Please help me name my office pet

Apparently, this spider-up-the-nose thing is quite un-common.

http://www.funnyhub.com/pictures/img/queen-nose-pick.jpg

Boris.

Or

"The Pompatus"

I had a cute spider under my desk at home. Named it George. Then George went and produced FIVE egg sacs and fnord I had to take disciplinary action

One, maybe two, but FIVE is really taking advantage of my hospitality. George's fat ass go punted into the garden and the sacs had to be destroyed. I don't even want to know how many little George's woulda been running around under my feet.

omg cant believe a fluffy spider was up YOUR nose!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah ... true. *hurriedly reviewing my whole life in memory*

Euterpe,

Well, it is obviously something that happens among the aristocracy, so perhaps I shouldn't feel so bad about it. Hope she managed to retrieve it!

*whack!*

All you really need is a gloved hand and the pedigree of royalty. I suppose we can think of spiders and the subsequent nose-pick as the 'great equalizer.'

Taco,
I just came to the realization that your office has been bugged! They are watching your moves man! Hide the slacker manual and the Pr0n!!!!!!!!!!

Name to her legacy...

Like...

Agamemnon...
Pyralis...
Arrando Salsauce
Ende Beowulf
or Jim.


Or Ein.

Call it Ein

yay XD

I knew about the Wallendas and that fateful day. Didn't know about the poem, though!

coco

Is it too late for this?

Problem there, dear Cory, is that *that* stunning (and potentially epileptic-fit-inducing) image is of a Brown Recluse spider. Which are, from this human's perspective, bad.

I mean, look what their venom (specifically, the enzyme sphingomyelinase) can do:

http://www.archaeologyfieldwork.com/images/healthandsafety/day10brownrecluse.jpg

Bad spider?

Bad, bad, EVIL spider?

I daresay.


SMASH-SMASH-SMASH-SMASH-SMASH!

Do you need a lisence to have that as a pet?

No. Nor do you need a license to have a kid. Kids also cause necrosis, but of the soul.

Well my Katie left found a giant spider in a giant spiderweb on her way to school today. She said it had a head as large as it's body, and was light greenish with black dots, with orange legs. I said, "The things spiders come up with these days."

Which reminds me of another story that happened about 10 years ago. I saw this HORRIBLE big black furry type spider in the basement; looked like a tarantula. So I put a glass over it (with considerable trepidation) and waited for my husband to get home.

He came up from the basement laughing his head off. It was a plastic one left over from Halloween!

coco

Due to all the rain earlier this year, we have an extraordinary amount of black widows in my part of LA. If anyone would like some mailed to them, please provide a mailing address (lower 48 only). kthxbye

Brown recluses are boring pets --- besides that they're evil, remember? --- and not worth the trouble.

Black widows --- latrodectus mactans --- on the other hand, are beautiful and interesting pets, and are not evil in the Reclusa way. Oh, they've got a serious neurotoxin (which may cause severe systemic damage), but their venom has (unlike Recluse venom) an antidote, an antivenin that's effective if administered up to (if I recall kreckly) 80 hours after the bite. Also, they are very gentle, timid creatures who (unlike Recluses) (bad Recluses) (bad, bad, EVIL Recluses!) stay in the same web in the same place for most of their lifetime. (Recluses build no webs and are wandering, nighttime hunters.)

I've had three black widows as pets, and they were all delightful. I heartily recommend them to anyone who's not an idiot.

I also have a daughter --- a human child, yes --- and find that, contary to what Chance (bad, bad, EVIL Chance!) suggests, she has UNCAUSED necrosis in the minor areas of my soul that had developed hints of same before she was born. YMMV.

Yeah... if only that would stay true. One time I was standing at a theater in Pasadedna when one of the biggest widows I've ever seen in my life came decending from the marquee down to face level (right before I killed it).

A human child? It is odd that you needed to point that out.

YMMV? YHVH. Checkmate.

had to go into work this evening, and Cocoanut is back! I have no idea where she went on her walkabout, but she's doing fine, thank you for all the sympathy cards

Dang.

I want a daughter some day.
But I know how teenage girls are...
I am one.


Hah! Oh boy. that one cracks my friends up XD
Too bad they dont play SL.
Yet.
/me summons some brown spiders to coax friends for refferral lindens XD


Disclaimer: I'm not a girl. And I don't have spider summoning powers. Yet.
Re-Disclaimer: That "yet" was specificly reffering to the spider-powers XD

I will probably get suspended from the forums for saying this but, i would name him "Mother fucker" that way when someone you dont like comes around you can say.. go away mother fucker or something to that affect.. just make sure everyone around you knows that that is what you named your little friend so they can back you up when you get called to explain to your boss.

OK, Coz. You totally had me until I saw your disclaimer.

Taco, I am so glad that Coco is back--I am sure she missed you.

Not to get all "pissing contest" here, but look what lives in my backyard:

http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/texas%20brown%202.JPG

I found her napping on the green plastic cover of the water meter. She was very still--obviously taking a wee sun-nap.

Taking a page from the "Boy's Handbook of How to Deal with Anything" (and needing to determine whether she was dead [no threat] or alive [mild threat]), I decided that there was only one rational course of action: I poked her with a stick.

She was very much alive and very, very speedy. She bolted into the grass which parted at her passing much as it would for a stampeeding rhino.

I have given new meaning to both "squeal like a little girl" and "the fraidy dance."