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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: RocketMan on June 22, 2010, 04:27:02 PM
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Damn bugs. Not much I can do now but self-treat. Found a spider bite on my back Sunday morning. By the evening I had full body pain like someone worked me over with a baseball bat, diarrhea, stomach cramps, chest pain, all the symptoms.
A little research shows doc won't do anything unless they can identify the offending critter. That does make sense, as the antivenins are critter-specific.
Aspirin won't touch the pain, but acetaminophen does a good job. Imodium-AD won't touch the diarrhea. Lots of time spent on the porcelain throne. Fortunately, there was no necrosis at the site of the bite. Unusual, but not unheard of.
Damn bugs.
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http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/Spyder_III_Pro_Arctic_Series-96-37.html
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If only I could have found the little turd, AJ. :cool:
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Seems a little one isn't what you should be worried about at the moment, RM... ;)
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I didn't even know you could buy blue lasers. [popcorn]
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Take a tablespoon of honeycomb three times a day - or more - won't hurt. I always like to fight bugs with bugs.
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Woke up this morning feeling much better. The body pain is finally gone, the stomach cramps and chest pain has subsided, and I can walk a straight line. The diarrhea is still an unknown because the Imodium-AD finally kinda sorta kicked in.
Damn spiders.
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for the future bouts of diareah :P :
BRAT = Bananas / Rice / Applesauce / Toast. Better than chemicals ;)
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BRAT = Bananas / Rice / Applesauce / Toast. Better than chemicals ;)
Caveat: Applesauce without added sugar/hfcs is best.
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I know your pain brother. I was bitten by a black widow once, which you're apparently supposed to go to the doctor for. I didn't, and went through the same symptoms as you for a couple of days. Not fun.
A second time I was bit by an unknown spider that was in a pair of rubber boots that I had stored in a shed and hadn't worn for a while. I stupidly stuck my foot in without shaking the boot out first. I felt a pretty painful sting on the top/side of my foot and when I pulled it out there was something brown, squished, and vaguely spider shaped. My foot swelled up like crazy and turned all kinds of blacks, browns, reds, and greens. Went to the doctor on that one and he put me on antibiotics and some kind of special cream to "keep my skin from falling off" or something like that. I remember my foot looked pretty gangrenous for nearly a month.
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That sounds like a brown recluse like we have down here. I've heard the venom destroys the tissue and can take a while to heal up.
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We found this little guy in camp during a southern Illinois backpack trip, juvenile male Black Widow.
I always shake out my boots and clothes before putting them on when backpacking now :O
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Caveat: Applesauce without added sugar/hfcs is best.
good to know! =D
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That sounds like a brown recluse like we have down here. I've heard the venom destroys the tissue and can take a while to heal up.
This happened on my folks' farm, which is apparently in a recluse area. The doctor thought that was what it might be, but there was not enough left of the spider after the "revenge of my foot" to tell what it was. :)
I'm just disappointed that after two serious spider bites I didn't pick up any Spidy-powers. :laugh:
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This happened on my folks' farm, which is apparently in a recluse area. The doctor thought that was what it might be, but there was not enough left of the spider after the "revenge of my foot" to tell what it was. :)
I'm just disappointed that after two serious spider bites I didn't pick up any Spidy-powers. :laugh:
Those were normal spiders, you need to find the radioactive ones.
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Damn, beat me to it.
You can find those at night. just look for glowing spiders. You'll probably find them arounf uranium deposits. Just find a trail of glowing ants, follow them to the uranium and look around for the glowy spiders. Piece of cake. ;)
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I'll just leave this here.
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I'll just leave this here.
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Spider orgy.
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I'll just leave this here.
I just thought I would tell you that I hate you so much right now.
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I just thought I would tell you that I hate you so much right now.
=D
What's that you say, you want some more?
How about this fine Australian specimen, the Golden Orb Weaver:
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Guess I asked for that. Oops. :'(
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=D
What's that you say, you want some more?
