so, yeah...like I was sayin'...

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in case you didn't read or "get" the link: Ophidiophobia Warning
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[NYC_SKP]

1. Cook it up!

It looks like it was easily > 4 foot (before you chopped it's head off).

[Kali]

5. I can freeze it up and overnite it to you

[NYC_SKP]

7. I'd chop him up and fry him wit some bacone, baby!

Chopped up with some eggs and some honions and dayum!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Wow, what a monster, my dear Kali!

[Kali]

6. yeah, pretty good size

head was as big as my clenched fist

I leave them alone out away from the house, but if they come in the corrals, barn or yard (or house!) they lose their heads.

[OriginalGeek]

3. Wait - is that a thing?

Light sockets that blow up bulbs way too fast?

Because it seems like my kitchen light blows it's bulbs every month or two...and it has ever since we had our kitchen redone...is there something can be done about it?

I think the electrician the contractor used was incompetent - we've already had other fixtures replaced he had put in - one bathroom light completely died...and the switch out on the patio has never worked.

We got screwn.

[Kali]

8. well in this case it turned out to be a lot of dirt and spiderwebs (and hay) in the chain-pull thing

but I went ahead and replaced it to a simple bulb holder with no switch since there already is a switch on the wall in the barn.

sometimes it can just be a loose wire or screw, but you know - so much stuff is just CRAP nowadays, cheap made-in-china plastic garbage

I have two-bulb sort of dome light in the kitchen - one side seems to blow a bulb every few months and the other one seems to go for years. I have no clue what its problem is.

[applegrove]

4. Make some boots!

[Kali]

9. I used to have a belt and a hat band (hey it was the 70s) I made.

god what a dork I was

[applegrove]

10. I think we were all dorks in the 70s & 80s. I seem to recall a head band I wore across

my forehead and around my head for a summer. But no snakeskin.

[Kali]

14. oh yeah, leather strings or bandanas

somewhere there is a picture of me horseback with a headband and my big bell levis

[applegrove]

15. It was a liberty print bandana. It was pink and purple and mauve with tiny flowers all over it.

[Popsoda]

17. A dork? Was?

[petronius]

11. Mommy? Mommy!? Has anybody seen my mommy?

[applegrove]

12. I showed my little three year old nephew a garter snake. He yelled out "give it back to its mummy".

LOL!

[Kali]

13. awww that IS cute

but if it is a rattler it is full of venom just like an adult. my youngest was bitten at 18 months by a hatchling. in the house. he took a helicopter ride to Tucson and 12 vials of antivenin - hence my lack of tolerance for them around the headquarters.

[freshwest]

18. It was stuff like that changed my mind about 'em. The biggest I've killed was a 5 footer.

Biggest I've seen looked nearly 8 foot on a neighbor's place. Glad the little one recovered...

We had some people life flighted from where I lived and one lost a leg. Their behavior with cattle, hens and dogs wasn't any better, either. Although I had a dog that was great for corraling them until I came out to take care of them.

I'm sure you've got nests of them somewhere.

[GoCubsGo]

20. Lucky for him, that's not his mommy.

Rattlesnakes are live-bearers. They also have slit-shaped pupils, instead of round ones.

[HopeHoops]

16. It's not the snake's fault.

[GoCubsGo]

19. I almost stepped on one of its cousins a few summers ago.

It was a canebrake rattlesnake, and it was about the same size. And, it's head was as big a my fist, too. I'm lucky I saw it when I did. I was on the job, and temping for a federal agency, and working at a federal installation. Had I been bitten, the paperwork would have been hell.

[rug]

21. I've read of deposed gods that had less punishments than you.

[taterguy]

22. How about a big-ass snake warning?

For those of us who don't know what Ophidiophobia is?

[rrneck]

23. The dog makes the picture. nt