#1073 – Gleam

I didn’t bother using a jar I would just catch them in my hands. I would frequently sneak one into my bedroom when my parents weren’t looking. Then that night when I went to bed I would lay there excitedly staring into the dark waiting for the little flashing light to appear.

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24 thoughts on “#1073 – Gleam”

  1. Howls Like Wolf says:

    I once caught about three dozen, and put them all in a jar. Their movements resembled glowing water as they crawled around looking for a way out. I let them go after about an hour, but I’ll never forget how neat it was.

  2. Olly. says:

    Oh heavens, I know how Biff feels all too well. Biking to work every day, I’m literally COVERED in bugs, crawling in splatted agony on my clothes. It’s actually quite icky..

  3. Mewthicus says:

    Cats won’t eat lightning bugs. Their glowy butts taste bad. I’ve taken so many lightning bugs from my kitten almost entirely unharmed (mebbe a broken leg or something, but they could always fly) after she tried crunching down on it and instantly recoiled. She kept sticking her tongue out in a “bleah, bleah!” motion.

  4. TotallyNotMewthicus says:

    @Olly: My Mum road a motorcycle until her arthirits prevented her. She told me about watching some huge flying insect come at her face plate while she was going about sixty.. but she couldn’t change lanes or avoid it, so it hit about dead center of her face plate. She said the force of it knocked her head back, and splattered guts all over the place. She had to pull over and scrape it off ’cause she couldn’t see anymore. That’s one gunky bug.

  5. PTTG says:

    Brother Howls-like-wolf, your story is one of great and mighty medicine.

  6. i.half4 says:

    I like the rocket ship on Biff’s bike’s tank.

  7. CasualOtaku says:

    I miss fireflies (or lightning bugs as we called them when I was little).

    There used to be tons of them when I was young, but of late I’m lucky to see two or three lights twinkle in the night.

  8. The Dukenator says:

    Before I saw the caption, I though Biff was hit by a drive-by paintballing.

  9. Zege says:

    @Dukenator: My thoughts exactly.

  10. MaskedMan says:

    @i.half4;
    Attention to detail – That’s how Chris rocks. 😉

  11. Baughbe says:

    This is a bit of coincidence with a conversation with my daughter last night. I guess this would apply to Biff here too. Anime Rule #26 – Never annoy or attack someone who is glowing.
    As for bugs, when I was a kid on a road trip with my dad through Arizona, we encountered bugs that don’t go splat when they hit your windshield, they go ‘ping’ as they bounce off. And then you start looking for cracks in your windshield.

  12. Marks1stwife says:

    A lightning bug inadvertently found its way into my living room and has been bringing me smiles each evening as it flits about. I suppose it’s trying desperately to get out, but I like to think all that flying around is for my personal entertainment.

  13. i.half4 says:

    @The Dukenator: Don’t paintballs splat bigger? That’s a paint BBing.

    @Baughbe: Arizona? How far is that from area 51?

    @MaskedMan: And now, a number…

    We are starfuel, We are golden
    We are caught in a devil’s bargain
    and we’ve got to get ourselves
    back to the garden…

    – Joni Mitchell,
    with a touch of poetic BoB’s world license (dust for fuel)

  14. Wizard says:

    Kamikaze bugs are just one more reason I always wear a full-face helmet when I’m riding my motorcycle.

  15. Silversaraph says:

    I used to catch fireflies and keep them in a jar, and then I watched “Grave of the fireflies”. Never again.

  16. grapy says:

    i haven’t seen a real firefly but the reason their butt’s taste bad is the fact that their butts have lots of glowing bacteria in them

  17. Psychowarden says:

    Shame on biff for not wearing a helmet 🙁

  18. -2! says:

    @ Psychowarden

    That may actually be a good thing that Biff wasn’t wearing a helmit. To me him being brain damaged could only make him less dangerous. And after all Biffs bad ideas/being invincible I think him wearing a helmet would be out of character. Plus it would mess up his eyebrows.

    @ Mewthicus, TotallyNotMewthicus
    Your Gravitar says your the same email.

    …I wonder if the default Gravatar is an encryption or your email and I could take it and theoretically decrypt your email out of ibt. I think I am sticking to my custom Gravatar!

  19. ZeoViolet says:

    I like catching lightning bugs…in my hands, if I’m out walking in the evening. I never hurt them and I let them go right away, but it’s a leftover childhood impulse, I guess. When I was growing up catching one was considered lucky.

  20. ZeoViolet says:

    PS, butterflies and lightning bugs are probably the only two insects my mother does not fear.

  21. Radical Edward says:

    I never caught fireflies. But then again, if I did, I probably had let them die and never caught them again.

  22. CycloneChemChick says:

    I remember walking though the park with my husband and we saw a firefly under a leaf make the leaf blink off and on. We had a good laugh over it because it was such an absurd situation. Poor little guy, I wonder if he ever found a mate doing that. If so, there’s hope for a lot of my friends!

  23. Jade says:

    If he’d have been wearing a helmet, some of that would have been eliminated… the grosser splats, at any rate.

  24. Marscaleb says:

    I never saw fireflies until one summer when I was in Missouri. (and never again since.)
    Those were the freakiest and coolest things I saw that whole trip.

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