Saturday, July 12, 2008

Taking Everything by Storms and Swarms


A few years ago I saw a really neat t-shirt. Well, it wasn't really that neat, but I misread it and put a really neat twist on it. I thought the shirt said "Etymology, taking the word by storm". Fancying myself an amateur etymologist I found the shirt to be too cool. When I started to comment on it to the wearer, I got a better look at it and realized that it said, "Entomology, taking the world by swarm". Fancying myself an amateur entomologist as well, I thought this was pretty clever too. But, what I thought was most clever, was that I was able to come up with the first idea, all on my own. I do not know now, how I misread it. I am sure that there were pictures of insects on it, but I did none-the-less.

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