So I'm on my bed at about 3 AM watching the second running of Conan, and I see a millipede run out from under my bed. I grab a hard back book and lunge into action. Unfortunately, the only real light I had on in my room was my lamp, and as I slammed the book into the ground half guessing where he was, I went a little bit too much to the left. Knowing I wouldn't be able to sit comfortably in room for the next few days unless I took care of it that night, I grabbed another book and sat on my bed for the next 3 hours. (I kept the TV on to keep me from getting too bored.) However, despite my attempts, I was not able to inflict my wrath upon the creature.

So tonight I'll either sit on my bed with a book again, waiting for him to come out of hiding, or I think I might find some sprays containing pyrethrins to make things a little easier on my part.

Anyone else have some interesting bug stories?

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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

-Albert Einstein

... You're like the millipede Hitler.. What did it ever do to you?

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[16:38] Correction: dick tracy was a real man
[16:38] happydud: Actually... He wasn't.
[19:08] Dormouse: hi, my name's happydud and i'm passive-aggress.. SHUTUP!! *stabs nearby orphan*
[You have gained 3 Dark Side Points]

my brother found/killed a black widow yesterday o_O... right up by the house. we figured they'd hang out more back by the wood pile but...

(eep)

and omq, two days ago my dad was at a sports store, and he was leaning against a bag of golf clubs, when something suddenly bit his elbow, it was this big black beetle, so they "killed" it, put it in a kleenex and took it home to examine it... my dad said it felt like his arm was on fire for a little while ...


anyway, it was still alive, and ran out, onto the counter... my mom tried to smack it with the flat end of a knife, but that just launched it out across the floor. then we resorted to the good ol' method of stepping on it.

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Saberopus: omfq musical genuis j00 >mozart
Thrawn42689: Mozart = n00b

I think it's sad that a simple nonsentient creature was able to elude you so easily.



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Spiders scare me to no end. I don't care how damn small or big it is, ITS FREAKING SCARY AS HELL!! If I know there is one in my room, I don't go to bed until I hunt and kill the bas****!!!

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"Ever since I was a boy, I have always kept your laws, now I want to follow you and join you in your noble cause. Jesus turned to him and said, 'Sell all you have give to the poor.' Rich young ruler hung his head, not to follow, walked instead." - Vanishing Lesson

Milipedes are rather interresting creatures methinks.

Anyways, I'm glad the biggest bugs we have here are no bigger than an inch in diameter - counting the legs. Though spiders are the only ones that really bother me, even though we don't have any venomous ones. Big hornets don't even scare me... odd.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

I would much rather have a spider in my bedroom instead of a mosquito.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

[This message has been edited by Bobbert006 (edited June 16, 2004).]

*puts on Orkin uniform and starts Ghost Busters theme song* Bug Busters!

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

Usually when I'm at my computer I'm barefooted, and the other day I felt something tickling my feet and I thought it was just dust or hair (we have a pretty hairy cat, and she sheds alot, so things like that happen ) so I just brushed it aside with my other foot, only instead of getting brushed aside it ran across my other foot and needless to say I about had a heart attack... turned out to be a pretty good sized roach, too :x

A short time later he was flushed.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

My brother and I share a room, and awhile back we had a bee infestion in both closets. Damn, it was hard trying to fall asleep knowing Mynockish creatures were roaming the dark areas of your room.

(Btw, I've a fear to the JK Mynocks, because of this. I HATE those things!! )

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Titan A.E.

Hahahah, I would *never* get to sleep if I followed this philosophy. I just live with 'em. Better 1 spider than 20 mosquitos.. Besides, they don't bug you if you don't bug them

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Ba-dum psssch!

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Superstition brings bad luck.
-Raymond Smullyan, 5000B.C.

It could be worse. I mean, you could dream of a brown, hairy spider the size of a dinner plate crawling on your face, cutting off your air, and then laying eggs in your throat when you open your mouth to breathe.



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Thanks...I don't think i'm going to slee p tonight now.

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"Bantha's are filthy animals.......I don't eat filthy animals."

"Laugh it up Fuzzball!"
-Han Solo

Well, if it makes you feel better, spiders would never lay their eggs inside your mouth. They would, however, draw a web, sufficating you in the process. Oh well. Good night!

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

He's right. They'd probably lay them as far down your throat as possible, and try to get them in your stomach.

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[16:38] Correction: dick tracy was a real man
[16:38] happydud: Actually... He wasn't.
[19:08] Dormouse: hi, my name's happydud and i'm passive-aggress.. SHUTUP!! *stabs nearby orphan*
[You have gained 3 Dark Side Points]

Once or twice a week during the summer I take a propane torch and a flashlight and walk around my back/front yard at night hunting black widows. Rarely do I not find any, one night last year I killed 13. Use your flashlight to find their shiny webs, then locate the actual spider, move in, and roast him. TRUST ME, when it comes to taking care of spiders this time of year, USE FLAME. If the spider has a hundred barely-visable babies clinging to its back, stomping on it makes things worse, where huge hot flame takes care of the problem.

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Restless 2

Sanctum de la Mort

Mmmmmmm....tasty

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"His Will Was Set, And Only Death Would Break It"

"None knows what the new day shall bring him"

I'm not going to sleep tonight, because you guys SUCK. Also, why would you even try and mess with a deadly black widow!!