How about this fine Australian specimen, the Golden Orb Weaver:
The national zoo has a couple of those. No glass seperating the people from them as the spiders can't really move except on their web.
My wife wasn't sure they were real until I blew on the web and they moved. (The zoo workers nearby were not too pleased by that, btw.)
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When faced with the spider hordes.....
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Flame tank. Accept no substitute.
Image courtesy of: USMC Vietnam Tankers Association (http://www.usmcvta.org/)
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=D
What's that you say, you want some more?
How about this fine Australian specimen, the Golden Orb Weaver:
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg85.imageshack.us%2Fimg85%2F9096%2Fspidey01b.jpg&hash=8d6976af9c90426736fdcfa3c445889ad55bd7ba)
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Guhyeeeeeeah! **** me running! My goosebumps got them a case of the heebie-jeebies.
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My kiddo saw that while I was scrolling down the page and asked what it was. I was thinking on other things and absentmindedly stated what it was. My kid is now horrified beyond words. I don't think I will ever hear the end of this one.
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Pardon me. I just gonna be over in the corner having a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. Maybe a case and a half even.
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I saw one recently where a praying mantis had taken a humming bird. Equally as not cool... =(
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I just thought I would tell you that I hate you so much right now.
INSERT INTO Table_Blackmail (Name, Category, Description, Severity)
VALUES ('BP', 'Fear', 'Spiders, lots of or large', 'Extreme')
heh heh heh...
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My kiddo saw that while I was scrolling down the page and asked what it was. I was thinking on other things and absentmindedly stated what it was. My kid is now horrified beyond words. I don't think I will ever hear the end of this one.
I believe the correct term you are looking for is "Emotionally Scarred for Life."
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INSERT INTO Table_Blackmail (Name, Category, Description, Severity)
VALUES ('BP', 'Fear', 'Spiders, lots of or large', 'Extreme')
heh heh heh...
You can also add me to that list.......
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I hate to start a caliber war here but, Holly crap I'm thinking 12 ga buckshot minimum.
=D
What's that you say, you want some more?
How about this fine Australian specimen, the Golden Orb Weaver:
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg85.imageshack.us%2Fimg85%2F9096%2Fspidey01b.jpg&hash=8d6976af9c90426736fdcfa3c445889ad55bd7ba)
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Thanks for the info, BridgeWalker and 280Plus. I'm going to remember those tips. Still having some occasional "running" problems, so I may give them a try.
Ron, I used to kill those things by the bucket load when I lived in AZ and CO. Nighttime hunts in the yard and around the house a couple times a week, flashlight and bug spray in hand. I really wanted to keep them away from the kiddos.
Some juveniles are even a mottled black and white, btw. What a surprise when I found that out.
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The national zoo has a couple of those. No glass seperating the people from them as the spiders can't really move except on their web.
My wife wasn't sure they were real until I blew on the web and they moved. (The zoo workers nearby were not too pleased by that, btw.)
I'm amazed no idiot has tried to pet them. I guess jumping into the bear enclosure seems more fun...
On another note, are those things legal to own? Seems like a really neat pet. I wonder though, what form does spider feces assume? Be awkward trying to move the bugger around to clean the cage.
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flashlight and bug spray in hand.
Bugspray? Wow, you're brave! :O
The other thing is to keep yourself hydrated. Drink a lot of water.
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I believe that paleo-humans were preyed upon by gy-normous spiders, way back when. That's why we have such fear of spiders. We're the survivors of those who reacted fastest. IMHO, these giant man-eating spiders made a sound like that of a Remington 870 being shucked. That's why someone who has never seen or heard such a thing knows that sound means impending death. Go to the rainforest of darkest nowhere, sneak up behind someone who's never heard a pump shotgun, and rack it. It will cause them to foul their loincloth.
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Someone should collect as much of that Golden Orb Weaver web as possible and send it to the Gulf of Mexico. If a thin little web will catch and hold that bird imagine what a few thousand pounds would do to the leaking well head!
