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You could run power up them as well... |
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If you connected the ant farm to the real world, wouldn't they just move out? |
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Though I have seen a bee (or maybe wasp?) hive in a museum, the innards visible, and the insects flying in and out via a plastic corridor to the window. So the technology exists. |
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Leave honey at the top. Or breadcrumbs. |
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Don't talk about my Aunt Poune like that. |
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I don't want ants in my house. In fact, I go to great measures to ensure ants stay out of my house... |
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At least it's not worm farm bannisters. |
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When we lived in a wooden house we used to keep termites. |
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The greatest irony is that the entire Earth is but a Human farm belonging to a pupae of one of our galactic Ant overlords. |
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sp. "banister", unless you are referring to Sir Roger. |
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And 'newel', looking at it. Amazing that I've got those both wrong considering how many banisters, newel posts and balustrade I've dealt with. |
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<I'm A Pedant But I Can't Think Of The Right Word> Banisters are the upright posts. The bit you slide down is called something else. </IAPBICTOTRW> |
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The upright posts are balusters. Banister (or bannister) started out as a variant of baluster, but has now come to mean the handrails as well, as immortalized in: |
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"As Rose collects the money in a cannister
Who comes sliding down the bannister?
The vicar in a tutu
He's not strange
He just wants to live his life this way."
-- The Smiths, "Vicar in a Tutu" |
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Bannister is also correct. At least according to the old www.dictionary.com. |
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