A few threads down, I was asked what's a meat bee. Well, look closely at Kosky the next time he's on the tube. I'm kidding.

You see meat bees hanging around trash cans during summer picnics. There'll be a half a hot dog or hamburger sticking out of the trash. These bees will be eating the meat, pulling off pieces. I don't know what the live on in nature but they are clearly eating the meat. Maybe Kosky is a meat bee.

Imagine Kosky with wings, buzzing around like that guy in Star Wars.

Get him away from me, I'm scared.

Speaking of bees, I've started seeing fat furry honey bees again. I hope they're coming back. We need more hardworking honey bees. Honey bees vanished from the middle atlantic a couple years ago.

-- cory (kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net), August 19, 1999

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I saw a meat bee that was wearing glasses. It was eating government reports.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), August 19, 1999.

Hey Cory, Yes, we need more Honeybees. Better a honeybee than a horsefly , Anyday. Maybe a meat bee is Similar to a horsefly.... Seriously, Cory, I really appreciate your site.

-- Doorbaby (Temple of My God@heaven.com), August 19, 1999.

Shhh - Cory - they are really Langoliers!

-- Valkyrie (anon@please.net), August 19, 1999.

I saw a meat bee that was wearing glasses. It was eating government reports. -- Mike Lang

...And spewing out made up refuse reports like turds in a trough, and the sheople eat it up like candy!!!!

-- cb (LIVES@RISK.net), August 20, 1999.

A meat bee lives off of the refuse of others.. They can often be seen near cow "pies" in the summer heat....

Are you tactfully remarking that Go_Skin_um is full of Scat?

It appears that the sewers will fail here in San Jose, but I am already up to my neck in S**t.....

It will get worse before it gets better....

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), August 20, 1999.

Bees don't eat meat, but yellowjackets sure do. If you live near Washington, Cory, and the insects you saw were yellow and black striped, lean and aerodynamic looking, they are yellowjackets. When I clean a deer outside during hunting season, it is usually warm enough that I have to swat away yellowjackets. They also sting like fire, beware.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), August 20, 1999.

Hello Cory,

Thanks for the chuckles (and all the work that you do!). On a side note, if you are really hoping the honey bees come back - plant flowers and fruit trees! Here in ag country, California people are always talking about the bee population (because without them crops won't happen) and planting "bee plants". Seriously cool when you see the big old bumble bees as well. Also go organic (if not already there) as bees are tremendously sensitive to pesticides/insecticides.

Thanks again fellow tuna lover!

Kristi

-- Kristi (securxsys@cs.com), August 20, 1999.

Beats mee :)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 20, 1999.

A meat beeter maybe

-- a (a@a.a), August 20, 1999.

Kristi -

But not so cool when the honey bees have become "Africanized". We're now getting warnings in San Diego about these aggressive lil' buggers. They're agile, mobile, and very hostile.

Glad I got rid of all the red apple in the back yard. Last thing I need is bees with bad attitudes...

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), August 20, 1999.

Cory, Cory, Cory,

You sure do have a creative way with words. I am constantly amazed and amused by it. Can't help but wonder how such an Irish sense of humor got attached to such a Polish name. =8~) But seriously now, I hope you're not one of those codeheads that were attaching names like meat bee, and potato donut, to the dates in those files. No, no, no, you wouldn't ever have done something like that. Nahhhh. Would you? Would you???? Nahhhhhhhhhh.........course not.

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), August 20, 1999.