General Chat

Yes,it is that time again.

In come the cockchafers to lumber round the room like an airborne hippopotamus

Hello Sharron,

err, what, prey tell, is a cockchafer???

Susan

Exactly what it says on the packet!

A big brown beetle that only flies for about a week every year. They are known as maybugsas well.

Google it,then you can drop it nonchalantly into conversation to amaze all you meet.

Cockchafers. I always wondered what they were called. We always call them May bugs. If they fly into your head they dont half hurt, such big things.

I love cockchafers. If you can keep one alive for a bit, you will find it has antennae that sort of unfold like a fan, or a sheaf of paper that is being twisted to fan the pages out!

I thought it was something entirely different!!!!!

Never heard of them, but a bit of Googling suggested that they were almost eradicated at one time.

"The cockchafer (colloquially called may bug, billy witch,[1] or spang beetle,[1] particularly in East Anglia) is a European beetle of the genus Melolontha, in the family Scarabaeidae.

Once abundant throughout Europe and a major pest in the periodical years of "mass flight", it had been nearly eradicated in the middle of the 20th century through extensive use of pesticides and has even been locally exterminated in many regions. However, since an increase in regulation of pest control beginning in the 1980s, its numbers have started to grow again."

P.S.

Going to look for Ann's version now.....!

in the underwear department at Primark I think!!!

In my bedroom!

It reminds me of the 1980's when Radio Merseyside had people ringing in to win prizes if they manged to answer a question. It started off seriously but ended up as a farce as the producers realized the more stupid the contestants were the more laughs they got. The DJ at the time was Billy Butler, which gave rise to the phrase "Giz a clue Billy.....!"

A lady rang in and her question was "Which Group was No: 1 in 1982 with the record The Lion Sleeps Tonight"? The answer, as most listeners knew, was "Tight Fit"

After several wrong answers and a number of Giz a Clues, Billy suggested that she thought of her husband's underpants. At which point she said Yes, I know the answer, it's the Goolies.....!

oh nice one!!! that wasn't me by the way!!!

LOL.....she was probably thinking of The Goodies.....;O)

Nah,I haven't got a pair of underpants flying about in my bedroom. I should have that kind of luck!