Why didn't they just use Google Earth?

Had to call in Drew to spill beer on the servers to get him out!

I didn't read the article, but I'm guessing it's much less interesting than I initially thought.

GvR isn't going to be happy about this...

Since no total Farker has posted yet I bet this gets yanked from the rest of us.

Larry Wall approves.

The story about Bush threatening to have the active military suffer is much more interesting.

I'm sort of hoping they'll have some scaldings so they can get rid of Java.

a 3-foot snake kaiser? WTF is a snake kaiser?

WTF this article has changed, there already was another green lit arcticle on this subject which has now been pulled.

i hate it when they do that

BANNINATION!

Who said TotalFarker?

grout: Larry Wall approves.

Well played.

Google can find anything.





/reference

FYI my previous comment referred to the subheadline of TFA

"Engineer's 3-Foot Snake Kaiser Escaped Over the Weekend and Is Now Banned From Easygoing Workplace"

They were just using the snake to carry the TiSP lines through their pipes.

Is this supposed to be the viral campaign for SoaP II?

I'm not falling for this shiat again.

gay headline

Ni!

"nonvenomous python"

Since when have there been venomous pythons?

yay.

"Everybody's very pleased that this has a happy ending," said Ellen West, a spokeswoman for the search engine giant. "This snake has been returned to his owner's home and will not be not be coming back."

So it will be coming back? Not be not coming back, wait...... I am confused here...

dumb.

sirenbrian

You rang?

Hell yeah. I love Python. And I hear Google uses a lot of it, too.

I wonder if the snake ate all their spiders?

_: Hell yeah. I love Python. And I hear Google uses a lot of it, too.

Could that have possibly been the joke in the headline???

I had a nonvenomous gerbil escape once.

Millennium: GvR isn't going to be happy about this..

isn't bringing python into the google offices supposed to be his job? why shouldn't he be happy

jordan_lund
When people hear "snake" they think venomous.

Worked in a pet store in the reptile section and sooo many people asked which ones were venomous (illegal to sell venomous snakes in Texas [exception: rear fanged]), and one mother didn't want her boy to hold a ball python because she "heard" its venom could kill a full grown man.

Ignorance is panic?

Not News: Your dog wants steak. News: O RLY? Fark: DIAF.

I would have figured they would use mostly C++ with PHP or Perl thrown in for effect.

Disapproves

ummmmmm REEEEEEEEEEEPPEAAAAAAAAAAAT. *sigh* someone on fark is farking asleep. farkin admins. wake the fark up.

what if someone found your mother farking a snake the mother farking google office?

/understands their pain.

Snakes farking suck...i seriously think I have ophidiophobia. My palms started sweating while I was reading the freakin' article. I gotta fast forward that "scene" in Raiders, and I wouldn't even think twice about watching Snakes on a Plane, or even Anaconda. What the fark man...I'd rather swim with the sharks than come within 10 feet of those f**king things.

emtlawstudent: /understands their pain.

Kind of looks like the dad from ALF.

/"Hey Willie!"

I'm so glad I am not the only one who thought that a mom was using a snake to, you know, fark, in a Google office.
/DRTFA

2007-04-03 04:42:21 PM Dire [TotalFark]

FYI my previous comment referred to the subheadline of TFA

"Engineer's 3-Foot Snake Kaiser Escaped Over the Weekend and Is Now Banned From Easygoing Workplace"

The snake's name is Kaiser.

On a separate note, how many times can you(subby) reference that farking line in that farking movie before you finally let it farking die.

/most overrated quote ever

Time for the betting...
GOOGLE logo on Easter this year.

(1) SNAKE EATING EASTER EGGS
(2) SNAKE BEHIND EASTER EGGS
(3) SNAKE WITH BUNNY RABBIT SHAPE IN STOMACH WITH SCATTERED EGGS
(4) SNAKE WITH CHRIST-SHAPED FIGURE IN BELLY WITH EMPTY CROSS LAYING ON GROUND
(5) STANDARD HAPPY EASTER LOGO

I love how they posted photos and a description of the snake as part of the search. I guess they were worried about capturing the wrong snake?

