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2006-08-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How sad that the first movie in years I've actually been waiting to see (at least since Gladiator came out) is titled "Snakes on a Plane".

And no, I couldn't get worked up over a Herbie remake.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-08-16 00:07|| 2006-08-16 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Speaking of Snakes on a plane, a friend of mine was flying a Pilatus Porter in Laos way back in the Air America daze, when his man in the right seat looks back and sees a cobra in the cabin. Well, both guys freak out and are crouched on their seats flying the plane and finally land. They carefully searched the plane, and gingerly opened up the maintenance ports and checked out the whole plane with mirrors and flashlights. No cobra, so they figured that it slithered out of the plane while airborne.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Kotzebue, Alaska 2006-08-16 04:19|| 2006-08-16 04:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm glad I wasn't walking under that plane's flight path. I wouldn't want to look up and suddenly see a cobra tumbling and writhing out of the sky onto my head.

Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-08-16 05:17|| 2006-08-16 05:17|| Front Page Top

#4 It has to be said: Air Cobra.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-16 05:23|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2006-08-16 05:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Funny thing is how the fan stuff gets to be used, re the SLJ quote; reminds me of the "I'm the Juggernaut, b*tch" of X-men 3. It looks like the internet has more rewarding material to offer to geeks than just PrOn, who knew?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-16 05:31|| 2006-08-16 05:31|| Front Page Top

#6 When I was growing up, we had a rosy boa (named Rosie) for a pet, and my father used to pack her up in a gunny-sack and take her into the lab once a month for her live-mouse lunch (labs always have an overstock of mice, you see). But she got out of the sack one day, on the ride home, and although we searched the car very carefully, we never found her. You have no idea how nervous people were, riding in that car for months afterwards. Especially the ones who didn't care for snakes.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2006-08-16 07:28|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2006-08-16 07:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Just like American Express, Anti-venom; don't leave home with out it.

Posted by Delphi2005 2006-08-16 08:30|| 2006-08-16 08:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Fluffy the corn snake got out of his bag while my daughter was moving last week. My daughter unpacked everything and eventually found him curled up in a hiking boot.

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#9 Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

Posted by Professor Jones 2006-08-16 09:21|| 2006-08-16 09:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Where's Harry Potter whn you need him?

Posted by Korora">Korora 2006-08-16 09:58|| 2006-08-16 09:58|| Front Page Top

#11 AoS, or whomever is the teal mod, hearing you say snakes around our cabin made me think of the INCREDIBLE speech Sen. Zell Miller gave on the floor of the Senate during the debate over Iraq. Being from small town Georgia (and believe me, Young Harris is still small, not even a red light), he compared it to a den of copperheads under his front porch, and how they threatened his wife and grandkids and that he wasn't gonna wait for City Council approval to kill said copperheads. Quite a speech from a Southern boy.

Posted by BA 2006-08-16 10:30|| 2006-08-16 10:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Seafarious.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-16 10:31|| 2006-08-16 10:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Almost as scary as "Kennedys in a Car".

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-16 15:21|| 2006-08-16 15:21|| Front Page Top

#14 When I was a kid I was gonna climb a tree in my front yard and nearly stepped on a big ass snake wrapped around the base. Screaming I told my dad who promptly got a shovel and whacked its head off.

I found out later the snake was someones escaped pet. Sorry, but I'm guessing you probably wouldn't know the replacement from the old one after awhile.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-08-16 17:30|| 2006-08-16 17:30|| Front Page Top

#15 All this movie will do is result in more herpetological phobia. Snakes are a vital link in the food chain and, more often than not, destroy quite nasty vermin (e.g., rats and mice). See The Simpsons, re: "Whacking Day."

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-16 20:58|| 2006-08-16 20:58|| Front Page Top

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