Topic 17 of 58: Reptiles
Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (19:04) |
Wolf (wolf)
Like those slithery creatures?
19 responses total.
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Response 1 of 19: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (08:58) * 1 lines
snakes snakes snakes!!! Love them! My favourite is the mamba, that long, streamlined, shiny black death pipe!
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Response 2 of 19: John Burnett (mrchips) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (09:24) * 19 lines
with apologies to Oscar Hammerstein:
Cobras and vipers and nasty puff adders
Lizards that blow their face up with air bladders
beaufiful coral snakes with colored rings
These are a few of my scariest things
Venomous rattlesnakes ground up for chili
When beef's available, this seems so silly
There's the black mamba that kills when it stings
These are a few of my scariest things
When the snake bites
Neurotoxins
Spin around my head
If there's an antidote
Give me it, please!
And then I won't feel
So dead!
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Response 3 of 19: John Burnett (mrchips) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (09:32) * 24 lines
Should have composed and edited it elsewhere. Here's a better version.
Again sorry Oscar H. (Copyright 1999, John Burnett)
Hissing pit vipers and nasty puff adders
Cobras that blow their face up like air bladders
beautiful coral snakes with colored rings
These are a few of my scariest things
Venomous rattlesnakes ground up for chili
When beef's available, this seems so silly
There's the black mamba that kills when it stings
These are a few of my scariest things
When the snake bites
Neurotoxins
Spin around my head
If there's an antidote
Give me it, please!
And then I won't feel
So dead!
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Response 4 of 19: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (04:48) * 1 lines
Written by city boys, of course!
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Response 5 of 19: John Burnett (mrchips) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (08:18) * 1 lines
I wrote these lyrics all by myself, and I came from a town of less than 2000 people. I dealt with snakes until I left the mainland, but after having been bitten by the water moccasin, I've always been afraid of the poisonous ones.
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Response 6 of 19: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (15:40) * 1 lines
Okay, okay, you got me! But you get paid like MILLIONS of dollars probably to come up with wise cracks; whereas I - nothing. That's why every second one is a groaner!
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Response 7 of 19: John Burnett (mrchips) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (15:53) * 1 lines
If I get paid millions, I'm being swindled by my agent! ;=) I wonder who Steve the Crocodile Hunter's agent is...
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Response 8 of 19: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Sep 28, 1999 (05:11) * 1 lines
why?
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Response 9 of 19: Gi (patas) * Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (05:09) * 1 lines
John, love the poem and agree wholeheartedly!
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Response 10 of 19: John Burnett (mrchips) * Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (10:25) * 1 lines
Thanks, Gi. Ree, so I can get my million$!!! ;)
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Response 11 of 19: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (13:52) * 1 lines
ha-ha! Yeah! And if you were a television host, you'd also have MILLIONS of people wanting to come and live in your house, and drink your water from those ugly little news mugs! Some people just have it all!
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Response 12 of 19: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (19:14) * 1 lines
Yup! That's our John...*grin* (great poem, btw)
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Response 13 of 19: LadyArk (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 28, 2000 (00:09) * 9 lines
Two snakes were crawling along when one snake asked the
other, "Are we poisonous snakes?"
The other replied, "You're darn right we're poisonous!
We're rattlesnakes. Why do you ask?"
To which the first replied, "Because I just bit my tongue."
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Response 14 of 19: LadyArk (MarciaH) * Wed, May 3, 2000 (23:30) * 22 lines
Deadly Viper Finds There's No Place Like Home
TORONTO (Reuters) - Residents in a west-end Toronto neighborhood were
breathing easier on Tuesday after police and Toronto Zoo staff tracked down
an escaped deadly viper that turned out to be a homebody.
The saw-scaled viper whose venom can kill a human -- was reported missing
from a tank in its owner's apartment on Monday morning. Police evacuated
the apartment building and issued warnings to neighboring businesses and
residents.
But despite the viper's reputation for being aggressive, the 45-centimeter
(18-inch) snake stayed put, finding a warm corner in the apartment more
inviting than the cool spring air outside.
It was tracked down late on Monday afternoon, just one meter (3 feet) from its
tank, nestled under a radiator.
A 19-year-old man who owns 20 venomous snakes -- will be charged under a
city by-law that prohibits the ownership of exotic pets. The fine is around
$250 per animal, police said.
``You're not allowed to keep an animal like this in a regular residence,''
explained police Sergeant Niels Sondergaard. ``The antivenin was not
(immediately) available so it posed an extreme risk to the public.''
Some antivenin, costing about C$10,000 ($6,730), was located in a New York
hospital and flown to Toronto on Monday as a safety precaution.
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Response 15 of 19: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 15, 2001 (10:23) * 5 lines
You heard the story about Sharon Stones husband the journalist being bit by a giant lizard?
He's the butt of many jokes and other newspapers.
They told him to take off his white shoes so this white guy with white feet got bit by the monster lizard, who thought his feet were rats. He had to had some tendons sewed back up.
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Response 16 of 19: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Jun 16, 2001 (11:04) * 1 lines
NO WAY!!! why did they tell him to take off his shoes? cuz they were white? not to mention tendons sewn back up, but all sorts of tetanus and rabies shots too. those guys have toxic saliva.
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Response 17 of 19: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Aug 1, 2004 (00:16) * 3 lines
it's been awhile since anyone's been in here! *laugh* any snakes crawling around the place?
well, i know i said i would never have a reptile in my house and we all know what never does to you....the AM was working on stuff in the back yard and came across an adult gecko. well, when he came in the house, he saw a baby gecko inside. so he went to get him but his tail broke off. feeling bad, he brought the bugger to me. of course, i had to get a rubbermaid box to put him in and the next day, picked up a reptile carrier at wal-mart. now we have this baby gecko inside a plastic box with rocks, dirt, grass and catching insects to feed him. all out of guilt for breaking the tail!! we have been searching the internet trying to figure out what kind he is and learned just today, that we are caring for a mediterranian gecko. he's really neat to look at and only 1" long. any tips???
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Response 18 of 19: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 2, 2004 (06:32) * 3 lines
A visitor to my place in Cedar Creek says she saw a yellowish snake with stripes down by the creek, I'm guessing coral snake.
No tips offhand. Is the baby gecko eating?
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Response 19 of 19: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 2, 2004 (18:27) * 1 lines
can't tell, unless he's nibbling on the flies and roly polies. coral snakes? aren't they all black with stripes that cross the body?
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