On Oct 31, 12:06 am, PeterLucas > wrote:
> merryb > wrote :
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> > On Oct 30, 7:00 pm, PeterLucas > wrote:
> >> merryb > wrote
> >> innews:ef7c2b6e-780b-4336-9982-27b85c6da9c
> > :
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> >> > No fair!!! I used to live in CA as a kid- when I moved here to WA,
> >> > my ideas of spiders totally changed...maybe with all the rain here,
> >> > they swell up? Nothing worse than walking face first into a big
> >> > sticky web...well, I'm sure there are others, but YIKES- I hate big
> >> > spiders!
>
> >> As a young 'Digger', I soon learnt to avoid going between trees that
> >> were any closer together than about 10'..... especially of a
> >> night-time.
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> > I'm sure it only took once or twice...
>
> Once....after feeling those legs crawling all over my neck and
> head........ NEVER AGAIN!!! :-)
>
> --
> Peter Lucas
> Brisbane
> Australia
>
> If we are not meant to eat animals,
> why are they made of meat?

In the Nam they were a way of knowing when someone had been there
before