by Mary C Legg
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January 13, 2006

A word to the foolish

July 31, 2006 08:21 AM EDT (Updated: September 03, 2006 04:41 AM EDT)
views: 69 | rating: 10/10 (4 votes) | comments: 17
Besides assiduously avoiding the Bandersnatch and the  jaws that catch, we  need to be contantly on the alert for "persons of interest" and ever aware of the "terrorists in our midst,"  but must also be on guard  for the  invasion of alien species  overtaking the native environment.  Somehow we've lost the  basic skills to communicate life's lessons and timeless instruction through myths.

Myths, we tell kids, are fairytales. Nonsense.  Stuff of fluff. Fantasies.


But myths are really the greatest way of timeless communication regarding life's secrets. Wouldn't it be  ever so much better to concoct a story about the Psycho Bug who did an amazing trip on   deathcap mushrooms (fliegende pilze), than to  rant on about the dangers of psychedelic drugs?


So here's the Psycgho Bug who tripped to much on the locally available, nonUSDA-approved mushrooms that grew out in the woods at Srbsko.


Psycho Bug

Once there was a Georgie Boy of Srbsko, who against his mother's insistant warnings, took an avid interest in the local flora and  fauna. He collected mushrooms and experimented in a myriad ways to consume them. He had them fried, frittered and sauteed in butter sauce.

He ate them for breakfast with his cornflakes. And occassionally, when he was bored, he had them in math class when the sun shone too strongly through the prison windows of his school.

It wasn't that he was a juvenile delinquent or a bad boy. He was just plain bored and people didn't understand the brilliant ideas he had in his head.

He was just so addicted to their bright red color that he couldn't get enough of them and finally his poor little  buggy brain fried.


His mother cried. The  local hospital sent her such a bill that she couldn't pay it in  a thousand years and the police wrote up a report that  needed  clipping shears to shorten it.

And none of this really had much effect on poor George who was only delirious without  them.


But the gods, being  as malevolent as they are, heard the poor woman's tears and saw the police report that needed the clipping shears, and decided that something had to be done.


"You see that," snorted Juno, who was never known for any kindness whatsover, "He's breaking her heart."


"Right-o," replied Mercury, who is supposedly a patron to all things mercurial, including health, "So he is."


"Well, do somethng about it," Juno retorted. "It's  in your department since we all know that the feelings of ecstasy are ephemeral."

"Right-o," said  Mercury who vanished without explanation.

And so from that day, to this, you can find the Psycho Bug flying about in the weeds at the back of your garden

or hanging about down in Srbsko.

And of course, his mother  was left with all the bills, but  was relieved of funerary expense.


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Srbsko Beautiful Bug Gallery Here:
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Srbsko Bugs: Le Tour de Bugs
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Srbsko Bugs: Flutterbies
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Another Exhibit of Srbsko Bugs
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End of Srbsko Bug Season 1
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End of Srbsko Bug Season 2
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End of Srbsko Bug Season 3--coming soon
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Comments: 17

Manette S. Jul 31, 2006, 8:49am EDT
What a delightful story! And it is indeed very valuable to keep myths.....
However, one little error: mushrooms and other vegetable creatures are FLORA, not fauna.
Max Babi Jul 31, 2006, 8:57am EDT
wow, what a story and what a lovely picture.... I am glad I came here thanks to Manette Schoenfeld who alerted me regarding myths.... great story, Mary.
cheerz!
Mary C Legg Jul 31, 2006, 9:11am EDT
thanks manette-- good to have peole to correct me, but he was proably so tripped that he didn't know the difference just like me
Pearl 2 Jul 31, 2006, 10:39am EDT
Funny story... great shot of a BEYOOTIFUL butterfly!
julian 'blighted karma' three Jul 31, 2006, 10:54am EDT
Cute story; breathtakingly beautiful butterfly!! I would be delighted if we had such exceptional creatures all around our house! Thank you for sharing this!!
Mary C Legg Jul 31, 2006, 2:39pm EDT
dear julian, where's your house-- maybe we can order some for you. it's acutaslly called a garden tiger and has worldwide distribution although many, many different forms. If you're in the States, you can check with usgs or nooa.org to see if its listed in your state.

here's a page by entomologists re: threatened species and butterflies
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/biologists-letter-on.html
there are some links regarding their targeted complaint to US give--butterflies
Mary C Legg Jul 31, 2006, 2:45pm EDT
Sorry I coldn't persuade it to show its orange underwings to the camera. He ws very happy to show them to the other side of the bush, but never to me. So I have several pictures of him with wings closed, but actually underneath there are screaming orange ( not mashed carrot puke orange) with black spots-- so I think he really did eat too many of those famous red mushrooms with the white spots )Amanita muscaria. The red ones get hung on Christmas trees in Central Europe, so you know how Santa flies.
Christie Frenchie Jul 31, 2006, 7:49pm EDT
Thank you for your wisdom thru parable. And I loved all your responses (humor) as well.
Mary C Legg Jul 31, 2006, 8:16pm EDT
your welcome--just don't try to put up and travelogues with opicture stories in this horrible software or you'll go mad.
Sandy (Site Psychic™) Knauer Jul 31, 2006, 8:24pm EDT
What a beautiful picture, Mary! I truly enjoy the way you find these gorgeous subjects and write stories around them. You are truly gifted.
Mary C Legg Jul 31, 2006, 8:33pm EDT
oh, dear--and the system didn't even crash once while I wrote it-- but to make up for it, I just spent 4.5 hours trying to upload a travelogue while getting bumped out by those damnable gatherinc amazon banners

does technology ever come so bad as here> I doubt it

and it totally screwed up the sequence of the pictures which I ws forced to reload no less thyan five times

okay 18 x f = ???

gather is really sick
and doesn't want to pay anything for good content or good photography and then burbles away about gather points

they can't even make a decent comment box or tect template.
Mary C Legg Aug 1, 2006, 1:10am EDT
thanks, you can see that I am very tired and frustrated with gather badware-- I got a half hour ago and have less than three hours of sleep. It's normal.

and so I'm beginning to be almost as livid as my psycho bug.
Madame Donna C. Aug 1, 2006, 2:34am EDT
Wow, that's all just Wow.
Mary C Legg Aug 1, 2006, 2:38am EDT
visit the bug gallery while you're here

and all this is free content to gather which repays us with dysfunctional badware

thanks-- bug gallery door is below, if it functions. can never tell with gather badware


Bug Collection
Srbsko Beautiful Bugs
Dolphi D. Aug 2, 2006, 8:01am EDT
Mary - A very entertaining story, beautifully written. It has the classic "jabberwocky" touch of Lewis Carroll. Thanks to Manette for alerting us about this mythical story.

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