It's an expression of confusion.
I'm not even sure of the root, but it's down to mishearing something. I'm basically expressing that I don't understand what you are on about ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:27, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

i thought it was homer simpson?
when he has sugar in his backyard and it attracts someone else's bees and the someone else has quite an esoteric way of speaking and accuses homer of being very clever and diabolical. after the tirade, homer says, "bees are on the what, now?"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:31, Reply)

"in America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women"

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)

Classic!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)

i love that episode.
"i nicked it. when you let your guard down. and i'll do it again."
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:39, Reply)

hehe
it is a good one
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:48, Reply)

Maybe.
I first saw it on \board, pre \talk. When all of this were fields.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:37, Reply)