We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.

I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
If I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular is this and the plural is these,
Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be named kese?

Then one may be that, and three may be those,
Yet the plural of hat would never be hose;

We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!

So our English, I think, you all will agree,
Is the craziest language you ever did see.

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat;
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there,
Or dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose,
Just look them up, and goose and choose.

And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.

And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Why, man alive,
I'd learned to talk it when I was five,
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!

*nature *wings *kids

FYI. These are ants with alates readying for their nuptial flights to mate and make new colonies. My outdoor red imported fire ants did the same yesterday outside my nest as shown in my iPhone 4S photos in http://imgur.com/a/njPd5CC.

I recently saw in my nest's kicthen floor. It just idled there while I stared. I grabbed a tissue and picked it up to get rid of it! http://www.reddit.com/r/centipedes/comments/8yhwn1/what_centipede_species_is_this_found_on_a_rural/ for my ID request.

How did they get over to the wasp nest? At first I thought maybe they went to the ground and walked up the wall, but at the end, that wall looks pretty far away.

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I need some of these outside my own nest.

@MilkmanDan

Having spent a great deal of time in Thailand over the last 20 years I agree with your comment. I would like to add that one would have to really be poking the hornets nest extremely hard to get carted off to a re-education camp or kicked out the country if you are an expat.

Mind you the last major use of those camps was due to bombs going off in central Bangkok back around 2008. I still have a hard time finding a public trash can when I visit.

Not me.

I don't like shopping, cooking, washing dishes, taking out the trash 3 times a week, etc etc etc. I've paid people to do all that for me since I left the nest at 18.

Life is short. Restaurants RULE!.

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What a beautiful time to be alive. To watch the electric vehicle come about and mature over the nest 30 years will be awesome.

...But the hornets nest is full of Nazis, so, fuck those guys. I'll poke a Nazi hornet's nest.
*promote
*nsfw