ManTis

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:54 am

Buh-DAHHHHhhh Da BUH-
Sittin' on the outside, just me and my mate
You know I'm made to move you honey,
come up two hours late
Wasn't that a mantis
I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn (t,i,s)
That represents mantis
No B, O child, Y
That mean mantisish boy
I'm a mantis
I'm a full grown mantis
Mantis
I'm a natural born lovers mantis
Mantis
I'm a rollin' stone
Mantis-child
I'm a hoochie coochie mantis
The line I shoot will never miss
When I make love to a woman,
she can't resist
I think I go down,
to old Kansas Stew
I'm gonna bring back my second cousin,
that little Johnny Cocheroo
All you little girls,
sittin'out at that line
I can make love to you woman,
in five minutes time
Ain't that a mantis
I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn (t,i,s)
That represents mantis
No B, O child, Y
That mean mantisish boy
Mantis
I'm a full grown mantis
Mantis
I'm a natural born lovers mantis
Mantis
I'm a rollin' stone
I'm a mantis-child
I'm a hoochie coochie mantis
well, well, well, well
hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry
Don't hurt me, don't hurt me child
don't hurt me, don't hurt, don't hurt me child
well, well, well, well

Yeah

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:00 am

geekster wrote:how come I always misread this thread as ManTits?

I don't know Geekster. Just don't look to me for a suckling at the SF Decompression.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:11 am

"Like looking for teats on a mantis."

-Dictionary of American Colloquiums

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:02 pm

hmmm...I am seeing a giant can of insecticide, complete with fogger spray nozzle, as a costume next year...

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:22 am

dragonfly Jafe wrote:hmmm...I am seeing a giant can of insecticide, complete with fogger spray nozzle, as a costume next year...

Great Minds Stink Alike, they say....There's a good chance that ManTis won't be the only Plus-Sized Bug on the playa next year, so the bug dope's not a bad idea....(You'd have to add a boombox, and play lots of Black Flag.)

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:51 pm

Watch out, motherfuckers. I scored a bunch of corrugated kevlar from a scrap bin today and I'm ready to build!

Oh piffle. Killbuck wants to do a model first.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:04 pm

Now jelly is going to be a couch cricket on a mantis. Heres "praying" for the lost soul. While Kernul Roadkill stands by drinking his own bath water.

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:47 pm

dragonfly Jafe wrote:hmmm...I am seeing a giant can of insecticide, complete with fogger spray nozzle, as a costume next year...

how ironic, I was going to build a drangonfly for the mantis to eat.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:55 pm

spectabillis wrote:
dragonfly Jafe wrote:hmmm...I am seeing a giant can of insecticide, complete with fogger spray nozzle, as a costume next year...
how ironic, I was going to build a drangonfly for the mantis to eat.

~
I was thinking more along the line of a flie. (in the ointment)

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:58 pm

I am the fly
in the ointment
I can spread
more disease
than the flees
that nibble away
at your window display

-wire

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:59 am

spectabillis wrote:
dragonfly Jafe wrote:hmmm...I am seeing a giant can of insecticide, complete with fogger spray nozzle, as a costume next year...
how ironic, I was going to build a drangonfly for the mantis to eat.

How about a grand Circle Of Life Pageant, in which the ManTis eats the dragonfly, the giant insecticide can spritzes the ManTis and then the spraycan gets demolished by a mob of Earth Guardians?

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:01 pm

robotland wrote:
spectabillis wrote:
dragonfly Jafe wrote:hmmm...I am seeing a giant can of insecticide, complete with fogger spray nozzle, as a costume next year...
how ironic, I was going to build a drangonfly for the mantis to eat.
How about a grand Circle Of Life Pageant, in which the ManTis eats the dragonfly, the giant insecticide can spritzes the ManTis and then the spraycan gets demolished by a mob of Earth Guardians?

Or to be truly life-like, the insecticide can should be burnt while still half full, and the Mantis then is reborn from it's ashes resistant to the insecticide....

Add a musical score and an singer no one can understand, and we have an opera!

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:05 pm

Yeah! Yeah! ...And then the Earth Guardians all fuck each other and make babies and buy a bunch of shit from WalMart for their cute little nurseries and more WalMarts spring up to serve them and they have bright lights in their parking lots that attract more bugs and...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:10 pm

Just make sure that there's a proper epa establishment number on that giant spray can.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:24 pm

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:Yeah! Yeah! ...And then the Earth Guardians all fuck each other and make babies and buy a bunch of shit from WalMart for their cute little nurseries and more WalMarts spring up to serve them and they have bright lights in their parking lots that attract more bugs and...

NOW we've got ourselves an OPERA.....

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:37 pm

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:04 am

MightyMechaMantis MUST be Jellyfish-powered.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:12 am

DontPanic · Post by **DontPanic** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:53 am

hey jelly my man...so pissed i never got to see the miniman come to fruition but its been a long year...lovin project mantis...gotta let me help somehow

-the artist formerly known as Lamplighter Duke

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:50 am

Dp, you truly DID miss a thang...but Ah Gar-On-Tee that the ManTis will Kick Ass. MiniMan had a quality to his movement that, rendered in mantis-puppet form, promises to be highly surreal and cool.
*fidgeting* I can't wait!!!

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:48 am

...Miniman was truly awe inspiring, and walking with him and witnessing the emotional interaction people (including kids!) had with him is one of my cherished 2005 BM memories. I also cannot wait until I can witness the horrifying spectacle that ManTis is sure to be. One thing I am NOT going to dress like in 2006 is a bug...

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:54 pm

Thanks, you guys. I've got great mental snapshots with you as well and have favorite memories including Jafe stearing our debris to the burn pile like a Venetian gondelier and Robotland grinning at everything with lipstick smeared all over his face... pretty pretty pretty!

If I have a say in it, ManTis is going to be one horny bitch in heat. Mind your noggins, boys, she mates and she kills.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 7:58 pm

It's a girl!

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:36 am

I could really lose my head over a bug like that.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:07 am

At Thunderdome, upon approval by The Death Guild:

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:59 am

...expect a package soon. This package is an offering to mighty ManTis in the hopes that she will spare my pitiful life when she sees me on the Playa. If not, C'est Live! All hail mighty ManTis!

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:50 pm

Your offering is appreciated, siezed with amazing quickness, and masticated in the greedy mandibles of degradation.

Hey, I met with Mr. Fixit today and he welcomes your inquiry regarding powered wheels for the tank.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:02 pm

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:02 pm

Her Highness is truly lovely...Construction's really rockin' along, I see....And she's Russian Nuclear Plant Green, one of my very favorite greens! *swoon*
I'm going to have to step up my progress on her "blind date"....

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:30 pm

I would love to see ManTis and MiniMan go at in in the dome...but do you think they would fit thru the opening? Maybe a duel just outside, officiated by a DeathMistress?

(or did you have a plan to get thru the opening of the dome?)

ManTis

It lives?

It's a girl!

Thunderdome

Cross posted because she belongs here