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Monkey Phobia Woman Savaged By Macaques
Sky News ^ | 6/18/10 | Staff

Posted on 06/18/2010 9:56:09 AM PDT by MissTed

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To: Slings and Arrows
It's true. It'll cure what ails ya'!  !
101 posted on 06/18/2010 8:21:42 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Monkeys sound a lot like Democrats.


102 posted on 06/18/2010 8:25:39 PM PDT by Doohickey ("It Takes A Spillage." - Mark Steyn)
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To: shibumi; MissTed; Slings and Arrows; Markos33; JoeProBono; humblegunner; Eaker; kanawa

Hippos are cannibals?


103 posted on 06/18/2010 9:54:44 PM PDT by Salamander (You don't know what's going on inside of me. You don't wanna know what's running through my mind.)
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104 posted on 06/18/2010 9:56:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Retired Greyhound

Who even has a life wherein they are faced with “monkey encounters”?

I hate monkeys therefore I do not frequent monkey infested places.

[which is really easy because as far as I know, there are no indigenous monkeys in the Appalachians]


105 posted on 06/18/2010 9:58:03 PM PDT by Salamander (You don't know what's going on inside of me. You don't wanna know what's running through my mind.)
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To: MissTed
A British woman who went to a Thai nature resort to conquer her fear of monkeys has been savaged by a pack of macaques. Dee Darwell, 56, lost consciousness after the monkeys surrounded her and sank their teeth into her arms and body.

This is why "homophobes" as they are called by the left should never visit Nancy Pelosi's district.

106 posted on 06/18/2010 10:01:25 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Kartographer; Darksheare; Slings and Arrows; Allegra
What happen to: "More fun than a barrel of monkeys"

Contrary to popular belief, a barrel of monkeys is not fun; in fact, a barrel of monkeys is really quite frightening!

107 posted on 06/18/2010 10:02:58 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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To: MissTed

You shouldn’t have sent me that reply. It gives me a chance to tell you some personal snake stories.

When I was about 6.5 years old my parents and I moved from Chicago to the then far south suburbs and they bought a small house on what had recently been farm land. My poor mother felt about snakes just about the way you do. I, OTOH, thought they were great, and we had huge masses of garter snakes plus some green snakes. I proceeded to make the things into pets, carrying them around in my pockets and inside my tee shirt. One of the funniest things our former next door neighbor remembers is the sight of my mother standing on our back porch, a sick look on her face, holding my jeans out at arm’s length, and delicately turning the pockets inside out with the tips of her fingers.

Since then I’ve gotten over carrying them around in my pockets and inside my shirt but am still fascinated by them and watch just about every Discovery Channel and Animal Planet show about them I can find.

Now I live on two wooded acres in far west Knox County, TN and have periodic visits from our legless friends. A couple of years ago I had some major landscaping done on my place that included laying down a nylon mesh mat of the type that’s used on freeway embankments to prevent erosion. The mesh has a very tight weave, so tight that a snake can crawl into it and become trapped. That’s what happened to two rat snakes. I solved the problem by getting down on the ground, carefully clipping each one out of the mesh, and letting it go, even though one of them bit me as a way of thanks.

To show you how much farther gone I really am, there was a recent “Billy the Exterminator” show where the announcer announced that he’d come on an allegedly poisonous snake on a client’s property that he was going to remove. I, OTOH, identified it as a nonpoisonous corn snake, and that’s what it turned out to be.

Please call the Tennessee Department of Metal Hygiene.


108 posted on 06/19/2010 6:12:52 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper
The mesh has a very tight weave, so tight that a snake can crawl into it and become trapped. That’s what happened to two rat snakes. I solved the problem by getting down on the ground, carefully clipping each one out of the mesh, and letting it go, even though one of them bit me as a way of thanks.

I would have solved that by dropping dead right away and having the authorities free the snakes. Two different tactics, same result. You be insane, libstripper! lol

109 posted on 06/19/2010 7:21:38 PM PDT by MissTed (I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.. Then it hit me.)
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To: MissTed
Even worse, it was one separate snake on each of two different occasions, the first one being the one that bit me. You really do need to contact the Tennessee Department of Mental Hygiene.
110 posted on 06/19/2010 11:13:43 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Mr. Silverback

Thanks! Yeah, I agree with you on the 3rd and 4th movies.


111 posted on 06/21/2010 7:20:47 AM PDT by Cpl. Dwayne Hicks (Somebody wake me up!)
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