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"Ever since I was a boy, I have always kept your laws, now I want to follow you and join you in your noble cause. Jesus turned to him and said, 'Sell all you have give to the poor.' Rich young ruler hung his head, not to follow, walked instead." - Vanishing Lesson

They had a stunt on Fear Factor tonight where people had to grab millipedes and cockroaches with their mouth and put them in their respective bins... disgusting.

Wasps are the worst. Not only are they too easily aggrivated, but they try to make YOU aggrivate THEM! Awhile back these red wasps were hanging around my backyard (mating season I think..) and one of them landed on my back and hitched a ride for like 5 minutes!
I just kinda walked slowly as my dog did her business...then I saw one fly by and figured (hoped immensely) it was the one from my back, fortunately it was. >_<

A red wasp before that actually did a kamikaze move into my forehead for no reason. I wasn't stung or anything, but it did hit my head dead-on. I think it flew away in embarassment...

Lovely spider story: On a long drive during the night I was sitting in the backseat. Well I notice this little thing that's standing out in the dark moving around on my aunt's seatbelt. (I was 2" from it..) I figured it was just some dust or something that was blowing around.
Then I noticed it started to fall off.....and climb back up. So I started freakin out and jumped to the other side of the seat to try to smash it with my foot. Well I hit it, but couldn't find it.

So..I start to relax, thinking everything's cool, it's gone......then I notice something in the dark crawling along my black pantleg. IIIIITTTTTTSSS BACK! I (literally) slap it to the other side of the seat where it starts crawling back AFTER ME! It was on a frickin vendetta!!!! So I frantically grab my aunt's purse and SQUASH!!!! I also rocked the purse back and forth just to be sure. -_-

After I calmed down I realized what it look like in the light (I turned the roof lights on after slapping it off my leg) and I realized...it was a recluse. >_<

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Yee! I'm glad there are no super toxic spiders where I live.

What I hate is when they make an invisible web from the windshield of a car to the headrest of the seat, and when you get in, you have this invisible line from the windshield to your forehead. Then, the spider starts walking through the air right towards your face. It's creepy.

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Map-Review | My Portfolio | The Matrix: Unplugged

I love Britain, double glazing and two tons of napalm.

ALthough we had a 10,000-strong swarm of bees in our back garden. Thank kak they were bees. I've had a huge fear of wasps since one crawled over my eye. That's the sort of thing you don't want happening.

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[ Massassiism ] [ Cynicism ] [ Fanaticism ]
Sell your soul for a cookie?

*waits for an insect fanatic to come in and call everyone a sadist*


I say kill them all. Take no prisoners.

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«»The Scratchware Manifesto
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

I think it's interesting that arachnaphobia is so common, considering that so few spiders are actually dangerous (unless you live in Australia or something). I wonder where the fear of spiders, or other insects, actually comes from. I mean, there isn't really a logical reason to be afraid of them. Well, other than cockroaches spreading disease or something.

Also, I read this story about this woman that had been to some country, Brazil perhaps, and been bitten by a spider in the face. A huge spot swelled up on her face, but she figured it'd go down eventually so left it.
On the plane home she accidentally hit this spot, and popped it, and hundreds of tiny spiders burst out of it.

I once had a nightmare that i was in a room that only had a chair and a light in it, and a big robot spider came in the door so i stood up on the chair near the light. The mechanical spider proceeded to open a trapdoor on top and it let out millions upon millions of spiders, which all came at me. then i woke up and my hand felt funny (the one that wasn't under the pillow). I looked at the back of my hand and saw two puncture holes. I can only surmise that a spider bit me causing the dream. I was tired so i just stick the hand under my pillow with the other one and went back to sleep.

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"The funniest thing about time is when it doesn't. I'll leave you hanging there for the moment, and let you age while the shadows don't lengthen, if you see what I mean." ~~Steven Brust

oh thankyou for that... *bleh*



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IMPORTANT NOTICE PLEASE READ

Employees dying on the job are faling to fall down. THIS PRACTICE MUST STOP as it becmes impossible to distinguish between death and the natural movement of he staf.

Any employee found dead in an upright position will be dropped from the payroll.

Sorry, but that's nothing more than an urban legend.

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«»The Scratchware Manifesto
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

oh.

still. it's a good story.

I loves you Arachnaphobes:P
Edit: Btw, this isn't me, but its the spider I want as a pet



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Prowling out of the tundra, swinging a jeweled meat hammer, cometh Outlaw Torn! And he gives a gutteral bellow:

"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

[This message has been edited by Outlaw Torn (edited June 17, 2004).]

HOLY CRAP THAT IS DISGUSTING!

The spider is kinda creepy too.

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Map-Review | My Portfolio | The Matrix: Unplugged

SAJN, black widows aren't lethal. They only have a 1% mortality rate, and most of those are infants and older people, and the effects only last a day or two. Anyway, just think of it this way: who's going to win in a one-on-one fight? You, or some measly scumbag of a spider?

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

... Don't be so sure, either the spider is uber, or SAJN is a loser.

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Titan A.E.