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― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 June 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link
My hand ballooned to comical sizes and turned a nasty blackish color, and I had horrible streaks of bruising all up my arm past the elbow. Shoulda taken pictures, in retrospect, but at the time I was in no mood for such things.
― Aramyr, Sunday, 26 June 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't think I could handle a larger/venomous one, though.
― emil.y (emil.y), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 June 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Never did see that snake again. We moved out about two years ago now; here's hoping he never came back.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Aramyr, Monday, 27 June 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Hi dere I have snake story. It comes from the proverbial friend of a friend. Can someone either back me up on it or call me dumb as a box of hair for believing it?
Lady has huge, as in person-length, pet adder which she keeps in her house and is very playful etc with, to the extent of letting it sleep in her bed. All is well until it stops eating the mice and whatever else it gets fed every day. Also it keeps doing this weird thing where it makes itself dead straight and plonks itself next to her. Lady is all "UH" and takes it to the vet to see what's going on. The vet says, sorry but we're going to have to put this thing down - it's not ill but it's been starving itself and being strange cos it's preparing to EAT YOU.
This is pretty wild but I checked Snopes which had nothing and I can't be arsed to trawl through however many sources of snake-related info right now.
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Snakes don't eat that often, really. My friend has a 2.5 foot ball python and it gets a mouse or two a week. Also, they're poisonous, and like any snake they eat all their food in one swallow: I really doubt it would eat something as large as her, and if it did, it would bite her first.
It soes sound fun to have a cuddly pet snake tho!
― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"I don't want to eat you, but I must confess: I only love you for your internally regulated body temperature."
― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
do not like. when I was a kid, most of nightmares involved snakes.
One time when I was about 13 my two dogs were at the end of our driveway barking like maniacs. I strolled down to see what was the fuss only to find what appeared to be a toad (I had already taken my contacts out for the evening, so it was a little blurry). I leaned in to get a closer look and when my face was about 20 inches from the ground, I realized they had been barking at a baby copperhead that was coiled and ready to strike. And strike it did, springing to all of about 7 inches from the tip of my nose. *shiver*
I don't really mind them if they're non-poisonous.
― will, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
ball pythons are not venomous, abbott.
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i have been bitten, constricted, and musked on by a lot of black rat snakes. they used to be my favorite plaything, and i would find one about one a week in the woods.
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I had an obsession with snakes and reptiles for a few years. I used to beg my mom to get me a ball python for a pet! Then I lost interest.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I had a neighbor who had a pet rattlesnake, and he'd let me and my brother watch it feed. I thought it was awesome! And it was.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
One time when I was in fifth grade a copperhead appeared on the front porch. My mom killed it.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I had an idea for a movie about a killer anaconda in the jungle. Then that movie came out.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Snake Thoughts
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Snakes. Why does it have to be snakes?!"
I hate hate hate snakes. Even non-poisonous ones. Few animals terrify me as much as these slithery things.
I like iguanas though. I'm still wondering whether I should get one as a pet, but I've heard they can be pretty difficult to care for.
― Roz, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Snakes are really cool, you should try to get to know/understand them more. They're amazing creatures!
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a pretty funny/interesting story btw, Mencap.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
snakes are amazing, but second to toads in my hierarchy of amphibians/reptiles.
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thelizardguys.com/images/Stash_409x307.JPG
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i just don't like the way they move.
xpost whoa that is one fat toad.
― Roz, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
cane toads are the worst tho.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_Toad#Australia
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, bad purse: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Agarkroete_fg4.jpg/300px-Agarkroete_fg4.jpg
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, bad transition, unspecified pronouns. Neither snakes eat a lot, ADDERS are venomous: the adder would've bitten her first.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Pythons are just like Lemmy from Of Mice & Men. They just don't know when to quit hugging.
Okay, does anyone remember that couplet to differentiate the Scarlet Snake and the venomous Coral Snake?
Red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow. Red touches black, you're okay, Jack.
IT COULD just as easily be:
Red touches yellow, you're okay, fellow. Read touches black, you're dead, Jack.
SO NOT EASILY MEMORABLE! I get mixed up on these things, why you do this to me, makers of herpetology mnemonics?
― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
W4LTER you probably knew this but cane toads are pretty much only known for getting you HIGH in the U.S., not as one of the huge non-native biological disasters other nations have inflicted on the delicate and wonderful ecology of Australia.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Back in April in the Mojave Desert I answered the call of nature in the middle of the night behind a bush that had what I thought was a plastic bag caught in it and blowing in the wind. It turned out to be a Mojave Desert Sidewinder rattlesnake about 2 feet from my rear end. He was mad but I couldn't blame him.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/11/snakes_in_the_grass.shtml
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Titanoboa made anaconda look like a garter snakehttp://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20090205/wsnake05/0205snake800big.jpg
― rent, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
being made into a sci-fi channel movie... now.
― STARS/TIME/BUBBLES/BLOOD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 5 February 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
The researchers named the snake Titanoboa. From the size of its vertebrae they estimate it was 13 metres long and a metre wide, which means it would have had trouble squeezing through a modern doorway. It weighed 1,140 kilograms.
im imagining this thing wiggling across a highway or spiralling itself up an elavator shaft or maybe wrapping itself around the town square christmas tree and i think we should bring them back, through science, just for all the laffs they could bring
― rent, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
san francisco garter snake. best snake
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4038/4659452478_3275466af9_b.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
i rest my case
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
bright colors like that are usually warnings to potential predators: beware, danger! very sneaky of a garter snake to look like that.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link