C’est le temps des pommes à Mont-Saint-Hilaire!

Venez faire un tour…

Sex and the Country – at a Field Theater Near You

This is the season. Hundreds of coleopteras are copulating on Wild Carrot or Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus Carota) flowers.  The flower “nest”  has a tiny dark red flower in the middle. It is said the function of that anthocyanin flower is to attract insects. In flowers, bright reds and purples are adaptive for attracting pollinators. You can see all the pollen on the two insects below. It must be very successful for the plant because all the Carrot flower tops in my area are filled with various insects – mostly coleopteras. On this picture it seems to be the Flower Longhorn Beetle (Trigonarthris minnesota) but I am not an insect specialist.

This is How I Saw My Dad! Happy Father’s Day To All Great Dads In The World!

See Cartoons by Cartoon by Pat Bagley – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com – Email this Cartoon

Presonnage d’Halloween très bizarre

Ce bizarre de personnage est descendu de la montagne le soir de l’Halloween et s’est mis à danser comme Travolta. Il ne voulait pas de bonbons, il voulait juste faire le party!

Saturday Night Halloween Fever

Sumo Wrestlers Testicles?

I am not making this up. Once in a while I look at the statistics section of my WordPress Blog. It tells me which words or sequences of words were actually googled to get to my Blog.

Usually I recognize the topics immediately and they make sense: Land Art, Nature, Music, Nutrition, Alternative medicine, Ecology, etc.

Sometimes it is a little more cryptic. Someone wrote 770 X 1440 and landed on my site??? I tried googling it myself and my blog does not show up at all – indeed why would it?

But “Sumo Wrestlers Testicles” is clearly the most bizarre keywords I have seen on my Blog! What were they expecting? Weird gigantic testes pictures? Why would someone actually search for that???

I bravely googled it myself and all I found was a comment about a camera lens: “The lens retracts into the body, a bit like a Sumo wrestlers testicles.” Nothing about my Blog – unsurprisingly. Although I did write a post about a Sumo Wrestler. (Hmmm … First let me make sure I did not mention his testicles…)

What did the person mean with “retracts in the body”? I wasted no time to research this delicate subject. If you really REALLY want to know more about this most important life transforming topic please go immediately to: Do sumos really retract their testicles into their bodies?

You can thank me later for adding to your education. Just think you could have gone to sleep tonight not even knowing about this. Actually if you have read that far, you probably are suffering from insomnia and it wouldn’t apply to you but you know what I mean – right?

Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas!

Les anges dans nos campagnes – version végétarienne

Angels We Have Heard On High – The Vegan version

Read this – if you can

If yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. Tnkas to the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed tihs frowrad it…

Now – That’s Funny!

Many moons ago my friend Art introduced me to the humorous work of Richard Lederer.

I recently received a monthly Canadian newsletter from a special interest group. One of the member, Nicky Kew, has worked as a medical transcriptionist for 20 years. She used to simply edit the “bloopers” done by the doctors over their dictations but in 1998 she met Richard Lederer and realised she should start collecting them.

Here are some examples:

- At the moment of impact his foot popped off the brake pedal and rolled across two lanes of traffic and started going up a hill opposite.

- In the past she has also had breast implants which appear to be in good shape.

- He presents as a very bright boy of about average intellect.

- A complete psychoeducational report shows problems with inattentiveness, listening, following instructions, organizing tasks and activities, sustaining mental effort, forgetfulness, careful mistakes and distractibility.

- She has never been married and I think was divorced.

- The neck pain is in her neck.

- Past history includes puberty and back surgery.

- This lady returned to the office today. She was surprised, as you and I were, that her prostate is enlarged on a recent CT scan.

- There is no other elements sleep disturbance and this young man reports that he is waking refreshed from school.

- He sleeps relatively well although occasionally he wakes up with a toothache in his back.

- Patient required coaxing to illicit range of movement.

- On examination, the testicles and penises are normal.

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Whew!  I finally wrote them down. I was laughing so hard that tears were making my vision blurry!