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  • While staring at a multitude of muddy looking robots flying by (or smashing about) in strangely (one would say poorly) crafted action sequences, or John Turturro revealing his rear-end in a g-string, or Shia LaBeouf running around Egypt yelling nonsense like "Bumble-bee!" or his continual hyperactive stream of "no, no, no, no, no!"

    Kim Morgan: Michael Bay: The Exterminating Angel 2009

  • For some reason he goes nuts when he see's Bumble-bee :

    Transformers 2 Clip: Sam Discovers Allspark Sliver | /Film 2009

  • Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.

    Thousands of Hyphen to Perish as English Marches On | Impact Lab 2007

  • The cat, for instance, defending its kittens single-pawed against the stable-dog who pretended to be ferocious; the busy father-blackbird, passing worms to his mate for the featherless mites, all beak and clamour in the nest; the Clouded Yellow, sharing a spray of honeysuckle with a Bumble-bee, and the honeysuckle offering no resistance -- one and all, they also were aware in their differing degrees.

    The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • The largest and most imposing of our sting-bearers, the Carpenter-bee, the Bumble-bee, the

    More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Where the big Bumble-bee dies an instant death, the audacious visitor would perish the moment she entered.

    More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Bee (_see also_ Bumble-bee, Hive-bee, Mason-bee and the varieties),

    The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Black-bellied Tarantula, the terrible Spider who slays a Carpenter-bee or a Bumble-bee outright with one stroke of her weapon; the Spider who kills a Sparrow or a Mole; the formidable creature whose bite would perhaps not be without danger to ourselves.

    More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • So, for instance, the Psithyrus is extremely like the Bumble-bee, whose parasite and descendant she is.

    The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • The death of the Drone-fly, entangled in the silken funnel, is reproduced by the sudden death of the Bumble-bee on entering the

    More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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