Little known Fire Ant facts
Category: Just Plain Silly...
Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 06:03 PM [GMT-6]

I'm hungry and MLB has a meeting this evening and so there's no relief in view. I had no choice but to pop over to see what the enchanting Bakerina has been cooking up, and she did not disappoint.

Not having the wherewithal to bake a cake, however, I'm doing the next best thing, and borrowing one of her links. If I cannot satisfy my hunger, I can at least provide you with mental nourishment by telling you some little known facts about nature's perfect creation. To wit...

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Fire Ants!

  1. The first domain name ever registered was Fire Ants.com.
  2. All of the roles in Shakespeare's plays - including the female roles - were originally played by Fire Ants!
  3. Fire Ants are the largest of Saturn's moons.
  4. In Chinese, the sound 'Fire Ants' means 'bite the wax tadpole'.
  5. US gold coins used to say 'In Fire Ants we trust'!
  6. Louisa May Alcott, author of 'Little Fire Ants', hated Fire Ants and only wrote the book at her publisher's request.
  7. Fire Ants were originally called Cheerioats.
  8. The opposite sides of Fire Ants always add up to seven.
  9. In the 1600s, tobacco was frequently prescribed to treat headaches, bad breath and Fire Ants.
  10. Fire Ants are the world's smallest jugglers.
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Funny, but the Bakerina always seemed shorter to me.

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Comments

LOL :-) I've always wondered why the name, "Fire Ant Gazette." Wouldn't the "Cheerioats Gazette" have been nice? But seriously, what is the significance of the Fire Ant here at the Gazette (besides making for some funny trivia)?

Posted by: Gwynne at March 9, 2006 07:41 PM

Gwynne, there you go, thinking like an accountant again. Not everything has signficance, you know. Or, perhaps, the significance is in the insignificance. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at March 9, 2006 09:05 PM

I was really just hoping for another Giant Fake Insect story. How dare you accuse me of thinking like an accountant! ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at March 9, 2006 09:19 PM

I'm sorry. Someone has apparently injected the Enron trial into my fake dreams.

But, thanks to you, Fastow will now be battling a Giant Fake Insect. 8{

Posted by: Eric at March 9, 2006 09:25 PM

Fastow looks like a Fire Ant, now that you mention it...Fire Ants battling Raptors...sounds like a restless night for you. Love the facial expression though. Sweet dreams. >:-)

Say, you didn't work for Enron, did you? :-\

Posted by: Gwynne at March 9, 2006 09:59 PM

Oh, heavens no. I do know several people who did, but no one close.

Posted by: Eric at March 9, 2006 10:04 PM

That Mechanical Conundrum has some sort of inborn intellingence. #5 for "Wallace Craig" was....

Contrary to popular belief, Wallace Craig is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases he may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol!

Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at March 9, 2006 10:54 PM

Wallace, that is a bit eerie!

Posted by: Eric at March 10, 2006 06:41 AM

Why, Eric, you've made me blush. Again. Thank you. But c'mon, make the cake already. :)

Indeed, it's true: I am 984 feet tall. But I'm also chubby, so I give the illusion of shortness, more like 5'6". It's all an optical illusion, though. Really.

Posted by: Bakerina at March 10, 2006 10:17 AM
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