The death of the bumble bee

[Jah Lush]

Or the Honeycombs' Have I The Right. Or The Flight Of The Bumble Bee or I'm A King Bee by Slim Harpo.

[HonaloochieB]

Or Nut Rocker by B Bumble And The Stingers.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Arthur Askey. Nuff said.

[HonaloochieB]

And what about Honey Bane of the Fatal Microbes and later The Poison Girls have called herself?

'Marmite' Bane? Marmalade Bane? Jammy Bane?

Actually Jammy Bane isn't half bad, now I come to think of it.

[HonaloochieB]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Arthur Askey. Nuff said.

Good spot PGC. Aaay thank yew.

[Brendan]

Or indeed, Johnny B. Goode.

[Moos]

Honey Ryder?

Would Maple Syrup Ryder have been as delectable?

[Brendan]

Could have done without the Bee Gees though.

[HonaloochieB]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Could have done without the Bee Gees though.

OK but let's dedicate Staying Alive to our little apian chums.

[HonaloochieB]

On the other hand they have to take some responsibility for Sting.

The ones responsible are probably bad bees from the wrong side of the hive.

[HonaloochieB]

Sorry to go OT, but can we please reveal the legend of how Gordon Sumner got his nickname for the utter elephant toss it almost certainly is.

He's rehearsing with some seasoned Geordie jazzers and he regularly wears a yelllow and black hooped tank top.

So the 'lads' chide him for this, reckoning he looks like a bee and therefore bestow the name 'Sting' on him.

In a pig's eye they did.

I reckon they would have named him 'Bumble' or 'Hives' or 'BollockChops' anything but something as cool as Sting.

It's never rung true for me.

[Ted Max]

Jellyfish.

And cats.

[Moos]

All cats, Ted, or just Felix catus?

And what about TopCat? Surely the world is all the better for his scamptious antics?

(I appear to be channeling Honaloochie this afternoon - must be the tweed jacket)

[Brendan]

Little bits of Honaloochie are present to some degree in all good quality tweed.

[Ted Max]

Cats = psychopaths. We've been here before on the Forum, but I am of the school of Snorky here, sorry. I am sure if there were no cats the makers of TopCat could have found some other anthropomorphic impersonator of Sgt Bilko. TopBadger, perhaps.

(PS While I'm here, Jellyfish can piss off because although they look pretty in a certain light in the Horniman aquarium, they hurt. And you can't see them. And even the thought of their possible presence can take the edge off a bracing dip in the sea. The washed up ones are quite fun to jump into on the shoreline, though, if you are eight years old.

[Moos]

Oh come on, what about tigers? Tigers are cool. And snow leopards. They've got brilliant tails. You can't deny me a snow leopard.

And just to take an assault-on-all-fronts approach what makes cats psychopaths but not dogs or foxes or indeed badgers?

[HonaloochieB]

Actually purely based on Korky The Cat in the Dandy I'd have to agree with TM here.

Talk about crap, about as funny as Desperate Dan, and in some of the strips he looked a right headcase.

[matthew123]

Yup the domestic cat - ideal for someone with a bald head as they can make a fresh wig every week but not for me..

[HonaloochieB]

Moos Wrote:

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> Oh come on, what about tigers? Tigers are cool.

> And snow leopards. They've got brilliant tails.

> You can't deny me a snow leopard.

>

Better than cool, Moos. They're GGUURREAT!

[brum]

No bees = no honey = no Winnie The Pooh = no Tigger. I love Tigger so the bees can stay.

I may be paranoid, but the slugs in East Dulwich seem to be particularly huge - and they gather in such large numbers! I did declare war on them once and sprinkled them with salt - but I could swear I heard their little death cries and so I stopped, feeling very guilty. Now I just lay down poison.

[HonaloochieB]

Have to agree with Moos about Top Cat though and condemn Ted's ravings about Top Badger.

I don't know how much comedy could be generated by an animal who just frousts in his sett all the time, barely venturing out.

My knowledge of the badger's habits are based on a Fast Show sketch with Bob Fleming, but he seemed to know what he was talking about.

Couldn't see a badger cheeking up Dibble either.

[Ted Max]

come on, what about tigers? Tigers are cool. And snow leopards. They've got brilliant tails. You can't deny me a snow leopard.

They've got all the best agents haven't they, schmoozing it down at the beeb's Nat Hist Dept in Bristol. "Yes now, your wildebeest is an interesting enough creature for a ruminant, Sir David, but research shows that what your viewers want is all kill, all the time, and really my clients have been proven to deliver. ?100k a show less my 15%, please."

[Moos]

brum Wrote:

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> No bees = no honey = no Winnie The Pooh = no

> Tigger. I love Tigger so the bees can stay.

Sorry Brum, TedMax killed off the tiger, so Tigger is dead meat. It's political correctness gone MAD round here, I tell you. Everyman wants the tiger but no, the PC-loving brigade doesn't approve so wham! no more tiger, never mind what the likes of you and me want oh no, not the ordinary person in the street it's just bye-bye tiger I remember when it was all jungle round here and now not a stripey cat in sight ..

[Will_i_am]

Cockroaches. Do we really need them? What are they good for other than surviving the effects of severe catastrophe's such as a nuclear holocaust or the final of Strictly Come Dancing?

[Ted Max]

If you were to ask me privately I might admit it's not the tiger's fault, but I'm afraid its domestic cousin has let the side down badly, so I've no option but to exclude them all. If, of course, Felix would put his paw up and come clean, then perhaps we could come to a more nuanced conclusion.