What would you come back as !

[661-Pete]

I'd come back as a tin of condensed milk...reincarnation.

That would be Ideal.

Would you have to be creamated first?

 

[tyred]

A moth. I really don't get the way they behave, so it'd be an adventure and it'd answer so many questions!

Have you thought this through? You could get mashed into pulp with a rolled up copy of the Daily Mail.


Personally, I wouldn't mind being Bill Gates. That way, I would be able to annoy millions around the world by developing shite software and be very rich

 

[661-Pete]

Personally, I wouldn't mind being Bill Gates. That way, I would be able to annoy millions around the world by developing shite software and be very rich

Aaahhhh.... but:

Bill Gates died and went to Heaven.

Saint Peter showed him to his house, a small cottage on a tiny plot in the woods. The closets were full of simple but servicable clothing, and the kitchen was stocked with the basic needs. Bill slowly settled into a modest and quiet life in heaven.

One day, Bill was walking in one of Heaven's many fine parks, when he ran into a man dressed in a fine tailored suit.

"That is a nice suit, my friend," said Gates. "Where did you get it?"

"Actually," the man replied, "I was given a hundred of these when I got here. I've been treated really well. I got a mansion on a hill overlooking a beautiful lake. I have a huge five-hundred acre estate, a golf course, tennis courts and three Rolls Royces."

"Were you the Pope, or a doctor who healed the sick?" asked Gates.

"No," said his new friend, "Actually, I was the captain of the Titanic."

Hearing this made Gates so angry that he immediately stalked off to find St. Peter.

Cornering St. Peter, Bill told him about the man he had just met, saying, "How could you give me a paltry new house, while you're showering new cars, a mansion, and fine suits on the Captain of the Titanic? I invented the Windows operating system! Why does he deserve better?"

"Yes, we use Windows here in heaven," replied Peter, "and the Titanic only crashed once."

 

[subaqua]

A pair of feckin women's knickers!

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you might be unlucky and get anne widdecombes . uke smiley:



me i want to come back as Victoria Pendletons saddle. although saying this to my missus last night as we watched the Hovis ad was a bad idea apparently

 

[mark barker]

Have you thought this through? You could get mashed into pulp with a rolled up copy of the Daily Mail.

True... but I really want to know why they feel the need to fly at night in a desperate bid to find light when they could just fly around in the day time...

 

[Ravenbait]

True... but I really want to know why they feel the need to fly at night in a desperate bid to find light when they could just fly around in the day time...

Um.

I always thought that everyone knew the answer to this, so now I don't know whether you're having a laugh (most likely), or if I should tell you so you can pick something less squishable.

Sam

 

[dellzeqq]

Your round Adam

laugh out loud - genius!

 

[dellzeqq]

A seagull. I'd hang out on Madeira Drive, divebombing cyclists, especially the baldy ones, and stealing chips.

 

[mark barker]

Um.

I always thought that everyone knew the answer to this, so now I don't know whether you're having a laugh (most likely), or if I should tell you so you can pick something less squishable.

Sam

To understand a moth, you need to be a moth! As a species we can't work out what our fellow humans are thinking most of the time, so how can we possibly know what the moth is doing?

 

[numbnuts]

I'd like to come back as me again and put all the wrong decisions I made in the past right

 

[Davidc]

I'd like to come back as me again and put all the wrong decisions I made in the past right

Trouble is, how do you know that the mistakes you'd make next time would be any less bad than the ones you made this time? I'm sure I could make even worse ones!

Do the rules of this game make you go back to the same starting point in 195? or do you have to carry on from where you stop in 20?? without the benefit of having seen it all already?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

True... but I really want to know why they feel the need to fly at night in a desperate bid to find light when they could just fly around in the day time...

I do not know why they like lights so much, or more like, if the story about the moon is true, BUT what I do know is that it is safer to fly at night, after all, there are no birds (although there might be bats) and most crucially of all, there are less people about. Also, what most people do not realise is that there are many many colourful species that come out at night but are never seen by the average person, During the day, the bright colours deter predators, whilst the less colourful species try to blend in to tree barks/undergrowth.
There are day flying moths by the way, just as there are night flying butterflies (but not in this country).
Types of moth which are often mistaken for butterflies are the Burnett Moths and the Cinibar.

By the way, a Moth is actually just a butterfly. Scientific clasification has made them into a different type of insect, but they are all, in fact the same family, and what's more there are types of moths out there which are a damn sight more colourful than certain butterflies.
In certain countries they have no name for a moth, rather they just say 'Night Butterfly'.

There are 59(ish) species of butterfly in the UK, but there are 2000+ of moths. This number means that they have far more body forms, with some looking nothing like a butterfly at all. Some, such as the Clearwings look more like flies.

Personally, due to the sheer variety, Moths interest me whilst butterflies bore me to tears.

 

[slowmotion]

MDB, your moth post transported me back to my A level biology studies...up popped industrial mellanism in the old memory banks. I shall have to Google that shortly, and find that I have it all wrong.

Thanks anyway!

Edit: perhaps there is yet hope. Only one L in melanism.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The Melanism thing with the Peppered Moths was nonesense according to some, but it is fact to others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth

Me?? I am/was an amatuer Lepidopterist, and it is still a subject which interests me but which I do not know nearly enough about (I have been out of it for a few years now).
I was merely interested in seeing the different speicies and finding out what was living in my local area, but moth wise, it was mostly just a lot of unidentifiable Micro Moths (the very tine ones), Ghost moths, Lunar Yellow Underwings, Silver Y moths, Dark Arches, and various types of Carpets (yes you read that correctly), such as the Flame Carpet.

The most exotic species I have seen in my garden/area so far is a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, which is a European migrant during the summer and hovers a few inches away from a flower and feeds with it's long proboscis just as a hummingbird feeds with it's beak. They are often mistaken for Hummingbirds apparently.

http://en.wikipedia....sum_stellatarum
http://www.google.co...ved=0CCwQsAQwAA

I have also seen a Small Elephant Hawkmoth (small Elephants, are you reading Arch??) which is large, pink and green!

http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deilephila_porcellus

Oh yes, and a Poplar Hawkmoth, and a Currents Clearwing, and a ....you get the picture.

 

[slowmotion]

MDB, I bow to superior knowledge. My biology master at school would set up UV traps to catch moths at night. BTW, I am so ancient that most of these moths could well be pre-industrialised. I never had a great knowledge of the insect world , but I was captivated by studying biology.