Coccinellid Mania!
Recently, here at my day job, my desk has been repeatedly visited by ladybugs. They always come one at a time — perhaps it’s the same bug — and I’ve just given up releasing them outdoors. I now let them (it?) hang out at my desk. As I type this, there’s a ladybug nestled against a stack of contracts next to my keyboard.
Perhaps it will bite me, endowing me with ladybug-themed superpowers, which is what clearly happened to this fortunate heroine/sexxxy ladybug(!):
I’ll try to provoke the ladybug at my desk, and I’ll let you know what happens.
Speaking of which, here’s some trivia for today! What do the following two individuals have in common?
Answer after the jump!
That’s right! They’re both dead!
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Your trivia made me laugh really hard, and now I feel like a bad person.
One of my cousins used date a girl from Norway who didn’t know a lot of English. While she was visiting, a ladybug got into the house.
“Look,” I said, “A ladybug!”
She stared at it a moment, frowning, then said “How can you tell it’s a lady?”
Good luck with the super powers.
Did you answer that you could tell by locating it’s tiny, exo-vagina?
A cursory glance at Wikipedia tells me that the superpower most likely to arise from my encounter would be a phenomenon known as “reflexive bleeding.” When acted upon by a mechanical stimulus such as a dog bite, for example, I would reflexively ooze a toxic bodily fluid, poisoning and/or discouraging the perceived predator.
I can’t wait.