Thread: Весёлые картинки и другое смешное или не очень

Thanks for the explanations! It has also occurred to me that the жук is really "the Great Sacred Scarab" who rolls the sun across the sky like a ball of dung -- but now he's stepping in to carry the world on his back, because the Три Кита who normally hold up the world had to "take a break" for coffee, cigarettes, and the toilet!

But dung-beetles, of course, use their mandibles and legs to rake up the dung, and therefore have no need of an actual, literal rake, which is only going to cause a hilarious catastrophe if the handle becomes tangled in the bicycle spokes (~ "наступить на грабли").

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Thanks for the explanations! It has also occurred to me that the жук is really "the Great Sacred Scarab" who rolls the sun across the sky like a ball of dung -- but now he's stepping in to carry the world on his back, because the Три Кита who normally hold up the world had to "take a break" for coffee, cigarettes, and the toilet!

But dung-beetles, of course, use their mandibles and legs to rake up the dung, and therefore have no need of an actual, literal rake, which is only going to cause a hilarious catastrophe if the handle becomes tangled in the bicycle spokes (~ "наступить на грабли").

It may be just me having been in the IT for quite long now, but what I see there is a bug riding an erroneously disproportional piece of software on its own, with no luck being fought by massive numbers of Indian coders, who eventually realize they cannot actually eliminate the bug without the entire system coming all down, and at least try making a few hard fixes to stop the bug from propagating at its usual pace. =))