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G_j

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12. or crazy ants?

Sat Jan 4, 2014, 01:25 AM

Jan 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html?_r=0

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He can’t fathom what the ants want — why they’ve come. They are frightening because they make no sense, because of the utter disarray of their existence. “They run around the floors like they’re on crack, and then they die,” he said. “They’re freakin’ crazy, man.”

The ants are called crazy ants. That’s their actual name. Many people call them Rasberry crazy ants, and some people call them Tawny crazy ants and refuse to call them Rasberry crazy ants. The enmity between these people, I found, can be extraordinary.

Entomologists report that the crazy ants, like other ants, seem drawn to electronic devices — car stereos, circuit boxes, machinery. But with crazy ants, so many will stream inside a device that they form a single, squirming mass that completes a circuit and shorts it.

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Obama is the ant-Christ! [View all] Nanjing to Seoul Jan 2014 OP

Lord and Savior for all the Ants. Makes ACA seem small in comparison, doesn't it? last1standing Jan 2014 #1

Some day ants will be building little temples out of dirt and fist-bumping. Liberal Veteran Jan 2014 #2

DUzy! freshwest Jan 2014 #6

I knew it! I knew it! It has to be true because it's written in white grease pencil on the back of a Lint Head Jan 2014 #3

40 years in the desert, they were definitely out there Exploring. (lame, but anyway) n/t freshwest Jan 2014 #7

And if you look at that little excursion closely, Brigid Jan 2014 #18

The writing is no joke. First they dehumanize a person, then they try more lethal activities. bluestate10 Jan 2014 #14

What are the odds that person is ant-abortion? 1000words Jan 2014 #4

I for one welcome COLGATE4 Jan 2014 #5

I'm not sure I do. Are they fire ants? n/t freshwest Jan 2014 #8

Fire ants probably have an anti-antchrist. Liberal Veteran Jan 2014 #9

Can't trust the little devils! freshwest Jan 2014 #11

or crazy ants? G_j Jan 2014 #12

hail ants frylock Jan 2014 #15

Oh these poor dear souls. Marie Marie Jan 2014 #10

Why do people protect an asshole like that by blanking the license plate? Show the plate numbers bluestate10 Jan 2014 #13

forget the FEMA camps, obama's black anters will have us all toiling away.. frylock Jan 2014 #16

That's a very nice sentiment. Kablooie Jan 2014 #17