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Humor Experiment #4: Playing with Ideas

The creative idea of a free-range ant farm is funny because it's a bad idea. Not bad as in bad, but bad as in absurd. Anyone who's ever set up a small plastic ant farm for themselves, their kids, or a classroom knows these three things about ants and ant farms:

  1. The ants are trapped within the ant farm walls and can't get out.
  2. The ants are fed sugar water for nourishment.
  3. The ants dig tunnels all day long until they die.

Now, if you were an ant given the choice of slave labor in an ant farm until you died OR the option to mosey along free-range style and escape when nobody's looking, which would you choose?

It's especially funny when you imagine dozens of ants scurrying off the farm and onto your kitchen counters looking for real morsels of food to eat instead of that tired old sugar water.

Nit Wits #42 PC Ant Farm © 2008 Chris Dunmire. All rights reserved.Actually, the concept of a free-range ant farm is quite brilliant, in an animal-rights sort of way. The only problem with an open, free-range ant farm is that you'll never get to see the ants do any work. Would you dig tunnels if you didn't have to?

In a perfect ant world, the best option is not to recruit ants for farming labor for human amusement at all, however, scientists, educators and toy-makers of all brands will object on account that we need to study the working habits of ants to understand productivity, efficiency, and how to scooch tired workers out of the way while climbing over those who get in our way. I mean the ants, of course.

If this ant humor (my antics) amuses you, please enjoy printing my exclusive and free Ant Farm Poster and hanging it on your refrigerator or cubical wall. You can also read about where my creative inspiration came from for this zany idea and how I went on to humorize the free-range ant farm concept for my fun Nit Wits comic.

Now I leave you with this short, alphabetical listing of words that rhyme with ant: can't, pant, rant. Wow, that is short. •

© 2008 Chris Dunmire, CoachingYourCreativity.com. All rights reserved. (06/12/08). Please do not duplicate this article elsewhere without my permission or my ants will infest your cleanest kitchen counters.

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Chris Dunmire finds meaning in life as an artist, writer, humorist, and Certified Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach®, and is the driving force behind the popular Creativity-Portal.com Web site. Chris inspires people of all ages to be more creative through her articles, writing prompts, and project e-playbooks like her popular Dollar Bill Origami Money Plant, a "fun to make and gift away" craft project available for instant download at CreativeSlush.com.

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