That takes me down memory lane. Been playing on my mind since the punch bag appeared.
When I was at the crystal warehouse we had a stand at a trade show at the NEC exhibition centre. I remember meeting Gary Mason who was an ex heavyweight British boxing champion. I recognised him and asked ‘Are you the boxer’ and quick as a flash – maybe a pat answer to a question he had been asked many times – he replied ‘No. I’m a labrador’.
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- “two”, and πτερόν pteron “wing”. Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced mechanosensory organs known as halteres, which act as high-speed sensors of rotational movement and allow dipterans to perform advanced aerobatics. Diptera is a large order containing an estimated 1,000,000 species including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies, mosquitoes and others, although only about 125,000 species have been described.
Diptera is one of the major insect orders and of considerable ecological and human importance. Flies are important pollinators, second only to the bees and their Hymenopteran relatives. Flies may have been among the evolutionarily earliest pollinators responsible for early plant pollination.
And ‘It’s the ecology stupid’. Even though I am very wary of the political party system and didn’t vote for them myself. I voted for an Independent whose main focus was ecology on Independence Day and then found a crop circle on Independence Day as you do. Anyhow. Does seem to be something going on in the ‘collective’ mind. The Green Party in recent UK election won 7% of the vote.
‘A flyweight is a boxer weighing above 49 kg (108 lb) and up to 52 kg (112 lb).’
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweight
Boxers everywhere…
https://x.com/_B___S/status/1810166057597849890
That takes me down memory lane. Been playing on my mind since the punch bag appeared.
When I was at the crystal warehouse we had a stand at a trade show at the NEC exhibition centre. I remember meeting Gary Mason who was an ex heavyweight British boxing champion. I recognised him and asked ‘Are you the boxer’ and quick as a flash – maybe a pat answer to a question he had been asked many times – he replied ‘No. I’m a labrador’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Mason_(boxer)
Not many people know that 🙂
All neural pathways lead to Kubrick. Not many people know that.
… and that’s pretty cool; about the flies
Kenneth
And ‘It’s the ecology stupid’. Even though I am very wary of the political party system and didn’t vote for them myself. I voted for an Independent whose main focus was ecology on Independence Day and then found a crop circle on Independence Day as you do. Anyhow. Does seem to be something going on in the ‘collective’ mind. The Green Party in recent UK election won 7% of the vote.