It's not your average roadkill:

http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg

Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.

I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
a gun...

--Blair
"Hadrurus arizonensis, in case you're
wondering."

Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> It's not your average roadkill:
>
> http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>
> Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.
>
> I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
> kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
> I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
> a gun...
>
> --Blair
> "Hadrurus arizonensis, in case you're
> wondering."

A little catsup works on anything.

Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> It's not your average roadkill:
>
> http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg

Ok, I am grossing out right now.

One major reason never to live in the SW...
-L.

Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> It's not your average roadkill:
>
> http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>
> Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.
>
> I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
> kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
> I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
> a gun...
>
> --Blair
> "Hadrurus arizonensis, in case you're
> wondering."
>
Dead 'orse, naturally (OK, that's rhyming slang for tomato sauce)!

Christine

Old Mother Ashby wrote:
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>> It's not your average roadkill:
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>>
>> Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.
>>
>> I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
>> kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
>> I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
>> a gun...
>>
>> --Blair
>> "Hadrurus arizonensis, in case you're
>> wondering."
>>
> Dead 'orse, naturally (OK, that's rhyming slang for tomato sauce)!
>
> Christine



Feed it to your chickens and make an omlet - usual sauces apply.
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Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.

~N~

nancree wrote:
> Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
>
> ~N~
It's a scorpion - a big one. Not too dangerous but nothing to fool with.
Chickens love them!

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Ken Davey wrote:
> nancree wrote:
> > Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
> >
> > ~N~
> It's a scorpion - a big one. Not too dangerous but nothing to fool with.
> Chickens love them!
>
> Ken.
> --
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Thanks, Ken. I sort of guessed that was it, but wasn't at all sure.
Nancree

Ken Davey wrote:
> nancree wrote:
> > Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
> >
> > ~N~
> It's a scorpion - a big one. Not too dangerous but nothing to fool with.
> Chickens love them!
>
> Ken.
> --
------------
Thanks, Ken. I sort of guessed that was it, but wasn't at all sure.
Nancree

-L. wrote:
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> > It's not your average roadkill:
> >
> > http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>
> Ok, I am grossing out right now.
>
> One major reason never to live in the SW...
> -L.

When I watch Meerkat Manor, I have to close my eyes when they show the
meerkats eating huge millipedes or scorpions. Ewwww.

N.

Ken Davey wrote:
> nancree wrote:
> > Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
> >
> > ~N~
> It's a scorpion - a big one. Not too dangerous but nothing to fool with.

>From what I remember from when I lived in Tucson (many years ago) and
toured the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum a number of times, you're
right. The experts there said that the big ones were less dangerous
than the little ones. But I'm sure he would give one helluva sting!

> Chickens love them!
>
> Ken.
> --
> Volunteer your idle computer time for cancer research
> http://www.grid.org/services/teams/t...9-D37D5B25B569
>
> My return address is courtesy of Spammotel http://www.spammotel.com/

"Blair P. Houghton" > wrote in message
...
> It's not your average roadkill:
>
> http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>
> Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.
>

Tastes like chicken.

(FTWAU, everything unusual tastes like chicken.
Chicken, however, rarely tastes like chicken.)


> I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
> kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
> I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
> a gun...
>
> --Blair
> "Hadrurus arizonensis, in case you're
> wondering."

In article >,
Blair P. Houghton > wrote:

> It's not your average roadkill:
>
> http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>
> Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.
>
> I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
> kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
> I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
> a gun...
>
> --Blair
> "Hadrurus arizonensis, in case you're
> wondering."

Supposed to taste just like shrimp. ;-)

We had a problem with those in one rent house back when I was a college
freshman. We solved the problem with a small flock of pet ducks.

The ducks swallowed them pretty much whole and did not hesitate!
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In article . com>,
"nancree" > wrote:

> Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
>
> ~N~

Scorpion.....
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In article >,
"Ken Davey" > wrote:

> nancree wrote:
> > Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
> >
> > ~N~
> It's a scorpion - a big one. Not too dangerous but nothing to fool with.
> Chickens love them!
>
> Ken.

They do indeed... and as I posted earlier, so do ducks!

The sting does not seem to affect them.

Hurts like hell!

I've been stung a few times, worst was on my hand between my fingers but
I was lucky at that. It was on a washrag in the shower.

The washrag was headed "elsewhere".

<shudder>
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In article >,
"hob" > wrote:

> > http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
> >
> > Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.
> >
>
> Tastes like chicken.
>
> (FTWAU, everything unusual tastes like chicken.
> Chicken, however, rarely tastes like chicken.)

"The Matrix has you..."

;-)
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On 3 Oct 2006 15:03:56 -0000, Don Salad > wrote:
>Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>> It's not your average roadkill:
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>>
>> Biggest I've seen, alive or dead, since I got here.
>>
>> I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
>> kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
>> I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
>> a gun...
>
>It is *so* illegal to photograph US currency!

Nope. It's just illegal to try to use the picture as currency itself. You can
melt your coins, set your bills on fire, sew them into clothing, whaddever -
just don't try to spend them afterwards.

