that's a nice collection of (now) vintage mics
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@ketmorco

Who are the ones living in a totalitarian controlled society NOW, humans????

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Back when microphones were the size of human heads.

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"So you can report the facts accurately..."

man things have changed since the 50's

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#Monsterdon has the cold war gotten hot! someone microwaved the cold war and warmed it up! nuked it even!

Trenchcoat Guy looks like Kiefer Sutherland.

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oooo, Special Emergency Broadcast!

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The real enemy is urban sprawl #Monsterdon

The ants are just try to break into Hollywood!
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30 men in a room, and one Woman.

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Yeah, they always skate right past the square/cube scaling law problem in these giantism movies.

Ants are "superstrong" *because* they are tiny. It wouldn't scale up.

The riverbed! LA? Oh no.
#Monsterdon #Them

New tires? That can only mean one thing!

Somebody tell me what that one thing is?

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Typical LA. A colony of giant ants moves in and only the drunks notice. #Monsterdon #THEM

do the ants have to soup up their car and participate in the drag race? #wrongMovie #monsterdon

When they talk about Mrs. Lodge I think they're crossing over into the Archie universe #monsterdon

God damn it, Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers gonna come along the LA river any second.

#monsterdon #them

@faoluin "The No 1 the teenies are raving about!" #monsterdon

Ah, the LA river...
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I have totally heard of a fence for hot sugar.

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Make me a sergeant, give me the booze!

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Men in suits squat and examine things...

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They found a drone!

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#Monsterdon terminator 2 ripped this off

Sewer outlets or something, just like GTA 5
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Jeez, Jensen, quit chewing the scenery #monsterdon

#Monsterdon yes! the los angeles river (which is paved)

Make me a sergeant. Give me the booze!

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another "i see them mostly at night" ✅
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Somebody get her number. #monsterdon

Them arrestees know the rules, don't talk to the cops.

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@randy_s But only if there is a forecast for rain!

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Ants in LA?

Yeah, gonna have to order an evacuation soon.

Maybe blame a gas leak

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Macarthur Park? Well, leaving the cake out in the rain IS a good way to get ants.

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macauthor park? by any chance did he have a cake?

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There's usually an amount of indoor smoking in these films, but this one — was it sponsored by the tobacco lobby?

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"You ever hear of a fence for hot sugar?"

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"The S S Viking was sunk by naval gunfire"

This movie extremely exists in the aftermath of WW2

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The crew of milwaukee, and you know anyone that was listening to those radio broadcasts

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@SnoopJ Is "good" the criterion we want to use for inducting into the Hall of Fame though

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Is this train yard guard supposed to be from Louisiana? #Monsterdon

1950s morgues had generous storage accomodations
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I am not enough of a trainspotter to identify that engine. Sorry folks 😞

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why is everyone involved with the sugar trade so unbelievably cool and slick talking, making me think there is something going on with sugar around here #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I have had it with all these motherfucking ants on a motherfucking boat!

no one tell the ants where the Snickers factory is

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And the other ants perpetuated a railway heist. Hell yea.

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Was this a sugar ship?
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if these ants aren't careful, they're gonna catch the diabeetus.

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#Monsterdon how are they going to carry 40 tons of sugar

#Monsterdon the atchison topeka & the santa fe

That's one helluva sugar theft #Monsterdon

Trains. And Fedi goes wild.

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@cheribaker I think the #Monsterdon bingo card needs a Wilhelm scream space.

Although...that might just effectively be a second free space.

Something seems off about her wearing a hat
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maybe the ants just need to learn about democracy #Monsterdon

World War Them: An Oral History of the Ant War.

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"Men with hats investigate a sugar train heist"

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#monsterdon Wilhelm!

@jonny @north Oh no, the authorities believed the pilot, but told the doctor to KEEP HIM LOCKED UP (to avoid a panic in their idiotic strategy), and will probably forget about him and he'll be locked up until he dies. These are the real monsters in #Them!1954 #Monsterdon

Radio guys are LOCKED IN, only a Wilhelm-worthy ant attack is enough to break their focus

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beep beepity beep
bang bang
SCREEECH

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#Monsterdon navy ants!

points to the movie for having it's main cast do actual investigating though, instead of just tripping over their target. #monsterdon

mandible hug

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WILHELM SCREAM!

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Finally, the ants are sending us their demands.

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"in this general area" while gesturing at a map of pretty much all of North America

not terribly effective, methinks

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"Viking was infesting with giant ants"

So many great merchant ships lost to giant ants

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Morse code intensifies....

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Thanks guy, have fun withering away in a hospital #monsterdon

I miss the good ol’ days, when we could smoke in hospital rooms. #Monsterdon

Fourmil-able flying saucers

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This is how the SCP :SCP: got started

https://hachyderm.io/@combatwombat/113422428399146001

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#Monsterdon "flying saucers?" "i don't know what else to call them -- they were shaped like *ants*" maybe.... call them ants

Elephant-sized ants, flying saucers
Yeah, he's crazy

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Remember that time we though we were going to get some young Leonard Nimoy in a movie and he was playing an old guy?

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"Hey, would you all help get me out of here"

With all the hubbub they forget and the pilot dies in an institution

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the internet says meerkats have wars

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"Monitor for thefts of sugar/syrup/sweets"

The Trix rabbit has been taken into custody

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Bob with another power stance as he sits on that chair, Doctor Lady has seen it all before though, in ants

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#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

"Now some of you display incredulity at our findings..." how I would like to start every conference talk from now on

properly identified flying ants

PIFA doesn't ring quite the same as UFO but give it time #monsterdon

Seriously there's a whole 1950s ant documentary mini film in here

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@davesdogmaggie Humans cutting deals with the Ants to survive, rounding up other humans via news media..
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"A young Leonard Nimoy has a bit part in the film as an Army Staff Sergeant who reads a news story off a teletype machine." #monsterdon #fascinating

LEONARD NIMOY BIT PART OMG he's such a PUPPY

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Flying saucers

Gotta keep your eyes out for flying saucers during an ant invasion

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Wait, are ants flying UFO's‽
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#monsterdon that's Leonard Nimoy!

@Lazarou There’s borax. #Monsterdon

"Psychopathic Ward"

Damn

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Rules to live by right there, I look for the same things #monsterdon

imagining the president getting a briefing that just says "ANT PROBLEM" #monsterdon

I have to say, I'm glad this is a work of fiction and not documentary.

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Ants use slave labor! They take over your sugar plantations and subvert your hotels! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon i like ants now. ive been converted.

All this sugar is going to rot their mandibles #Monsterdon

Is.....(is he an ant in disguise?)

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The Doctor's North Atlantic accent makes him sound authoritative on ants.

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