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When faced with the spider hordes.....
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usmcvta.org%2Fmsg074.jpg&hash=157e8db509e32e2ecf2dc9ceb3f48bf90025cad5)
Flame tank. Accept no substitute.
Image courtesy of: USMC Vietnam Tankers Association (http://www.usmcvta.org/)
My good Tree-Rat Comrade, you beat me to it.
Kill it. With Fire.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/ (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/)
Golden orb spiders are cool.
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Kill it. With Fire.
Normally, I would have been tempted. I'd have even thrown a rocket motor or two in the mix to be sure. But, it was my folk's condo at the beach, and I didn't want to earn Dad's wrath by destroying all of the excellent remodelling he had done to the place. He's 80 years old, owner of his very own quad-bypass, and he'd still kick my butt.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/ (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/)
Golden orb spiders are cool.
I'm no fan of spiders but that's just so darned cool.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/ (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/)
Golden orb spiders are cool.
Those golden orb spiders really are cool. I'm partial to the average, colorful garden spiders we find around here. It's especially interesting to see them building (weaving?) a web.
The large wolf spiders that show up in my garage from time to time are neat looking, too, but I tend to hustle them back outside so as not to scare the bejeebers out of SWMBO.
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I didn't realize we had so many people skittish about spiders! I like them, myself. Useful critters. Only a couple of them scare me. Looking at you Brazilian Wandering spider and Sydney Funnel Web spider.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_rose_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_golden_knee
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlyhair
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachypelma_auratum (Mexican Flame Knee)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_fireleg_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_redknee_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachypelma_emilia (Mexican Red Leg)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_pink_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pinktoe
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_pinktoe
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilotheria_metallica (Gooty Sapphire Ornamental)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ornamental
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_whiteknee_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratogyrus_darlingi (Burst Horned Baboon)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mombasa_golden_starburst_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_blue_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Blue
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbottle_blue_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rican_zebra_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_salmon_pink_tarantula
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_Birdeater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_huntsman_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avondale_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_huntsman_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_huntsman_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_wandering_spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-legged_Golden_Orb-web_Spider
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_clavata (Joro Spider)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_clavipes (Golden Silk Orb Weaver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_pilipes (Golden Web Orb Weaver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_komaci (Giant Golden Orb Weaver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasteracantha_cancriformis (Jewel Orb Weaver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasteracantha_fornicata (Spiny Orb Weaver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austracantha_minax (Australian Jewel Weaver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scytodes_thoracica (a spitting spider)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salticidae (my favorite spiders)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(genus) (scary, tactical spider)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_bite (includes a partial list of medically significant venom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra (scarier than spiders)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonian_giant_centipede
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_desert_centipede
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_Centipede
More reading/viewing:
http://giantspiders.com/gallery.html (good pictures, but listed under scientific names)
http://petbugs.com/caresheets/ (describes temperaments)
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I'll just leave this here.
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KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ETA - use KGBSquirrel's flametank.
Or just take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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I hate to start a caliber war here but, Holly crap I'm thinking 12 ga buckshot minimum.
5.56mmNATO should do the trick just fine, but as always, shot placement is critical.
And watch your backstop.
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Spiders ad snakes I hate. But if you want to see Battle Monkey lift upmhis skirt, and run screaming like a little girl, scorpions will do just that n
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I'm a wuss when it comes to flying insects that sting. No, posting pictures of them does not scare me (see below), but I really hate them.
The funny thing is that I am more bothered by the thought of being stung than being stung itself. I've been stung before, and while it is not pleasant I just suck it up like I do a workplace injury.
What I hate is them buzzing around my head, in fact I hate even harmless things buzzing around my head. I have VERY sensitive peripheral vision, and I go into freakout mode when things try to sneak up on me (intentionally or not).
Big-ass Japanese Hornet:
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What I do is get all 'flappy' - which I know is not what you should do - and I try to dodge them, which means that from a distance people do not see the little buggers and think I'm some idiot having a seizure.
