The Hooverville Hexagon: Monday, Monday

 

We have some fascinating creatures, real and invented.

 

Caterpillar of the Week

by DG

Angel Lia Dan sends greetings. She found this Pale Tussock Moth caterpillar in a Stone Age circle in the Peak District last Saturday. It's magic.

  

Further Afield

by Bluebottle

 

Belted Galloway cows dining on grass among the chalk downs.

[Editor] These are excellent cows.

 

Quiz

by DG

What is remarkable about this picture?

(answer below)

 

The Lure of the Internet

by DG

 

Mermaid with admiring fish, Alice B Woodward. Courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

 

in olden days a lure was another name

for a group of young women

they have migrated

to the internet

where they tell me about something called

OnlyFans

another is wearing nothing but

two footballs

this needs to stop

I think I'll go fishing I'm too old

for this

 

PS: I think these lures are related to Lolita,the Twitter Mermaid.

They're persistent, too: six minutes (!) after I posted that verse on social media, somebody on Bluesky, no less, followed me. Her name was Julie and I could find her 'link in bio' (but didn't).

PPS: There has been an epidemic of Juliebots on Bluesky. People are laughing: Julie, it seems, is protean. Sometimes, she is a beautiful girl. Other times, a wise-looking older woman. Or even a bald, middle-aged man. I responded by posting the most irritating song I know from my college days.

 

Answer to Quiz

The picture above is a painting. Oak Grove by Ivan Shishkin, 1887. Kiev National Gallery. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

 

Quotes of the Day

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.  

Stephen Hawking

 Yes: it makes us the kind of monkeys who think they can understand the Universe when they've just figured out how to use velcro.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

B c-ing u,

 Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor