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28 Nov 07 - 09:46 AM (#2203846) Subject: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: Uncle_DaveO Let us raise our voices in song, on this creepy subject! SPRINGFIELD, Missouri (AP) -- Felicia Daniels wants to be a veterinarian when she grows up. She's off to a good start. When the pet tarantula in Felicia's eighth-grade classroom took a tumble and cracked its abdomen, the students reassembled its innards, closed it up with Super Glue and apparently saved the creature's life. "It looked kind of gross," said Felicia, who had the task of applying the glue. "At first I thought it was going to make me sick. But then it looked kind of cool." The spider, named Sir Isaac Newton, lives in an aquarium in Carolyn Mulkey's science classroom at Study Middle School. Sir Isaac's brush with death occurred Thursday as Mulkey was trying to hand the spider to student Charity Thomas. The spider tried to make a break for it but instead fell about 4 feet to the floor. "I heard it," Mulkey said. "He thunked when he hit pretty hard." Hitting the floor cut the tarantula's abdomen open. Student Chris Davis had a brainstorm: surgery and Super Glue. He and the guilt-stricken Charity, by then ready "to do anything to save his life," donned plastic gloves and used a Popsicle stick to push the spider's vital organs back in place before Felicia applied the glue. Still, there was no real hope that Sir Isaac Newton would recover. The defenseless spider was rather lethargic in post-op. "I assumed I would come in this morning and he would be dead," Mulkey said Friday. Instead, she found a sluggish but hungry spider munching on a mealworm. And as famed commentator Nathaniel Harari told The DAILY DOSE! via email, "What I want to know is why kids are handling tarantula spiders in the eighth grade...?" Dave Oesterreich |
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28 Nov 07 - 10:10 AM (#2203860) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: MMario Sir Isaac was a spider, lived in the "Show Me" State Inside glass aquarium, in Springfield school, grade eight. Now just like Humpty Dumpty, Sir Isaac took a fall Tarantula cracked open; much to the dismay of all. |
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28 Nov 07 - 11:18 AM (#2203910) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: Charley Noble But unlike Humpty Dumpty, Sir Isaac's body was renewed, When he was made whole again with the help of Super-Glue. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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28 Nov 07 - 11:21 AM (#2203915) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: MMario I thought that it would make me sick, but it looked kind of cool Said spider surgeon Felicia; when interviewed at school. |
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28 Nov 07 - 10:25 PM (#2204393) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: Charley Noble Yah! |
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29 Nov 07 - 03:04 AM (#2204461) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: GUEST Sir Isaac Newton, spider,didn't climb the spout, He fell from Mulkeys hand you see, and landed with a clout. Out spilled his innards, all on the classroom floor, Was this the end for Isaac, would he live no more? Children from the eighth grade, all were wondering whether, With a little superglue,they'd put him back together. So with surgical popsicle stick, they restored his little belly, But now it looks quite hideous, like custard, cream and jelly. |
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29 Nov 07 - 11:34 AM (#2204736) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: Flash Company The Springfield Wager Now Felicia Daniels a vet she would be, Although she is still in eighth grade, And when poor Sir Isaac lay broke on the ground, A wager she instantly made. A wager, a wager, a wager she cried, I'll bet one dollar to your ten, That though poor Sir Isaac lies broke on yhe ground, I will put him together again. She quickly assembled her medical team, Chris Davis and Charity T, They soon were scrubbed up, and in plastic gloves, They began to perform surgery. Poor Sir Isaac's insides were all outside, I fear, It looked like the end of his life, But she poked them back in with a popsicle stick, And saved the tarantula's life. A whole tube of Loctite was brought into play, It's really quick setting you see, It sealed up his tummy in quite a neat way, He was groggy, but fit as a flea. The Science Teacher thought he'd not live through the night, She was wrong, he was there the next day, Sat munching a mealworm with obvious delight, And saying 'Felicia, let's play!' FC Never thought I'd write a song about a spider! |
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29 Nov 07 - 03:28 PM (#2204942) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Surgery on a Tarantula From: Georgiansilver Sorry..GUEST above was me...minus cookie |