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YAY SPIDER THREAD!! I'll start!!

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And I like this one:

sean.flynn: YAY SPIDER THREAD!! I'll start!!

You rawk. I farking love spiders. Especially like the last one.

when using an outhouse,
always check for spiders and frogmen.

Jenthelibrarian: *Sits here shuddering and whimpering....

There, there sweet Jen.

They eat bugs and make pigs prizewinning.

Arise Chicken: You rawk. I farking love spiders. Especially like the last one.


You'll enjoy this site, then...

http://www.spiderzrule.com

Actually, uh, this is a better link...


http://www.spiderzrule.com/spiderphotos.htm

sean.flynn: http://www.spiderzrule.com/spiderphotos.htm

Thanks, man.

log_jammin: fine swine wish he was mine/ what if he's not so big

Exactly.

Arise Chicken: log_jammin: fine swine wish he was mine/ what if he's not so big

Exactly.

We might be going to hell for that.

Damn sean! That camoflauged spider was incredible! The one that looks like a knot on the tree.

BTW, there's no going to hell for Charlotte's Web. That book is what make me unafraid of spiders as a kid.

Various spiders around my house:

Fuzzy (pops)
sink (pops)
window (pops)

Arise Chicken: BTW, there's no going to hell for Charlotte's Web. That book is what make me unafraid of spiders as a kid.


Oh, there's definitely going to hell for Charlotte's Web. And Ring of Bright Water. And every other children's book I read that made me love animals and then BRUTALLY KILLED THEM at the end.

/sob.

sean.flynn: Oh, there's definitely going to hell for Charlotte's Web. And Ring of Bright Water. And every other children's book I read that made me love animals and then BRUTALLY KILLED THEM at the end.

/sob.

There, there sweet sean.

/You have a point, though...I always cried at the end.

Zipster: Various spiders around my house:

Sink spider is beautiful! As is the country surrounding your place.

/citybound ex-Texan

Arise Chicken: Sink spider is beautiful! As is the country surrounding your place.

Yeah =)

I live in NW Florida, so we don't actually get to SEE the country we live in; it's infested with pine trees :P

The only clear, undeveloped areas around here were cleared out by the Air Force for weapons testing, and well, you really don't want to go walking out there most of the time.

sean.flynn: Yeah =)

I live in NW Florida, so we don't actually get to SEE the country we live in; it's infested with pine trees :P

The only clear, undeveloped areas around here were cleared out by the Air Force for weapons testing, and well, you really don't want to go walking out there most of the time.

I can imagine not. I live 26 floors up in Chicago. Used to live in the country. We get window spiders here, but no real nature. I miss bugs and critters and leaves and such. More than anything, I miss cicadas. Loud bastards, but they put me to sleep for years.

Sink spider is beautiful!

I kinda like the fuzzy one.

As is the country surrounding your place.

Thanks :) But the downside is navigating the hills in the winter, and the 30-40 mile drive to anyplace where you might find a tech job. Still, it's hard to complain.

I've posted this before:

Sunrise from my front porch (pops) taken a couple weeks ago.

Honeoye lake is down in the valley between that barn and the far hills.

Arise Chicken: I can imagine not. I live 26 floors up in Chicago


shiat, dude, do they have to issue you oxygen, so you can keep breathing that high up?

Seriously, we don't have any building around here taller than about 12 stories, and those are condos (Destin, FL) so they really don't count. Aside from that? Even the mall in this town is one-story :P My credit union is 6 or 7 stories tall, and it's the largest non-condo build...eh, ok, there's another bank out in destin.

But LIVING 26 stories off the ground? I don't know as I could sleep like that!

Zipster: Sunrise from my front porch (pops) taken a couple weeks ago.


Lucky bastard. =)

These pictures were taken on Okaloosa Island, about 10 minutes from my house...





That was my S-10, since deceased. :\

Photobucket kinda sucks. I need a new image host, one that doesn't do me the favor of resizing my images :P

Zipster: taken a couple weeks ago.

That is so beautiful. Where are you exactly?

sean.flynn: But LIVING 26 stories off the ground? I don't know as I could sleep like that!

My view from my living room:

Are those baseball fields?

Arise Chicken: Where are you exactly?

Canadice, NY (pops)

Left of center of the red area (pops) in the map.

relative to the various lakes (pops)

Arise Chicken: That is so beautiful.

Ironically, I did not move here for the scenery, but because it was the only place I could afford a house. People don't (or didn't) want to live this far from 'civilization'.

sean.flynn: Are those baseball fields?

Yep. If you were to turn your head to the right you can see Wrigley Field, where the Cubs play.

Zipster: Ironically, I did not move here for the scenery, but because it was the only place I could afford a house. People don't (or didn't) want to live this far from 'civilization'.

You are in the boonies. Sure is pretty, though.

sean.flynn: Are those baseball fields?

Dammit...I meant to the left.

Arise Chicken: You are in the boonies. Sure is pretty, though.


There's something to be said for boonies.


Alrighty, kids. Looks like this thread is getting the red, and alas, the spider-phobic have departed.

I'm gonna see about getting some more sleep.

-wave-

That is all...

Spiders are one of the most splendidly adapted creatures. They are elegent and efficient, and eliminate flying pests.

Did the French Canadians surrender yet?

That Canadian spider has a big booty! It's the J-Lo of spiderdom.

The irony is that they weren't fat until they discovered Tim Hortons.

mount.diablo: Did the French Canadians surrender yet?

Not in Edmonton, they didn't.

So what's the problem? This one looks happy:

- Camel Spider

Recent visitor at my house.

http://www.gather.com/viewImage.jsp?fileId=3096224743893027&memberId=69442

My mother was a superstitious woman. Growing up we where told never to kill a spider it would bring on bad luck. We always had to capture them gently and place them back outside no matter how ugly and viscous they looked.This at times sucked cause we lived in the south and we had some nasty looking spiders.

get these mortherfarkin spiders off my motherfarkin porch!!!



/had to say it

Why did I look?

/arachnophobic
//huddling in a corner now

Arise Chicken: BTW, there's no going to hell for Charlotte's Web. That book is what make me unafraid of spiders as a kid.

... and then you found out that spiders are deadly, quick moving, leaping, jumping, hairy monsters, right?

/did you read the memo?
//Are there any other arachnophobs out there that feel like really big spiders arent scary (i.e. camel spider) just the medium ones that are hair and eat cats (i.e. wolf spiders)?

Hear about the spider that saved Scotland?

Robert the Bruce, hunted by his enemies, his army scattered by the English, sought refuge in a cave and wondered if he should just give up. He was watching a spider trying to bridge a large gap in order to spin a web. The spider kept trying, again and again, for some time until it finally covered the gap and resumed spinning. This inspired Robert to return to his lands, rally his men and defeat the English in 1314 and Edward the II was forced to seek peace and recognize Robert as the King of Scotland.

True? Maybe. Great story, though.

jewel biting spiders!?!?

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I would like to say that if I were to encounter any of those big-assed spiders in my home, I would send them straight to hell where they belong.

If there were any kind of "infestation" of said spiders, I would burn down my home, just to spite the little bastards.

Did anyone else notice this?

Sunshine Girl

sirgrim

I would shiat my pants if I saw that.



The bird spider!