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<\/p>\nAs I was walking out to get the mail yesterday, I saw a splat of black, brown, yellow and white on the side of my house. \"Oh great,\" I thought, \"some bird crapped on the side of my house.\" But, it wasn't bird crap, it was too symmetric to be the work of a bird. I looked closer and thought it must be a slug of some kind, the things on the front looked a lot like antennae, and it was roughly slug-shaped. But when I got closer, I saw that it was only slug-shaped in two dimensions: it was slug length and slug height, but laterally, it was very thin. Hmm. I looked closer still and saw that it was covered with fuzz, like a moth, and that there were two little legs poking out from underneath. It was<\/i> a moth. It was the ugliest moth I'd ever seen, in fact. It was a moth dressed like a gaudy slug or a splat of bird shit.<\/p>\n
Here's what I saw on my porch:
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I showed my wife, and she poked it. It flew down to the ground, where I poked it and it flew into the bushes. It landed with its wings spread, so that I could get this picture:
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It's not quite so ugly like that, though its head still looks like bird crap.<\/p>\n