Dave
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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"David DeLaney" > wrote

> >It is *so* illegal to photograph US currency!
>
> Nope. It's just illegal to try to use the picture as currency itself. You can
> melt your coins, set your bills on fire, sew them into clothing, whaddever -
> just don't try to spend them afterwards.

ITYHBT, but whatever you do, donut put anthrax on
money. That really ticks them off.

--oTTo--

In article >,
"Otto Bahn" > wrote:

> "David DeLaney" > wrote
>
> > >It is *so* illegal to photograph US currency!
> >
> > Nope. It's just illegal to try to use the picture as currency itself. You
> > can
> > melt your coins, set your bills on fire, sew them into clothing, whaddever
> > -
> > just don't try to spend them afterwards.
>
> ITYHBT, but whatever you do, donut put anthrax on
> money. That really ticks them off.
>
> --oTTo--

That was such a farce wasn't it?
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"Nancy2" > wrote in message
ups.com...
>
> -L. wrote:
>> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>> > It's not your average roadkill:
>> >
>> > http://tinypic.com/316w4ec.jpg
>>
>> Ok, I am grossing out right now.
>>
>> One major reason never to live in the SW...
>> -L.
>
> When I watch Meerkat Manor, I have to close my eyes when they show the
> meerkats eating huge millipedes or scorpions. Ewwww.
>

Hahaha! I just think of soft crabs!~ ( grew up in Maryland.)



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OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "Ken Davey" > wrote:
>
>> nancree wrote:
>> > Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
>> >
>> > ~N~
>> It's a scorpion - a big one. Not too dangerous but nothing to fool with.
>> Chickens love them!
>>
>> Ken.
>
> They do indeed... and as I posted earlier, so do ducks!
>
> The sting does not seem to affect them.
>
> Hurts like hell!
>
> I've been stung a few times, worst was on my hand between my fingers but
> I was lucky at that. It was on a washrag in the shower.
>
> The washrag was headed "elsewhere".
>
> <shudder>

oh my god that made me want to scream
and then vomit and scream again.
The worst thing I ever found in a shower was a big cockroach at my friend's
place in Austin. I made him come get it out for me. If I ever saw a scorpion
in the shower I would shit twice and die.

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salgud > wrote:
>Ken Davey wrote:
>> nancree wrote:
>> > Am I the only one who doesn't get it ?? I'm afraid to ask what it is.
>> >
>> > ~N~
>> It's a scorpion - a big one. Not too dangerous but nothing to fool with.
>

>From what I remember from when I lived in Tucson (many years ago) and
>toured the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum a number of times, you're
>right. The experts there said that the big ones were less dangerous
>than the little ones. But I'm sure he would give one helluva sting!

That's the truth, but lest anyone get the wrong idea,
it's not an inverse-proportionality thing, it's just
because this one, the Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion (hadrurus
arizonensis), is a different species from the Bark Scorpion
(centruroides exilicauda).

The Bark Scorpion's venom is a more toxic chemical, and
can kill very small children or the infirm.

The Giant Desert Hairy's poison is less toxic to humans,
and not known to be fatal, but you should still be treated
by a doctor if stung.

9 out of 10 scorpions in this area are Bark Scorpions.
I've only seen two Giants. And according to the internets
the record length for them would be the entire length of
that $20 bill...

--Blair

OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote:
>We had a problem with those in one rent house back when I was a college
>freshman. We solved the problem with a small flock of pet ducks.
>
>The ducks swallowed them pretty much whole and did not hesitate!

Around here, the cactus wrens get most of them before
they can reach a size visible to anything other than a
cactus wren.

--Blair

In article >,
The Bubbo > wrote:

> > I've been stung a few times, worst was on my hand between my fingers but
> > I was lucky at that. It was on a washrag in the shower.
> >
> > The washrag was headed "elsewhere".
> >
> > <shudder>
>
> oh my god that made me want to scream
> and then vomit and scream again.

The memory still makes me cringe. ;-)
It's been over 20 years. I'm not overly fond of scorpions.

> The worst thing I ever found in a shower was a big cockroach at my friend's
> place in Austin. I made him come get it out for me. If I ever saw a scorpion
> in the shower I would shit twice and die.

I did not see it until after it stung me.
Got squashed for it's trouble!
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In article >,
Blair P. Houghton > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote:
> >We had a problem with those in one rent house back when I was a college
> >freshman. We solved the problem with a small flock of pet ducks.
> >
> >The ducks swallowed them pretty much whole and did not hesitate!
>
> Around here, the cactus wrens get most of them before
> they can reach a size visible to anything other than a
> cactus wren.
>
> --Blair

I love wrens. :-) We have the small house wrens that are great bug
control. They like the birdhouse gourd houses that I put up for them.
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Don Salad wrote:
> Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>
>>I found it a short distance from the community mailbox
>>kiosk. I added the double sawbuck for scale. Though
>>I don't doubt the subject was packing a wallet...and
>>a gun...
>
>
> It is *so* illegal to photograph US currency!
>


And yet, it doesn't seem to be illegal to sell the photographs,

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_galler...1611-2850.html



Dawn