not for arachnophobes

[binary hero]

what's big, white, and has MILLIONS of legs? (http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/22/spiders021121)


A typical barbwire fence on wood posts surrounded the field about six kilometres east of McBride in the Robson Valley. Thair said it looked like the whole area was covered with an opaque, white plastic grocery store bag.

The thin, elastic coasting was not soft and fluffy like webs built by individual spiders. There were about two spiders per square centimetre laying the silk.

Thair said the web showed great tensile strength – enough to put a handful of coins on it without them falling through.



*shudder*

[patroclus22]

:eek:

I hate spiders!

[zootm]

spider 41128832: "hey, how's hunting going for you?"
spider 12371172: "not bad, just the usual, and you?"
spider 41128832: "little slow lately. the flies around here are really scrawny, y'know? i wish i wouldn't have to catch so many. i'd really like to get a little 41128832-time in, relax a little"
spider 12371172: "i heard that. what we need to do is catch something bigger..."
spider 41128832: "well, why don't we try that? i mean, what about those giant things that live over there?"
spider 12371172: "i think they're called 'sheep'. i dunno, bob said something the other day..."
bob: "my ears are burning..."
spider 12371172: "hey bob, what're those big white things called? sheep?"
bob: "yeah, that's it. but the plural is sheeps"
spider 12371172: "you're always so condescending, with your weird name, and aspirations of greatness. look, what about catching one?"
spider 41128832: "catching one? you're talking the crazy talk!"
bob: "whoa! big plans there buddy - how do you propose we make a web that big?"
spider 12371172: "well, there are about 14 million of us nearby, it's not like we don't have the way, but what about the will?"
will: "yo"
bob: "are you in?"
will: "hell, why not. the wife's eating me tonight anyways..."

i'm stopping that right here before i get really carried away...

[raydream]

thats it, i'm filing a restraining order on Zootm

[zootm]

Originally posted by raydream
thats it, i'm filing a restraining order on Zootm
capitalise my name again and you'll need to use it :D

[AjStone]

:eek:

/me thinks thats pretty funny tho :D

[raydream]

Zootm :P

[zootm]

Originally posted by raydream
Zootm :P
come here. i've got a present for you.

a big fist-shaped present.

:p

[raydream]

poppycock :P

[zootm]

enough! this thread derailment must end here!

[sandb937]

well this is pretty interesting (http://www.1001uselessfacts.com/details.asp?ID=119)


yummy!!!

[binary hero]

Originally posted by sandb937
well this is pretty interesting (http://www.1001uselessfacts.com/details.asp?ID=119)


yummy!!!
i thought that was just a myth

Zootm - that is too funny.

[Vie]

I love spiders, but thats just plain, scary.

[blumoon11]

Spiders are quitecool, I just don't know about eating them... specially in my sleep. :eek:

[MetallichicA]

I thought it was 3 spiders a year. There's a book that tells all sorts of weird things like that; how many wasp parts can be in a can of peaches; how many rat hairs can be in a chocolate bar, etc. Gross, but interesting.

zootm, that was hilarious :)