JZ, I don't think baby rattlers have rattles, so Matilda's close encounter might not mean a nest nearby. It could even have been mimic, though Vector Control will know.
In any case, scary! Glad everyone is okay and unbitten.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Feb 06, 2011 3:52:58 pm PST #21435 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hil R. - Feb 06, 2011 3:53:10 pm PST #21436 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My cousin's lips were on TV. (E*Trade baby. They film a little kid saying the lines, and superimpose the kid's lips over the baby's to make it look like the baby's talking. No clue who the rest of the baby is, but the lips are my little cousin.)
quester - Feb 06, 2011 3:57:50 pm PST #21437 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
The sister of a friend of ours went on a date or two with Keith Olbermann. He was a real odd duck, evidently, and very hard of hearing.
Now, I'm not sure if I want to know more or not.
SailAweigh - Feb 06, 2011 4:08:18 pm PST #21438 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hil, that's hilarious. I love the way they do things like that in commercials. I had a shipmate in the Navy whose hair was used in a Breck commercial, but only from the back. The face was another girl entirely.
JZ - Feb 06, 2011 4:11:05 pm PST #21439 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
JZ, I don't think baby rattlers have rattles, so Matilda's close encounter might not mean a nest nearby. It could even have been mimic, though Vector Control will know.
Hmmm... still not sure. The snake wasn't touching the tip of its tail to the ground (Wikipedia says there's one snake that mimics the rattler, but it has to basically clap its tail on the ground to make a fake rattle), and it was between 1 and 2 feet long, so nowhere near full-grown but definitely big enough to have been born and gone through at least one shed cycle and started a rattle.
-t - Feb 06, 2011 4:18:33 pm PST #21440 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The really good thing is she knew not to poke at it, which is how most people get bitten.
SailAweigh - Feb 06, 2011 4:20:14 pm PST #21441 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Poke it or step on it.
Rattlesnakes are pretty common in California. When I was working military police at Miramar, the first round in our weapon was always snake shot. We'd come across at least one a week. Usually run over by a car on the road.
DavidS - Feb 06, 2011 4:31:29 pm PST #21442 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Snake Shot? Who knew there was such a thing.
I love stories of Sail's MP history as much as I love Bev's stories of being in the theater.
-t - Feb 06, 2011 4:39:05 pm PST #21443 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I still call those scissory extendo claw thingies "snakegrabbers" from my Mt. Diablo Park Aide days. I only had to use them for rattlesnake moving once, but it was memorable. Completely uneventful, but burned in my brain.
DavidS - Feb 06, 2011 4:54:04 pm PST #21444 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yikes, this Superbowl is close. There will be no fingernails left in Wisconsin or Pittsburgh.