Comments on: Bessie bug, crazy as a

By: Ivadell lewis

Ivadell lewis — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:26:25 +0000

Iwas born in Tennessee. What I remember about the Bessie bug was a small mound of dirt. my grandpa told us kids to get right over the mound and to repeat several times. Bessie bug, Bessie bug come out, your house is on fire ,,, keep singing it and the little bug will come out
,,,I have tried it and it works. Today is my birthday I’m 85 years old today and I’ve experienced this for myself!!!!!

By: Betsybugs

Betsybugs — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:43:29 +0000

My mother was born in Texas and that may be where I learned it…or it could have been in Kansas or Georgia. My name is Betsy and my nickname as a child was Bug so I adopted the name and find it quite fitting.

By: Betsybugs

Betsybugs — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:38:21 +0000

Lue,

I love that description but I have never heard it before.

By: CeCe

CeCe — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:05:02 +0000

I have witnessed those gigantic beetles flying and they will land anywhere they feel like it including your head, no matter how loud you scream and run. They do fly around erraticlly, wings buzzing loudly so “crazy as a bessie bug” is accurate. I’ve heard it mainly from older relatives in Southwest TX. I live in Northeast TX and have never heard anyone say it.

By: joe2

joe2 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:29:30 +0000

I am from Tennessee, and have heard that term ever since I can remember. I would agree with Lue Leshoure III that the Betsy Bug flies around so irriticly, circulling, and seemingly to get no where, until if soon falls out from exhausting. I would compare it to “like running around like a chicken with his head cut off…”

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:50:56 +0000

I am a born and raised Texan and I have never heard the expression, “crazy as a bessie bug” or “as a bedbug”. I must agree that your explanation was somewhat helpful in answering the question, but was primarily your personal loathing of bugs, not that they’re super awesome, or anything. One thing that I feel I must correct you on, is that the phrase is not “kitty cornered”, but rather “catty-cornered”. You are correct that it is derived from “cater-cornered”, which means diagonal.

By: DARON

DARON — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:53:31 +0000

In the winter time when fire wood is burned you can find bessie bug resting in or on the logs. These bugs just sit there and do not move even when they are placed in the heat. Yes then move slow from staying outside in the cold but it is crazy to stay on the log and die

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:52:47 +0000

@Lowell: Your comment is totally off topic here (as is mine, but the need for corrective balance justifies mine).

By and large, Republicans THINK, while Democrats simply FEEL. For example, Democrats can’t (or won’t) rise above their feelings of misplaced compassion to see that spending other people’s money works only until they run out of other people’s money. Think I’m wrong? Name a country that has become more prosperous under socialism.

Note that not one word you wrote is logical; you were merely spewing your hate feelings, and that does not speak well of you. Note also that I have shut you down without calling you either crazyier [sic] or worthless, you dirty rat fink. [:-)

@Lue: I like your explanation. Extending your thought, it seems logical that, after repeatedly crashing his airplane into a mountainside, even a Republican pilot would become crazy as a Bessie Bug! [:-)

By: Lue Leshoure III

Lue Leshoure III — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:03:54 +0000

I heard the Betsy Bug flies around so irratic and fast that it spends
a large amount of time knocked out from running into objects.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:47:28 +0000

Sooo….. I’m still trying to figure out What a Bessie Bug is?!?!? Some sort of Beetle is all that I’m gathering from what I read

By: Lowell Nelson

Lowell Nelson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:04:45 +0000

I’d rather be “crazyier than a betsy bug” than a Republican ( “worthless as a tit on a boar hog!” ).

By: Madelynn

Madelynn — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:40:42 +0000

Our father used to tell us, when we did stupid or silly things, that we were as “crazy as a betsey (sp) bug”. We have southern roots.

I was talking with a friend of mine last night and she that it referred to the infamous “begbug”. I disagreed. But she is one of those friends who thinks she is always right!

So, today I did “Ask.com”

The explanation helps me immensely. Thanx,