The reason why I figure it's a lot to do with my peripheral vision, is that I will happily hunt them down, and go after them with either a plastic cup to release them outside (or blow them apart with my gas 6mm BB Mac 10). I like being the Predator, not the Prey (duh). =D
Oh, I also hate these things with a passion:
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Bloody Craneflies, drunkenly bumbling about around my head while I am at the computer... :mad:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vudA72hibg&feature=related
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I dont go into crawlspaces without a dustbuster. I don't freak out around spiders, I just destroy all I see. Weedeater, vacuum, flyswatter, hot horseshoe, whatever is handy.
I. DO. NOT. LIKE. Spiders.
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I dont go into crawlspaces without a dustbuster. I don't freak out around spiders, I just destroy all I see. Weedeater, vacuum, flyswatter, hot horseshoe, whatever is handy.
I. DO. NOT. LIKE. Spiders.
Stetson in full on combat mode...
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Spider orgy.
You misspelled "Flamethrower orgy."
Just sayin'.... :D
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Where did you get that picture of the hornet??? I nearly fainted...
The Japanese Hornet is evil incarnate in an exoskeleton. I saw a Discovery/TLC/AP somethingorother show that had cameras inside a commercial beehive invaded by a 20 or 30 of these things. They slew 60 THOUSAND honeybees, with zero casualties. Those jaws were just snapping 'em in half. There was a foot-thick mound of bee-pieces, and some lustily gorging hornets. Super slo-mo, HD horrification.
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I believe that paleo-humans were preyed upon by gy-normous spiders, way back when.
As much as the DnD nerd in me wants that to be true, physics of exoskeletons prevent it.
Where did you get that picture of the hornet??? I nearly fainted...
The Japanese Hornet is evil incarnate in an exoskeleton. I saw a Discovery/TLC/AP somethingorother show that had cameras inside a commercial beehive invaded by a 20 or 30 of these things. They slew 60 THOUSAND honeybees, with zero casualties. Those jaws were just snapping 'em in half. There was a foot-thick mound of bee-pieces, and some lustily gorging hornets. Super slo-mo, HD horrification.
That sounds awesome! I wonder if it's on youtube....
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Also, spiders we can all love...
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/steampunked-spiders
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That sounds awesome! I wonder if it's on youtube....
It is, I've seen the video there before. =D
30 hornets vs. 30,000 bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSf3Kshq1M)
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It is, I've seen the video there before. =D
30 hornets vs. 30,000 bees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSf3Kshq1M)
The bees getting slaughtered are European honey bees. Native Japanese honey bees have a interesting defensive mechanism that would have allowed them to fend off/kill the hornets.
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I'd love to see that Hornet one in high def, the quality is awful.
And watching that gives me this nervous twitch to grab a can of Raid..
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Native Japanese honey bees have a interesting defensive mechanism that would have allowed them to fend off/kill the hornets.
I believe it's called "sushi".
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Stetson in full on combat mode...
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I *HATED* that scene in LOTR.
My wife laughed at me, IN THE THEATER, when Shelob came on the screen, because she KNEW what was going through my head.
Frodo (or Sam - but it would be faster if Frodo started with it) needed Gandalf's Mystic Thrower Of Flame for that part. Just sayin'.
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Stetson in full on combat mode...
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It's a spider, I would be MUCH better armed
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I *HATED* that scene in LOTR.
My wife laughed at me, IN THE THEATER, when Shelob came on the screen, because she KNEW what was going through my head.
Frodo (or Sam - but it would be faster if Frodo started with it) needed Gandalf's Mystic Thrower Of Flame for that part. Just sayin'.
What? Spiders are awesome.
Also, what dork watermarks a picture with his name that he scanned?
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What? Spiders are awesome.
Also, what dork watermarks a picture with his name that he scanned?
Going out on a limb here- Eriol?