Who I was, covered up in leaves

[sovay]

My mother heard on the radio this afternoon that butterfly fossils prove that the proboscis evolved a full geologic period before flowering plants did.

Me: "So what were they eating with them?"

My mother: "Aha!"

(She's suspecting carrion.)

Comments

possibly not what you wanted to know about my reading comprehension at this hour

[yhlee]

...I misread "Aha!" as "anal" and had this horrifying thought of butterfly, um, sex...

Re: possibly not what you wanted to know about my reading comprehension at this hour

[sovay]

...I misread "Aha!" as "anal" and had this horrifying thought of butterfly, um, sex...

*SNERK*

Re: possibly not what you wanted to know about my reading comprehension at this hour

[yhlee]

...fandom has destroyed my innocence...XD

Re: possibly not what you wanted to know about my reading comprehension at this hour

[thomasyan]

Did you ever read the Queen of Wands webcomic? I think it was two of the characters discovered "vagina dentata" has the same rhythm of hakuna matata, and created a whole song, that's pretty appropriate for at least cabbage white butterflies?

*looks for a link: oh, number 43 on the list* Oh Wow, I don't think I'd seen an actual picture before. Heh, it has the QoW song. (Well, in parts, none of the words need to be changed from the original.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/butterfly-cabbage-white-vagina-dentata/530889/