2009-09-21 - A use for Wasps - Finally!

Throughout my life I have encountered many questions to which I do not have the answer.

Why do bad things happen to good people?
What is the meaning of life?
Is there really a God?
Why is there jam in my shoe?
Why can't people just get along?
Why does it always smell of lemons when I bang my head?

But they all pale in comparison to one question, because not only do I not know the answer, until this morning I was pretty sure there wasn't an answer to this one...
What is the point of Wasps? What exactly do they DO?

I was always lead to believe that every creature had a purpose, performed some vital rle in the grand scheme of nature, even if it was simply to be the bully at the top of the food chain or the scum on the pond feeding the food o the bully at the top of the food chain, my point is there were all there for a reason.

Despite many hours of pondering, observing, and even a little research I managed to come to the conclusion that Wasps exist purely to annoy humans. And that doesn't sit well with me.
you will of course come across the usual 'Wasp experts' who will claim that wasps provide an essential role in keeping other insects under control, but we all know this isn't true! everthing that wasps eat is also eaten by many other things, and anything that eats wasps prefers to eat other things!

But! I have discovered a use for wasps, the Wasp-bomb! It's basically a box full of angry Wasps, that you throw into, or at your enemy, whether that be militant insurgents dug into a trench or that guy you cen never beat at chess. Either way the effect will be much the same, your former foe will leap about, flailing arms wildly and screaming like a little girl, leaving you free to storm the trench or declare a win-by-default with relatively little resistance. As a form of non-lethal weaponry wasps are an un-tapped gold mine of possibilities!

I think I might be onto something here, now if I can just figure out where those lemons are....