OK, one more scary fact about spiders.
Spiders will tell you they'll look out for your interests, but then they'll still vote for corporate tax cuts.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
Host ,'Not Fade Away'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2007 7:30:43 pm PDT #6103 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Laga - Sep 18, 2007 7:31:48 pm PDT #6104 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
One spider saved a pig.
billytea - Sep 18, 2007 7:34:32 pm PDT #6105 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
When you have an undiagnosed wierdness, watching House is not the best idea. Am now paranoid.
It seems to be the general consensus that I have an undiagnosed weirdness. The only clue I have so far is that it seems to be hereditary, if my brothers are anything to go by.
As evidence, this is the reply I got from my youngest brother on inviting him to dinner:
Billytea: Let's have Brendan over for dinner.
Wallybee: We can't invite him over, he's weird.
Billytea: Have you looked at me lately?
Wallybee: No!
Billytea: Look at me now, behold the weirdness!
Wallybee: No, no no! Don't make me!
Billytea: Look upon the visage of the one true William!!
Wallybee: I'm blinded! Help, help!
Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2007 7:36:26 pm PDT #6106 of 10001
brillig
I just assumed Connie was dealing with some very large spiders, possibly armed themselves.
I wish . . .
No, many years ago, when the arachniphobia was less controlled, Hubby came into the kitchen because of the language I was using and the odd clicking noise he heard. He found me backed against a wall trying to chamber a round into a pistol. (Our handguns are kept unloaded in locked cases either up on high shelves or under the bed. We have no kids and no one but us knows where they're stored.) Fortunately, I was having problems getting the round chambered.
I had turned around and seen a spider less than two feet from my face. In my defense, the thing was half an inch across in body, fuzzy and had bright blue eyes that looked at me. And blinked.
Laga - Sep 18, 2007 7:42:56 pm PDT #6107 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Not the dreaded blue-eyed blinking spider! The .38 is their only weakness!
dcp - Sep 18, 2007 7:43:15 pm PDT #6108 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I see that I am in the minority again.
Poor little spider.
::is sad::
Liese S. - Sep 18, 2007 7:46:18 pm PDT #6109 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, if you were one of my camp girls, I'd teach you how to capture and release it (with the tumbler method mentioned upthread).
Laga - Sep 18, 2007 7:48:56 pm PDT #6110 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Don't be sad. She's still there in her pretty little web underneath a sign that says:
Caution Dangerous Spider
Arana Peligrosa
Trudy Booth - Sep 18, 2007 7:55:04 pm PDT #6111 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm only advocating her death because of her poisonousness.
Normally I catch-and-release as well.
Laga - Sep 18, 2007 7:58:55 pm PDT #6112 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
OK it's quitting time and my boss never called me back. I guess Ms. Widow gets to live for tonight. I think death is an acceptable option for venomous spiders in public places, I just don't want to be the one to do it. Mostly because she could bite me.