Just wondering.....

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
He was nailing a pair of sisters back in the day, now he wanders the streets in dirty clothes. 😞

🙁

Originally posted by Pianoman1
So why did my gran say I was the bees knees? My gram knew everything.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-bees-knees.html


Hi, P1. Your dear and loving Gram was obviously proud to the point of doting fondly on #1 Grandson and unashamed of her

real though perhaps excessive praise. Better question for purposes of your thread may be... Do penguins have knees?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-bees-knees.html


Hi, P1. Your dear and loving Gram was obviously proud to the point of doting fondly on #1 Grandson and unashamed of her

real though perhaps excessive praise. Better question for purposes of your thread may be... Do penguins have knees?[/b]

Well obviously penguins don't have knees! If they had knees they would like a gunslinger coming into town. As it is, they waddle straight-legged. Come to think of it John Wayne did look a bit
like that.

Bees' legs are bent in the middle, like a fly's, and the bendy part MUST be a knee. Or maybe their legs come crooked.

Originally posted by Pianoman1
Well obviously penguins don't have knees! If they had knees they would like a gunslinger coming into town. As it is, they waddle straight-legged. Come to think of it John Wayne did look a bit
like that.

Bees' legs are bent in the middle, like a fly's, and the bendy part MUST be a knee. Or maybe their legs come crooked.

Please see my response, a ways back, for "THE TRUTH" (no religious context meant for those of that particular bent) concerning Bees and Knees.

Originally posted by Pianoman1
Bees' legs are bent in the middle, like a fly's, and the bendy part MUST be a knee.

The bendy part is an elbow.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
I do.....Bees have jointed legs, and they have femurs and tibias, but no patellas (knee caps) so can't really be said to have knees.

Femurs and tibias? Bones? Nah, they're arthropods. No internal skeletons at all, the chitin exoskeleton you see is all they have.
Buy you're right that they do not have knees as such. They have jointed legs - otherwise they couldn't be arthro[jointed]-pods[legs]! - but no bones, therefore no bone joints, and therefore no knees.

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Femurs and tibias? Bones? Nah, they're arthropods. No internal skeletons at all, the chiton exoskeleton you see is all they have.
Buy you're right that they do not have knees as such. They have jointed legs - otherwise they couldn't be arthro[jointed]-pods[legs]! - but no bones, therefore no bone joints, and therefore no knees.

Richard

knee  (n)
n.
1.
a. The joint between the thigh and the lower leg, formed by the articulation of the femur and the tibia and covered anteriorly by the patella.
b. The region of the leg that encloses and supports this joint.
2. An analogous joint or part of a leg of a quadruped vertebrate.
3. Something resembling the human knee, such as a bent piece of pipe.
4. The part of a garment, as of trousers, that covers the knee.
5. An abrupt woody projection arising from the roots of some swamp-growing trees: cypress knees.
tr.v. kneed, knee·ing, knees
To strike with the knee.
[Middle English, from Old English cno; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots.]

"3. Something resembling the human knee, such as a bent piece of pipe". Does this cover the jointed leg of a bee?