BS: spider bite!!!

Subject: RE: BS: spider bite!!!
From: Peace
Date: 01 May 05 - 01:53 PM

How to Make a Board" by Dave Barry. (It mentions spiders.)

Great piece of humourous writing. Hope it helps cheer you up, Chuck. Uh, let me restate that: Hope it helps cheer you up, Tarheel.

Subject: RE: BS: spider bite!!!
From: Peace
Date: 01 May 05 - 06:01 PM

A father watched his daughter playing in the garden.
He smiled as he reflected on how sweet and innocent his little girl was.
Suddenly she just stopped and stared at the ground. He went over to her and noticed she was looking at two spiders mating.
"Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?" she asked.
"They're mating," her father replied.
"What do you call the spider on top, Daddy?" she asked.
"That's a Daddy Longlegs." Her father answered.
"So, the other one is a Mommy Longlegs?" the little girl asked.
"No," her father replied. "Both of them are Daddy Longlegs."
The little girl thought for a moment, then took her foot and stomped them flat.

"That might be OK in California, but we'll have none of that shit in Texas"

Subject: RE: BS: spider bite!!!
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 01 May 05 - 06:24 PM

Hahaha!

Seriously, though....this thread is creepy....

Subject: RE: BS: spider bite!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 05 - 07:02 PM

I have allergic reactions to spider bites. A few years back one bite grew a brown tumor which appeared suspicious so it was biopsied. The lab results indicated that I had a malignant growth spreading under my skin and only a few weeks to live. Two specialist later, it was decided that I might have other symptoms if I were about to die and in fact it was an allergic reaction. I kept the lab report for my scrap book.

I love spiders. Not sure why but I carefully put them out of harm's (cat's) way. Last year I had a huge spider in a web just outside my front door. The web was spectacular especially when misty with dew. Hopefully, her family will return. There were thousands of tiny babies when the egg casing opened. Don't know about poisonous spiders in Maine.

But did anyone ever read the scifi classic "Prometheus Plague" ( or is it spider?) Firefly type roaches that start fires, communicate with each other and plan attacks. Burn every major city in the US to the ground. Great stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: spider bite!!!
From: open mike
Date: 02 May 05 - 01:31 PM

I heard of someone who had a brown recluse bite
which actually causes the bone in his finger to
be dissolved and needed to be replaced. Spider
bites often result in digestive enzyme fluids
actually digesting the flesh where the bite is.
Sometimes the only treatmet is to cut around the
tissue before the juices can spread. I guess
spiders do not get heart burn or indigestion ??

i have heard that about "grand daddy long legs"
having poisonous venom, but jaws that are not
able to pirece human skin.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2060.html

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2060B.html