tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post4303955149681092806..comments2023-11-29T13:13:23.022+00:00Comments on newgate news: What has six legs and four eyes?Macheathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-88167854373896934892014-04-30T19:10:00.470+01:002014-04-30T19:10:00.470+01:00This is one methinks I'll hurriedly pass over....This is one methinks I'll hurriedly pass over.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-13921281725317855812014-04-29T22:27:14.105+01:002014-04-29T22:27:14.105+01:00MW, according to one article, they stuck them on w...MW, according to one article, they stuck them on with beeswax, presumably on account of mantises having no ears to hold on the side-pieces.<br /><br />The article also pointed out for worried readers that the glasses were removed and the insects returned to their quarters unharmed afterwards - which is more than would have happened if the scientists had tried the prairie vole blind date experiment, what with the female mantis' habit of decapitating and eating her paramours.<br /><br />Actually, <i>that</i> would be an interesting experiment to try with elephants too, though I have to admit that your idea sounds highly entertaining - and would certainly improve a trip to the soul-less glass-and-steel monstrosity that disfigures my local town centre.Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-54406397063420802122014-04-29T22:16:54.077+01:002014-04-29T22:16:54.077+01:00I read that. How on earth do they get those little...I read that. How on earth do they get those little lenses on such a tiny animal? The mind boggles.<br /><br />Surely it would be far more fun to equip an African elephant with 3D glasses, get it really drunk and then let it loose in a shopping centre while showing it a laser-shoot-em-up game in 3D or something.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-80779633667141703102014-04-29T21:54:59.948+01:002014-04-29T21:54:59.948+01:00Ah yes, happy days!
Attempts to play new-fangled ...Ah yes, happy days!<br /><br />Attempts to play new-fangled console games with the Urchin are doomed to failure; even if I could get the hang of the extreme multi-tasking involved, by the time I've negotiated the glasses-on, glasses-off routine necessary to look from TV screen to controller, I've invariably been eaten by aliens or shot by renegade bowmen.Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-14360885977601099202014-04-29T20:51:36.292+01:002014-04-29T20:51:36.292+01:00"a black dot moving around the screen"
..."a black dot moving around the screen"<br /><br />Sounds like an early computer game, one of those I could actually play. A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.com