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Title: Spidy...
Post by: trievalot on Wed, 19 May 2010, 08:20:14: ...is dead now
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Post by: Rajagra on Wed, 19 May 2010, 09:03:44: Sorry for your loss. Spiders make wonderful pets. They are loving and affectionate and rid your house of pesky flies. And unlike cats and dogs you never see their crap on the carpet. Farewell, Spidey. :rip:
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Post by: zerocool on Wed, 19 May 2010, 09:32:25: sorry man, Spiders are miss understood pets.
they look scary but can be cute in their own furry way
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Post by: hyperlinked on Wed, 19 May 2010, 10:42:47: Uh... thanks for sharing?

I've a mild fear of spiders myself, but thankfully less so of one of the more common spiders around my house: the Wolf spider. There are a few funny facts about Wolf spiders.

They don't catch their prey with a web. They run them down and catch them.

Some researchers studied escape strategies of wolf spiders (http://www.jstor.org/pss/3706387). They found the ones with the fastest sprint speeds were more likely to run for it if approached by danger. The slow ones would play dead in hopes of not drawing attention to itself.

Female wolf spiders carry their babies on their abdomen.
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Post by: ricercar on Wed, 19 May 2010, 10:55:59: We have a spidy web over our kitchen waste can, trapping bugs on their way to our discarded food. It must feed enough, but we never see what it feeds on.
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Post by: audioave10 on Wed, 19 May 2010, 11:57:49: Sorry...

(http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/davidpatonred/pic10.jpg)
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Post by: Rajagra on Wed, 19 May 2010, 14:50:05: Quote from: hyperlinked;184151
There are a few funny facts about Wolf spiders. They don't catch their prey with a web. They run them down and catch them.

The Dutch Duck-hunting Spider disguises its web as drain covers...

(http://www.g-ray.co.uk/pictures/436r.jpg)
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Post by: kishy on Wed, 19 May 2010, 14:57:03: That's both sad and funny at the same time.
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Post by: wellington1869 on Wed, 19 May 2010, 15:11:58: Quote from: trievalot;184084
...is dead now

thats sad. I once had a pet mouse named alexander, and a large flying cockroach named Wilhelm. Sadly Wilhelm met his demise under a sustained spray from a Raid can I owned, while alexander died tragically young when he accidentally stepped into an Intruder mousetrap I had set in the middle of the room.
However, all is not lost. I now have three bedbugs named inky, winky, and Katamaroo, and I expect to have them until the exterminator shows up this weekend. They're nice.
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Post by: ricercar on Wed, 19 May 2010, 17:05:41: That's not Godzilla, that's Totoro.
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Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 19 May 2010, 17:24:13: Quote from: kishy;184292
That's both sad and funny at the same time.

Well the dumb duck shouldn't have walked over the steel grate...
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Post by: audioave10 on Wed, 19 May 2010, 22:44:26: Ripster...are all of those toys yours?
If so, you were a spoiled child.
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Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 19 May 2010, 22:54:15: Quote from: audioave10;184494
Ripster...are all of those toys yours?
If so, you were a spoiled child.

He bought them for "his kid," but now that "his kid" has grown up, ripster can finally enjoy all of the toys to himself.
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Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 19 May 2010, 23:10:23: Quote from: ripster;184505
My son is a spoiled child. He has always been fascinated by spiders.

The first one is from the Sydney Museum. The Sydney Funnel-Web spiders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider) are all over the Sydney area - nasty poisonous things. Usually not fatal.

Warning Position
Show Image
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Atrax_robustus.jpg/220px-Atrax_robustus.jpg)

Spoiled... just like his father =p
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Post by: audioave10 on Wed, 19 May 2010, 23:38:34: I missed out on the spoiler party. I made up for it through my daughter. She has a nice house...I don't (that should tell you something.
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Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 20 May 2010, 00:00:43: Quote from: ripster;184519
Everybody in America is spoiled. Canadians are always bitter about that.

There are spoiled people in canada, it's the whiny french in quebec. The funny thing is, if they really seperated from the rest of canada, they wouldn't be leeching our oil money and would go completely bankrupt. Quebec is unique in that it's not self-sustaining and wastes unbelievable amounts of money.
At least they have IBM computers that I can buy lol.
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Post by: ricercar on Thu, 20 May 2010, 03:58:36: This is America. I spoil my spiders.

(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=10154&stc=1&d=1274345884)

Not to be topical or anything.
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Post by: vils on Tue, 15 November 2011, 03:03:45: Does anyone recognize this spider found in a banana crate:
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(It used to have 8 legs)

Edit: seems to be a Hapalopus sp. Colombia (http://www.google.com/search?q=Hapalopus+sp.+Colombia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N)
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Post by: Hydroid on Fri, 18 November 2011, 00:30:20: I also have a mild fear of spiders that developed into a pretty bad fear of them when I moved here to Sydney. ^^ In South Africa they have spiders, but they aren't everywhere, you'll find one every so often. Here however, ever crack and corner around the house seems to have spiders. Really makes my casual job doing Window Washing in Summers suck because my boss insists that although we are "Window" washers we remove spiders and webs too and guess who is the lucky person that task always falls upon...yeup you guessed it. fml -__- I need to take a pay cut and go work in a store and be happier.