BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!

Subject: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: robomatic
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:14 PM

Okay, maybe I should wait for more folks to see this motherlovin' flick, but I was fascinated by the marketing, this thing coming from nowhere and taking over, so to speak, unlike the long long pre hype of that prepossessing "Duh Vinci Code". (You couldn't even find a paperback of the thing in the United States for over a year because they could still sell it in overpriced hardcover).

Marketing Marketing Marketing. Snakes! Snakes! Snakes!

It reminded me of a time in college when my intellectual buds invited me to some film I can't remember, my smart buds went to see "Every Which Way But Loose".

So, who's seen it already? Who's "too good" to see it? Who's too cool not to? Who's waiting for the book to come out?

Come on, people! Snakes! On a PLANE!

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:16 PM

Just not interested. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Peace
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:16 PM

"Every Which Way But Loose". I saw that. Twice.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Slag
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:18 PM

Yawn. Snakes is snakes. I've kept them for pets. My son and daughter kept them for pets. The more snakes the merrier and why shouldn't they get to fly too?

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Peace
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:19 PM

OH. Snakes on a plane? That sounds like my kinda flick. However, is the on-board movie something by Monty Python?

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:24 PM

Hope they conform to the new security measures.... packed in the hold in a see through bag....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Peace
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:30 PM

If those snakes have rattles, it's gonna play hell with people's sleep patterns.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 03:39 PM

According to first reports it didn't earn all that much money this weekend. My guess is that it is because an awful lot of girlfriends and wives were not that thrilled at the prospect and demurred. Many people I know are not that fixated on fear.

Most men- especially boys - react differently. Especially in the presence of other boys and men.

I'm not particularly afraid of snakes, although when out hiking I was always cautious about poking my arm into recesses. That said, the premise of venomous snakes falling into the laps of panicked passengers does not thrill me.

I think the whole idea is dumb.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM

I suspect that Snakes on a Plane is a steaming pile of crap

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 04:54 PM

It's probably the snake as phallic symbol thing....oh well.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 05:02 PM

Brought a small dog with me on the plane a few weeks ago- O. K. if the pet container fits under the seat in front of you. Cost me $40 for the animal's fare. Dunno how the current flap affects this carry-on.
When I looked up the restrictions I didn't see any prohibition on snakes. Why should there be if the snake is among those legally sold as pets and is not too large for the carry-on cage?

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 06:21 PM

This theme was covered in a made for TV thriller a few years back - a giant yawn.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: GUEST,Bee
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 06:27 PM

I might see it (on DVD) because Samuel Jackson is in it, but since I rather like snakes, I know I'll end up rooting for the reptiles. And I just hate unhappy endings.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 09:10 PM

I hear they're making a sequel: Poodles on Planes.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 09:52 PM

I'm waiting for "Possums in Headlights" or Armadillas in Grilles" and then I'll go. I did like "Cows on Buses" a lot so maybe this will be okay too.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: bobad
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 09:56 PM

If you can't beat 'em - eat 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 08:32 AM

How about "Funnel Webs in Cars"?

It's already been done in a song by Pat Drummond, here in Oz, the land of all manner of dangerous critters! I played this song for my nephew who was visiting from the UK a few years ago, just by way of a welcome, you know - mwuhahahaha ha ha :-)

Somewhere in the Car (The Spider Song) - Words & Music: Pat Drummond

It came out of the dashboard, barely two foot from her face,
When the heating fan inside the vent began to oscillate.
She could not believe her eyes, she thought the vent had come alive,
As the probing legs came blackly through the grate.

A spiky sheet of fear flew up her back.
She fought to force her fingers to relax;
But with one eye on the grate, she stabbed blindly at the brake,
And the battered Holden skidded off the track.

It squeezed past the plastic, fell forward with a 'plop';
She screamed and watched it run back through the car.
Like a herky-jerky doll, spring-loaded in a box,
She catapulted through the door onto the tar.

