[Slings and Arrows]

snake ping?

Would you settle for wussification-of-America ping?

[Lady Jag]

This is a joke, right?

[fredhead]

“wussification-of-America”

Yeah, what has happened? Some years back, my Mom discovered a copperhead trying to get inside a hole in the back steps of the house. Sent me to get my Dad to kill the snake. Dad went in the front door and was in the house for a while. By the time he came out with the shotgun, Mom had gotten a garden hoe, pulled the snake out of the steps, cut its head off and cut the body into several pieces.

Of course, both of my parents were raised on farms.

[TheOldLady]

Hubby and I were hiking along the Carquinez Strait in Benicia (northern California) when we came upon a tiny snake in the path. I picked it up to move it out of any danger, and it bit my finger.

Its tiny teeth didn’t even make it through the first layer of skin, and I laughed and placed it in the grass by the side of the trail.

I admired the brave little thing for “scaring off” a predator about a bazillion times its size.

Snakes are really cool, especially the non-venomous varieties, and I don’t get why people are so upset about harmless garden snakes.

You’re right about the wussificaton of America and Americans.

[Morgana]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tELkI0vbU

[Daffynition]

I think we have a match behind door #1 Bob.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I don't like snakes. Lived too long around the kind that were "two-steps" (they bit, you took two steps and died) but even I could have dealt with this.

Yep. Wusses.