The other night i was in my mate Dannys house, he has this overhead projector thing connected to his pc, i was perusing the chiffboard while he was just sitting there half looking at the screen while having a smoke. He suddenly piped up “i must get some feckin fly spray”, genuinely thinking there was a big fly on the lens!
class!
It works! It works! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! 
djm
PPPFFFFSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST!
, the first time i saw it, i hit the screen thinking that it was a little fly. that is a funny story.
It used to be mine. Old news. 
Being that I have the typical Floridian hyperdeveloped reflexes designed to save myself from death or maiming by ectopic animal life – we bash first and figure out what it was later – I have nearly smashed my monitor on several occasions while perusing threads on this board.
One of our young birds liked to sit on my wrist when I’m at the laptop, and the first time he saw Deej’s avatar he took a flying leap across the keyboard and tried to catch it.
I told him not to bother, it probably wouldn’t have tasted very good anyway 
Jealousy is such an ugly behaviour.
djm
Come on Deej, there’s plenty of bugs in the world, there’s more than enough to go around.
What kind of bug is it supposed to be, anyway? I got out my magnifying glass but couldn’t really tell if it was Coleoptera or Hemiptera. I need to see the other side of it to get a good look at the mouthparts. Can you get it to flip over?
What? With testicles and sexy hips like that? C’mon now!
djm
Well, Coleoptera is Beetles, and the Beatles certainly had sexy hips, …and their more experimental music took some major balls to record and put out there.
On the other hand, the thing about Hemiptera (the “true bugs”) is that they have special mouthparts modified for extracting juices. Squash bugs, chinch bugs, bed bugs, assassin bugs, …they all suck.
So the question is, does your avatar suck?
Taxonomically speaking of course.
Well, if Cberry used to use it … 
djm
Must be a beetle then–
How about this one-- “Minute Beetles”-- Peterson Field Guide to Beetles p.149
Identification> --Very small-- 0.8 to 1 mm. Each antenna has 8 to 10 segments, last 2 enlarged. Body distinctly oval from above.
Habits and Examples> – as is typical for very small beetles of no economic importance, habits are poorly known.
Collecting methods> – Collected infrequently. May be found in rotting vegetation, or flying in wooded areas at dusk; occasionally fly to lights.
Must have been attracted to the light of your monitor…and then reproduced and spread to everybody else’s monitor…
I’m thinking its an ant of some kind, what with that thorax.
djm
You must have interesting relatives…
and is it really polite for you to be commenting on her thorax??
I’ve been seriously misquoted. 
djm
As long as we’re quoting Deej, you may not know that he writes free verse poetry too…
This may have been created while under the influence of some mind-altering substance (perhaps, those standard pesticides?), but pretty brilliant writing none-the-less.
Shades of “Naked Lunch.” My life as a William S. Burroughs novel. 
djm