ATTENTION, ONLINE SHOPPERS
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April 21, 2006
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Daaad! - Monty Python is on the television!
A "Children's Python...from Northern Oz" ? Sounds like another children's book for Dave.
Posted by: Wally Ballou | April 21, 2006 at 07:27 AM
What makes a 10-inch Python "stroppy"?
On second thought, nevermind.
Posted by: Christobol | April 21, 2006 at 07:47 AM
"Disappointingly for those of us who like proper background detail with our snake emergency stories, the Scotsman fails to note the make and model of the television in question."
Dang I knew I should have gotten that license plate number... erm.
Posted by: At A Keyboard | April 21, 2006 at 07:51 AM
You know, all this snake stuff just feeds my phobia!! I had almost gotten to the point where, after I'd raised the lid, I could sit on the potty without looking for a snake!!...You have reversed all my ....progress.....naughty, naughty snakes!!
Posted by: Mewkitty | April 21, 2006 at 07:56 AM
If it's non-venomous, it doesn't HAVE fangs. Duh. Pythons are constrictors, not cobras! Do you see any fangs HERE?
Posted by: Guin | April 21, 2006 at 08:05 AM
Snakes, why'd it have to be snakes? (Somebody had to say it..)
Posted by: Kathy P. | April 21, 2006 at 08:08 AM
stroppy--easily annoyed,ill-tempered; chiefly British
ophidian--of, related to or resembling snakes
Don't think those two words would have made it into a newpaper atricle on this side of the pond...
Posted by: mathmom | April 21, 2006 at 08:14 AM
Local Ophidian SWAT Team WBAGNFARB, although so would Slippery Sid.
Posted by: yanya8 | April 21, 2006 at 08:18 AM
Imagine the stroppy snake's surprise at finding he was in Scotland.
"I knew I ssssshould have turned left at Albequerque"
Posted by: slyeyes | April 21, 2006 at 08:20 AM
Gary Larson cartoon: "Awwwwww Mom.......do I have to sit with the Children's pythons AGAIN this Thanksgiving?"
Posted by: Betsy | April 21, 2006 at 08:25 AM
Aaawww, it was probably a baby that got separated from it's mama. (pause) AAAAAAHHHHHHHH RUUUUNNN!!!!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | April 21, 2006 at 08:38 AM
Guin - Thank you very much - I was about to call BS on the whole article!
I do like the very matter of fact way the story was reported though even if it wasn't accurate...
"This prompted the python to rear and show its fangs, which in turn obliged the family to retreat to another room into which they barricaded themselves."
Posted by: CoastRaven | April 21, 2006 at 08:50 AM
Only the Stroppy python has fangs.
Posted by: pogo | April 21, 2006 at 08:59 AM
"Dopey in the heat of the room?" I thought that pythons were happiest in the mid to upper eighties. The ambient temp determines their metabolism, heat makes them fast, not dopey. No living room in Scotland is going to be too hot for a python.
Rearing and showing it's fangs! That made me laugh out loud. Did it spread it's hood and shake it's rattle too? Then it spit venom at them.
Posted by: Lorrie | April 21, 2006 at 09:09 AM
They're very lucky it didn't fly over to them with its wings and scratch them with its huge talons.
Posted by: bbescuela | April 21, 2006 at 09:25 AM
I think "Stroppy Python" was one of the late drummers for "Spinal Tap".. or was that Stumpy Python....?
Posted by: russell | April 21, 2006 at 09:28 AM
stroppy by any other name is still a f*cking snake
Posted by: puppytoes | April 21, 2006 at 09:35 AM
and how ophten do you see ophidian in a news article....
Posted by: queensbee | April 21, 2006 at 09:46 AM
Mewkitty - should we form a support group?
Posted by: Kat | April 21, 2006 at 09:52 AM
*SNORK* @ puppytoes
Posted by: KDF | April 21, 2006 at 10:14 AM
Shakes! GREAT! We'll be having Lindsay Lohan next!
Posted by: ACE | April 21, 2006 at 10:42 AM
So if I order a snake, will they throw in a free TV?
Posted by: KDF | April 21, 2006 at 11:45 AM
I have to say, any snake that comes into my home uninvited will be assumed to have fangs, rattle, constrictors, and all other deadly implements and I refused to be convinced otherwise.
Posted by: Ellasmom | April 21, 2006 at 11:58 AM
Oops, REFUSE to be convinced
Posted by: Ellasmom | April 21, 2006 at 11:59 AM
the snake may not have had any fangs - but they have dozens of very pointy teeth. and yes - heat makes them perky.
Posted by: ldyadiva | April 21, 2006 at 03:22 PM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/05/squirrel_attack/
That story looked far more scary! :)
Posted by: Spacemom | April 21, 2006 at 03:44 PM
I just bought 2 new TVs on line but I had in home delivery where the delivery guys (who were very large due to the size of the TVs) uncrated them, so I would have had protection.
But I would still have gone to a hotel for a couple of days, just to recover from the trauma.
Posted by: Eleanor | April 21, 2006 at 06:58 PM
Now, now , now, I have a python and it most assuredly has two very long sharp front teeth. I've been bitten with them when I didn't get the mouse into the cage quickly enough for Mr. Hungry. Non poisonous bite, but it definitely left two blooded holes on the back of my thumb worthy of a baby Dracula. If you don't call those two long, sharp pointy teeth fangs, then what DO you call them.
Much faster on the mouse drop Annie in Texas
Posted by: Annie in Texas | April 22, 2006 at 05:51 AM