The night air hit her body like a blow.
It was very nearly four degrees below.
On the back road to Khancoban, from the lights of Jindabyne,
She'd been running with the coming of the snow.

Chorus: It's somewhere in the Car! Lord, it's somewhere in the car!
The cabin light's not working and the night is deathly dark.
You know there's matches somewhere, but you don't where they are;
And the mongrel thing is Somewhere in the Car!

She'd driven down from Sydney, where it must have got on board.
She knew it was a Funnel Web; she'd seen the things before.
But they're rarely quite as large, or as ugly and as fast,
As the thing that she'd seen running on the floor.

Now she flipped the driver's rear door open wide;
But the moon was gone, she couldn't see inside.
Under the empty biscuit packets and discarded burger wrappers,
There was far too many places it could hide.

Chorus.

(Spoken) So she walked round in front of the Holden and looked at it, as it lay in the ditch like a wounded beast. She knew no one else was coming up the road that night from Khancoban... She wondered what the hell she was going to do.

Now several feet of fallen tree had gone in through the grill
And the one remaining headlight glimmered dimly in the chill.
Then the first few flakes of white spun and danced along the light,
As the blizzard came in howling from the hills.

And the horror of her situation dawned.
She knew she'd freeze unless she sheltered from the storm.
So with every nightmare that she'd known, she climbed back inside the Holden;
Driven by the desperation to be warm.

Through the hours of the darkness she stared into the blackness.
Every muscle in her body quivering in wild alarm;
Every time she thought she heard it as it skittered through the papers;
Every time she thought she felt it on her arm.

And the howling mountain blizzard locked it's fingers 'round their prison
And the storm clouds blotted out the stars.
"Hell, isn't hot at all", she thought, "it's colder than the grave!
And it runs on silent legs inside this car!"

Now the spider died at midnight, frozen by the alpine air,
But as it fell down from the roof... there was a scream of wild despair;
The next day they found her there, with a catatonic stare,
And the Funnel Web still tangled in her hair!

So they searched the woman's body for a bite.
Though there was none, she was dead and icy white.
The coroner said, "Probably, a stress-related coronary."
('cause he didn't want to say she'd died of fright!)

Chorus: It's somewhere in the Car! Lord, it's somewhere in the car!
The cabin light's not working and the night is deathly dark.
You know there's matches somewhere, but you don't where they are - do yer!
And the mongrel thing is Somewhere in the Car!

Now there's a scientist on the Sunday social page
Who's just been married to a girl who's half his age;
While back in his laboratory at Sydney University...
There's a Funnel Web..... that's missing..... from it's cage.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 08:40 AM

eckkkk!

JudyB (posted by Charley Ignoble)

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Tweed
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 09:14 AM

Snakes on a Plane....YAWN????

Goddammit have all you people gotten OLD or what? C'mon now, if you went you'd freak out and have a good time at doing it. Movies don't have to actually mean anything. Sometimes you go just to have fun, like riding a roller coaster at the carnival.

Recapture the wonder of youth. Go see a totally meaningless movie tonite!!

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Emma B
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 04:41 PM

spending a couple of weeks on a Scottish Island - last week some idjit had to be helicoptered out of here 'cos he came across a nest of poisonous snakes and decided to pose for a photo for his mate with one snake in each hand!
Perhaps he should have seen the film?

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: open mike
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 04:50 PM

there are poisonous snakes in scotland? or on islands near scotland?

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 04:58 PM

The Adder is the only British poisonous snake.

It bite is very seldom lethal, & they arent much interested in biting humans, though nevertheless, a few people each year ARE bitten by them, usually through being stupid or careless, & not letting the Adder go about its own business.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Emma B
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 05:02 PM

well last year there were 100 Adder bites recorded in the UK - this dim-wit got 6 of them!

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 05:06 PM

My daughter saw it and said it was scary and fun. It sounds like the kind of popcorn flick that normally would be a nice diversion, accept

I cannot stand snakes. I know, I know. Don't call PETA on me, I would not harm them (although a couple of glue traps would be fitting!!).   Nearly everytime we go for a hike, I am the one who nearly steps on a snake or scares one to scoot out across our path.   

