Whatzit?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There was also Chico Marx, aka Chicolini of whom Grouch once said:

Rufus T. Firefly : Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

Chicolini : I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll take five and ten in Woolworth.

Not bad company to be in.

One of the great scenes.

[webenda]

New Whatzit?

[robert.]

Snow flea

[chuck]

Snow flea

Ditto

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/snow-fleas-29846

[webenda]

Snow Flea it is.

Having grown up in Los Angeles and then moved to Tucson, if someone had told me about snow fleas I would have thought I was being hoaxed.

Now I live in Kentucky with snow fleas, wheel bugs, water moccasins, coral mushrooms, black bears and ice fallin out if the sky. What next?

[robert.]

Snow Flea it is.

Having grown up in Los Angeles and then moved to Tucson, if someone had told me about snow fleas I would have thought I was being hoaxed.

Now I live in Kentucky with snow fleas, wheel bugs, water moccasins, coral mushrooms, black bears and ice fallin out if the sky. What next?

Bits of a 777

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Snow Flea it is.

Having grown up in Los Angeles and then moved to Tucson, if someone had told me about snow fleas I would have thought I was being hoaxed.

Now I live in Kentucky with snow fleas, wheel bugs, water moccasins, coral mushrooms, black bears and ice fallin out if the sky. What next?

Bits of a 777

Hmmmmmm..............cheery.

[robert.]

No one was injured. Air or ground.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No one was injured. Air or ground.

Yes; amazing lucky considering the hole in the side of the fuselage and the film by people outside of parts bouncing on the ground.

[rogruth]

I lived in eastern Kentucky in the mid 1950s and the early 1970s
Never heard of snow fleas. I'm not saying that they are UFO's,
just that I never heard of them. Of course they might be a more
modern development. Of course this might be an insiders thing
and I would be an outsider.

[webenda]

I lived in eastern Kentucky in the mid 1950s and the early 1970s
Never heard of snow fleas. I'm not saying that they are UFO's,
just that I never heard of them. Of course they might be a more
modern development. Of course this might be an insiders thing
and I would be an outsider.

ABOUT SNOW FLEAS
A study in 2011 predicted there are some 8.7 million species on Earth, and we've identified maybe 1.6 million of them.
Don't feel bad if you have never met a Sand Flea face to face Roger, there are so many species of life nobody knows about all of them.

Some 900 thousand different kinds of living insects are known. The Sand Flea is not an insect.
There are over 800,000 named species arthropods known. The Snow Flea is one of the arthropods.
I first met the Snow Flea in Lakewood, California. They were little jumping black specs gathered at a sliding back door. I identified them as Spring Tails. I had no idea at the time that they could use their tails to move through snow. Now I have witnessed another fact about Spring Tails / Snow fleas, and you, Roger, are now a Snow Flea insider.

This Snow Flea has bent its spring tail and is about to spring it straight to push through more snow.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting stuff.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Heres a Whatzit which perhaps has no answer.

Yet.

In the News , last night and tonight, NBC and CBS reported:
An American Airlines pilot reported to his tower that a "fast-moving long cylindrical object" had been "passing right over the top of us" at 36,000 ft.

Go figger.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Giant space squid.

[chuck]

Probably an RPV, probably experimental.

BTW, it was over New Mexico, near White Sands test range.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7659655/american-airlines-ufo-flight-audio/

Pilot described it as looking like a "large cruise missile".