Empire of the Ants
I really must get back to the pop culture stuff - I've been watching loads of old Westerns lately and they've really set me thinking about a possible posts concerning the way Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the OK Corral have been portrayed on screen, or an analysis of the three different versions of Law and Order and how their treatment of the various plot elements reflect the different eras they were produced in. But right now, I'm not in the mood. I'm feeling very listless at the moment, unable to settle to anything. So I thought that I'd share some another picture from my week off with everyone. In actual fact this is the picture I was thinking of sharing on Twitter with a suitably hilarious caption in the hope that it would get retweeted and start trending (or whatever those crazy kids call it). So, here's the first one:
As you can see, it's a giant ant. (In fact, it's the ant picture I previously mentioned as having texted to my friend). To be precise, it's a giant wooden ant, its body carved from a log, situated in some woods not far from me (they have all sorts of stuff like this there). I've always been fascinated by giant ants. I put it down to having seen Them! at an early age. The question is, however, what would be a suitably 'whacky' caption for all those people out on social media? I could make some reference to my previous problems with household ant infestations - maybe something about needing a bigger can of insecticide spray. Or something about the ants retaliating. The problem with that approach, though, is that just about nobody else on Twitter would get the reference as they wouldn't ever had read my posts here about my ant problems.
The more obvious thing would to be caption it with something along the lines of 'I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords', thereby getting in a 'Simpsons' reference which most people on Twitter would understand. Well, while we're all pondering which caption would be best, let's look at that ant from another angle:
Big, isn't it?
As you can see, it's a giant ant. (In fact, it's the ant picture I previously mentioned as having texted to my friend). To be precise, it's a giant wooden ant, its body carved from a log, situated in some woods not far from me (they have all sorts of stuff like this there). I've always been fascinated by giant ants. I put it down to having seen Them! at an early age. The question is, however, what would be a suitably 'whacky' caption for all those people out on social media? I could make some reference to my previous problems with household ant infestations - maybe something about needing a bigger can of insecticide spray. Or something about the ants retaliating. The problem with that approach, though, is that just about nobody else on Twitter would get the reference as they wouldn't ever had read my posts here about my ant problems.
The more obvious thing would to be caption it with something along the lines of 'I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords', thereby getting in a 'Simpsons' reference which most people on Twitter would understand. Well, while we're all pondering which caption would be best, let's look at that ant from another angle:
Big, isn't it?
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