snyder wrote:O.K., so you're kidding around with me. But aren't there those six-inch-long brown mambo tiger snakes that swim up the toilet, bite your genitals and kill you within 20 minutes? I think I saw it on that snake guy's TV show.
and be very aware of the sand snakes... they are tan, the same color as the sand...very hard to see... they go in pairs. One wraps around your ankles and trips ya up...an the other packs sand up yer as*s until you suffocate! Terrible way to die...embarrassing...
I understand that the sand snakes are the fifth most dangerous in the whole world, and their venom could stop you in your tracks before you had time to pick up the telephone!
snyder wrote:O.K., so you're kidding around with me. But aren't there those six-inch-long brown mambo tiger snakes that swim up the toilet, bite your genitals and kill you within 20 minutes? I think I saw it on that snake guy's TV show.
and be very aware of the sand snakes... they are tan, the same color as the sand...very hard to see... they go in pairs. One wraps around your ankles and trips ya up...an the other packs sand up yer as*s until you suffocate! Terrible way to die...embarrassing...
LOL Guys I tell ya I am a lot more likely to die laughing right now than I ever am to encounter a tiger snake in the dunny. Even a six inch one.
Herc you're so right they do hunt in pairs. Actually its the females that are deadlier. They do the hunting while the males lounge back in their burrows and the females drag the kill home. We used to get a lot of deaths just like that till not so long back when we got tarred roads and such. Sort of destroyed their habitat ya know. But boy you gotta watch out in the desert...
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself".
Eleanor Roosevelt.
snyder wrote:And there are crocodiles in most of the public parks, right? I am told you can kill them by feeding them a jar of Vegemite.
Crocs, snakes you name it. I tell ya a girls gotta cammy up and get all the right gear on just to get out of the house. Crocs are carnivores, vegemite don't work on them. Works pretty good on the tourists though. One taste and they all run screaming for the plane home.
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself".
Eleanor Roosevelt.
As ER will tell you, I have a bit of an affection (for affection read obsession) for the man. Forget his politics, some of his quotes and photos have made me laugh til I've cried. I may just have to come back with some of my most treasured pics
snyder wrote:O.K., so you're kidding around with me. But aren't there those six-inch-long brown mambo tiger snakes that swim up the toilet, bite your genitals and kill you within 20 minutes? I think I saw it on that snake guy's TV show.
and be very aware of the sand snakes... they are tan, the same color as the sand...very hard to see... they go in pairs. One wraps around your ankles and trips ya up...an the other packs sand up yer as*s until you suffocate! Terrible way to die...embarrassing...
LOL Guys I tell ya I am a lot more likely to die laughing right now than I ever am to encounter a tiger snake in the dunny. Even a six inch one.
Herc you're so right they do hunt in pairs. Actually its the females that are deadlier. They do the hunting while the males lounge back in their burrows and the females drag the kill home. We used to get a lot of deaths just like that till not so long back when we got tarred roads and such. Sort of destroyed their habitat ya know. But boy you gotta watch out in the desert...
The locals down in the Columbian jungle told us about a snake there which" es el serpiente ademas peligroso del mundo..." the most dangerous and vicious...! They call it the "ekkice"(X)..., it's about 6 inches long, only bites women, makes 'em swell up most horrible like... and then costs LOTS of MONEY!!! for the rest of yer life... then they'd laugh like loons, funny as anything!!!
[i]To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just another attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand the question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action; fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man -- Thucydides[/i]
No, but I just realized I went metric. Can someone tell me the difference between a centimeter and an inch?
[i]To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just another attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand the question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action; fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man -- Thucydides[/i]
The species in question does tend to have an inflated ego.
[i]To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just another attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand the question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action; fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man -- Thucydides[/i]
