Half a bee! Argh! Half a bee! (Logically)

[Oeditpus Rex]

(spoken)

Half-a-bee, philosophically
Must ipso-facto half not-be.
But half the bee, has got to bee
Vis-a-vis its entity ... d'you see?
But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury?

(singing)

La di di, one-two-three
Eric The Half-A-Bee
A-B-C-D-E-F-G
Eric The Half-A-Bee
Is this a-wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a managerie?
NO! It's Eric The Half-A-Bee!
A fiddle-di-dum, a fiddle-di-dee
Eric The Half-A-Bee
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee
Eric The Half-A-Bee
I love this hive employ-e-e
Bisected accidentally
One summer afternoon by me
I love him, carnally
He loves him carnally
Semi-carnally. The end.

Cyril Connolly?
No, semi-carnally!
Oh.
(softly) ...Cyril Connolly...

[Arkham House]

1. This is absolutely fascinating--

--and I really mean that...but is it, like, a quote or something? And just how did Cyril Connolly, intriguing as he was, sneak in there? Or is it just something in the California air today...?

[Arkham House]

2. Oh--apparently,

--this was some sort of reply or something to another thread...? ever mind...but still--Cyril Connolly...?

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. He rhymed

:shrug:

[Arkham House]

9. Would "Sir Philip Sidney" have worked...?

...maybe not...:-(...

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Doesn't fit the meter

OTOH, since when did such triviality stop MPFC?



And anyway, 'e's not Sir Phillip bleedin' Sidney. 'E's Inspector 'Arold Gaskell of 'F' Division, Acton.

[deadparrot]

4. Eric the Half-Bee...he had an accident.

:o

[In_The_Wind]

5. Half a bee

I've run into one of those.
It was a half-a-bee after it bounced off of me. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Joan_Alpern/92

[elshiva]

6. Did he ever get that bee license?

[achtung_circus]

7. I've got to licence me pet dog Eric

and I've got to licence me pet cat Eric.

You don't need a cat licence.

I bleedin' well do, and I've got one. I shan't be caught out there.

[elshiva]

8. What kind of pet did Marcel Proust have?

[achtung_circus]

11. Marcel Proust 'ad an 'addock.

Sir, if you're calling the authour of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu a looney I'll have to ask you to step outside.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Then I should like a statement to that effect

signed by the lord mayor.