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Title: Spiders!
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Published: May 24, 2009
Author: Shirley Q. Liquor
Post Date: 2009-05-24 20:43:00 by James Deffenbach
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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
Turtle is afraid of nothing except spiders and sock puppets.
Lift up that lid...look under there! ahaha. Most spiders are nothing to be afraid of but the few that people should be afraid of are bad enough to give them all a bad rep I suppose. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I have a "thing" for spiders. The small ones. I had a pet tarantula for a while and it was cool to watch. But see a small one skittering across the floor and I go out of my way to stomp on it. I will hunt that son of a bitch down and kill it until it is d-e-d dead. I had a relative get bit by a recluse. There was necrosis. And the widows are so poisonous it's ridiculous. They wont kill you, hopefully, but for a couple days you'll wish you were dead. .
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Those funnel web spiders they have in Australia have fangs that will pierce thumbnails and toenails. And their poison can definitely kill you. I used to think I might like to go to Australia sometime but they have too many dangerous critters there to suit me. Read a story one time about an older man, one you would think would know better, try to pet a duckbill platypus. Put him in the hospital (and I think it was about an hour or maybe close to two hours to a hospital from where it happened). They (the males) have these hollow barbs or hooks on their back feet, sort of like the fangs of a snake, and they couldn't give the man enough morphine to deaden the pain, not without killing him. Had to do a nerve block and he was in the hospital for months according to the story.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I saw that on the boob tube. He did it out of ignorance. He is not so ignorant anymore. Then there was a man that picked up a black widow to show how unagressive they are. The spider raised up its front legs and I knew what was going to happen. I wonder if it was worth getting bit to show off to a camera. They used to have people die from funnel web bites until they developed antivenin. But small kids are still in trouble. IIRC, they are confined to the Sidney area. But step out of Sidney and you have other things to worry about. This reminds me of Steve Irwin. I thought for sure a black mamba or taipan would do him in, not a stingray. As much as he knew, he took a lot of risks. He was fun to watch. He loved what he did. .
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The worst funnel webs are the biggest ones and they live in trees. But Australia has nine of the ten deadliest snakes in the world including the inland taipan or "fierce" snake. Too many things in Australia that can do you in--blue-ring octopus, irukandji jellyfish, snakes, spiders, etc. Don't even want to visit.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs
...that's Turtle Island.
#2. To: Turtle (#1)
Lord Acton
#3. To: James Deffenbach, all (#2)
It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
#4. To: PSUSA (#3)
Lord Acton
#5. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
(Edited)
try to pet a duckbill platypus.
It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
#6. To: PSUSA (#5)
They used to have people die from funnel web bites until they developed antivenin. But small kids are still in trouble. IIRC, they are confined to the Sidney area. But step out of Sidney and you have other things to worry about.
Lord Acton
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