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February 25, 2012

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS?

Researchers at Ohio State University have found the more a person is afraid of spiders, the bigger they estimate the arthropods to be when confronted by one.

(Thanks to The Perts)

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Similarly, women who are NOT afraid of men, do a sort of inversely proportional thing...

That explains why that 1.5-pound lobster I ordered was so small.

Spiders don't bother me at all. In fact I've picked them up and put them outside when I've seen them in the house. However, show me a snake and my first impulse is to scream, kill it kill it kill it, until someone either slaps me or actually kills the snake. I'm sure snakes can be our friends but, I don't care if it slithers up to me with a box of candy and a bouquet of flowers, I don't like them.

Your tax dollars at oh, never mind.

there ARE NO 'little' spiders

Thank you, Professor Renfield.

*agrees with ligirl*

The bigger the spider, the bigger the mosquitoes it can eat.

Afraid of those little things?

Spiders, not a problem, snakes not a problem, crickets! Kill them all!!!

Yes! Crickets!
My elderly, blind mother had a visitor once. My mother asked for help finding that cricket that had been "singing" for days and driving her crazy.
Soon as the visitor changed the battery in the smoke detector, the cricket left.
BTW, tarantulas LOVE crickets but the bugs don't love them back.

♫ I remember when Mary Lou said
"You wanna walk me home from school"
And I said, "Yes, I do"
She said, "I don't have to go right home
And I'm the kind that likes to be alone
As long as you would"
I said, "Me, too"

And so we took a stroll
Wound up down by the swimmin' hole
And she said, "Do what you want to do"
I got silly and I found a frog
In the water by a hollow log
And I shook it at her
And I said "This frog's for you"

She said, "I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I want to be loved by you"

Actual lyrics from the Jim Stafford song

Most guys see a spider like this but after they tell the story, it has magically become this.

But I also don't like spiders, snakes, raccoons, and
crabs, and hos. Just my experiences....

Spiders suck.

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