Friday, October 04, 2013

Hornets Nest! Hornets Nest! BZZZZ - BZZZZZ! STOP!!!

Jack Black may yet have been a prophet when he sang that one - un prophète de malheur as they say in some forlorn, desolate, wastelandish parts of the world - but we sincerely doubt that they've ever heard of the expression in CHINA...!  And as for Black - we doubt he thought of literal hornets, either!

The headlines are quite alarming indeed, though: Swarms of 'giant sparrow bees,' whose stings feel 'like a hot nail' have injured over 1,600 in the Shaanxi province.
Gee - where is Shang-Chi when his people need him - huh? 
Probably in Greenwich Village, killing big oversized spiders instead - makes sense. And, oh yeah - that's right: he's not even fully ''back'' yet - back from the Marvel-ous limbo he had been cast out to for several decades by the powers-that-be at that other big dim-witted corporate-cartoony place, now bigger than ever in all categories inferred to here, since being incorporated into the la-la-land that is home to a talking mouse. Yikes! 
But that's another story...

Could this HORNETS ATTACK calamity be one of them endtime plagues?  Can this be A SIGN?


Lo, Behold The Four Hornets of the Apocalypse; 
4 out of countless, that is...
Image courtesy of IMGUR.


Seriously, though, as of blogging time, forty-two people had died of these attacks.  The stings of these oversized insects reportedly did feel like nails, heated up by a blacksmith and driven through one's flesh afterwards - and over 1,600 people had felt that searing sting so far. 

And to think that we, in North America, are mightily inconvenienced by a few (not a swarm - just a few) fruit flies, mosquitoes and assorted creepy crawlers that, er, crawl by our homes only in the summertime... 

We are not only spared - we are spoiled rotten. But that is another story... 



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