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Spider cleared of causing flesh-eating ulcer?
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... donald j haarmann wrote: "jg" "Trish Brown" wrote in message ... ............. Have you never performed the Dance of Fear and Loathing as you frantically slapped at your body and bellowed 'Where'sthespider?Where'sthespider?Where'sthespide r?' to any and all onlookers? ...all onlookers? - they're releasing 'em in your garage, T, bringing deckchairs just to watch the show --------- Your toooooooooooo late. The "Tarantella" goes back to 1374! If not earlier. http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3tartla.htm -- donald j haarmann - independently dubious Well, IMHO, we here in Oz ought to instigate an Eriophorella in honour of that deadly and dangerous foe, the Garden Orb Weaver. I reckon Tarantulas have *nuthin'* on the cold, vicelike constriction felt around the heart of an _Eriophora_ victim as s/he realises the inexorability of being confronted by the owner of the web that just stuck fast in their face and hair! Be dubious no longer! The cardiac complications of Intimate Contact with a Garden Orb Weaver have to be experienced to be believed! You *must* concede the point here! When have you *ever* walked innocently into an _Eriophora_ web and - - walked calmly out again? Ppbblfft! Do you *really* want me to believe you weren't suddenly afflicted by a compulsion to dance and flap your arms about? To kick your legs up and stomp your feet? To whirl about, shaking and waving? Just because it's older, doesn't mean the Tarantella is any more indicative of Tarantular Deadliness than an Eriophorella might be of Orb Weaver Worry! Even the Sydney Funnel Web pales in comparison, I feel! When you have eyeball to eyeballs contact with a Funnel Web in your garden, you know perfectly well what you're faced with. Times eight! You evacuate forthwith and then you leave the vicinity. Walk into an Orb Weaver web and it's the Unknown that undoes one. Who knows where the spider is? Could be in your hair. Could be in your ear. Could be in the bush/tree/post from which the web was strung. Who knows? Could be walking up your leg with designs on biting a hunk out of your - er - body. Are you complacent enough, indeed sanguine enough to just *stand* there and *not* do the Dance of Fear and Loathing? It's not your fear (which I share), it's the wonderfully colourful description which promises a hugely entertaining spectacle. |
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