popuri

Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:39 pm

Goodness gracious!  Do huntsmen get fairly large?

popuri

Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:37 pm

Oh gosh, it's ClockSpider. When I first saw that image in an email back in 1999 I told my mother that I would never, EVER venture to the country that harbored such giant spiders. Boy, am I eating my words now!!

Samus

Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:28 am

this reminds me of a time my rancher-father and i went "spider hunting" around his ranch in northern kern county (just north of rosamond, california). he has a collection of guns, mostly for hunting, some for pleasure (sickos). he grabbed his 20gauge side-by-side double barrell shotgun and i took his magnum. he has to have the worst case of arachnophobia i've ever seen, including my own and my wife's. so, we come across this joshua tree with a big gaping hole in it. as we approach, what should just popup from the hole but a huge black widow...seemingly staring my father down like "bring it on, old codger. this joshua tree ain't big enough..."(you know the addage). dad goes "bob, there...see the prick? she's pissed, staring at me. take a shot".

now, up until this point, i thought this whole thing was a joke. he wasn't kidding. i'm like "dad, we're going to do some serious damage to a tree that only grows in two parts of the ENTIRE WORLD because of a spider?!"
"yep! you gonna shoot?"
"no...i mean, wait. why?"
"i hate the pricks. look at them. satan was never a snake...he was a spider"
"alright...i'll go, only so you don't shoot your bazooka of a shotgun and destroy half the mountain"

i raise my pistol, take aim, and right as i'm about to squeeze the trigger, she moves...my dad SCREAMS this wraith-like death scream and before i could do anything, he's discharged BOTH barrells into what became a smuldering stump.

i just stare at this smoking what-was and then look at my dad, but before i could ask him anything, he has the gall to go "is she dead?"

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this reminds me of a time my rancher-father and i went "spider hunting" around his ranch in northern kern county (just north of rosamond, california). he has a collection of guns, mostly for hunting, some for pleasure (sickos). he grabbed his 20gauge side-by-side double barrell shotgun and i took his magnum. he has to have the worst case of arachnophobia i've ever seen, including my own and my wife's. so, we come across this joshua tree with a big gaping hole in it. as we approach, what should just popup from the hole but a huge black widow...seemingly staring my father down like "bring it on, old codger. this joshua tree ain't big enough..."(you know the addage). dad goes "bob, there...see the prick? she's pissed, staring at me. take a shot".

now, up until this point, i thought this whole thing was a joke. he wasn't kidding. i'm like "dad, we're going to do some serious damage to a tree that only grows in two parts of the ENTIRE WORLD because of a spider?!"
"yep! you gonna shoot?"
"no...i mean, wait. why?"
"i hate the pricks. look at them. satan was never a snake...he was a spider"
"alright...i'll go, only so you don't shoot your bazooka of a shotgun and destroy half the mountain"

i raise my pistol, take aim, and right as i'm about to squeeze the trigger, she moves...my dad SCREAMS this wraith-like death scream and before i could do anything, he's discharged BOTH barrells into what became a smuldering stump.

i just stare at this smoking what-was and then look at my dad, but before i could ask him anything, he has the gall to go "is she dead?

Samus

Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:28 pm

keep your damn spider pics to yourselves!

GOD i hate those things. all of them. it's God's joke, that's what. after adam and eve scewed the to-be world out of everything great (free food and naked women) he goes "right, these tiny, rather insignificant eight-legged arachnids will strike fear in the hearts of men (politically corrected bibles include "women, and gender ambiguious persons" here as well). women will enjoy the girlie-scared effect they will have in men and men will not".

stupid things. let's start a list of animals that are useless to the ecology of the earth.

mosquitoes
spiders
most australian animals (just kidding)

this reminds me of a time my rancher-father and i went "spider hunting" around his ranch in northern kern county (just north of rosamond, california). he has a collection of guns, mostly for hunting, some for pleasure (sickos). he grabbed his 20gauge side-by-side double barrell shotgun and i took his magnum. he has to have the worst case of arachnophobia i've ever seen, including my own and my wife's. so, we come across this joshua tree with a big gaping hole in it. as we approach, what should just popup from the hole but a huge black widow...seemingly staring my father down like "bring it on, old codger. this joshua tree ain't big enough..."(you know the addage). dad goes "bob, there...see the prick? she's pissed, staring at me. take a shot".

now, up until this point, i thought this whole thing was a joke. he wasn't kidding. i'm like "dad, we're going to do some serious damage to a tree that only grows in two parts of the ENTIRE WORLD because of a spider?!"
"yep! you gonna shoot?"
"no...i mean, wait. why?"
"i hate the pricks. look at them. satan was never a snake...he was a spider"
"alright...i'll go, only so you don't shoot your bazooka of a shotgun and destroy half the mountain"

i raise my pistol, take aim, and right as i'm about to squeeze the trigger, she moves...my dad SCREAMS this wraith-like death scream and before i could do anything, he's discharged BOTH barrells into what became a smuldering stump.

i just stare at this smoking what-was and then look at my dad, but before i could ask him anything, he has the gall to go "is she dead?"

Bindie

Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:29 pm

Spiders and snakes don't bother me... but I tell ya, I HATE flies and mossies.  And Spiders eat flies AND mossies... so LOVE your spiders, ppl, especially the Huntsman as they even eat OTHER spiders.

imafranktoo

Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:30 am

My list of Aussie critters I like:

kangaroo, koala, possum, and for now that is all I can think of...

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I'd be totally fine with huntsmen if they ate spiders, flies, mossies and other spiders WHILE they looked like cute little lady bugs or something like that, but they don't. They look terrifyingly horrible. They look like those things in the movie Predator, armored and ready to clean your skull off for a trophy.