JUST WHAT WE NEED

(Thanks to Jeff Meyerson)

Comments

[Wes S]

Paging Samuel Jackson. Mr. Samuel Jackson, please pick up the white courtesy phone...

...On the bright side: Just one of those snakes would be good for at least a dozen or so pairs of cowboy boots. With enough left over for a new handbag for Siouxie...

[pogo]

...or a golf bag which requires no stitching.

[ScottMGS]

So, basically, we are hoping for global warmingclimate change to flood the entire Florida peninsula to wipe them out? Seems drastic but is it worth it?

[Jeff Meyerson]

Key bureaucratic understatement: "They are bigger and meaner than the Burmese python. It's not good news,"

Or, as we say in Brooklyn, no sh!t, Sherlock.

[nursecindy]

Or as we say in N.C., Jeff, where did you park the squad car Dick Tracey?

[Horace LaBadie]

Send them to Tallahassee.

[Loudmouth]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the 'glades. All flights will be suspended from South Fl indefinitely.

[Tash]

"These are animals that are hot predators, and now there are two species to worry about," he said.

I hear this ALL the time.

[CJrun]

Bad combination; exotic wildlife proliferating on vast land areas, managed by people too weenie to just shoot them on sight.

Here in rural, central FL, you would just see the heads on fenceposts and notice lots of new boots at the corner store. The only reason there's nobody shooting on the property next door right now, is that there's a ball game on. crossboy is getting darned good with the bow and arrows I made for him; he would just LOVE for one of these critters to slide up the yard, as there is very little (besides WOOT boxes), I allow him to shoot at.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Time to send in the Kardashians...and blast Barry Manilow music.

[Ralph]

Here's the original article, with a photo.

[nursecindy]

So happy I don't live next door to CJ. Annie, isn't that a little extreme? Are you trying to really make them mad?

[CJrun]

Well, the firearms at the neighbor's are safe and they keep the riff-raff well away (I don't use firearms, so we're sneakier.)

As for you nc, you would be safe around here, as long as you stay out of WOOT boxes.

As for exotic wildlife, like pythons, they destroy our native flora and fauna. The huggy-feely types release aquarim fishes into our lakes and rivers and they wipe out our bass, bream, and perch. I like to eat the exotic species and wish I could eat more. Political correctness rots the vast majority of biologist's brains; me, if I see an exotic species in the wild, it's helpful if it's edible, because it's gone if I can manage it. We're up against a huge population of numbskulls that releases fish and critters out of misplaced empathy. We're out behind the backwoods here and I would defy you to go down to the creek, 600 feet from where I sit, and find a native fish. It's all carp (released goldfish) and Tilapia (released aquarium "Oscars".) The carp aren't very edible, but Oscars is tasty.

[Steve Haller]

Wes: there's an app for that...

[CJrun]

Finally, a decent Pointy Ball Game, and it's delaying the move to 24.

Go Both Teams!

[CJrun]

I guessed/bet wrong on 3 out of 4 games, this weekend. However, all I lost was 3 bottles of BBQ sauce, so, GO JAGS!!!

[CJrun]

Well, this isn't 24. For starters, there's action.

[Jeff Meyerson]

*takes a late leap onto bandwagon*

J-E-T-S!!!

[Spiny Norman]

[ pedant mode on ]

CJrun,

Tilapia and Oscars are two entirely different species, native to entirely different continents: Tilapia (Africa) are much larger than the South American Oscar, which is why they are raised commercially (in Florida, and many other places where it's warm enough). There may be wild tilapia in central Florida, but they were never aquarium fish.

[ /pedant mode off ]

[nursecindy]

I can't wait to see if the plot on 24 makes more sense when you take a Percocet! Maybe it will even help me to discover there is a plot, which of course I will pass on to my fellow bloggers.

[Spiny Norman]

NC,

Scotch works just as well as Percocet for me, and no prescription required. Although the plot was still elusive, it sure is fun!

;-)

[Siouxie]

Steve...don't you mean there's an asp for that?

Wes!! thanks for the handbag. I want the matching strappy sandals too!

[Annie Where-but-here]

A 3-day hunt to round up anacondas and pythons would be boa-ring.

[CJrun]

Spiny, you are of course, right, as common names go; what people call "Oscars" are technically the South American variety of cichlids, but me, using the word cichlid, is what I was trying to avoid in a non-pedant conversation.

Technically, from what I have seen, the taxonomic revisionists have even removed what is becoming a common word in American eatery, Tilapia, as the Genus name for the African cichlids. I choose to use Oscar and Tilapia, in a public forum, because those are words people recognize. If I used the latin Oreochromis, no one would have any idea what I am talking about (which is not unusual). Most people understand what Tilapia is; aquarium people know what Oscars are. Oscar is a common name, made up by aquarium people and in no way precludes the fact that our waters are infested with African, non-South American, cichlids, that assholes released into my waters. Believe me, when the government or others have asked me to go into the wild and try to remove as many cichlids as I could, for a unit price, nobody cared whether the assholes that released them into our waters were told by the assholes at the pet stores whether the specific fish originally evolved in African or South American fresh waters. Try and find a "Tilapia" in the grocery stores; it's all Oreochromis, as far as my research can find. People understand Tilapia; that's the name it is sold as, in the store or restaurant.

I reserve my taxonomic pedantry for crabs.

[Clankazoid]

Two words: " giant mongoose ".

[bonmot]

"Ongoing python hunt" might describe the m.o. of a few bloggerettes.

Jus' sayin'.

[wombat]

You just know that "Rock Python Supersnakes" is a GREAT name for a band.

[nannie-in-indianapolis]

**heaves a 14 foot Rock Python up onto Jeff's bandwagon**

GO COLTS!

**collapses**