Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics

Re:Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibi... by dataflow on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:15PM (#38861954)

Took me a good minute to figure this out, I kept thinking it was some kind of anti-Apple joke I wasn't understanding.

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Re:Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibi... by jamala1 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:16AM (#38864865)

Is the joke removing the "ant" prefix?

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Re:Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibi... by dataflow on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:20AM (#38864892)

Yes

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Re:Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibi... by jandrese on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:29PM (#38873187)

Yeah, it's a riff on the old random factoid you used to see all the time in papers and books where someone would be talking about something like Spanish Rice and the editor would helpfully point out that in Spain they just call the dish Rice. Also, it's just fun to make puns sometimes.

A similar joke:

Batman and Robin are in hot pursuit of the Joker when they hop in the Batmobile. Unfortunately it fails to start so Batman tells Robin that he is going pull out the Batskates and continue to chase the Joker. In the meantime he tells Robin to check the battery. Robin agrees but after a moment pauses to ask "What's a 'Tery'?"

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