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| - | '''Honeybee(s)''' ''n.'' '''1.''' Derisive term applied to those women who with apparently little else to do than to malinger around museums, art galleries and drafty studios spouting nonsense and displaying a prowess for elegant hair-dos. '''2.''' A blatantly homo-sexual man. '''3.''' A superficial or shallow person; an expert at toadying and sycophantry. | + | '''Honeybee(s)''' ''n.'' '''1.''' Derisive term applied to those women who, with apparently little else to do than to malinger around museums, art galleries and drafty studios, spout nonsense and display a prowess for elegant hair-dos. '''2.''' A blatantly homo-sexual man. '''3.''' A superficial or shallow person; an expert at toadying and sycophantry. |
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| The term gains importance due to it's near-obsessive presence in [[Stimes Addisson|Addisson's]] youthful novella ''How Goes''. In it, he queries: | The term gains importance due to it's near-obsessive presence in [[Stimes Addisson|Addisson's]] youthful novella ''How Goes''. In it, he queries: | ||
| - | : " ... if I'm dangerous with a knife and my pal Eric is dangerous with a gun. Tom here can kill you with a remote. We're all fucking danger incarnate. Nothing but angry cocks and hawking condoms, pushing a tighter pipe fitting, America's greatest poetry -- how is it that a honeybee gently floating keeps Us at a Bay? We've pulled out, here. It's touched on all our faces, each window the flit of a wing, the trash of our lives gaining in sound like an angry hive, arriving finally at [[the corner lot]]--where, apparently, someone had been waiting." | + | : " ... if I'm dangerous with a knife and my pal Eric is dangerous with a gun. Tom here can kill you with a remote. We're all fucking danger incarnate. Nothing but angry cocks and hawking condoms, pushing a tighter pipe fitting, America's greatest poetry -- how is it that a honeybee gently floating keeps Us at a Bay? We've pulled out, here. It's touched on all our faces, each window the flit of a wing, the trash of our lives gaining in sound like an angry hive, arriving finally at [[the corner lot]] -- where, apparently, someone had been waiting." |
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| + | ''Cassius Clay ate'' [[27 | twenty-seven]] honeybees after hearing that Fidel Castro ate twenty-four. | ||
| + | ''The honeybee is'' mathematically impossible. | ||
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Honeybee(s) n. 1. Derisive term applied to those women who, with apparently little else to do than to malinger around museums, art galleries and drafty studios, spout nonsense and display a prowess for elegant hair-dos. 2. A blatantly homo-sexual man. 3. A superficial or shallow person; an expert at toadying and sycophantry. [edit] ExtrapolationThe term gains importance due to it's near-obsessive presence in Addisson's youthful novella How Goes. In it, he queries:
[edit] Usage"It's quite a good show -- if you can see past the queens and honeybees." --Steven Adkins, mid-flex. [edit] See Also |
[edit] DesiderataCassius Clay ate twenty-seven honeybees after hearing that Fidel Castro ate twenty-four. The honeybee is mathematically impossible.
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