Scarrier

[captain_slinky]

Which is more frightening? Mice or snakes?

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[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but no mouse ever offered Adam OR Eve any apples! The meeces were all sweet and innocent in the Garden of Eden! They said "Here! Have some Grapes! Grapes are good!"

Also, which would you rather get for your grandmother? A porceline figurine of a sweet little mousie? Or a porcelain SNAKE?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

DOH! Foiled again!

(You may be able to tell that I am slightly biased towards the lil' mousies)

[freydis.livejournal.com]

snakes. snakes eat mice. Also, they try to eat rhinos, but sometimes, just puke them back up. Unless that was a bulimic snake I saw video of..

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

ONE! One sane person replying to my post!

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Mice.

Reference the Black Plague, carried & spread by mice.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Dude, Black Plague was CENTURIES AGO! LET IT GO!

Unless you're speaking of diabolical time-traveling mice bent on total global domination through the eradication of The Human Race through use of the Plague.

But really, mice get a bum rap for that whole Plague thing. It was the FLEAS that did it! Meeces was just innocent carriers! They had no choice! Had they but a pair of opposable thumbs I'm sure they would have picked the fleas off for us!

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Hey, if christians can have a 2000+ year hardon for burning midwives at the stake, I can feed mice to my snakes.

oo! that almost rhymed!

[qthuny.livejournal.com]

snakes... hands down. that sensing heat with their tounge freaks me out.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

TWO! Two sane people replying to my post!

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

Spiders.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Top two answers on the board... show me, SPIDERS!

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EHHHHHHHNT!

Ooh, sorry! That one was NOT one of the choices! Try again!

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

Let's ask Samuel L. Jackson what he thinks about "Mice on a plane".

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

(my original snakes v. mice question was posed because someone thinks mice are scarrier than snakes. INCONCEIVABLE!)

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

snakes!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

HOORAY for sane people replying! Then mousie-haters hae got another thing coming!

[aquatwo.livejournal.com]

Jennifer Lopez

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I will count that as a vote for Snakes being the more firghteningerest of the two, thenkyewveramuch!

[the-4th-doctor.livejournal.com]

Snakes.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Thenkyew.

[jaketheranger.livejournal.com]

Mice.

Two words: Hanta Virus

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a deadly disease transmitted by infected rodents through urine, droppings, or saliva. Humans can contract the disease when they breathe in aerosolized virus. HPS was first recognized in 1993 and has since been identified throughout the United States. Although rare, HPS is potentially deadly. Rodent control in and around the home remains the primary strategy for preventing hantavirus infection.

'nuff said.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Okay... so as you're stumbling around blinded by the venom in your eyes and trying to pry the snake off your face who was plunged his fangs in nice and deep injecting more deadly venom in to your numbly burning body, your final thoughts will be "Boy I sure am glad I'm not handling any creatures that have a 0.0012% chance of carrying the Hanta virus right now! That would totaly SUCK!"

[jaketheranger.livejournal.com]

The devil, you say? Among the catalogue of wacky stuff that's happened to me on my journeys include, but are not restricted to: Yellow fever, dengue fever, shingles, six types of dysentary, sand fly epidemics, black fly epidemics, malarial mosquito epidemics, attack by emu, attack by badger, attack by human, attack by wounded stag, and finally (and this is what I've been driving at) attacked by a horned asp in the dunes of the Sahara. I spent three days in a Marrakech hospital listening, in French, to the hospital staff denounce me as an infidel.

So: Been there, done that, bought the tee-shirt.

Have you seen the the nutria, now indigenous to Seattle, down by the water front??????

Two and half more words: Strongyloides myopotami (roundworm)

'nuff said.

http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2000TexNatHist/TexasNatHist/Members/SchullerB/Default.htm

[khristle.livejournal.com]

It depends. In a cage mice are scarier. In nature snakes are scarier.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but YOU don't count 'cuz I know you're crazy :)