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Bartlett, IL
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I was out at brunch with my family once, and we saw a toddler fall down. I said “what a newb!”. My teenage kid thought it was hilarious, my wife just glared at me.
Quoted from jeffspinballpalace:Would you have that duvet in your home? It gives me the creeps. big ole snakes crawling around, yuck! I went to a snake museum one time in TN. The final room was the gift shop and I was wondering around it. Saw a dog crate that was open and then looked and saw two pythons slowly inching their way across the room. No thanks. I don’t feel safe shutting my eyes when things are moving around the damn room that can eat me.
I've kept and bred reptiles for over 30 years, I've shared my room with reticulated pythons (look em up if you don't know) and monitor lizards plenty of times, once slept in a hotel room with cobras, adders, boomslangs and rattlers, slept like a baby. Snakes are just doing their jobs, nothing scary about that. You must love rodents!
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Quoted from ZooDude:I've kept and bred reptiles for over 30 years, I've shared my room with reticulated pythons (look em up if you don't know) and monitor lizards plenty of times, once slept in a hotel room with cobras, adders, boomslangs and rattlers, slept like a baby. Snakes are just doing their jobs, nothing scary about that. You must love rodents!
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Name checks out. 
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Quoted from ZooDude:I've kept and bred reptiles for over 30 years, I've shared my room with reticulated pythons (look em up if you don't know) and monitor lizards plenty of times, once slept in a hotel room with cobras, adders, boomslangs and rattlers, slept like a baby. Snakes are just doing their jobs, nothing scary about that. You must love rodents!
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Snakes are awesome, and anyway it was Eve that got us kicked out of the garden. Snake was just offering bad advice.
Quoted from ZooDude:You must love rodents!
Funny. I like turtles. I spent 5 years roaming five burrows and NYC subways with some pretty tuff rats. You haven’t lived until you’ve staggered back to hotel at 4 am and seen a rat dragging food under a steel door and into their unoccupied building. They don’t give a darn about me standing there. Rodents have “shifty” eyes and are unpredictable, making for lousy friends.
I wanted to be a herpetologist so badly. I used to breed Poison Arrow Frogs(dendrobates pumilio, auratus) for years. The problem is the flightless fruit flies were EVERYWHERE in the house. I miss the frogs though.
Quoted from ZooDude:I've kept and bred reptiles for over 30 years, I've shared my room with reticulated pythons (look em up if you don't know) and monitor lizards plenty of times, once slept in a hotel room with cobras, adders, boomslangs and rattlers, slept like a baby. Snakes are just doing their jobs, nothing scary about that. You must love rodents!
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Regina, SK
Quoted from Zartan:I wanted to be a herpetologist so badly. I used to breed Poison Arrow Frogs(dendrobates pumilio, auratus) for years. The problem is the flightless fruit flies were EVERYWHERE in the house. I miss the frogs though.
So the only problem with breeding frogs was the fruit flies? I would assume it would be holding their legs apart. 
Quoted from jeffspinballpalace:Rodents have “shifty” eyes and are unpredictable, making for lousy friends.
Hey now!
Quoted from ZooDude:I've kept and bred reptiles for over 30 years, I've shared my room with reticulated pythons (look em up if you don't know) and monitor lizards plenty of times, once slept in a hotel room with cobras, adders, boomslangs and rattlers, slept like a baby. Snakes are just doing their jobs, nothing scary about that. You must love rodents!
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I gotta ask why were those in your hotel room?
We get copper heads around here.
Quoted from YZRider926:I gotta ask why were those in your hotel room?
We get copper heads around here.
I was at a "hot" show ( a reptile show where venomous animals are sold) with some other herpetoculturists and in the hotel rooms was where people were trading and selling "questionable" animals. I remember knocking on one guys door and he said " get in here quick, there's an Ethiopian viper loose!" , If you know anything about vipers, that is not one you'd mess with. I did go in the room and we quickly caught the little bastard.
I design and build zoo exhibits for a living and have been in the exotics trade all my life, so a hotel room filled with dangerous animals is pretty par for course with me.
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Quoted from ZooDude:I was at a "hot" show ( a reptile show where venomous animals are sold) with some other herpetoculturists and in the hotel rooms was where people were trading and selling "questionable" animals. I remember knocking on one guys door and he said " get in here quick, there's an Ethiopian viper loose!" , If you know anything about vipers, that is not one you'd mess with. I did go in the room and we quickly caught the little bastard.
I design and build zoo exhibits for a living and have been in the exotics trade all my life, so a hotel room filled with dangerous animals is pretty par for course with me.
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Haha screw that. But ill be the first to admit I’m not a fan of snakes but don’t bother to really understand them and definitely don’t mess with them. I do know they aren't as dangerous as people think. By that I mean, yeah they can hurt you and in some circumstances kill you, but they aren’t out to hurt or kill you.
Quoted from ZooDude:I was at a "hot" show ( a reptile show where venomous animals are sold) with some other herpetoculturists and in the hotel rooms was where people were trading and selling "questionable" animals. I remember knocking on one guys door and he said " get in here quick, there's an Ethiopian viper loose!" , If you know anything about vipers, that is not one you'd mess with. I did go in the room and we quickly caught the little bastard.
I design and build zoo exhibits for a living and have been in the exotics trade all my life, so a hotel room filled with dangerous animals is pretty par for course with me.
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All I got from that story is you met a guy in a hotel room and helped him with his snake. But seriously, that sounds sketchy as hell. Trading poisonous animals in hotel rooms. That's the kind of thing you see on the news with 23 FBI agents busting down doors.
