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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+104Would you like to know more?
- wilymon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+66The same article, in the New York Post, would read:
" Mantis Gets a Hummer!"
(...after years of praying) - marinist, on 10/12/2007, -5/+70It's a good thing manitses don't get much bigger, or they would eat the neighborhood poodle.
On second thought, I'd like to see that. - isemism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+52Pics or it didn.... oh.... my....
It happened. - PlasticSolution, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47"Are praying mantises still endangered?"
Urban legend. They're not, nor have they ever been, an endangered species. - idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Just go find something radioactive, and expose it. Everyone knows that radiation makes insects grow bigger.
- ozid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Are praying mantises still endangered? I see a hell of a lot of the these days. Although I am in a different region now than before... but in Pittsburgh I saw one every couple years. Now it seems I see one every couple weeks.
Speaking of which, I went to kill a black widow my sister had found in my garage by the door. I left the door open for an hour or so, came back out and the widow was being eaten by a mantis. I would have loved to torch it, but I was satisfied when I saw the mantis holding half a widow corpse in its arms. - nazadus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28"What are we doing tonight, Brain?"
"The same thing we try to do every night, Pinky."
"Try to make the cheese turn into little shiny things?"
"NO! Try to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"
"oh, right" - shawgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26awesome, a starship troopers reference. I can die now.
- subtle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Mantises can kill anyone they want! Mantises cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this mantis that was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the mantis killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a mantis totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that mantises have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
Mantises are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Mantises are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love mantises with all of my body (including my pee pee). - themadness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17now just exactly wtf would happen if these things were.. like.. bigger?
if you think about it, if ticks & fleas were the size of chickens we'd be in deep ***** wouldn't we?! - john570, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Why do people like Tom Caudron exist? Please someone help me to understand.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Actually, they don't scale very well. If a flea were 10 times as long, the cross-section area of it's muscles would be 100 times as large (thus it would be 100 times as strong), but it's weight (volume) would be 1000 times as great. So it's weight increased 10 times as much as it's strength.
A flea the size of a chicken would barely be able to hobble about. They might make for some good eating though. - Steek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Thats creepy while i was reading that i feel likes there something on me, i hate bugs.
- crackhammer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15mantis: the next hybrid car by honda
- Dvoid, on 10/12/2007, -11/+23Dug for "Hell of" instead of "hella".
- joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13saw the title of this = "instadigg"
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -3/+15I remember using this image for an "Owned" macro.
- gostars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The power of prayer...
- tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Looks like some MegaBytes to me.
- branndon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Then why is your name iMoth not iPrayingMantis?
- Kale, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10In humans, the male gets his wallet ripped out by the female after marriage....
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11RTFA
- harmonica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"This was an unfortunate experience for the hummer"
an unfortunate experience indeed - mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I once carried it out of the masjid. Actually, it looked like it cooperated with me. I extendended the back of my hand to it, and it walked to the hand and stood on it quietly while I was carrying it out of the masjid. Once I was out, I lowered my hand to the grass, and it walked out in serenity.
It could impale me, but it did not. - netferret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I like this one that was on digg a couple of weeks a go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLmUb5P_Ws - ChronicColonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8We once put a tiny praying mantis in a cage with a large tarantula figuring that the tarantula would enjoy the meal.
The tarantula became the entree. The following day, all that was left were the legs of the tarantula and a rather large, hunger-satisfied mantis. - Dvoid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I want one!
- mdmadph, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10seriously -- who the hell calls a hummingbird a "hummer?"
- linuxsounder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Bizarre as the article is, it reminded me of the day I watched a cardinal battle a mantis in a bush. The bird was clearly the superior combatant, at least in size, but it never did get that mantis. After getting swiped at a few times the bird finally flew away. I got the definite impression that the mantis would have fought the bird to the death.
Little wonder that the Chinese founded a fighting style based on movements of the praying mantis. - buckynekkid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Why has Zorak been putting up with Space Ghost's ***** all these years?
- aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@mikefromamerica
You frequent caves often? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Fat Bastard says: Get in my belly!
- ewc80, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's always so sad when something ugly kills something purdy.
Like when Godzilla squashes Bambi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAVwUb9hg4Y - Junkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Praying Mantis Makes Meal of a Hummer" Not my words.
- UxPx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ever been to Central Pennsylvania? They've got like foot long mantises. They are rare, but they exist. I blame TMI in 1979.
- rpgguy1o1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6that's pretty gnarly, some spiders can eat small birds like that as well, its pretty amazing they can do that without a web
- ElGigi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6i picked up one few years ago. I put it in my shoulder as i walk down the streets...it scares the ***** out a lot of people... funny then but after seeing those pictures....
ignorance is bliss they say - rmxz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Correction - some species of praying mantises are endanged. Some aren't.
@PlasticSolution - your FUD's almost as bad as the parent poster.
There are about 2000 species (some sources say 1800, some 2500) of Praying Mantises. Some are endangered, some are not. This link shows pictures of some of the rare ones: http://www.mantisuk.com/variety/default.asp
Googling suggests that none of the 11 common ones in north armerica are. But to generalize this to all of them is not a good idea. - Ducttape08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4my guess is bird watchers.
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Their skeletons are external and so they can only scale under water.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Man, a video of the catch have been amazing.
- netferret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3mmm, tastes like chicken
- Tazmaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4A mantis won't do anything to you. Don't be silly.
- nazadus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Am I the only one that thought of the Quake 3 "Holy *****!" and other sounds from this?
- digitalrift, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Attack of Oppertunity + Critical Strike + Perforate Artery = one dead bird.
damn. - LucidHawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll have to remember to NEVER pick up a praying mantis. I had no idea they were so strong they could rip through the flesh of a bird.
That would be sick to have one give a deep gash to your hand ick. - MikeFromAmerica, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Holy *****. I'm never going in a cave again.
- alamandrax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yes. you are. you poor poor lonely soul.
i was thinking more along the lines of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! AAAH! THE MANTISES ARE ATTACKING! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! -
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