Some of the best-known shots by Sebastiao Salgado - to my mind, the greatest photographer alive – depict an ant-like horde of freelance gold prospectors as they scrabble in the mud for that elusive nugget in the Serra Pelada mines of Brazil.
The Bosch-like horde of minions falling over each other to plunge ABC into an inferno of court-induced chaos would almost certainly never have materialized, however salutary an effect such a development might have had on the quality of the network's programming.
And the result of that will be a zombie-like horde of morose-looking TV execs wandering the streets of West London, their personal possessions in cardboard boxes, crying as they observe some kid self-shoot a documentary with his mobile phone and subsequently having a stroke when he wins a fucking BAFTA for it.
It was live and a little bit dangerous, with boozer-like hordes whooping, laughing and shouting "Wiiiiiiiiill".
The bugs don't bite, and though their plague-like hordes are frequently compared to locusts, they barely eat a thing during their time above ground.
Lourdes-like hordes have not yet gathered, but since the weighty decree a growing stream of visitors, some driving several hours, has found its way here to pray and revel in what many say is the palpable presence of Mary.
Visitors to the site offered suggestions on how to turn back the infected, zombie-like hordes who, in a desperate search for food, will try to invade the fortified homes of the healthy.
This economic common sense makes a refreshing change from the suicidal howls of the lemming-like hordes leading the international Austerity Party.
Like hordes of kids who came of age in the 1980's, I worshiped the Pixies.
But instead of trickling into rivers in pairs or small groups like salmon do, shad invade more like hordes, swarming by the tens of thousands.