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Quoted from freeplay3:All I got from that story is you met a guy in a hotel room and helped him with his snake. But seriously, that sounds sketchy as hell. Trading poisonous animals in hotel rooms. That's the kind of thing you see on the news with 23 FBI agents busting down doors.
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yeah, I guess I've help a bunch of guys with their snakes.....wait that doesn't sound right.
The crazy part is the hot shows in Texas/Ohio etc where they openly sell gabon vipers and cobras to 14 year old kids, stupid if you ask me, but I don't make the laws.
Love the reptile memes, keep em coming but please remember, there's no such thing as a poisonous snake, poison is when you eat it, venom is when it eats you.
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Quoted from ZooDude:there's no such thing as a poisonous snake, poison is when you eat it, venom is when it eats you.
False dichotomy. Venoms are a type of poison.
"In biology, poisons are substances that can cause death, injury or harm to organs, tissues, cells, and DNA usually by chemical reactions or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism is exposed to a sufficient quantity."
Having a poison injected by a snake is a particularly efficient way of exposing the organism to a sufficient quantity, so we call that kind of poison a venom. Doesn’t make it not a poison.
I feel like I’m living in a simulation. I walked outsand the 4 neighborhood dog-walkers were all gathered together in the street, talking about snakes. They talked about snakes the whole time I was out there cleaning my car. I never said a word.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:False dichotomy. Venoms are a type of poison.
"In biology, poisons are substances that can cause death, injury or harm to organs, tissues, cells, and DNA usually by chemical reactions or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism is exposed to a sufficient quantity."
Having a poison injected by a snake is a particularly efficient way of exposing the organism to a sufficient quantity, so we call that kind of poison a venom. Doesn’t make it not a poison.
go away, snakes don't carry poison, they carry venom, try again.
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If you read the Confessional, you learn that it’s kittens that are poisonous, not snakes. Just ask JohnnyPinball007
It's so cute when someone tries to sound pedantic while incorrect.
Quoted from ZooDude:go away, snakes don't carry poison, they carry venom, try again.
How can I try again if I go away?
If the venom snakes carry is non-poisonous, I don't know why anyone is worried about being bit. You go away, nyah nyah!
Here's another definition of poison, maybe you can attempt some reading comprehension this time:
"Poison: Any substance that can cause severe organ damage or death if ingested, breathed in, injected into the body or absorbed through the skin."
I'll help: Note it does not say "injected into the body (unless by a snake)". It does say "any substance" which anyone can see would include venoms.
I can see where someone might think "poisonous snake" might sound like someone might eat the snake, but, no:
"adjective: poisonous (of an animal) producing poison as a means of attacking enemies or prey; venomous."
Try finding a definition of "venom" that doesn't mention that it is poisonous!
By the way, all fruits are vegetables, too!
Gilligan's Island
Columbus, Ohio was infamous for it! All you had to do was ask!
Quoted from ZooDude:yeah, I guess I've help a bunch of guys with their snakes.....wait that doesn't sound right.
The crazy part is the hot shows in Texas/Ohio etc where they openly sell gabon vipers and cobras to 14 year old kids, stupid if you ask me, but I don't make the laws.
Love the reptile memes, keep em coming but please remember, there's no such thing as a poisonous snake, poison is when you eat it, venom is when it eats you.
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Quoted from DanQverymuch:It's so cute when someone tries to sound pedantic while incorrect.
How can I try again if I go away?
If the venom snakes carry is non-poisonous, I don't know why anyone is worried about being bit. You go away, nyah nyah!
Here's another definition of poison, maybe you can attempt some reading comprehension this time:
"Poison: Any substance that can cause severe organ damage or death if ingested, breathed in, injected into the body or absorbed through the skin."
I'll help: Note it does not say "injected into the body (unless by a snake)". It does say "any substance" which anyone can see would include venoms.
I can see where someone might think "poisonous snake" might sound like someone might eat the snake, but, no:
"adjective: poisonous (of an animal) producing poison as a means of attacking enemies or prey; venomous."
Try finding a definition of "venom" that doesn't mention that it is poisonous!
By the way, all fruits are vegetables, too!
I bet you are a blast at parties. You can drink the venom from snakes, people do it in some Asian countries as a right of passage, it won't kill you as it's not poison, it will kill you if you have open wounds in your mouth, throat or stomach where it can be absorbed into the blood stream but hey, I'm not arguing semantics with you on a thread about memes on a pinball site, this is all just supposed to be fun. If anyone wonders why the internet sucks it's this. You can be right dude, I don't care, you win!you're the winner.!! Happy? Now please, go away.
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Nice, start with an ad hominem.
Quoted from ZooDude:I bet you are a blast at parties. You can drink the venom from snakes, people do it in some Asian countries as a right of passage, it won't kill you as it's not poison, it will kill you if you have open wounds in your mouth, throat or stomach where it can be absorbed into the blood stream but hey, I'm not arguing semantics with you on a thread about memes on a pinball site, this is all just supposed to be fun. If anyone wonders why the internet sucks it's this. You can be right dude, I don't care, you win!you're the winner.!! Happy? Now please, go away.
You brought it up (see below), I was merely trying to set you straight. I even own a snake, but what you purported is just a stupid thing snake people say. I'll go away when I'm damn good and ready. I "can be right" because I am right. It is irrelevant if people safely drink snake venom, that is not the only way poisons get introduced, as I pointed out before.
Quoted from ZooDude:please remember, there's no such thing as a poisonous snake, poison is when you eat it, venom is when it eats you.
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Yes, this is why the internet sucks... when you are wrong! I think it's awesome! I'm having loads of fun! And we were given the green light to be as off topic as we want a few pages back, try to keep up!
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ca.movies.yahoo.com, really? I guess they know English better than the OED?
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