[Stryke 9]

What I wanna know, if that extends to one of those big hairy dudes like Turnsky posted, and ya end up regularly with this big mouthful of wriggling spider trying to crawl out or down your throat...

[diamondgeezer]

Yeah, I know that one. I reason that it stops my gut filling up with flies, so *meh*

*sings*
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly... perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and giggled and tickled inside her...
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly... perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and giggled and tickled inside her...
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly... perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat,
Fancy that, to swallow a cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and giggled and tickled inside her...
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly... perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and giggled and tickled inside her...
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly... perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead, of course

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
*bang* Spider deadz :devil:

i take it that you don't remember the  spider head from the thing then?

[diamondgeezer]

I'll level with you, I never saw the Thing. I really ought to make an effort to watch it at some point... *fires up Kazaa*

[Stealth]

the Thing.  that was a good movie, wasn't it.  never saw it, but everyone i know that saw it raved about it

[Black Wolf]

That's pretty big, though I have seen bigger around here. And keep in mind, just coz that's big, doesn't mean it's dangerous.



The Sydney Funnelweb is the most Venemous spider in the World, and one of the most comon in its own part of the world.



The redback was the most common killer in Australia until an antivenin was developed, and the bite still hurts like all hell.

And my personal favourite...



The White Tailed spider, incredibly small, but capable of causing your skin to start rotting off your bones with a single bite, and incredibly common around homes.

Isn't Australia Fun!

[diamondgeezer]

Death looked up at the looming shelves of the library.
    I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT EVERY POISONOUS ANIMAL IN FOURECKS, he intoned. Instantly, he was buried under a mountain of books. After digging himself free, he tried again.
   VERY WELL, he said. I WANT TO KNOW WHICH ANIMALS IN FOURECKS ARE NOT POISONOUS.
    Death looked up to see a single sheet of paper fluttering to the floor. He caught it in a bony hand, and read it aloud.
    SOME OF THE SHEEP. AH...



NB. that was quoted from memory, you don't need to prove how much of a fanboi you are by correcting me, thank you

[Fetty]

hearda bout that sipider poison slowly eating ur flesh
fun!

[Cannikin]

Ummmm... Ok, this is the THIRD forum I've seen that posted those three EXACT pictures over the past 2 weeks, all claiming to have taken these pictures themselves... Makes one suspicious doesn't it?  

Originally posted by Fetty
hearda bout that sipider poison slowly eating ur flesh
fun!

I assume you're talking of the Brown Recluse. Lovely suckers those are. Rots away your flesh and sometimes have to amputate the limb bitten.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Cannikin
Ummmm... Ok, this is the THIRD forum I've seen that posted those three EXACT pictures over the past 2 weeks, all claiming to have taken these pictures themselves... Makes one suspicious doesn't it?  

Please quote the part of my post in which I claimed to take these myself.

[Cannikin]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


Please quote the part of my post in which I claimed to take these myself.

I was refering to Stealth's original post...

[Splinter]

WAHAHAHA I LAUGH AT YOUR PUNNY TINY SPIDERS!!!!!

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Cannikin


I was refering to Stealth's original post...

Oh, sorry. My Bad .

[Sesquipedalian]

Originally posted by Splinter
WAHAHAHA I LAUGH AT YOUR PUNNY TINY SPIDERS!!!!!

Indeed, they are very punny.  Such quick wits, those little arachnids.  Sometimes when I've had a poor day, I go find some spiders to talk with.  Within a few minutes the precious eight-legged bloodsucking dears will have me chuckling with mirth at their delightful humour.  Yes, the world always seems a more enjoyable place when I leave the punny spiders, even if most of their jokes revolve around the vital fluids of insectoids.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Cannikin
I assume you're talking of the Brown Recluse. Lovely suckers those are. Rots away your flesh and sometimes have to amputate the limb bitten.

he was referring to the white-tailed spider, they're quite common in australia (particularly tasmania) nasty little buggers, only about 5 cm's in length but they pack a helluva bite...  funnel webs are particularly vicious too, (though i live in tas, so i'm fine in that respect)

[Splinter]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Indeed, they are very punny.  Such quick wits, those little arachnids.  Sometimes when I've had a poor day, I go find some spiders to talk with.  Within a few minutes the precious eight-legged bloodsucking dears will have me chuckling with mirth at their delightful humour.  Yes, the world always seems a more enjoyable place when I leave the punny spiders, even if most of their jokes revolve around the vital fluids of insectoids.

is it just me or is this dude scarey?

[Bobboau]

I like spiders, I keep them as wild pets, I particularly like the orb weaver spider, a very nice 2-5in (5-12cm) dark black spider with a nice fractal yellow/white paturn along it's abdomin, (very small head so you don't have to worry about the eyes too much), they mostly just sit in there webs (wich can get as much as 3 feet (a meter) acros) in the middle of a few white stripes that it has weved into it and wait for some small flying thing to fly into it, I've heard they have a rather potent (though non-leithal) venom, luckily I havn't been biten.
when ever i find one of these guys I try and feed them bees and crikets and just about any fleshy bug I can find that has enough surface aria to get stuck to the web (the strands are rather far spred out, the web is designed to catch butterflys and moths mostly)
about the only thing I wouldn't feed to these guys would be a dragon fly wich is the coolest animal I can think of
I also like ants, there is a large colony under a brik in my back yard that I feed (sugar, meat, other ants) during the summer, I try to keep them healthy enough so they will survive the winter, the colony has survived for about eight years

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Spider + Desert Eagle = spider-coloured stain on the carpet

Not with a real DE - those things will bore a hole in the concrete floor:

The .50 cal (bullet diameter of half an inch!)


The .44 Magnum:



*lusts after one*

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Indeed, they are very punny.  Such quick wits, those little arachnids.  Sometimes when I've had a poor day, I go find some spiders to talk with.  Within a few minutes the precious eight-legged bloodsucking dears will have me chuckling with mirth at their delightful humour.  Yes, the world always seems a more enjoyable place when I leave the punny spiders, even if most of their jokes revolve around the vital fluids of insectoids.

Scary? Hardly. Bobbau now, cultivating spiders and ant colonies, now that is scary.

*Has visions of Bob leading an insect/Arachnid rebellion acrosss the globe*

They outnumber us a thousand to one! We'll be destroyed! Ahhh!

[Bobboau]

yess my childeren, come, it is time to feed!