Thanks guys, I didn't want to sleep tonight anyways...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCu0LBsFi4k

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How's yalls' Chick-fil-a boycott working out?

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Well played, Waffle15...well played.

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I just saw the biggest spider in my life go in my truck. I rolled up my window and I'm wondering if the heat will kill it? What temp will that sucker burn to death?

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If he's that big and he gets too hot, he'll just start the truck and turn on the air conditioner.

Or he might just open the windows.

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I HATE wolf spiders. They are aggressive.

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On two separate occasions, I've been in the shower washing my hair with my eyes closed when I felt something climbing my leg. In both cases I opened my eyes, looked down, and saw a wolf spider on my leg.

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This thread made me laugh. OP, be careful cuz if you go to kill it and miss, it will probably jump in your hair and lay eggs in your ear.

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When I lived in the Front Porch House on Church Street, I got off the telephone one day and then saw little bitty baby spiders running around by the handset.

The rest of that day, until I took a shower that night, every time I brushed my hand against my hair, I'd dislodge more spiders from it.

Apparently a huge bunch of spiders had just hatched about the time I picked up the telephone handset.

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Surprisingly, with all of my travels and all my years living abroad in the desert of El Paso and Phoenix, I never crossed paths with a tarantula.

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I remember seeing a large tarantula in the parking lot at Sonic on University Drive in College Station during Willie Nelson's picnic in 1974. The only tarantula I ever remember seeing in Aggieland although I've seen plenty elsewhere.

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Been very close to:

Rattlesnakes

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I fell on top of a rattlesnake once.

My dad said that he couldn't tell which of us was the more upset about it -- me or the rattlesnake. We were both trying to get away from each other as fast as we could.

I was bit by a brown recluse on my leg in my old apartment in College Station. I thought it was just a harmless spider bite when I found it. I took my hunting knife and popped the thing. The next day there was a very painful hole in my leg. That's when I went to the doctor. There is still a scar on my leg from that incident.

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I fell on top of a rattlesnake once.
My dad said that he couldn't tell which of us was the more upset about it -- me or the rattlesnake. We were both trying to get away from each other as fast as we could.

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Just this last week my cousin stepped on a rattlesnake. They were picking cotton and he had stopped and walked to the truck to get a beer. It was dark and he said he heard the rattle but thought it was something else. When he realized what it was he jumped higher than he had ever jumped before. Ended up being a rattler about a foot and a half long. You could see on the outer edge of his boot where the rattler had struck. He has always been a lucky son of a b****.

The time I fell on top of a rattlesnake, I don't think it tried to strike me at all. If it did try, it had a "target rich environment".

I wasn't real sure that I hadn't been struck. I fell onto the rattlesnake from the top of a fiberglass spray tank covered in a herbicide. My dad backed up to try to run over the snake and I slid off the tank between the tractor and the sprayer and landed on the snake. In the process, I skinned my back in several places and got herbicide in it which stung quite a bit.

After I fell, my dad drove the tractor (I rode on the back of the tank) back to the house and I went in and took a shower to wash the herbicide off. Once I had washed it out good, most of the stinging went away and so I figured that it must not have got me.

I've had fairly close encounters with rattlesnakes on other occasions. When I was about a first or second grader, my oldest brother threw us a set of truck keys from a combine. I ran out to get the keys and as I reached down to get the keys, I saw a rattlesnake about 6 to 12 inches from my hand.

Once in high school, my younger brother and I were lifting up a farm implement so we could slide it into the back of a pickup. after we got it balanced on one side, I saw that there was a rattlesnake coiled up about a foot from my right leg. I didn't want to drop the implement back on the ground because it was so hard to lift into a balanced position on its side so I held the implement up while my younger brother went back to the house to get a rifle and then came back and shot the snake. That took about ten minutes or so.

One thing we occasionally had to do was to move a stock tank from one field or pasture to another. I always made sure that the stock tank was completely empty first. If I was by myself, I'd grab it and pull it more than the diameter of the tank and then go around to the other side to see if there were any rattlesnakes under it.

One day someone was helping me who had never done that before. He walked up to the tank and started to bend over to grab it by the bottom and lift. I told him to back off and do it my way. Since I had help, we both picked up on the tank from the top until it was at about 45 degree angle and we could look under it. Sure enough, there were three rattlesnakes under the tank close to where he was going to put his fingers under to lift the tank, one less than 6 inches away.

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