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vivaldirules · 08-28-2009, 02:46 PM

ROFL! That second one is a perfect image of Zelda looking on as the workman takes it away and lets it go down the street. Only she probably didn't say "Squish it! Squish it!" but instead it was probably "Farther away! Farther away!"

Greg Anos · 08-28-2009, 02:50 PM

Sorry, couldn't get there fast enough. (5,000Km takes time!) There is a trebuchet load of chocolate coming your way...

(Little feller compared to some of the tarantulas I've seen....Try 25 cms...)

ravenne · 08-28-2009, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Yep, that's a decent sized spider... Just like the one my cats ate the other day (after I managed to get it off the wall, using a broomstick...)

Ok, you ask and we deliver!

No, no, no, we need something to really distract Z from spiders:

zelda_pinwheel · 08-28-2009, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Primeval = not rational.

exactly my point.

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Well, maybe they are sometimes but they can be overcome in a good emergency. So you know that wonderful little song with the finger thing that you were taught when you were a child about the Itsy Bitsy Spider? (I know what you're thinking - "There's nothing itsy bitsy about it!". But never mind that.) So you first calm yourself by sitting back, closing your eyes, and singing that tune a few times while playing the finger game that goes with it. Then, you roll up a newspaper and also find a container with a lid. Do that while you continue to sing the song about the sweet little spider. When you're ready, keeping singing the song and approach the spider and swat him (but not too hard) so that he falls to the floor and is momentarily disabled. Then scoop him up with the newspaper and plop him into the container.

Problem solved. Next crisis, please.

please. you sound like king arthur's knights talking to Tim as he points out the killer rabbit. the only possible reply is : look at the bones !!!!

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Yep, that's a decent sized spider... Just like the one my cats ate the other day (after I managed to get it off the wall, using a broomstick...)

:shudder:

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

ROFL! That second one is a perfect image of Zelda looking on as the workman takes it away and lets it go down the street. Only she probably didn't say "Squish it! Squish it!" but instead it was probably "Farther away! Farther away!"

i'm embarassed to say that i did indeed follow the workman all the way out to the street (from a safe distance) saying "farther away !! farther away !! keep going !!"

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Sorry, couldn't get there fast enough. (5,000Km takes time!) There is a trebuchet load of chocolate coming your way...

thanks ralph. i might need a second one, after that ordeal.

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(Little feller compared to some of the tarantulas I've seen....Try 25 cms...)

oh my god, just reading those words made me squirm in terror.

zelda_pinwheel · 08-28-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

No, no, no, we need something to really distract Z from spiders:

arg !! ravenne !!!! you quoted sweetpea's lolcat with the spider !!! i was trying to pretend i had never seen it at alll !!!!! stop !!!!!

now i'm starting to think maybe i need a bigger cat, just in case anything like that happens again. maybe a bengal tiger could handle it.

Greg Anos · 08-28-2009, 03:03 PM

Second Load fired....

zelda_pinwheel · 08-28-2009, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Second Load fired....

thank you, kind sir !

vivaldirules · 08-28-2009, 03:06 PM

Right now I'm missing lost MRers Lady Blue (the forum software can go on vacation??) and Alphapheemail. And probably others. It's just not the same around here unless we're all here. Should we perhaps all play ABBA tunes to try to attract them back to The Llounge?

Sweetpea · 08-28-2009, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

now i'm starting to think maybe i need a bigger cat, just in case anything like that happens again. maybe a bengal tiger could handle it.

Already got a bengal tiger of my own... He loves spiders!

DixieGal · 08-28-2009, 03:12 PM

Ralph, you should've seen the one that treed me down in the Everglades a while back. Tim had gone fishing and I planned to spend the day at the pool. So, I'm in the hotel room alone, when I heard the stomping of many feet. Looked around to see this monster scoot in under the door and shoot up the wall! I was all doing a hissy fit, calling the front desk from a safe distance away, screeching, doing the hissy fit dance, etc. The maintenance guy came in and told me that there were not tarantulas in Florida. He took a look at the furry beast, said "Hmm, someone's pet must have gotten away," and went for poison. Now, the Everglades are full of introduced pythons. Coincidence? I think not. I think they think the big hairy spiders are yummy mammals or something!

zelda_pinwheel · 08-28-2009, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Already got a bengal tiger of my own... He loves spiders!

could i borrow him sometime, if necessary ?

