Our office printer (which is right next to my cubicle) is making a screaching noise that sounds just like the giant ants in "THEM!" - for every. single. sheet. it prints.

AAAAGH!!!!

Have a glass of water and relax, John.

http://www.cinemademerde.com/Them-newt.gif

Perhaps it's full of giant ants. Better destroy it.

Tommy gun, my foot! Flamethrower, brother!!! :thumbsup:

Perhaps it's full of giant ants. Better destroy it.You could try playing their mating call to lure them out. It works for grasshoppers.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/12.2/images/tsutsui_fig05b.jpg

Feh, it's not The End of the World.

Feh, it's not The End of the World.or The Beginning of the End . . . :tongue:

Ya just gotta send in the secretary with more paper

http://www.justpressplay.net/images/stories/them_giant_ant.jpg

P.S. We lose more secretaries that way!!:devil:

or The Beginning of the End . . . :tongue:

Or that! (dang it, I got it wrong!)

lol , i just last night watched the DVD .
hb

lol , i just last night watched the DVD .
hbWhich one -- Them! or The Beginning of the End?

Them! was the original postwar "big bug" flick, IIRC. The giant ants look cheesy and fake by today's standards, but the performances by James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn and Joan Weldon still hold up pretty well. Of course, the ants had the best lines.

There's a Tui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tui_(bird)outside work that sings the first five notes of the Close Encounter's theme.

I knew they were great mimics, but for one of them to pick up that tune there must be a huge CEotTK fan playing the movie night after night...

Oh, I still think the ants in THEM look great! It's amazing that they built so many full-size ones and didn't go the stop-motion miniature route.

The only thing I don't like about them ("THEM!!!") is that they gave the ants lips for some reason. :freak:

The only thing I don't like about them ("THEM!!!") is that they gave the ants lips for some reason. :freak:
Well wouldn't it give you a case of the screaming willies if some giant ant was eyeing you up as it's next meal while smacking it's lips together?

Well wouldn't it give you a case of the screaming willies if some giant ant was eyeing you up as it's next meal while smacking it's lips together?

Heck yeah!

http://www.artandculture.com/uploads/images/0015/2903/500full-adam-ant_lightbox.jpg

We will never live down the 80s.

Trying to.

Damn it Zorro ;)