Comments on: News bites

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:53:54 +0000

I just gotta say it! But spraying for spiders doesn’t really work very well. And you poison yourself unnecessarily with the spray. D’oh!!

By: park rose

park rose — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:49:34 +0000

Ms. Redback, the Barry White of the arachnid class.

By: K

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:04:14 +0000

Training cats to catch spiders is the best justification EVER for having to clean a litterbox and put up with pet hair.

By: park rose

park rose — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:34:23 +0000

My teeth are usually on edge, Clumber, and my body shaking as if I had the D.T.s, with the larger ones, anyway, but I rarely kill them. And there are a lot of margarine containers and so on that I have to retrieve from the lawn or balcony later. It’s quite amusing to watch, as I fling them away, I’m sure. Sometimes they don’t start moving, or they kind of move away from me, then the operation is pretty painless for all involved.

By: Mo®

Mo® — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:36:20 +0000

We only have to fear three things themselves, Fear, spiders, them and La Llorona…

By: Critical Grass

Critical Grass — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:02:40 +0000

Okay, so the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Fear and spiders. So we only have to fear two things: fear and spiders… and them. Fear itself, spiders, and them are the only things we have to fear… That and….

By: Mo®

Mo® — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:25:49 +0000

and…. Them !

By: anglophile

anglophile — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:00:21 +0000

I especially enjoyed the musical interlude.

By: kerry

kerry — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:57:00 +0000

Yikes, sorry about that! Here’s the correct link:

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/12/11/whats-black-white-and-totally-over/

By: Mo®

Mo® — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:47:42 +0000

Harry Redback: You were going to be a gymnast.
Sally Redback: A journalist.
Harry Redback: Right, that’s what I said.

By: GhostWriter

GhostWriter — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:38:08 +0000

I bet it would look like Indiana Jones being chased by a huge stone sphere.

By: matty-wat

matty-wat — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:51:57 +0000

Ah, I am remembering the summers spent on Uncle Red’s farm. Now those were some pastoral times!

By: Clumber

Clumber — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:48:58 +0000

But Rose, what you are proposing involves moving toward the thing. And that ain’t happening.

We kept a psycho rescue cat for 8 years SOLELY because he came running if I said SPIDER and would immediately catch it, carry it off, and dispose of it. He was otherwise a horrible cat to live with but that alone earned his keep.

The creepy things are fine if they stay out of my world so I can pretend they don’t exist. Outside, fine. Go do your spider stuff unmolested. Inside; I’m calling in the airstrikes!

By: matty-wat

matty-wat — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:22:38 +0000

Ms. Redback: Come on over here*pats bed* and lets get it on.
Mr. Redback: Hey baby, hold me in your arms, all eight of them.
Ms. R: Mmmm…
Mr.R: Aaaah…sweet MYStery of LIFE at last I’ve FOUND you. What the…? NOOO!
Ms. R: That spider was fucking delicious!