"Bees' nest"?!!! WTF!!!

[Jonathan Lighter]

Actually they all look alike if you don't bother to look very closely.

Like, who cares, man? They're dumb bugs!  Crank up the tunes!

JL

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>> I got stung a number of times, but never learned the difference.
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>> IMO, the difference isn't a matter of learning. They don't look the
>> same, so what's to learn? You may not know that a certain type of car
>> bears the marque, Volkswagen, whereas another type of car bears the
>> marque, Porsche, but the most casual glance tells you that they're not
>> non-distinct, even though, as far as you're concerned, they're both
>> merely "cars." Or not.
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> Fair enough. Probably what I didn't learn was to identify yellowjackets as wasps. As for other types of wasps, I don't know... BB
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