WE SUPPOSE "FASCINATING" IS ONE WORD YOU COULD USE

Another one is: Yikes.

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[At A Keyboard]

Is that even the correct word usage of facinates, whouldn't it be frighten or something?

[Betsy]

Probably second. So they think a five meter skin "MIGHT" mean a large python is loose in the area?

[At A Keyboard]

"It's really big, it would be the size that would frighten the crap out of you." This can be taken so many different ways...

[Juggler of Geese™]

Is it as big as the one from Jeff Corwin the other night, that one measured in at more than 17 feet

[UpTooEarly]

No video? How much would that "crap" quote cost an American broadcaster?

[At A Keyboard]

*Yank the 'h' out of my first post*

[KDF]

"It's really big, it would be the size that would frighten the crap out of you."

Is this a new snake-sizing system? And is thisss guy roughly the equivalent of a "venti"?

Tall = the size that would cause you to curl up into a ball
Grande = the size that would make your blood pressure plummet
Venti = the size that would frighten the crap out of you

[Bucket]

So.... was the "similar" discovery last year an actual SNAKE or another skin? What is similar to a snake skin, like a snake poo or something? I saw a large snake defecate once, and it was impressive, i must say. Much larger than amything my lab mix produces.....OH LOOK! something shiny!

[Bumble]

Speaking of snakes, my mother informed me yesterday that, while at Grandma's old house in North Carolina, she killed a black snake by hacking at it with a dull hoe. She said, "I haven't done anything like that for a long time. I felt unnerved the rest of the day."

I fail to see how I could possibly be related to either of my parents. They worry me.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

*snork* @ KDF

[Kathy P.]

*snork* @ Bumble - maybe it was the mailman?

[Bumble]

Kathy~ Both of them? Doubt it. And I sure hope not. My mailman died last year. But I do seem to prevail in spite of rain, snow and sleet.

[Punkin Poo]

I say, there's a fine pair of boots (and belt and hat and thong)just waiting to be made!

[Kilmeny]

I'm guessing there's not much else to do in Nathalia.

[Higgy]

Let's see - 5 metres long *takes out calculator* that's 3 times... plus the daylight savings time, carry the one.... WHOA - that's like 22 decaliters of snake!

*craps his pants*

[puppytoes]

okay, so it was big. but was it stroppy?

[insomniac]

"well, we found something similar last year, it was a 4.5 meter snake skin, but we don't want to commit ourselves to whether it's the same snake..."

[pepe]

so how many shoes and belts is that?

[Annie Where-but-here]

I wish somebody would invent huge fake snakeskins that you could put in a neighbor's yard so they'd move...'move' as in 'leave', 'poo'...whatever, just go.

[Betsy]

Off-topic blogger worry:
OK, so I've been blogging here for six months or so, snorking it up over the many humerous posts and comments; but now I suspect that it's affecting my ability to engage in normal social intercourse (tee hee -- SEE???).
I'm having my condo kinda fixed up, and Sam, my cleaning guy, had referred me to Joe, the carpet cleaner. So this morning I was letting Joe into the building, and he was dragging his steamer/vac/whatever, and as I held the door for him he said, a bit apologetically, "My equipment is bigger than Sam's."
So of course I responded, "Bragging, are we?"
Despite the fact that he is a forty-ish, super-hip, snarky, funny gay guy, who subsequently proved to have an ample stash of doubles entendres at his command, he blushed, laughed nervously, and stammered something incoherent.
Now here's my question: Am I the only person who has been affected in this way? If blogging is going to lead me to behavior that shocks the unshockable, does that mean I should quit and be deprogrammed? Or was he just not expecting it from a comfortably built 60+ geezerete gramma? Or are the dimensions of this problem such that I should I not obsess at such length (heh)?

/end off-topic therapeutic vent

[Annie Where-but-here]

Betsy - welcome - you've crossed over to the *snork* side.

