karamazov80 Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 (edited) Hulk and Mini-Hulk vs. Spiderman The others there are so embarrassed, they just look away. Edited March 21, 2009 by karamazov80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthRaider Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Ha ha ha ha ha! That just looks SO weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 This afternoon I captured this hornet which was obviously looking for its next abode. These things are not that rare but look at the size of this mother! I merely grabbed the nearest 'mate for size comparison & I have used no trick perspectives or anything.It was bloody huge & I'm sure someone in Oz ,Phillipines ,HK etc. has seen stuff bigger but I live in Devon England Anyway Superman kicked its ass before I let her(him) on his way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthRaider Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 That hornet actually looks kinda pretty, though destructive-looking. (Wait, am I confusing hornets with wasps? What were their nests made of again? Paper or mud? And which pulp company owns the rights to Green Hornet again? Is Wasp really dead? Oy, my head hurts.) Surprisingly enough, most of our local insects (here in the city, at least) are pretty run-of-the-mill tiny. (Our spiders can get pretty big, but they're not insects.) However what they lack in size, they make up for in numbers. A pretty horrifying example is our inconveniently-early rainy season, which just so happens to be the mating season for winged ants (my sister thinks they're winged termites). Winged ants, like certain other insects, are drawn to light (read: overhead lamps). They are also unusually fragile. Nothing quite describes the sensation of all those little buggers' wings and bodies randomly falling out of the air while you're surfing the net. (And then there's them crawling all over the place... I think two of 'em literally crawled into our keyboard and died. And falling onto your clothes ) I remember one particularly robust swarm of them (*shudder*), and my brother's uniquely humane method of literally driving them out of our house, basically involving putting out all the lights in our house save the one to the front porch. Fantastically biblical. ... Wow, that was pretty effing random. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I actually love the things & tolerated a whole nest of them in an outbuilding last year. Everyone apart from me is terrified of them ....live & let live. This bugger must have been a Queen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthRaider Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 If my knowledge of insect culture is correct, then the one you caught was probably just a female worker drone or something. Queens from most any insect colony (be it wasps, hornets, ants, bees...) are usually much bigger, and just send most of their time in the nest laying eggs. [/science] Should be interesting what the bug's reaction would be when confronted by a Wasp minimate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappy Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 And this is why I love this forum: Two members, on opposite sides of the globe, discussing insect (not spiders, mind you, because they're not insects) nesting and swarming habits. Mixed in with Superman and Wasp Minimate banter. *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthRaider Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Here's a fun thread on another forum: An Interview with the Marvel Zombies Minimates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dio Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Superman looks puny compared to that thing :O Also, there's a way to get the shield on without taking off Captain America's glove. You have to take his arm apart, slip on the shield, then reattach the arm parts. I'd tell the guy who made that post but I'm too lazy to register XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Todays startling pictures involve 2 items that my girlfriends sister knitted ......knitted ! I am sure this will invite a certain amount of amusement perhaps aimed at me but whattheheck ....& despite everything.... they are bloody clever. So here's Superman & here's Knitler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthRaider Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 ... I really got to learn how to knit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drgnrbrn316 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Knitler! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBT! Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Pre-plastic Minimates!! Got to say I love knitler! Are you going to demand woolverine a variant too? T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyd Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Knitler is genius! Is there a Captain Woolmerica coming soon to beat him up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 What's with all the terrible puns ? It's beginning to needle me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBT! Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 What's with all the terrible puns ? It's beginning to needle me Good to see you getting the point! Can't you see there is a pattern? T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM2 Dinobot Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Knitler is awesome! I love... okay, I'm so tired I have no knitting puns. I have failed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 TBT ...you always have me in stitches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 BHM, please, quilt with the needling before this thread gets fray off topic. You always think that you are sew smart, don't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 I love this thread & it's great to spin a good yarn . Weave all enjoyed it but let's leave it now before that great knit from New Jersey logs on. :sad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge2100 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 **yarn** i'm exhausted too, and I'm not good at puns, but those are pretty sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystery Man Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 You let the hornet go. Good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappy Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Those are absolutely great! BHM, think you can talk her into scaling those up slightly to match Minimate size? I just might have a use for a couple of custom Knittimates... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 These things took her for ages to make & I've been telling her that 'some nut on ebay' would buy these! Mine won't be going anywhere but do you think they are 'commercial'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappy Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 There's a subset to the vinyl collectibles market of plush figures. Basically, stuffed art toys. Is there a market for knitted minifigures? You betcha! (Trademark issues aside.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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