I mentioned, in a previous post, the "saber-tooth" spiders we have here. While I was looking for an image of a retro T-shirt of @"BIAD" for another post, I ran across some photos of one, which I will drop in here:
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You can fairly easily see the saber-tooth fangs I refer to on his business end. And it has stripes, like any other self-respecting tiger! It's hairy, but it ain't a tarantula. I once saw some Indians in Panama eat some tarantulas, like they were eating crab or something. They used the fangs, after their meal, to pick their teeth with... and the tarantula fangs were even bigger than these.
This one was already dead when I found it in the kitchen floor. I didn't worry about it so much as I worried about what was able to kill it that I never saw!
Bonus denizens of my jungle here -
A local mosquito, trying to break into my house through the deck door:
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One of our giant millipedes. This one was about 7 inches long, and someone had run over it with a car, thinking they were killing a snake:
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You can fairly easily see the saber-tooth fangs I refer to on his business end. And it has stripes, like any other self-respecting tiger! It's hairy, but it ain't a tarantula. I once saw some Indians in Panama eat some tarantulas, like they were eating crab or something. They used the fangs, after their meal, to pick their teeth with... and the tarantula fangs were even bigger than these.
This one was already dead when I found it in the kitchen floor. I didn't worry about it so much as I worried about what was able to kill it that I never saw!
Bonus denizens of my jungle here -
A local mosquito, trying to break into my house through the deck door:
One of our giant millipedes. This one was about 7 inches long, and someone had run over it with a car, thinking they were killing a snake:
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’