A venomous moose once bit my sister. Venomous moose bites can be pretti nasti.

emtlawstudent

Yeah, at least they didn't try to set a mongoose after it.


/or send a Coyote when the mongoose got lost

Trinilos

I've had snakes my whole life (no more than one at a time) and worked in a pet store as a teenager. The first question is always, "Is it poisonous?" Poisonous snakes aren't legal to keep and are usually pretty easy to identify. It's equivalent to asking a dog owner, "Is it rabid?". The second question is always "Does it bite?" Almost any animal can bite, and if you're going to get bit by something, a snake should be near the top of your list.

I've found that men are usually much more afraid of snakes than women. Men usually freak out and won't be in the same room as my ball python. Women either think she's cool and want to hold her or even if they're a little nervous, ask for the opportunity to get over their fear once they see that she's slow-moving and harmless. I've never been bitten by my ball python, who wouldn't hurt a fly (maybe a mouse) but I've been bitten by kingsnakes and other kinds. It's no big deal. Better that than a mammal. Mammal bites get messy and bleed like a mofo.


Nora on my bed, last year.

Gridlock:
WTF does a christ shaped figure look like after it's swallowed by a snake?

I think the snake would have eaten the mongoose. Or maybe not. I dunno.

/Hates snakes with a passion

Gridlock: 3) SNAKE WITH BUNNY RABBIT SHAPE IN STOMACH WITH SCATTERED EGGS

FTW!

In the 14 years I have had my ball python, she has bitten me once. It happened so quickly, and it was so unremarkable and *not* painful that it took me a while to figure out I had indeed been bitten (a few tiny little dots of blood welling up on my knuckle were the clue).

On the other hand, I've had multiple cat scratches and bites (from cats that were "playing") that got infected and took well over a week to heal.

Give me a nip from the snake over a cat any day.

Oh, and "nonvenemous" is to "python" as "4-legged" is to "dog." The vast majority of snake species are nonvenemous, and most snakes, venemous and non, are beneficial to the humans around them in that they help control the rodent population.

Apply a little logic to your phobias, folks.

Saul T. Knutts

Apply a little logic to your phobias, folks.

I don't know what it is about snakes that makes people so terrified of them. The fear is absurdly disproportionate to the risk they pose. Anybody who has spent any time around them knows that most of them are totally harmless. Certainly any mammal is much more likely to bite and will be much more painful if it does. I think there might be some kind of an ingrained fear, like how a lot of animals inherently know the sound of a rattlesnake or fear animals with bright red colors. An evolutionary remnant maybe.

If somebody is afraid...fine, I respect that. Sometimes you can't help what you feel. What I think is stupid is the people who won't even be in the same BUILDING or ROOM as a snake. They're backed against a wall, hyperventilating...and there is a huge percentage of the population that is like that, especially men. I used to be very afraid of big dogs, so I took a job taking care of them and learned to read them better. Now I'm not afraid anymore. Once you know a fear is stupid it's just a matter of will-power to get over it. I'd personally be embarrassed to be flipping out in public over a little harmless animal.

repeat, same damned day again

I'm starting to not like it here so much

Um, the snake is named Nora - hence the caption on the pic

Thanks falkensmaze! Her name is Nora. I highly recommend ball pythons, she's been a great pet.

2007-04-03 06:45:02 PM Todesritter

2007-04-03 04:40:36 PM Dire [TotalFark]

a 3-foot snake kaiser? WTF is a snake kaiser?

Wouldn't that be a Snake-Emperor?

Well, I never thought I'd see a screenshot from EQ with Furor in it on Fark. Guess I was wrong.... I feel like a nerd now, but were you in E/V too?