[taya17]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Nic Corelli"]And when the mantis died, I buried it... and a year later, a big pink apartment building was built exactly on the site of its grave. It is now officially the insect with the most impressive tombstone monument ever, [/quoteost_uid0]

But it's monument is big and PINK! How could a ferocious butterfly-eating insect have a PINK monument? Injustice, I tell, you, [iost_uid0]injustice![/iost_uid0]

[quoteost_uid0="Nic Corelli"]My butterfly collection is still here and intact, by the way... they`re all pinned with needles on the cardboard, 20 or so of them, and displayed on the shelf in my living room... they are not pickled, but surprisingly they haven`t decomposed at all after 13 years...[/quoteost_uid0]

::tries to keep this quote out of her mind, and fails spectacularly:: [iost_uid0]"You've got to see this! Ambassador Delenn's come out of her cocoon, and she's got wings-- like a butterfly!"[/iost_uid0]

Ugh. Thank you, Nits. Now I have the [iost_uid0]worst[/iost_uid0] image possible stuck in my brain... And I thought keeping innocently pickled spiders for 13 months was BAD.

Nan, you have disturbing cats. That is all I have to say. ::is extremely glad her dog is too wimpy to attack anything other than terrycloth towels::[/colorost_uid0]