A Leper?

[Joel Lyons]

 In her book "Four Wings and a Prayer," Sue Halpern
 relates an incident while gathering monarchs with Bill
Calvert (for weighing)  in the mountains of Mexico.
A young bicyclist passed and turned around to see
what they were doing.  Ms. Halpern tried to explain
things, while not speaking much of the native language:
"Mariposa, mariposa" with a nice smile.  The young
fellow finally rode off.  Sue was pretty pleased with
herself for getting rid of him, but Bill remarked, drily:
"You'd better hope he doesn't come back, you just
called him a faggot."

1_iron wrote:

> Please, let's not begin referring to those with our hobby/occupation as
> "fairies" - my neighbors think I'm a little strange because I put out a UV
> on occasion.
>
> Jim Taylor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tiser, Gene M" <TiserG at mail01.dnr.state.wi.us>
> To: <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>; <Leptraps at aol.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:43 PM
> Subject: RE: A Leper?
>
> > I believe you have discovered the terrible truth that lepidopteran studies
> > are considered an addictive disease, hence the name lepers for its
> > practitioners!  Thus, those that come down with this affliction need to be
> > quarantined in special leper colonies lest they infect the rest of the
> > population.
> >
> > Of course, we could be called leperchauns (deliberate misspelling) which
> is
> > defined as a fairy who can reveal hidden treasure.  The hidden treasure,
> of
> > course, is knowledge of, and about, these delightful fellow
> earthlings......
> >
> > Gene Tiser
> > Education Coordinator
> > NE Region Hdqtrs
> > PO Box 10448
> > 1125 N. Military Ave.
> > Green Bay, WI  54307-0448
> >
> > phone: (920) 492-5836
> > fax:      (920) 492-5913
> > tiserg at dnr.state.wi.us
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Leptraps at aol.com[SMTP:Leptraps at aol.com]
> > > Reply To: Leptraps at aol.com
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:56 AM
> > > To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
> > > Subject: RE: A Leper?
> > >
> > > In a recent post I saw the words Leper and butterflier, So, I went to
> > > visit my old friend Webster Dictionary. The word Leper is is there,
> > > however, it has nothing to do with Lepidoptera, it is someone with the
> > > disease, Leprosy.The word butterflier is not in my 1999 Webster
> > > Dictionary. I also looked in the Dictionary of Words used by the late
> > > Howard Cosell, was not there either.
> > >
> > > MMMMMMMMMM! What does all this mean?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Leroy Koehn
> > > Georgetown, KY
> > >
> > >
> > >
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