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"Bronwyn" <[email protected]> wrote in news:1139271977.729805.197110
@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> LOL Lisa Ann
> Come on over to Oz - spiders are shy, timid things that rarely appear
> to harrass tourists!
> Goodness, I'm lucky to see one a year.

Geeze - what sort of place do you live in that you would only see a spider
a year? Plenty of spiders in my yard, and occasionally making their way
into my house. The majority of them are fairly harmless (huntsmen, garden
spiders, house spiders, daddy long legs, etc.) but we do find redbacks in
the yard and garage. I've not seen any funnelwebs at my place, but this is
supposed to be a bad year for them, and there was a piece in the local
paper about sightings in Penrith.

I certainly wouldn't put on my gardening gloves, or shoes/boots left in the
laundry, without checking for tenants <g>.

--
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
 
"Rhonda Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote

> As far as the snakes and spiders go, they don't usually roam hotels
> looking for tourists to attack <g>. It's pretty easy to avoid being
> bitten - common sense really. Don't approach snakes, don't stick your
> hands or feet into places where you can't see clearly, check your shoes
> and gardening gloves for occupants before putting them on <g>.

Heh ... I remember clearly the day I learned of huntsmen spiders ...
for whatever reason I'd *****ed about a certain someone leaving ****
in the car visor, pull it down and it would fall on me. Quite annoying.
One of your countrymen said he did that, pulled down the visor ...
and a huge huntsmen spider landed on him. That was enough for me.

nancy
 
notbob <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> Does it ever occur to you that the reason the criminals have guns is
>> because of lax gun laws and enforcement?
>

***** to the DEA about their wonderful efforts at solving the drug trade in
front of your kids schools. If you can't do that, don't argue gun law.

Andy
 
"Bronwyn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> This all sounds so foreign to an Aussie - guns in the house - not legal
> here. Sometimes in this ng, I just feel like I'm at the movies LOL.
> (No offence at all meant to anyone, I know it is all very serious to
> you guys.)

Where do the farmers keep their guns there?
Marie
 
On 2006-02-07, Nancy Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> and a huge huntsmen spider landed on him. That was enough for me.

Me too!

They had a episode on one of those nature programs about Australian
spiders. One segment related how a spider caused a woman to have a
near fatal accident. It musta been one of those huntsmen thingie s
because it was freakin' huge. She was driving in her car while
wearing a pair of mid-thigh length shorts. The spider jumped up on
her thigh ...and was as big as her whole thigh!!.... and when she
freaked and tried to knock it off she lost control of her car and
crashed. The announcer said if she'd known how harmless it was, she
wouldn't have panicked. Yeah, right!

Sorry mates, but you'll just have to do without a visit from ol'
notbob. ;)

nb
 
"notbob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 2006-02-07, Nancy Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> and a huge huntsmen spider landed on him. That was enough for me.
>
> Me too!

> because it was freakin' huge. She was driving in her car while
> wearing a pair of mid-thigh length shorts. The spider jumped up on
> her thigh ...and was as big as her whole thigh!!.... and when she
> freaked and tried to knock it off she lost control of her car and
> crashed. The announcer said if she'd known how harmless it was, she
> wouldn't have panicked. Yeah, right!

Oh, no! Is it harmless? is not what would have crossed my mind.
AAAAHHHHHHHH GET IT OFF ME AAAHHHHHHHHH
comes to mind.

nancy
 
"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Whoops! I missed the point of Bronwyn's post. I can shoot well, if I don't
> have to shoot too far.

LOL - sorry, Michael, I read the above and all I could think was, "Miss
Scarlett?"

Lisa Ann
 
"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> "Lisa Ann" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > BTW, I've gotten bats in my apartment too...my cat keeps asking me "If
> > that mouse can fly, why can't I?" I still haven't figured out how
> > they get in!
> >
> > Lisa Ann
>
>
> The TV lives! Another year of FoodTV. ... ??? ... BLAMO!!!
>
> So... exactly how did you explain flying mice to your cat? ;)

I tried to explain that she doesn't have wings...she just glared at me and
didn't talk to me for a few hours.

This is the same cat that after she's played a mouse to death seems to think
I can "fix" it.

Lisa Ann
 
"Lisa Ann" <[email protected]> hitched up their panties and posted
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>
> "Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Whoops! I missed the point of Bronwyn's post. I can shoot well, if I
>> don't have to shoot too far.
>
> LOL - sorry, Michael, I read the above and all I could think was,
> "Miss Scarlett?"
>
> Lisa Ann

ROFL... that would be me.

Michael

--
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.”
_Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's franchise
 
Andy wrote:
> Rhonda Anderson <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > Andy <q> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> >
> >>
> >> Gotta find that dang bat ("little hangers" I call 'em) and let it
> >> out. I'm good at it.
> >
> > What sort of bats are these, Andy? They must be very small ones. We
> > get a lot of bats in the palm trees in our front and back yards, but I
> > wouldn't want to have one in the house because they're a little large.
> > They're fruit bats (locally known as flying foxes) and they're quite a
> > large bat (have a wingspan around 1 metre or larger) - megabats as
> > opposed to the insectivorous microbats (which I assume yours are). I
> > think the little ones are cute too, I just don't see any around here.
> >
> > http://www.sydneybats.org.au/cms/index.php?bat_images
>
>
> I'm talking microbats. Maybe 10" wingspan. Give me a fruit bat any day,
> just keep your snakes and spiders!!!!!
>
> Andy

Nah...those are mid sized bats. Micro bats are the Honduran white bats,
wing span of about 3 inches, body length about 1 inch.

SD
 
"Marie" <[email protected]> wrote in news:dsahi5$c2d1$1
@news3.infoave.net:

> "Bronwyn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> This all sounds so foreign to an Aussie - guns in the house - not legal
>> here. Sometimes in this ng, I just feel like I'm at the movies LOL.
>> (No offence at all meant to anyone, I know it is all very serious to
>> you guys.)
>
> Where do the farmers keep their guns there?

Farmers would keep their guns in their homes.

Saying guns can't be kept in the house isn't quite accurate. It's more that
the laws are quite strict, and it's not all that easy to get a license. The
gun laws differ from state to state, but as far as I'm aware, at least in
NSW, it's possible for licensed gun owners to keep guns on their premises,
but there are strict storage requirements.

--
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
 
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