can distinguish the different species. Those flying about showing off their brilliant lights were all males, while the females stay down nearer ground amongst shrubs and vegetation observing, and selecting the ones they like better for a mate. They will blink twice and repeat it to the lucky chosen. How on earth they can signal or respond to the right one amongst hundreds is quite a mystery! 

 
Sara Lewis knows all about them having dedicated 16 years observing and investigating. She is an ecologist in the University of tufts in Massachusetts, leads a team of investigators of these insects' habits, and especially their communicative system, and how their brilliance is very much the most important feature that greatly influence their love life, or lack or it, and a determining factor of their reproduction, or not.

So when the male fly around and hovered over the females, blinking like mad their 'headlights', the latter, attracted by a certain male (again, how she could is mind boggling as there are usually hundreds of them and they all look alike, to me at least, but obviously not to the 'firefly ladies'), she will blink (her light) twice, a clear 'Come-hither' signal to the male. And they usually choose their own kind. Once established their relationship, they stay monogamy. Cute huh? I can't tell you much more about them yet; have to read the rest of the very long report first.

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One Liners To Tickle Your Mind

• TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.


• Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.


• When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.


• Virginity is like a soap bubble, one prick and it is gone.


• If winning isn't everything why do they keep score?


• If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child.


• Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.


• Whoever coined the phrase "Quiet as a mouse" has never stepped on one.


• If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you'll have trouble putting on your pants.


• We have enough gun control. What we need is idiot control.


• Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.


• I intend to live forever. So far, so good.


• Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.


• Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?


• When in doubt, mumble.


• A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.


• There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.


• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.


• Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.


• My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

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