Exclusive Safe From SlyPokerDog in Oregon

[Chris Craig]

 

[e_blazer]

There's just nothing unique about death by Sly. He kills me every day on this board.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

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Can someone help me understand what nonvenomous arthropods are killing people at such a high rate in Florida?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

There's just nothing unique about death by Sly. He kills me every day on this board.

 

[Minstrel]

Can someone help me understand what nonvenomous arthropods are killing people at such a high rate in Florida?

Disease, perhaps? Like the way ticks can communicate lime disease.

 

[Chris Craig]

I had no idea there were alligators in Missouri and Illinois

 

[stampedehero]

Can someone help me understand what nonvenomous arthropods are killing people at such a high rate in Florida?

Take your pick.. The humid conditions breed all kinds of crap. I would think fleas are the number one bug in Fla.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I had no idea there were alligators in Missouri and Illinois

I'm more troubled by the scorpions in Texas which are apparently larger than Oklahoma's horses.

 

[e_blazer]

More like:

 

[PtldPlatypus]

More like:

Shortly after this picture...

Human-animal interaction norms are changing. I understand that, and I’ve heard what these women are saying. Being a dog to me has always been about making connections, but I will be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future. That’s my responsibility and I will meet it.

 

[e_blazer]

Shortly after this picture...

Yeah, he may have to change his name to SlyBidenDog.

 

[Lanny]

Can someone help me understand what nonvenomous arthropods are killing people at such a high rate in Florida?

Death by turtle? Hey, don't blame me, I only had 10th grade biology.

 

[Lanny]

Yeah, he may have to change his name to SlyBidenDog.

I fail to see the reason for slandering Biden like that.

 

[barfo]

The title on that graphic is really horrendous. "Most Unique Ways to Die..."
Firstly, things are either unique or they aren't. There's no more unique or most unique.
But even assuming that 'most unique' means 'least common', the graphic shows the most common ways, not the least common ways.

barfo

 

[Minstrel]

Firstly, things are either unique or they aren't. There's no more unique or most unique.

I used to feel that way, but I've decided that there's a coherence to more and less unique, even granting the fact that "unique" means one of a kind. Two items can be unique, in the binary "is or isn't" sense of the word, but one of them, despite being specifically unlike anything else, still more similar to something else in existence than the other item. Once you start using terms like "unlike anything else," you're accepting the existence of degree, as "like" (and thus "unlike") can be more or less.

Something that is "more unique" just means "unique, but more unlike everything else than other unique things." Not that you can specifically measure or that there's a baseline for "uniqueness," but as a gut-level feeling that this thing is so unlike anything else you've experienced, I think it's useful.

Well, that's my pointless digression for the day and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Chris Craig]

I'm more troubled by the scorpions in Texas which are apparently larger than Oklahoma's horses.

Everything is bigger in Texas

 

[julius]

I'll avoid California and Georgia, thank you very much.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

We have snakes and tarantulas here. One time there was a rattle snake lying dead at the stop sign by my house. Wife saw it as I drove by. She wanted a better look so I did a u turn and drove the car right up to it with her side by the snake. As she leaned out to get a better look at it I pinched her leg and made a ssshhhhhhh sound.

She damn near hit her head on the headliner of the car. We laughed for a good minute or two.

 

[MarAzul]

We have snakes and tarantulas here. One time there was a rattle snake lying dead at the stop sign by my house. Wife saw it as I drove by. She wanted a better look so I did a u turn and drove the car right up to it with her side by the snake. As she leaned out to get a better look at it I pinched her leg and made a ssshhhhhhh sound.

She damn near hit her head on the headliner of the car. We laughed for a good minute or two.

Geez! I bet that was costly.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Geez! I bet that was costly.

You'd think right? She was horrified for a second and then laughed her butt off once she realized what I'd done. I got lucky with her. 20 years is coming soon.

 

[MarAzul]

You'd think right? She was horrified for a second and then laughed her butt off once she realized what I'd done. I got lucky with her. 20 years is coming soon.

Better go for 40 then.

 

[MarAzul]

The Hornet or Wasp seem right for Oregon. That is for sure the biggest threat at my place.
The wife and I have both been nailed by those guys in force. Several different times.

 

[Lanny]

We have snakes and tarantulas here. One time there was a rattle snake lying dead at the stop sign by my house. Wife saw it as I drove by. She wanted a better look so I did a u turn and drove the car right up to it with her side by the snake. As she leaned out to get a better look at it I pinched her leg and made a ssshhhhhhh sound.

She damn near hit her head on the headliner of the car. We laughed for a good minute or two.

You laughed, I laughed, I'll bet we all laughed at that one. But, you're going to have an awfully difficult time getting me to believe that your wife thought it was as funny as the rest of us.

 

[Lanny]

I'm more troubled by the scorpions in Texas which are apparently larger than Oklahoma's horses.

One time when I was 17 and fresh out of high school, I was working with my dad in Atlanta bricking up apartments and houses. We got our brick in great big bundles from Texas. One time I was grabbing some brick when I noticed a scorpion, from Texas, no doubt. You know how dumb kids can be. I coaxed him into an empty coke bottle. Did't have a bottle cap so I just left a piece of cardboard on top and returned to my job. I placed the bottle still with the cardboard on top between my legs on the floorboard. Got home and remembered the scorpion. Looked on the floorboard and saw an empty coke bottle rolling around on the floor. Crap, a normal person would have been alarmed but I just shrugged and entered the house we were renting.

Man, I was pretty stupid when I was young. For God's sake, I volunteered to be a helicopter door gunner in combat in 1968. I think I've got you all beat for stupidity. Oh, and don't get me started on my ex wife.

 

[Chris Craig]

I find the question marks to be interesting.

In Nevada it's poisonous slot machines

 

[SlyPokerDog]

In Nevada it's

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I find the question marks to be interesting.

In Nevada it's poisonous slot machines

If anything it is Suicide by Slot

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

You laughed, I laughed, I'll bet we all laughed at that one. But, you're going to have an awfully difficult time getting me to believe that your wife thought it was as funny as the rest of us.

For about 5 seconds she didn't think it was funny. Then she laughed her butt off.

 

[andalusian]

Plenty of snakes around here. Seen them in the neighborhood often. Luckily we also have a lot of the garden snakes which are harmless to people but eat the rattlers.

Worst was actually when we moved here, we rented for 1/2 a year until we found a house - and it was a brand new complex right next to a hill - one day my kid calls me "Dad, there is a strange bug on my wall" - went to look at it - a scorpion... Had swimming fins right next to me in that room - used them to get rid of that scorpion - and that's why these are always called in our house the scorpion killers. A week later found another one in the garage - captured it in a jar to show the office - and had the complex bring an exterminator to get rid of them.

 

[Lanny]

I was gonna post that picture a couple weeks ago but then I remembered there's an even better one that I wasn't able to find.