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BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
in Heaven
..... of Household Things.

@BroJames made a great start on the Tidy thread.
Black biros are the pupal stage of wire coat hangars. When the imago emerges it is very soft and can pass through the smallest of holes. (It consumes the pupal shell the nutrients of which enable it to harden once it finds a suitable location in which to assume the adult imago form.)

Coat hangars remain sexually inactive while suspended but when laid flat with others they become sexually active (they are hermaphrodites) and can be hard to separate. They lay microscopically small eggs pale grey and hairy, closely resembling laundry fluff.

So far the larval stage has not been definitively observed. Some think the larvae are what we generally know as paperclips, but there is some unaccounted-for variation amongst them which doesn’t seem to be reflected in the adult coat hangar.

So far, coat hangars have proved remarkably resistant to captive breeding, and become utterly dormant under observation at all life-stages.

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  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    ... The first verified mating swarm was discovered entirely by accident, because somebody finally removed the cushions and cleaned the sofa.

    At first it was dismissed as the usual archaeological layers - three buttons of unknown provenance, a coin no longer legal tender, a fossilised grape, a polo mint, and drifts of lint and dog hair. It was only when the lint began moving against the air current that the observer realised he had interrupted something interesting and private ...
  • mark_in_manchestermark_in_manchester Shipmate
    ..., and, as he watched, an old, old sense of eternal dread crept up like a kind of terrible miasma, the stench of raw fear quite different to the notes of shake-n-vac so recently applied to the carpet under the settee. Hark, an awful song came drifting on that air-current, the meaning of its words lost to history but its intent more sharply clear than the slashing blade of primal emotion he felt piercing his rational mind.
    “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”

    (Go on, he doesn't come out to play much on the ship these days :) ).
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    'Ethel!'

    'Yes, Henry?'

    'The dust is singing!'

    'Have you been sniffing the Bostik again? And I told you, equal parts white spirit and Ribena isn't the same as red wine whatever it looks like'.

    'It was alright. Anyway, it's moving as well as singing'.

    'Put the hoover on suck not blow'.

    'Aaaarrrgh!'
  • mark_in_manchestermark_in_manchester Shipmate
    (* Readers in the USA may note that White Spirit may be substituted by Mineral Spirits or Stoddard Solvent, and Ribena is a brand of blackcurrant cordial originally produced to combat scurvy during WW2 shortages of fresh fruit and vegetables.)
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    Cthulhu danced and sang -

    🎵 🎶

    Dust bunnies, dust bunnies, dancing all around,
    Doing the bunny boogie - what a frightful sound.
    Gathering in the corners where the sunlight never shines,
    Building fluffy kingdoms with sinister designs.

    🎶 🎵

    Then hid his face in shame.

    🫣
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