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Post by Xaa on Mar 10, 2007 13:41:51 GMT -5
Ah, spring - the time of year when collectors dash about the flowering landscape, nets in hand, chasing their elusive, fluttering prey... Of course, once you catch a truly rare specimen, you chloroform it, pin it and box it to display it's elegant wings in perpetuity. img266.imageshack.us/img266/4859/butterflyboxqn6.png*looks around* What? Something wrong?
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Post by charietto on Mar 10, 2007 21:05:42 GMT -5
Hehe, that was mean... Reminds me a bit of Terry Jones & Brian Froud's 'Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book' .
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Post by Xaa on Mar 10, 2007 21:22:19 GMT -5
Hehe, that was mean... Reminds me a bit of Terry Jones & Brian Froud's 'Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book' . I'd never heard of that one before today, I had to Google it to find out what it was. But yes, same joke.
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Post by Kilarin on Mar 11, 2007 9:20:46 GMT -5
very... macabre since of humor. yikes!
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Post by Xaa on Mar 11, 2007 10:33:14 GMT -5
Heh. You know, I always found collecting dead butterflies to be pretty macabre, myself. I once visited a famous collection in England, back in the 70's. Room after room of butterflies in large cases, each stuck on a pin with a little label below them. Everyone was going "Oh, how pretty!" And I was thinking "damn, that is creepy..."
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Post by Kilarin on Mar 11, 2007 22:43:50 GMT -5
Yep, I've felt the same way. Find those pretty critters, then ether them because we love them so!
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