I realize it is just in my head, but a film like that would give me nightmares.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 05:07 PM

... typo. The first parapgraph was supposed to end "except I hate snakes."

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 05:08 PM

eep! as many as that?

I would have GUESSED at a yearly average of maybe 1 or 2 dozen at most.... though its a few years now since I been particularly 'outdoorsy', & even then it seems like it was a lot less than yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Peace
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 05:13 PM

"Recapture the wonder of youth. Go see a totally meaningless movie tonite!!"

Absolutely.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 05:14 PM

'Saturday night at the movies - who cares what picture we see'

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 05:41 PM

'Saturday night at the movies - who cares what picture we see'

That kept drive-ins alive for several decades. They are actually makeing a comeback! Several new drive ins have opened up this year. I would love to see them again!

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: robomatic
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 08:19 PM

I find snakes incredibly beautiful in form and function. Hypnotic to watch in action. There was a scene on NPR of a snake hanging from a tree in order to catch any bat it could latch onto as thousands of them were leaving their daytime lairs. It snatched one out of the air and slowly manipulated it to swallow it tail first, it's helpless leathery appendages compressed out ahead of it and its screaming little face to be seen right to the bitter end.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 08:59 PM

Snakes aren't scary, they're neat.

So, is this a horror film or a comedy?

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 09:11 PM

Just saw Samuel L. Jackson talking about "muthafuckin' snakes on a muthafuckin' plane" on "The Daily Show", and I & my teen-aged sons are now totally convinced that we need to see it; it sounds completely ridiculous, which can't be completely bad!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Peace
Date: 21 Aug 06 - 10:09 PM

"Anaconda" made me swear off canoeing the Amazon. "Arachnophobia" made me swear off anything to do with jungles and backpacks. "Jaws" made me swear off swimming in the ocean. "Piranha" made me swear off fresh-water swimming. "Grizzly" made me swear off of the woods. "Alien" made me swear off space. "Poltergeist" made me swear off TV and suburbs. I ain't watchin' anymore friggin' animal movies.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: robomatic
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 01:28 AM

Bruce, I've got one word for ya:




"Willard"

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 01:46 AM

hahahah

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 03:34 AM

Today's useless information about adders, the only indigenous venomous snake in the UK.

It's shy, it's happiest getting out of your way unless you're a)stupid enough to pick it up; b) unobservant enough to step on it whilst wearing sandals or bare feet; c) blessed with the sort of friends who think it funny to hide snakes in your boots/bag/bed.

People who have been bitten don't usually die, they're fairly poorly for a while, but deaths are usually because of existing heart conditions or allergic reaction to the anti-venom. The last set of stats I have (1980something), showed that more people died as a result of the allergy than they did from the snake bite.

I used to live in Dorset, the only place in the UK where all our indigenous snakes and lizards can be found living in one area. The only adder I've ever seen was retreating at a rate of knots.

I like snakes too.... I'd be rooting for the reptiles.

Peace - whatever you do, don't go and see 'Christine' or 'Cujo' - you'll never get in a car with a dog again!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 04:04 AM

Peace...

Get a life

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 05:37 AM

Clinton...

I give YOU the same advice...

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Grab
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 06:32 AM

Clinton, it can't be worse than any of the three Star Wars prequels, now can it? Even Doom and Aeon Flux managed to be better films than them.

I'll probably rent the DVD, but I doubt I'll see it at the cinema unless I'm really bored that weekend.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 08:00 AM

Steaks on a plane! Cheap cuts of meat! Cheap plastic cutlery.

Now there is a horror story.

Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: Peace
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 06:41 PM

"Subject: RE: BS: We've Got Motherlovin' Snakes!
From: ClintonHammond - PM
Date: 22 Aug 06 - 04:04 AM

Peace...

Get a life"

OK. And while I'm at it, you get a personality. Have a NICE day.