Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 10, 2016

how embarrassing… being chased by a June bug

You better beelieve it!

There’s no way a June bug could sting anything, Dill!

Do June bugs go “buzz”? I don’t think so. I think it really was a big old bumble bee, Alice!Anyway, discretion is the better part of valor, and all that….

What are June bugs doing here in August??

(I’m so funny, I crack myself up…)

A “June Bug” is actually a scarab beetle:.Jung’s most famous case of synchronicity in psychotherapy was with the woman patient who recited a dream she had had in which she was given a costly piece of jewelry, a golden scarab (beetle). While she was relating the dream Jung heard something tapping at the window from outside. Jung opened the window and in flew a scarbaeid beetle which he caught in his hand, its gold-green color resembling that of the golden scarab in the woman’s dream. He handed the beetle to his patient and said, “Here is your scarab.”

What we called June bugs where I grew up looked nothing like bees or scarab beetles.

“fix me” has always bothered me. Shouldn’t it be “Go make me [insert food item here]”?

We visited relatives in Tennessee back in the early 60s; cousins taught us how to catch June bugs and a tie a string to a leg. Guiding the June bug around in a circle like a tethered model airplane was the goal. They called it “making the June bug June.”.Catching lightning bugs was also a big pastime for us kids in the summer evenings.

You must have scared the June Bug, Alice.