Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Pooride!

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   chigau (同じ)

   23 January 2012 at 10:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I like dung beetles.
   doG was such a kidder.

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   Glen Davidson

   23 January 2012 at 10:48 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Baby needs a new ball of dung.

   Hungry mouths, you know.

   Glen Davidson

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   Marcus Ranum

   23 January 2012 at 10:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   This. This is how I roll.

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   Rip Steakface

   23 January 2012 at 11:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Or, with the pop music of the modern day:
   “They see me rollin’… they hatin’…”

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   F

   24 January 2012 at 1:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Teh holy scarab. Nom nom nom.

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   danikekoa

   24 January 2012 at 1:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Greetings PZ Myers,

   I stumbled across a post of yours from last year titled: “Bob Enyart and Will Duffy, partners in idiocy” but I cannot comment so I thought I’d drop you a line here. I am a former member of that church and decided to write a post in agreement with you on your honest assessment of Bob & Will. Here it is =>
   TRUTH from an Atheist – And I Couldn’t Agree More…
   http://worstgenerationseed.blogspot.com/2012/01/truth-from-atheist-and-i-couldnt-agree.html

   “Why do you have to lie and mislead and conceal on the little, trivial things? Why hide the fact that you have a vested interest in Enyart’s show, and are actually deeply involved in the program? I see that, and right away, I know I’m dealing with a shameless liar for Jesus.
   And then, of course, there’s the raving insanity…”

   And if these men will lie and mislead and conceal on the little, trivial things…just imagine what else they are trying to hide??? It’s coming….shameless LIARS!

   “But the lips of a FOOL shall swallow him up; The words of his mouth begin with foolishness, And the end of his talk is RAVING MADNESS. A FOOL also multiplies words. No man knows what is to be…” – Ecclesiastes 10:12-14

   There’s more to be revealed soon…
   http://www.GenerationXpose.com

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   Rip Steakface

   24 January 2012 at 2:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Oh, little godbot, the Endless Thread is this way.

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   'Tis Himself, OM.

   24 January 2012 at 5:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I can’t stand dung beetles. I’m just put off by their shit-eating grins.

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   anuran

   24 January 2012 at 6:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Sittin’ on top of the world!

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    Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort

    24 January 2012 at 6:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Alternate titles:

    “Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ in a dungpile”
    “Pooride. Take it easy”

    I’m sure I could come up with more, but I’m lazy and unimaginitive this morning.

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    Second Cousin Ogvorbis, OM. Twice Removed by Request.

    24 January 2012 at 7:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Dmanit, ‘Tis, you beat me to it! (in #8). I, too, hate their shit-eating grins.

    (And how does an animal with mandibular mouth-parts grin?)

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    bbgunn

    24 January 2012 at 7:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Just in: Dung beetle tops Santorum in latest poll.

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    Zeno

    24 January 2012 at 7:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    In honor of Gingrich’s recent election victory? Seems apt.

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    Blueaussi

    24 January 2012 at 7:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @#3,

    I saw a t shirt somewhere that had a dung beetle with “That’s how I roll” on it…somewhere. I meant to go back and get one, but I didn’t bookmark it, and I couldn’t remember which site.

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    littlejohn

    24 January 2012 at 7:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Pretty much what I do for a living.

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    Cosmic Teapot

    24 January 2012 at 8:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I think I need coffee. I read that as rollin’, rollin’. Porridge!

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    Ms. Daisy Cutter, Feral Fembeast

    24 January 2012 at 8:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    If anyone would like some informative AND gut-bustingly hilarious reading on the dung beetle, I highly recommend the relevant chapter in Ralph Lewin’s Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-Historical Coprology.

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    Ms. Daisy Cutter, Feral Fembeast

    24 January 2012 at 8:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    BTW: Macro’ed for you.

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    Markita Lynda----Happy New Year, everyone!

    24 January 2012 at 2:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    What I like about dung beetles is the Egyptian mythology. Other cultures imagined a shining chariot: the Egyptians saw a shining ball rolling across the sky, observed dung beetles rolling their balls, and concluded that a giant, holy dung beetle was rolling their sun every day. Ta-da! Holy scarabs.

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    DLC

    24 January 2012 at 2:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I couldn’t help but think of this.
    http://youtu.be/d1bmlPXVxPc
    Soul Coughing. Rolling. not my favorite song, but there you go.

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    grumpypathdoc

    24 January 2012 at 3:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Dung beetles? They don’t hold a candle to carrion beetles!!

    http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/krasensky/carrion-beetle-1542.jpg

    Sorry I don’t have one in the process of actually doing what they do best. We used them to clean up the skeletal remains of our roadside collections in zoology lab.

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    kimulrick

    24 January 2012 at 8:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @Blueaussi

    Is this the one?

    http://www.knoddingskull.com/products.php?id=54