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  1. #38341
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    Atlanta 'burbs
    Quote Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil View Post
    I have a great spider story that ends with me naked and a pizza in the floor. It really was a wild sequence of events.
    Please, no pictures!

  2. #38342
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    I will admit to not being keen on spiders...I recall working on a lake for many years, and the wolf or dock spiders were just humongous...

  3. #38343
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Please, no pictures!
    And not just because of the spider.

    Pizza on the floor is just too sad.

  4. #38344
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Please do not be offended, but there is no such thing as a "great" spider story. Horrible? Awful? Terrifying? Sure. But this phobic person really doesn't want to hear any of them. My imagination is much too vivid to endure spider stories. I don't even recount my own encounters with the dark side.
    Definitely not offended because these are your feelings and feelings are valid. I would suggest we probably should move on. I shouldn't have shared even the outline of that story.

  5. #38345
    Quote Originally Posted by weezie View Post
    What about Charlotte? She's a sweet, gentle spider.
    That book started my phobia about spiders - it's why I don't like to kill them. I just politely ask them to leave my house.

  6. #38346
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    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    That book started my phobia about spiders - it's why I don't like to kill them. I just politely ask them to leave my house.
    My 3rd grade teacher read Charlotte's Web out loud to the class over a period of a few weeks. I was free to make Charlotte a bat in my imagination.

  7. #38347
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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of falling from high places.
    I’m not afraid of falling from high places. I’m afraid of abrupt stops.

  8. #38348
    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    I’m not afraid of falling from high places. I’m afraid of abrupt stops.
    Gravity is a thing...

  9. #38349
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    Asheville, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    Gravity is a thing...
    It's not just a thing. It's The Law.

  10. #38350
    Quote Originally Posted by grad_devil View Post
    It's not just a thing. It's The Law.
    And "I fought the law and the law won" will hold true.

  11. #38351
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    Quote Originally Posted by grad_devil View Post
    It's not just a thing. It's The Law.
    Phht. You still believe in scientific laws? Then may I present the muon:

    https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1379827573774020610?s=21

    Non-paywall info:

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencenews.org/article/muon-physics-standard-model-particles/amp

  12. #38352
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    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil View Post
    I have a great spider story that ends with me naked and a pizza in the floor. It really was a wild sequence of events.
    Was the pizza okay?

  13. #38353
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    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    I’m not afraid of falling from high places. I’m afraid of abrupt stops.

    I have been up a few mountains where I had to physically stop and calm myself down because my body/mind had such an intense “DAnger, what are you doing, you idiot?!?!” Reaction.

    Up top half dome in Yosemite, for example, I physically could not get closer than 10 yards to the lip...

    ...and then these two French rock climbers popped over the lip like it was nothing and hiked down. Followed them most of the way. Made me feel like my accomplishment was PeeWee league. 🤣

  14. #38354
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    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    I have been up a few mountains where I had to physically stop and calm myself down because my body/mind had such an intense “DAnger, what are you doing, you idiot?!?!” Reaction.

    Up top half dome in Yosemite, for example, I physically could not get closer than 10 yards to the lip...

    ...and then these two French rock climbers popped over the lip like it was nothing and hiked down. Followed them most of the way. Made me feel like my accomplishment was PeeWee league. 🤣
    I was like this on the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

    Of course, being on the edge of a 700-ish foot cliff with unpredictable wind gusts...yeah, I had a right to have sweaty palms/rapid pulse/etc.

    I took this photo - I think it's as close as I got. Whew. Even looking at the photo give me butterflies.
    20160517_124558.jpg

  15. #38355
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    My 3rd grade teacher read Charlotte's Web out loud to the class over a period of a few weeks. I was free to make Charlotte a bat in my imagination.
    ooh, if you get a bat caught in your hair, you have to cut it out with hedge clippers I hear.

    speaking of clippers, just got the first haircut in over six months, went with the Number 4 clippers nothing but stubble left.

  16. #38356
    Quote Originally Posted by grad_devil View Post
    Even looking at the photo give me butterflies.
    I'm in the migration path of a lot of butterflies as they head down south to Mexico.

  17. #38357
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    Quote Originally Posted by grad_devil View Post
    I was like this on the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

    Of course, being on the edge of a 700-ish foot cliff with unpredictable wind gusts...yeah, I had a right to have sweaty palms/rapid pulse/etc.

    I took this photo - I think it's as close as I got. Whew. Even looking at the photo give me butterflies.
    20160517_124558.jpg
    But what an incredible view!

  18. #38358
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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    I'm in the migration path of a lot of butterflies as they head down south to Mexico.
    African swallows are not migratory, you see.

  19. #38359
    Quote Originally Posted by grad_devil View Post
    African swallows are not migratory, you see.
    They couldn't bring a coconut back, anyway.

  20. #38360
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Was the pizza okay?
    This is actually the right question to ask. It was just okay Pizza to begin with but we were destitute at the time and we ate the damn pizza. Plus bad Pizza is like bad sex. Which is a statement that is generally true if I'm involved in either of them.
    Last edited by ClemmonsDevil; 04-07-2021 at 02:28 PM.

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