[Clinging Bitterly]

It might be kind of fun to have 8 eyes and spinnerets.

I could do Spiderman stuff.

And keep an eye (or seven) out for Cat Woman.

The thing I always heard about spiders is you are never more than three feet away from a spider. And down here I believe it, and honestly there are more of them at the place in Oregon.

But, none of those are tarantulas.

[NicknamedBob]

"It might be kind of fun to have 8 eyes and spinnerets. I could do Spiderman stuff."

I've designed something I call "Eyes in the back of your head". But I've only given cursory attention to a character who had the ability to make threads and such. I'll need to think about that more.

Currently, the mammal champs of making spider-silk are ... goats. And they can't use it to rappel down a cliff or anything, it just comes out in their milk.

Most superpowers are actually inconvenient, as far as I can tell.

Superman!

"Strange visitor from another planet...",
I know how that must feel.
That’s why I’m surreptitious,
Whenever I bend steel.

We shouldn’t alarm the natives,
Just when does Superman sleep?
Now that they know his secret,
He has promises to keep.

Much better to stay quiet,
And work without the light.
No need to call attention,
To having X-ray sight.

Flying, of course, is forbidden,
Is it a bird or a plane?
It just makes complications,
That are much too hard to explain.

So all my powers are muted,
But I don’t have to fear in the storm,
At least I can quietly glance at my cup,
And keep my coffee warm!

NicknamedBob . . . . June 30, 2005

[Tax-chick]

The thing I always heard about spiders is you are never more than three feet away from a spider.

That was Bob's original point, I think.