Moral to the story

R.A.T. said:
No matter what, never quit being the ant. They may force you to give your property to others, they may take it from you, but NEVER let them have a lease on your mind.
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Hmmmm... Jeff,

There's a name for your necker. "ant".....lil work horse hackin away at all the daily chores.
 
R.A.T. said:
No matter what, never quit being the ant. They may force you to give your property to others, they may take it from you, but NEVER let them have a lease on your mind.
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Reminds me of an old saying in the Army "You can make it longer, you can make it harder, but you can't make me care."
 
Give a man a fish, and he can feed for a day.

Give a man a fishing pole, and he can sell it on ebay for like 40 bucks and buy french fries with his fish
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Make that a small Coke eBays seller fees just skyrocketed.

Tom
Chestnut Ridge Knife Shop
(a proud ebay seller)
 
I never thought our country could be so close to collapsing, and its our own leadership doing it. One nice thing about being an Ant; If there is a collapse, they always seem to tunnel through all the debris and make it back to the surface to build another day.

Tom
Chestnut Ridge Knife Shop
 
Okay, as a biologist I must point out the obvious problem with the story...

Ants are social insects. Thus politically they would be as far left and as far from being capitolists as could be. Ants live in communes and as individuals have even sacrificed their right to sex, foregoing such activities to the queen bee. There is no free market in an ant community. You don't get ahead by working hard in the ant world, you live and die based on your caste. (I'm not trying to spew out political propoganda here, but on a biomass basis ant's are the most successful multicellular class of animals that exist on the planet). This is probably because the genetic basis (half-sibs) of their communal life foregoes individualistic tendencies like greed or ambition that we have.

Grasshoppers are the classic r-strategist species. They would be capitolists by virtue - live hard die fast, screw well. Every individual has a shot at making it big (screwing well) and eating their fill provided they aren't consumed by a predator.

Then again, I'm just a foreigner so I don't know what this thread is really all about. I hope you at enjoy my sense of play :)
 
Eh, "Ant" isn't cool enough.

Let's see, little knife, big sting. . .

FIRE ANT. (Works especially well with a bright red cord wrap.)
 
Even more tactile - yet appropriate - 'Bullet Ant' native to the RAT-teams area, tactile sounding and one of the most painful stings in the insect world. See article accompnaying below. I like this quote taken from the below cited web-article:

"Human Sting Reactions: Sting victims' reactions have been described by Bequaert (1926), Weber (1937, 1939), McCluskey & Brown (1972), Schmidt (1990) and Morgan (1996). Intense pain typically lasts 3-5 hours then lessens over the next day. Severe pain may be accompanied by trembling, perspiration, nausea, and inability to use an injured arm or leg. Some South American Indians intentionally applied stings during tribal manhood rituals (Bequaert 1926) and medicinally to treat rheumatism and similar ailments (Weber 1937)."

http://www.sasionline.org/antsfiles/pages/bullet/bulletbio.html
 
Panama Ant.

I used to drop a quarter of an MRE cracker on the ant trails in Panama and ONE ant would carry it off.

Amazing creatures.
 
Robert, you ain't kidding about the ants down that way!
 
Beroya said:
Hmmmm... Jeff,

There's a name for your necker. "ant".....lil work horse hackin away at all the daily chores.
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Jeff,

So, if the necker is named IZULA, which is a name for an ant, Did I get close enough to win by starting the ANT thought?? ;)

*crosses fingers* I know it's not horseshoes or handgrenades...bbbuuuuttt
 
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