Why Flies? (Page 2): Slightly off topic, but related to your Ogden Nash quote, besides his famous "I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream."

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Aug 14, 2019 14:45:00 #

woodworkerman Loc: PA to FL

rmalarz wrote:

This inspired me to remember a poem by Ogden Nash.
God is his wisdom made the fly.
And then forgot to tell us why.
--Bob

Slightly off topic, but related to your Ogden Nash quote,
besides his famous "I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream."
- my favorite Nash poem is:

"Incompatibility is the spice of married life,
especially if he has income
and she has patability."

Aug 14, 2019 15:07:38 #

robertperry Loc: Sacramento, Ca.

Some people are like flies, they eat S!$%T and bother people.

Aug 14, 2019 15:09:24 #

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

More OT:
Ogden Nash taught me the diffeerence between a camel and a dromedary.

"The camel has a single hump
The dromedary two
Or else, the other way around
I'm never sure. Are you?

All you have to do is remember he got it wrong.

Aug 14, 2019 15:53:03 #

carlberg

Maggots are still being used in the debridement of dead tissue in wounds.

Aug 14, 2019 15:56:32 #

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

jerryc41 wrote:

sippyjug104 posted a great, detailed picture of a fly. That got me thinking. What purpose do flies serve? I came up with an answer - to be posted later.

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-605581-1.html

I don't think they have a "purpose", any more than us humans have a "purpose" to exist. They, like us, just happen to fit into a particular evolutionary niche.

Aug 14, 2019 18:11:48 #