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Old 04-14-2009, 10:16 PM   #2591
RickyMaveety
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Originally Posted by nekokami View Post
I think the white paint is sticky, but maybe it's also chalk-based. The websites I looked at suggested that ants don't like the feel of chalk on their feet. I wonder how they interviewed the ants to find that out? Do you suppose they drew a statistically significant sample, or went with in-depth qualitative ethnographies?
I think they placed some ants on some chalk, and then watched through a macroscope (yes, there is such a thing) while the little buggers jumped up and down and tried to shake the stuff off their little feetsies.

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That sounds....oddly gratifying
And it is .... it so very is. I blasted out the inside of the microwave ... it didn't take me more than a few minutes to get it completely clean (and sterile too).

But .... back to Llano tomorrow to dig up more dirt on the Evil Developer.
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