SNAKES MAKING NEWS

Missy Hissy is on the loose. If she doesn't shut down a pipeline, she might wind up being served with pancakes.

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[baligurl]

First

[baligurl]

Um, howsmall is Missy, if she can be attacked by seagulls? And, BTW, rattlesnake tastes pretty good. Kinda bony, tho.

[pogo]

Like chicken?

[Kat]

I had rattlesnake about 15 years ago, however i could not tell it was rattlesnake, the sauce was HOT. All i could taste ws the burn... It slid down quite nicely tho

[Bucket]

Snake - Its what's for breakfast!

[Kat]

for years, my daughter thought that pork tenderloin was actually a skinned snake... well, because i toldher...

[scat]

Apparently John Cleese has taken a job at Scotsman.com.

[Kat]

That whole fish-slipping death sounds a bit off to me...

[crossgirl]

snake with seaweed and pancakes sounds like a hangover cure. or a bad joke.

[Kat]

well, they are scottish "chefs" they stuff oatmeal and offal in a sheep sac and its considered a delicacy...

[jozet]

Poor Amanda. All she ever wanted was to be a zologist. Now, she'll never work in this town.

[Blue Meanie]

People who are accustomed to haggis are hesitant about eating rattlesnake? I doona believe it.

[jozet]

zoologist...those double o's get me every time.

[Kat]

Hope the Peta People dont see this... theyll be all over it...

[Blue Meanie]

Jozet - me to.

[Kat]

< had Dictionary-O's for breakfast...

[Random Tirade]

I dunno, can snakes open doors?...let alone jump up through a skylight?

[Kat]

if they could, random, they would be in the circus, that would upset the PETA people even worse than eating them...

[CoastRaven]

So how did a snake from Wales (not whales) slither to Bangkok (not bang co - um never mind) and get cooked over there just to be served in a restaurant in Scotland?

[Betsy]

"snakeskin and other parts "

Uh...let's see: there's the skin, and, uh...whatever is IN the skin, right? Or do snakes have loins? and oosiks???

[Random Tirade]

I think that'd upset alot of people. Especially those involved with evolution...jumping snakes, what's next, eagles that can swim?

[Random Tirade]

maybe it never slithered...maybe it jumped...

[Kat]

would a snake voluntarily jump to scotland, if it knew it was gonna be cooked up and served on a plate with pancakes and seaweed

[Random Tirade]

Well who would'nt "jump" at that opportunity? ahh a play on words...

[Blue Meanie]

Pancakes! Why did it have to be pancakes?

[Random Tirade]

Cuz they were all out of waffles?

[wolfie]

Cause everything tastes better dripping with maple syrup?

[Blue Meanie]

*Waits for innocents to rise, as it were, to Wolfie's bait*

[mudstuffin]

"Worried owner Amanda Gott, a former zoology student, has been searching high and low for her "harmless" pet who is partial to the odd mouse."

"Partial to the odd mouse" sounds like another one of those euphemisms like "pony in the living room" - as in "He's cute and he's sensitive, has a good job, but I think he's partial to the odd mouse, if you catch my drift. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[wolfie]

Bait? Moi?
*wide eyed innocent blink*

[Blue Meanie]

Oui, vous, Mademoiselle Louve. Avec plaisir (et sirop).

[insomniac]

Missy Hissy was a snake
Missy Hissy made a break
Missy Hissy isn't relly missing
Is she??

[Eleanor]

Squirrels, snakes, pigeon poop- what is the big attraction to electrical stuff??!?!?!?!

One such fish seller was Tommy Shaw, who the restaurant is named after. He died after slipping on one of the fish.

Is it just me that thinks it's absofreakinlutely hilarious to just casually slip that sentence in the middle of the article - sort of, "Oh, and by the way.."

ROFL! LMAO!

[insomniac]

'really' missing

[wolfie]

*copies and pastes to babblefish*
Ooooo

Avec de la crème fouettée et les fraises?

*ignores the fact half that is backwards but english is really wolfie's only language. And she's not all that fluent in that just yet*

[fivver]

Is Amanda worried that Missy doesn't have a pit to hiss in?

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Due to heightened concerns about the bird flu epidemic, Americans are—more than ever before--serving rattlesnake as a replacement for turkey at their holiday meals. According to rattlesnake roundup king Ben Bitten, there’s nothing like stuffed rattlesnake served coiled up in strike position and clutching a small apple in it’s fangs. Says Bitten, “That’s good eatin’!”

The new menu choice has the dish and china companies scrambling, however, to come up with new snake-motif patterns by Thanksgiving.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

On a more serious note. "Frogleg and rattlesnake stew" EEEEEEWWWWWWW! I'm supposed to go to China and pay big bucks for food I wouldn't eat if I were stranded on a remote island??

NOTE TO SELF: Call China. Cancel dinner reservation.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

By the way fivver-- "pit to hiss in" LOL!!

[baligurl]

Is Amanda worried that Missy doesn't have a pit to hiss in?

*snork*

[Blue Meanie]

Doesn't matter if you speak it half backward (or if your name isn't Tish) , who needs English?

*whispers prayer to blog gods, linking division*

[Eleanor]

Sorry, Blue:(

[blog gods, linking division]

NOTICE

The linking division is closed on Mondays.