my cats are just worthless. they will tear through the house after the most inoffensive moth, and the bigger it is the more completely insane they get (i try to rescue them when possible), but with mosquitoes, apparently, they have signed a non-agression treaty, and if they even noticed this spider (not sure, although i really don't know how they could have missed it) they must have decided the outcome of that battle was too uncertain to attempt it.

zelda_pinwheel · 08-28-2009, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

Ralph, you should've seen the one that treed me down in the Everglades a while back. Tim had gone fishing and I planned to spend the day at the pool. So, I'm in the hotel room alone, when I heard the stomping of many feet. Looked around to see this monster scoot in under the door and shoot up the wall! I was all doing a hissy fit, calling the front desk from a safe distance away, screeching, doing the hissy fit dance, etc. The maintenance guy came in and told me that there were not tarantulas in Florida. He took a look at the furry beast, said "Hmm, someone's pet must have gotten away," and went for poison. Now, the Everglades are full of introduced pythons. Coincidence? I think not. I think they think the big hairy spiders are yummy mammals or something!

which hotel was that ? so i can make sure to NEVER GO THERE. oh wait, florida ? never mind. i already know i'm never going to florida. i hear they have cockroaches the size of my arm, and they fly.

about those snakes... maybe the spiders came after the snakes !!! what makes you so sure which is eating which ????

Greg Anos · 08-28-2009, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

Ralph, you should've seen the one that treed me down in the Everglades a while back. Tim had gone fishing and I planned to spend the day at the pool. So, I'm in the hotel room alone, when I heard the stomping of many feet. Looked around to see this monster scoot in under the door and shoot up the wall! I was all doing a hissy fit, calling the front desk from a safe distance away, screeching, doing the hissy fit dance, etc. The maintenance guy came in and told me that there were not tarantulas in Florida. He took a look at the furry beast, said "Hmm, someone's pet must have gotten away," and went for poison. Now, the Everglades are full of introduced pythons. Coincidence? I think not. I think they think the big hairy spiders are yummy mammals or something!

Yep, not a Tarantula. They like deserty climates. Probably a cane spider or a central american banana spider. They get big and are brown (and aggressive). They like wet, tropical, climates....

zelda_pinwheel · 08-28-2009, 03:26 PM

DEFINITELY never going to florida. :shudder:

Greg Anos · 08-28-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

which hotel was that ? so i can make sure to NEVER GO THERE. oh wait, florida ? never mind. i already know i'm never going to florida. i hear they have cockroaches the size of my arm, and they fly.

about those snakes... maybe the spiders came after the snakes !!! what makes you so sure which is eating which ????

Well, I've got a yard full of nice lizards. (American Anoles, they change color from brown to green and back). The males display by doing push-ups and sticking out a red neck flap. They don't bother people and are cute to watch...

(And they eat all sorts of bugs...)

08-28-2009, 02:46 PM	#7516
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	ROFL! That second one is a perfect image of Zelda looking on as the workman takes it away and lets it go down the street. Only she probably didn't say "Squish it! Squish it!" but instead it was probably "Farther away! Farther away!"

08-28-2009, 02:50 PM	#7517
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,531 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Sorry, couldn't get there fast enough. (5,000Km takes time!) There is a trebuchet load of chocolate coming your way... (Little feller compared to some of the tarantulas I've seen....Try 25 cms...)

08-28-2009, 03:03 PM	#7521
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,531 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Second Load fired....

08-28-2009, 03:06 PM	#7523
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Right now I'm missing lost MRers Lady Blue (the forum software can go on vacation??) and Alphapheemail. And probably others. It's just not the same around here unless we're all here. Should we perhaps all play ABBA tunes to try to attract them back to The Llounge?

08-28-2009, 03:12 PM	#7525
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Ralph, you should've seen the one that treed me down in the Everglades a while back. Tim had gone fishing and I planned to spend the day at the pool. So, I'm in the hotel room alone, when I heard the stomping of many feet. Looked around to see this monster scoot in under the door and shoot up the wall! I was all doing a hissy fit, calling the front desk from a safe distance away, screeching, doing the hissy fit dance, etc. The maintenance guy came in and told me that there were not tarantulas in Florida. He took a look at the furry beast, said "Hmm, someone's pet must have gotten away," and went for poison. Now, the Everglades are full of introduced pythons. Coincidence? I think not. I think they think the big hairy spiders are yummy mammals or something!

08-28-2009, 03:26 PM	#7529
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	DEFINITELY never going to florida. :shudder: