[lbo-talk] was Weath Distribution and hot air something

Jerry Monaco monacojerry at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 07:11:08 PDT 2007


On 4/29/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It's the damn bee intelligentsia again, always
> overanalyzing things and causing problems, stirring up
> strife between workers and drones. Soon they'll be
> calling on the worker bees to rise up and seize the
> means of honey collection. It's time to call the
> NKVBee on them.

Yes, yes!!!

But it is more like "Gotterdammerung".... Imagine Wagner done in SNL Bee Suits. "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" merging into "The Flight of the Valkyries"!

Damn, Chris I think we can go on and on with this thread for a long time. We can turn lbo-talk into...

l-BEE-o-talk... It will produce a big buzz....

The possibilities (and puns) are endless. Do you think anyone will notice?

Jerry

--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > "Ground control to Major Tam..." Because as a
> > worker I am not a "Tom".
> >
> > So let's first be clear about Queen Chris's problem.
> >
> > A drone bee and a worker bee are different. A drone
> > bee among honeybees
> > develops from unfertilized eggs and a worker bee
> > from fertilized eggs.
> > Drone bees are males and worker bees are female.
> > Drone bees exist to
> > service the Queen and Worker bees exist to service
> > feed the drones among
> > many other functions, like keeping the hive cool and
> > moving eggs around and
> > cleaning up the garbage, guarding the entrance of
> > the hive, etc.
> >
> > Workers have a life cycle where the kind of tasks
> > they perform are at first
> > inside the nest (like moving eggs into cells) and
> > then later both inside and
> > outside the nest (like taking out the garbage) and
> > later inside, but close
> > to the nest, (guarding the entrance) and later
> > foraging. What percentage of
> > workers takes up each task seems to depend on the
> > life cycle of the hive and
> > the "dependence" of the hive upon each task. It
> > seems that once a worker
> > starts performing tasks outside the hive it never
> > reverts to performing
> > tasks inside the hive. Thus a forager never reverts
> > to becoming an egg
> > mover.
> >
> > Now, I hear Queen Chris calling me, and as a
> > foraging worker bee I have
> > discovered that I am unable to make it back to the
> > nest where Queen Chris is
> > waiting for me and other old foragers. The drones
> > want to be fed. The
> > drones need to be fed. The hive needs its sweet
> > stuff. Where's my Royal
> > Jelly, yells Queen Chris, where's my Bee Bread.
> > "Something is happening
> > here and you just don't know what it is, do you Mr.
> > Jones?" Queen Chris
> > gets lonelier and lonelier as more and more workers
> > become foragers and as
> > more and more foragers like me get lost and
> > confused... and it is very
> > lonely now since all the workers seem to be lost and
> > the queen is there with
> > no workers and maybe now even all the drones are
> > dying, because "we're
> > idiots babe, and we can't even feed ourselves"!
> >
> > As for me, I think it is something wrong with my
> > navigation system. What
> > exactly it is I don't know. But i really doubt that
> > it has something to do
> > with cell phones. That's just me, a worker bee with
> > a guess.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> > --- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And one more thing. I want to thank Chris for
> > not
> > > > taking the opportunity to
> > > > make fun of me about my obsession with bees and
> > ants
> > > > and swarming insects.
> > > > But the future will tell... Maybe the bug that
> > has
> > > > crawled into his dark
> > > > place is entomologically interesting?
> > > >
> > > > Jerry
> > >
> > >
> > > Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
> > >
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