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Butterflies

Nov. 10th, 2009 at 2:52 PM

Jeff: I don't mind butterflies. I just don't like caterpillars. Too many legs. And they're fuzzy!
Me: Legs are creepy.
Jeff: What I don't get is how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
Me: Metamorphosis!
Jeff: They go into a cocoon for a few days and come up with fewer legs, no fur, and wings. Their bodies are completely different. How does that happen?
Me: Neat, huh?
Jeff: I don't get it! How do they change?
Me: Well you know how a human becomes a werewolf during the full moon? This is the same thing, but in slow motion.

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asakiyume wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 08:01 pm (UTC)

*loff*

You are the best teacher ever.

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 08:47 pm (UTC)

Once in a while I think of something clever. :)

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frigg wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 08:02 pm (UTC)

*lol*
I just had a complete Calvin and Hobbes moment there with you being Calvin's dad.

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 08:47 pm (UTC)

*snork*

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stillnotbored wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 08:26 pm (UTC)

This is the same thing, but in slow motion.

*dies*

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 08:48 pm (UTC)

Kind of makes you feel different about butterflies, doesn't it?

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katallen wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 01:24 am (UTC)

Different!? o.o

Brilliant! It makes me want to write werecaterpillar stories :P

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:54 pm (UTC)

Do it!

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blythe025 wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 08:48 pm (UTC)

Lol!

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:54 pm (UTC)

;)

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aeriedraconia wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 09:20 pm (UTC)

*laughs*

Or...
...you could have the human become the butterfly (a butterman, hufly?) ...a human become the caterpillar (humillar, caterman?)
...the caterpillar becomes the werewolf (werecaterpilliar, I mean they're both fuzzy already so no big stretch there, right?)
...a wolf that becomes a caterpillar (a wolfillar).

Now THAT would be a different spin.

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:55 pm (UTC)

That sounds complicated!

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jjschwabach wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 10:04 pm (UTC)

Or you could have explained, "The caterpillar turns into a puddle of goo, the reforms... it's all really icky. ;-)

Or stick with werewolves.

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chrysoula wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 11:46 pm (UTC)

Yeah, gotta say, that's the description I encountered that really stuck with me. "Well, it dies and rots and then some little bit wakes up and rebuilds it."

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jjschwabach wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 02:35 am (UTC)

It's ever so much weirder than I imagined before I learned that.

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:55 pm (UTC)

Freaking cool. *g*

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:55 pm (UTC)

Yucko!

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bogwitch64 wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 10:17 pm (UTC)

Oh, the geektastic coversations of fabulous geekness.

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:56 pm (UTC)

I love our dialogue. :)

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retrobabble wrote:

Nov. 10th, 2009 11:55 pm (UTC)

Hah! *ponders*

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:56 pm (UTC)

Never trust a butterfly.

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(Anonymous) wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 01:29 am (UTC)

This is beyond priceless. This has to be one of my favorite conversations ever. Kudos for explaining it so well. :)

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:56 pm (UTC)

Hee.

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adamheine wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 03:53 am (UTC)

That makes caterpillars even creepier.

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:56 pm (UTC)

Doesn't it? Don't trust them.

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mercwriter wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 04:41 am (UTC)

I now want to see werewolves in cocoons.

That was hilarious. :D

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:56 pm (UTC)

Warm, cuddled werewolves in their cocoons...

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theflightytemptress.wordpress.com wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 09:50 am (UTC)

So I was actually similarly curious about this and went looking up things on Youtube, because you can learn anything via youtube or wikipedia, and this is what I found.

Creepily fascinating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTUgUEpqBrA&feature=related

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 05:59 pm (UTC)

Awesome video! Thanks!

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pjschnyder wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 01:35 pm (UTC)

lol.

Would so love to have a conversation like that with my hubby. Unfortunately, that conversation would have been immediately followed with, "Are werewolves the ones who suck blood or the ones that take off their skins and jump in the ocean?"

le sigh

Gotta love him. :P

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jjschwabach wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 04:53 pm (UTC)

The clear answer to that question is, "No, zombies suck blood. The ones who take their skins off and jump in the ocean are vampires."

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 06:00 pm (UTC)

Well if he knows about selkies (even not by name) that's still pretty good!

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lotusloquax wrote:

Nov. 11th, 2009 05:04 pm (UTC)

Brilliant! Oh to be a fly on the wall!

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jmeadows wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2009 06:01 pm (UTC)

We were in the car. I'd have rolled down the window and shooed you out. ;)

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