"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

knarfeng said:
I'm not altogether certain I want to go hunting a bug that I need a CO2 powered gun to kill. just sayin'.
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Might have been handy hunting for these in the backyard in AZ, but a stick worked pretty well, too, and that was free.

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Oh thanks JB...I used to get the Beano...i remember the slipper..it was the weapon of choice of the Dads of Roger the Dodger Minnie The Minx and Denace.
The shirt is my latest score..Thomas Cook DuxBak...

If you get the chance check out the Aussie true story of killer cop Roger the dodger Rogerson...its called Blue Murder....
 
meako said:
Oh thanks JB...I used to get the Beano...i remember the slipper..it was the weapon of choice of the Dads of Roger the Dodger Minnie The Minx and Denace.
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Yeah! :eek: 🤣 :thumbsup:
meako said:
The shirt is my latest score..Thomas Cook DuxBak...
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Nice! :cool: Are Thomas Cook still going? I've had one of their waistcoats/vests for the past 30 years, and I wear it every summer, it's one of my favourite garments :) :thumbsup:
meako said:
If you get the chance check out the Aussie true story of killer cop Roger the dodger Rogerson...its called Blue Murder....
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I will mate! That's quite a title :eek: :D :thumbsup:
 
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We have them in the southeast, just smaller. I’d never seen one until the late 60’s and thought they were only in the southwest.
 
joeradza said:
I hate those things. Sting burns like hell.
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Thankfully I’ve never been stung. We only ever saw one or two in the house, and they blended in far too well with the light colored tile. 😳 That’s what prompted the evening hunts outside, heard it was the best preventative measure. They’re quick, too, when they need to be. If you don’t get one the first time, you’re probably SOL. That’s also when I learned we had quite a few black widows around the property.

I never saw one of these at the house, this was at South Mountain in Phoenix. Apparently their bites can be pretty painful. That’s my father-in-law’s hand for scale; I wasn’t getting that close!

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meako said:
It lives in the roof...funnily enough I dont have a bug problem...it eats bugs.
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Nature’s pest control. 😁

JB in SC said:
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We have them in the southeast, just smaller. I’d never seen one until the late 60’s and thought they were only in the southwest.
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I know there are scorpions that live in Arkansas, but I lived there for 26 years and never saw one. I could find 20+ in one night in the back yard in AZ. 🙂
 
Years ago my father in law Dr. Bill Eggers was bitten by a brown recluse spider. Here’s the kicker, at the time he was working as the director of anesthesiology at the University of Missouri and was in the operating room when he was bitten. Luckily, he was able to receive immediate medical assistance. He did end up with a nasty looking scar on his left shin.
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sf fanatic said:
Years ago my father in law Dr. Bill Eggers was bitten by a brown recluse spider. Here’s the kicker, at the time he was working as the director of anesthesiology at the University of Missouri and was in the operating room when he was bitten. Luckily, he was able to receive immediate medical assistance. He did end up with a nasty looking scar on his left shin.
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Sounds like a not very clean operating room. Don't brown recluses love dust?

Hmm. Better vacuum.
 
Fodderwing said:
You're such a Neanderthal. I'm reporting you right now.
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oh Yair ..who to? the bug loving wokavists who think ants are their friends and if a wasp wants to sting you repeatedly with hit like Tyson they should be free to do so.
? No Im afraid its the thong* for them.

*Thongs are what that footwear is called in Australia.....although we do have the other kind as well.
sf fanatic said:
Years ago my father in law Dr. Bill Eggers was bitten by a brown recluse spider. Here’s the kicker, at the time he was working as the director of anesthesiology at the University of Missouri and was in the operating room when he was bitten. Luckily, he was able to receive immediate medical assistance. He did end up with a nasty looking scar on his left shin.
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Am I the only one who feels that spiders shouldnt be in operating rooms?🤨:rolleyes:
 
As for giant poisonous centipedes...
Allow me relate a horrifying story that will make even the strongest of men feel slightly ill.
We had just moved into our new home in Mt Keira...in the warm summer of 2000. The garden was an overgrown mess. I was uprooting a daggy old Azalea bush. Being a hot day I was scantily clad in swimming shorts and singlet....and nothing else if you get my drift....squatting in the garden and hacking away at the roots of the plant.. a small but sensitive and very precious part of my body was..how can i put it?..Dangling....When Suddenly ...from the soil beneath the disturbed roots emerged a Scolopendrid Centipede that was easily 7inches long....it headed for the nearest place of refuge ....which was my unprotected testicles ...at a blistering pace. If you've ever seen the old ninja shows where the hero leaps backwards and clings to the ceiling defying gravity...that was my reaction. I descended on that ghastly arachnid and clave it in twain wielding my garden trowel like mad wolf out of Shogun Assassin.
And a good thing too...My book of Australias Dangerous Creatures: How To Recognise And Avoid tells of a foolish Bull Terrier that ate one of them and promptly keeled over dead.
 
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