Begle1

On vacation I get to spend my time on noble and righteous quests.

Mainly, does anybody know if it is possible to attract fireflies to the palm of your hand by flashing a flashlight in a certain pattern?

And, alternately, has anybody actually ever been cow tipping?

displacedtexan

1) Not possible to attract them with flashlights in patterns.

2) Probally you

HappyGA

don't know about the fire flies.

Cow Tipping, yes sireee. Pretty funny, but hey be a man and step up to the plate and tip a bull. Have your running shoes on.

Lary Ellis (Top)

No but if you poke them in the left eye, they will fly in a right hand circle

Redleg

Wht waste your time, when a perfectly good snipe hunt would accomplish all your goals?

Begle1

So, I take it that you've tried?

Is there any way at all to attract fireflies to land in the palm of your hand? What if I were to pour sugar in my hand or something?

I got a week to get fireflies to land on my hand. Pride is at stake.

Timmay2

Light a fire in your hand.

HappyGA

....and then throw in some flies....

displacedtexan

A while back when we first started the house hunt, the wife and I did some research on attracting fire flys. We want them in our yard. Basicly we learned plant places for them to live during the day.

About the flashing, there are hundreds of different kindsof fire flies, and the flashing is a mating thing. Males flying around flashing to females on the ground. A flashlight would be a huge honking mate.

TomW

**snicker** Imagine the size of the female that would come to that?

bentwings

Ok I'm going to bite. I know I'm just a city boy but what is "cow tipping".???

ccmckee

You needto make your hand smell like a female firefly , and no i don't want to know how you are going to do that

Timmay2

Attempting to tip over a cow in field while its sleeping.

Most people dont get to do it, those that try usually get laughed at because they dont realize how much a cow really weighs, and the cow will start moving and walking around when you try to push on it..

Takes one heck of a stong guy, one sick/weak cow, or a couple normal guys to really push a cow over.

displacedtexan

Exactly what it sounds like. Walk up to a sleeping cow, and push it over.

Festus

OK. I grew up on the farm. I've tried this. Unless your cows are signifigantly smaller down there, it's not possible. I'm a big guy and I still can't do it. The power to weight ratio isn't there. Until I actually see it, I have to call BS to anyone that says they've actually gotten a cow over.

Now if you were to use a truck, that would be a different story. Probably end up damaging the truck and the cow.