WE-DID-NOT-NEED-TO-KNOW-THIS HEADLINE OF THE DAY
(Thanks to Russell Mc)
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What, there's no water?
Posted by: ubetcha | December 20, 2006 at 03:46 PM
great. another reason to be afraid of the dark.
Posted by: OkieDokie | December 20, 2006 at 03:46 PM
I am ever grateful that I learned how to sleep with my eyes open in college!
Posted by: DDi | December 20, 2006 at 03:47 PM
Wait. Scratch that.
EW!
Posted by: DDi | December 20, 2006 at 03:48 PM
Even though I am not a bird I am still wearing googles to bed for the rest of my life.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | December 20, 2006 at 03:50 PM
I wish i had not clicked the link. i guarantee that as soon as i close my eyes tonight, this is the first thing that will pop in head. Gross!
Posted by: wickedwitch | December 20, 2006 at 03:52 PM
Didn't Antonio Carlos Jobim do this one...?
When moths drink the tears of sleeping birds,
With harpoons in their probosces
I'll wander with you
Neath the moon up above
Our hacienda in Old Calabasas...
Posted by: Betsy | December 20, 2006 at 03:54 PM
Betsy - isn't that from The "Moth From Ipanema"?
Posted by: pogo | December 20, 2006 at 03:59 PM
Catfood the cockatiel vows never to sleep again.
Posted by: fivver | December 20, 2006 at 04:03 PM
Pogo...*snork*! actually, TMFI works if you drop the last line (and 'proboscis' definitely has a nice bossa nova beat)
Posted by: Betsy | December 20, 2006 at 04:10 PM
The smart birds sleep on their stomachs.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | December 20, 2006 at 04:12 PM
Is it just me, or do some sciencetists have way too much time on thier hands? I mean to sit around and watch sleeping birds!
Just saying
Posted by: billinbossier | December 20, 2006 at 04:24 PM
I have a multitude of nightime ailments (restless leg syndrome, anxiety, sleep apnea) that keep me from getting a good night's rest. Now I have to worry about moths too?
Posted by: casey | December 20, 2006 at 04:32 PM
I didn't read the article, but the headline seemed almost like some "metaphors" (but for what?) you'd see on certain teens' MySpace pages.
Posted by: Glix | December 20, 2006 at 06:52 PM
Now where did I put that mosquito net?
Posted by: shellann | December 20, 2006 at 06:59 PM
So, do the moths get the birds to eat chili made from their parents first? Do they call them Cartman moths?
Posted by: Confused | December 20, 2006 at 07:25 PM
I must be the only person who didn't even know that birds had tears.
Posted by: aarif | December 20, 2006 at 11:47 PM
Wouldn't Steve Irwin have loved this headline? Crikey!
RIP Steve, the kiddos sure miss you!
Posted by: Jessica R. | December 21, 2006 at 01:58 AM
"TMFI works if you drop the last line (and 'proboscis' definitely has a nice bossa nova beat)."
Would that make it a probossa-nova? ;-)
Also, "Tear-Feeding Moths" WBAGNFAEmoB.
Posted by: Kev | December 22, 2006 at 01:33 AM
Kev...Excellent point! And no one is more probossa-nova than I am!
Quiet nights of quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar
Floating on the moths' pristine proboscis
Quiet sighs and quiet words
Quiet tears from quiet birds
Arc across my dreams like a Colossus.....
Posted by: Betsy | December 22, 2006 at 11:46 PM
aarif--I didn't know that either. I've never seen a bird cry--do they use tiny tissues? or do they not need them because they have moths to take care excess tears for them? Enquiring minds want to know!
Posted by: kj | December 23, 2006 at 08:36 PM