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nklr what's up with this?
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:26 pm
by transalp 1
This is dumb. But, I have to ask:
I recently bought a car with satellite radio. On a couple of occasions, I've noticed
a dragonfly perched atop the antenna while the car was parked. Normally,
I don't even see the things flying around. I mentioned it to my girlfriend
and she just laughed...until today. She saw a dragonfly sitting on her car's sat. antenna.
What's up with this? Anyone wanna speculate?
eddie
nklr what's up with this?
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:43 pm
by guymanbro
I was hoping no one would notice.
da Vermonster (and what shall we do today, Pinky?)
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "transalp 1" wrote:
>
> This is dumb. But, I have to ask:
> I recently bought a car with satellite radio. On a couple of occasions, I've noticed
> a dragonfly perched atop the antenna while the car was parked. Normally,
> I don't even see the things flying around. I mentioned it to my girlfriend
> and she just laughed...until today. She saw a dragonfly sitting on her car's sat. antenna.
> What's up with this? Anyone wanna speculate?
>
> eddie
>
nklr what's up with this?
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:21 pm
by Tengai Mark Van Horn
Re: [DSN_KLR650] NKLR what's up with this? I'm guessing that they're female dragonflies and the antenna resembles the John Holmes of dragonflies.
Mark
At 7:26 PM -0400 6/26/10, transalp 1 wrote:
This is dumb. But, I have to ask:
I recently bought a car with satellite radio. On a couple of occasions, I've noticed
a dragonfly perched atop the antenna while the car was parked. Normally,
I don't even see the things flying around. I mentioned it to my girlfriend
and she just laughed...until today. She saw a dragonfly sitting on her car's sat. antenna.
What's up with this? Anyone wanna speculate?
nklr what's up with this?
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:30 pm
by k650@verizon.net
Did you know most of a dragonfly's life is spent in the nymph form, they
breathe through gills in their rectum, and can rapidly propel themselves by
suddenly expelling water through the anus?
Walt
I'm guessing that they're female dragonflies and the antenna resembles the
John Holmes of dragonflies.
Mark
At 7:26 PM -0400 6/26/10, transalp 1 wrote:
This is dumb. But, I have to ask:
I recently bought a car with satellite radio. On a couple of occasions, I've
noticed
a dragonfly perched atop the antenna while the car was parked. Normally,
I don't even see the things flying around. I mentioned it to my girlfriend
and she just laughed...until today. She saw a dragonfly sitting on her car's
sat. antenna.
What's up with this? Anyone wanna speculate?
nklr what's up with this?
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:54 pm
by Tengai Mark Van Horn
At 9:30 PM -0400 6/27/10, wrote:
>Did you know most of a dragonfly's life is spent in the nymph form, they
>breathe through gills in their rectum
I guess you can get away with that if you've never eaten at Taco bell.
Mark
leaky tool tube
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:52 am
by montequint
Instead of the threaded caps that it seems most use, I use a expansion plug similar to those used in small boats to plug the thru-hull drain.
Or like the plugs for soda bottles in the far past years of the 60's.
You can get them in PVC or metal with the metal ones being considerably heavier.
A feature that i didn't care for with the threaded cap for the 4" pvc is that it can get considerably harder to open barehanded than the big wing-nut of the expansion plug.
Monte
Safely and hopefully completely,free of Alaska and living in Portland, OR.