I am THIS close to a grim crime of passion against a daddy longlegs

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friggin erratic flying bastard! getting in my face and nose, I swear I will do something I instantly regret and feel like a sadist about if this continues...

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Murderer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

daddy longlegs don't fly.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't aware DL's had wings.

x-post, obv.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/wildthing/images/daddylonglegs.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

WHAT ABOUT BACTERIA???

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

daddy longlegs don't fly.

they do in Hertfordshire

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

It's not a daddy longlegs, it's a mosquito hawk. They eat mosquitoes. Leave him alone, he's making your life better.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

oh god now it's pissinbg about on the keyboard.

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

how on earth can something that messy and flailing catch anything smaller and quicker than it?

it's settled on my volume nob

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

maybe you should move

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

out of Hertfordshire you mean?

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

What part of Hertfordhsire, Barnaby?

Hertforshire is a lovely place!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

There are a lot of daddy longles there though, I noticed!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Why would you want to hatefuck a bug?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

iHELP IVE BEEN STUNG BY A WASP IN THE EYE

― pappawheelie II, Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

mosquito hawks rule. daddy longlegs rule. although it is creepy whenever 500 of them crawl in a big pile and just hang out (or bone each other in a big daddy longlegs orgy?) up in a high corner or wherever.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Hatfield. Better than Stevenage I suppose.

everytime it hits the wall it falls to the ground and has to untangle itself before getting airborne again. It's totally tragic. How have these things avoided extinction?

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

do you frequent the Galleria?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I used to work in Whittards there

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Also as a child I went 'ice skating' on their plastic 'ice rink'.

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

me too!

I haven't been in about three years, though. I think I remember that Whittards. Was it close to an escalator?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah just by the funny almost-helix interlocking staircases opposite TK Maxx. What's your Herts connection?

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I'm from Edgware. But my parents obviously thought the UCI at Hatfield was worth the pleasant drive up the A1.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

it probably isn't.

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

"gooooood gooood daddy-long legs, hope it makes more money than pehhhgeee soo-hoooo"

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Mosquito hawks don't eat mosquitos, that's just a myth. The adults don't eat anything at all. They just mate and die.

― bogle, Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

aha! so it wouldn't matter if me (or more likely now) my cat kill it as it's probably had it's fair share of gangly insect boning and is ready to ascend to the great dusty shelf in the sky.

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

is a mosquito hawk a crane fly?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Crane fly

Mosquito hawk

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

looks the same to me. i always call them "daddy mosquitos"

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

"daddy mosquitos"

that is frightening

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Mosquito hawks
many perceive as evil
but if you're from the projects
them niggas is like your people

They eat with you
sleep with you
listen to beats with you

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

daddy longlegs don't fly.
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), August 25th, 2005 9:18 PM. (hstencil) (later) (link)

only the white ones don't fly

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

when i were a wee child i used to pull off the legs of a daddy longlegs and then offer the hapless torso to birds. it was kind of cruel wasn't it? you can still see its little joints wiggling.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

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