Come back tomorrow when we may or may not reopen.
/end notice

[Blue Meanie]

Reads frownie message.
Clicks on link.
Link opens and plays.
WTD?

Throws toilet parts at monitor.

[Blue Meanie]

Goes back to check link again.
Link rejects this time.
Prepares sword for plunging into abdomen.
Plunges sword through monitor instead.

[crossgirl]

blue, shouldn't plunging be done on the other thread?

[Blue Meanie]

Wait for it, Cross, I'm sure it's imminent.

[Nannie]

How can the snake tell that the mouse is odd?

[southerngirl]

Blue, when you speak French, you drive me wild.

See, it worked for me!

[Eleanor]

s'girl - Are you hitting on Blue because I don't think it works for anyone :)

just askin'

[Betsy]

Nannie...he has them count off by two's

[Blue Meanie]

Definitely works for me.

Oh, the link, you mean?

[wolfie]

I spoke french to ya know.

*wanders off in a snit to pout in the shadows*

[Blue Meanie]

Oh, how I did try
To post a reply
That the she-wolf would find
Brought l'amour to mind.

When the link it denied me
I wanted to hide me.
The server said Hah!
You've mad a faux pas!

I wish that I knew
How one might undo
A link that worked once
But now makes me le dunce.

[wolfie]

A whole (not hole) poem for me?
*le blush*
You're my favorite ya know Blue.

*saunters deeper into the shadows with a jaunty twitch of her tail*

[southerngirl]

El, actually "when you speak French, you drive me wild." is what plays when you click on the link.

Not that I wouldn't hit on Blue if I thought it would work. ;)

[Sarah J]

I don't know about seagulls attacking snakes, but where I lived in CA we had crows that would attack cats and other small animals. I actually saw a couple ripping apart a mole that one of them had caught.

[Blue Meanie]

T'was that Brawny paper towel guy who inspired me to verse, along with the sniffery/poutery.

It appears that S-girl has some special magic Cajun link-opening powers that are denied to us mortals.

*looks for shadows*

[southerngirl]

Blue ~ It's dat voodoo magic, mon cher ami!

[daisymae]

Does anybody wonder what happened to the snake who shorted out the circuitry of the pipeline?

was it fried snake? smoked snake? roasted snake?

or did it get away scot-free after wreaking his havoc...hey, maybe the snake is from the middle-east...a secret member of a terrorist cell...CALL CTU!

[Stupendous Man]

There you guys go with the French again, not even noting the elegant turn of phrase quoted here:
"She found Missy missing the next day."
WTD? What's happening to the English language? We used to say, "The next day she noticed Missy had disappeared." And another thing I've taken note of over the last few years (actually, a couple of things), newspersons referring to a fire igniting by saying "went on fire" and referring to the extinction of a species in the same manner: "In the Megalothromboic Era, the Hydra-headed Stagnant Poll Reptile went extinct." Oh, my bleeding adenoids! Let's get back to English the way we learned it as children! And, by the way, I think Missy stood on a chair to get through the skylight.

[Bleu Meanié]

Stupendous - we use the French in lieu of (French for "in the loo") English when we realize we are not capable of reaching the lofty linguistic heights shown by the writer of this article. Being only slightly removed from the Megalothromboic era myself, I am forced to either go with primitive English or resort to gratuitous (English for in receipt of a generous tip) use of foreign phrases, such as "la belle femme skunk petit" (French for "cute young babe in need of breath freshener" or "e pluribus unum" (Latin for "more than one e").

You can usually assume when I am conversing in (as opposed to nibbling on) a foreign tongue, that I "jeter le taureau".

[Stupendous Man]

Sacre bleu! Bleu, I like to kix my languages as well as the next person, which is why I am often heard to say, "Bringen sie mir ein bier, immediamon!" or "Pour some more, por favor!" But I don't see what that has to do with Missy Hissy standing on a chair to escape through the sky light. BTW, back in the Megalothromboic Era, didn't we go to different schools together?

[Blaue Meanie]

S-Man: You mix languages quite fluidly in key areas. I am impressed, though I scratch my head at the notion of a topic-to-comment relationship. This is the first time I am introduced to such a concept.

Do other bloglits know of this, or have I been living in isolated blind ignorance all this time (this would not be a first for me, BTW, so do not spare me if it's true)?

I went to elementary school at the Pangea Academy for Young Bipeds, transferred into Four Mastodons Community Middle School, graduated into Grog D. Unibrow High, and then did undergrad and graduate programs at the Hunter-Gatherer Institute for Advanced Knuckle Dragging. My undergrad degree was in interplanetary monolith relations, after which I went through their reknowned club design program.

You sound familiar. If you're the person I'm picturing, I hope you've managed to recover from that prototype jawbone effectiveness testing program. In retrospect, I think that whole thing was a mistake, and I wish we'd taken a different approach. We should have been using cadavers, not creating them.

[Stupendous Man]

Say there, Meanie, I see you've been particularly well schooled. Unfortunately, we couldn't have gone to different schools together because, according to your resume carved on the rock above, you are a biped. When I attended, bipeds were not allowed to matriculate with us tripods. I had thought, for a moment there, that we might have met in the lab during the Frog Flogging exercises.