Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.

'Beneath You'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - May 27, 2012 1:17:18 pm PDT #7063 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did he kill the specific croc that turned him down? If so, was it first, last, or middle?

I have a narrative I need fact-checked.


DavidS - May 27, 2012 1:19:02 pm PDT #7064 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Did he kill the specific croc that turned him down?

Considering she bit off his leg, I'm guessing he turned his rage on to some smaller females. What an asshole crocodile!


brenda m - May 27, 2012 1:23:05 pm PDT #7065 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

. What an asshole crocodile!

They are kind of known for that.


§ ita § - May 27, 2012 1:30:11 pm PDT #7066 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, my, GOD. You people are so judgmental. How DARE you be so humanormative?

Jesus.


Sophia Brooks - May 27, 2012 1:47:55 pm PDT #7067 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Megafauna kind of creeps me out too. Except for mega-sloths. I think they would be like Aunt Beast from A Wrinkle in Time.


Ginger - May 27, 2012 1:56:33 pm PDT #7068 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Aunt Beast from A Wrinkle in Time

"It's my worst trouble, getting fond."


§ ita § - May 27, 2012 1:56:47 pm PDT #7069 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

OMG, they're totally the worst. Like, worse than the crocs. This is why I don't understand my reflexes.


§ ita § - May 27, 2012 2:05:35 pm PDT #7070 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Entirely unrelated, I really want to cosplay movie/Ultimates Nick Fury. Like, more than any cosplay urge I've had in a while. That would be so cool.


billytea - May 27, 2012 2:15:34 pm PDT #7071 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Did he kill the specific croc that turned him down? If so, was it first, last, or middle?

He did; the keepers were of the opinion that he killed all of them simply because he couldn't remember which female had done it. (Or couldn't pick her out of a line-up.)

Megafauna kind of creeps me out too. Except for mega-sloths. I think they would be like Aunt Beast from A Wrinkle in Time.

The ground sloths were awesome. Megatherium grew larger than an elephant, could and did kill sabre-toothed cats, and it's been suggested that they ate meat as well as vegetation.

Did stupidity win?

Pfft. This is a Burmese python, not a Presidential election. As Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, but don't try anything with the pythons, because they know, amirite?"

I have told this story before, but am happy to repeat. Burmese pythons rank third in size after the anaconda and the reticulated python. After dinner, the staff at the ARP brought out their largest specimen. It measured maybe six metres, and was solidly built with it – they're immensely strong.

So anyway, they had ten guys hoist it onto their shoulders and carry it around for a while. And this one idiot, halfway down the length of the snake, starts poking the python. (Not like that. And eww.) Guy behind him points out that this is not a brilliant strategy, so he turns around (still poking) to assure him that "It's ok – we have a good grip on it".

Of course they did. While he's doing this, the python has pretty effortlessly taken matters into its own... er... Its...

So the python's taken charge of the situation, dragging four guys with it, and when the guy turns back, the python's head is six inches from his. I'll leave it to the philosophers whether it was a shriek or a bellow, but I've never seen a guy hit the ground that fast. Meanwhile, the snake is still just staring at him. They're not the most expressive of creatures, but I think the message was pretty clear, and the message was:

Suicidal actuary: [poke poke] "Look what I can do!"
Gigantic snake: "...Don't do that."


§ ita § - May 27, 2012 2:19:54 pm PDT #7072 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The happy ending to that story has sudden bladder voiding.

So, if you were going to break it down, what makes this creepy? Is it the human body? Hairstyle? Eyeballs? Mundane framing?

It's pretty effective, I think.