The Lesser of the Two Weevils

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Science & Tech on Jul 24, 2010 at 1:22 am


The Lesser of the Two Weevils – $9.95

For entomologists, the choice is clear: always pick the lesser of the two weevils. This clever design by Chris Murphy is my current bug T-shirt favorite! Link | More Science T-Shirts

Trivia for you: the word weevil comes from an Old English word "wifel" meaning "small beetle." We won’t go into the philosophical matter of whether a bug can be evil, but the destructiveness of certain kinds of weevils is well established: the boll weevil devastated the US cotton industry in the 1920s.


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  1. epf
    Jul 24th, 2010 at 7:59 am

    This is one of several memorable puns featured in the Aubrey-Maturin novels, this one made it into the “Master and Commander” movie as well:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnL9i1Wflbg

  2. Jolly
    Jul 24th, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    This is an old, old, old joke.

    Back in the seventies I got a birthday card which ran: “I asked the Great Weevil what to get you for your birthday and he told me to buy a sports car. Then I asked the Little Weevil and he told me to buy a card. Naturally I chose the lesser of the two Weevils.”

    It wasn’t funny or original then. It certainly isn’t now.

  3. Gauldar
    Jul 25th, 2010 at 4:50 am

    I know a couple people that would love this shirt.


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