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What are you thinking right now?
06-08-2015, 10:45 PM
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RE: What are you thinking right now?
Head over heels refers to doing a somersault, usually with regard to someone you love.

To make an elephant out of a mosquito? Isn't that a punning reference to Johann Wilhelm Meigen, the German entomologist who was the first to properly classify all the different types of mosquito around & show not all of them were dangerous bloodsuckers - one of those being the Elephant Mosquito, which lives off pollen, rotten fruit & the larvae of other mosquitos. His work was controversial in his day, mainly because he'd rendered every other textbook on the subject redundent overnight from the sheer detail of it, & that's where the joke came from as he'd literally made an elephant out of a mosquito in terms of the knowledge jump & the name he'd given one.

If this was Call My Bluff, no doubt everyone would be saying Bluff by now!

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RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 04-12-2010, 03:39 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 10-12-2010, 01:05 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 14-12-2010, 08:41 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 15-12-2010, 11:08 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 17-12-2010, 11:08 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 21-12-2010, 10:38 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 28-12-2010, 01:58 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 03-01-2011, 09:21 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - dellinqwartz - 07-05-2011, 12:50 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 16-05-2011, 11:33 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 18-05-2011, 09:28 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 18-04-2012, 06:07 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 18-04-2012, 07:34 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 19-04-2012, 07:35 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 20-04-2012, 01:02 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 22-04-2012, 06:41 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 25-04-2012, 05:44 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Cororon - 25-04-2012, 11:35 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 11-05-2012, 11:49 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 13-05-2012, 02:34 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 17-05-2012, 02:34 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Purple_Penguin00 - 20-05-2012, 08:18 PM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Earth Mama - 17-06-2012, 06:37 AM
RE: What are you thinking right now? - Minty - 06-08-2015 10:45 PM

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