[Mr. Completely]

Betsy - At least he didn't respond, "It's really big, it would be the size that would frighten the crap out of you."

[Betsy]

Thank you, Annie! Your acceptance of my deviationistical tendencies is better than that transcontinental cookie that I missed.

And *SNORK* at Mr. C!:) I'm sure he's been dragging his outsized equipment peevishly all over my apt, wishing he'd had an appropriate riposte.

[O. the U(manity)]

Betsy -

You sound perfectly normal to me ...

... um ...

... and I mean that in a good way!

... um ...

Normal -- for the blog -- um ... I'm gonna shaddup ... merely sayin' ...

[Annie Where-but-here]

Betsy - why is Mr. C dragging his 'equipment' all over your apartment? Does he need 'support' and medication, perhaps?

[Betsy]

Annie...I'm so sorry! I was confusing my antecedents (but not nearly as much as I confuse my descendants). It wasn't Mr. C. dragging his equipment around my place, although I'm sure his equipment would require an industrial power source to drag it); "he" referred to Joe the carpet cleaner.
I apologize for any confusion and embarassment I may have unwittingly caused, and promise not to do it again, at least in this particular comment window.

[Chatmal]

Betsy's cleaning guy with big equipment brought me to tears... I'm just glad the boss isn't around for the odd spew of stiffled noises.

Don't worry about it... you now can be 'eccentric' like my dad who painted the living room pink to match a cartoonish painting. (Left the brown carpet and sofa tho - poor Mom.) I picture Joe telling all his friends about your comment for weeks to come.

And, might I add, his comment *was* begging for yours.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Betsy - you probably made his day - he just doesn't know it yet.
I still have a vision of Mr. C's 'outsized equipment' seared into my skull. But I don't think that has anything to do with you.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Betsy-You should NOT quit OR get deprogrammed. Just promise to share more stories like that with us!

[afrocelt]

It may be the right word; but I assume, if it is, that even a shed skin is enough to cause indefinite traffic jams in Nathalia....

Fascinate verb (fascinated, fascinating) 1 to interest strongly; to intrigue. 2 said of a snake: to make (an animal or person) unable to move, from fright. 3 to hold spellbound; to enchant irresistibly. Fascination noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin fascinare to bewitch. (From chambers dictionary)

[O. the U(manity)]

Fascinate -

When asked by the teacher to use "fascinate" in a sentence, little Jimmy thot about it and then said,

"My dad has a shirt with ten buttons on the front, but he's so fat he can only fascinate."

[CJrun]

Ahhh. Just what I needed to brush away the cobwebs of travel. Snorks to all and especially MrC for tying Betsy's theme into the pant-crapping.

I'm one of just a few biologists that have a bit of a snake problem. Upbringing- they were all deadly there. So it was great fun for the grad students and professors to haul me into the snakiest places. I decided to do my job and grab a snake I saw skittering away, but I wasn't gonna hold it for long... just threw it over my shoulder. Apparently the professor [8-months pregnant] spied me and decided to sneak up behind me to see what I was after. In her big loose shirt, with a few buttons undone on a hot day. I sure did enjoy asking her, as she did the snake dance, why she was fearful of a harmless garter snake.

[Betsy]

CJrun...Speaking for everyone who is, or has ever been, pregnant, I hope your fear of slithery things doesn't extend to umbilical cords; if you're going to go around practicing ancient labor induction techniques, be prepared to assist in the consequences.

Just sayin'...

[O. the U(manity)]

Betsy -

Heck ... if I'd've thot of that trick sooner, mebbe MB(RH?) wouldn't have had to go thru 27 hours of labor for our firstborn ...

Then again, mebbe I wouldn't have survived, either ... merely sayin' ...

[Betsy]

O ... Good call, buddy. You'd'a been lyin' on the labor room floor with an IV stand through your vitals. There's nothing as ornery as a woman who's been in labor for a day or so. (Ask my ex...)