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2021-07-10 -Great Cultural Revolution

Bug experts get rid of the name 'gypsy moth'

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Posted by Fred 2021-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Ah, the bug was named *after* gypsies. Here I thought it was because the moth *infested* gypsies. You know, like carpet beetles and carpets, or fruit flies and fruit. It's all clear now.

I like Rose Lee Moth. It's more dignified than Hubba-Hubba Moth.

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-10 00:09|| 2021-07-10 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Rose Lee Moth? Gimme David Lee Roth instead!

Posted by Raj 2021-07-10 00:23|| 2021-07-10 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 This is my favorite Van Halen song, for what it's worth. Great guitar work and it sounds, well melodic and pleasant.

Posted by Raj 2021-07-10 00:32|| 2021-07-10 00:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Whom the Gods wish to destroy - they infect with political correctness.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-10 03:44|| 2021-07-10 03:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. Same thing.

Posted by Fred 2021-07-10 04:20|| 2021-07-10 04:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Some more appropriate names:
The Blue State Moth
The Woke Moth
The Parasitic Tax and Spend Moth
The Dominion Moth

Posted by Airandee 2021-07-10 08:30|| 2021-07-10 08:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm partial to

Ubat Gegat

Has kinda a ring to it.

Posted by Bugs Thromorong1675 2021-07-10 08:37|| 2021-07-10 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Will they be renaming the de Havilland DH.60 Moth also?

Well, that was called 'Gipsy' because of the engine

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-07-10 09:03|| 2021-07-10 09:03|| Front Page Top

#9 My recent issue of Smithsonian magazine details an effort by The Audubon Society to-rename several species of birds because the current names reflect that those who discovered them were slave owners or other now undesirable traits. Woke infiltrates nature.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2021-07-10 09:22|| 2021-07-10 09:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Tommie Lee Moth - infects drug-addled bimbos
Robert E. Lee Moth - takes over & obsesses the minds of Wokerati
Rose McGowan Moth - destroys brain cells

Posted by Ebberemble Ulugum5395 2021-07-10 10:47|| 2021-07-10 10:47|| Front Page Top

#11 How about "Romani Moth"?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-07-10 10:57|| 2021-07-10 10:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Perceiving the wokusts were wroth,
Their mouthparts agnash and afroth,
Bug-eyed scientists pled,
"Racists, please use instead,
'Begging, thieving, and child-selling moth!'"

Posted by Unomose Spawn of the Bunions5019 2021-07-10 20:57|| 2021-07-10 20:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Driveway Sealing Moth?

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-10 21:12|| 2021-07-10 21:12|| Front Page Top

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