Rest in peace, ye bonnie lad.
Posted on 05/21/2004 11:55:33 AM PDT by HAL9000
And why would a dead Scotsman be found near the Clinton Library?
February 6, 2004 - Scots get Clinton library work
Wot number Arkancide would this bee?
#40 taking ye ol' dirt nap?
maybe now that they are claiming BIG donations for the liebrary, the clinton's can give the mis-appropriated money BACK to the Little Rock Zoo from whence it came?
Maybe the animals are exacting revenge for the theft?
Does this have something to do with Scottish law? Let's ask Arlen.
Rest in peace, ye bonnie lad.
I can see why venomous reptiles would be drawn to the Clinton Library/ Live Bait and Tackle/ Discount Cigarette/ Tanning and All Night Adult Video Superette.
It's a disgrace how the leaders of Little Rock have emptied the city's coffers to build Clinton's palace.
I wanna know how fast the guy drove when delivering those snakes to Texas.
The title had me confused for a second. I thought maybe the old trouser snake was gettin' busy again.
I blame George Bush!
As I said ....if you wanna muck with venomous snakes stick to local species. There is no need to import much more venomous exotics from overseas ...especially when your state doesn't have anti-venin.
Dumbo! I'm sorry he bought the farm, but who goes totting around venomous snakes?!?!?!?!?! Especially such a collection .I've played with my share of snakes .....until a kid I knew got tagged by his puff adder and bought it. However, I would never have gone with 2 mambas,a vine snake and a cobra. Well, let me say maybe the cobra and the vine snake ....but definitely not the mambas. The only two snakes I am afraid of are the mole snake (impossible to hold since they can unhinge their fangs ....not just mouth but fangs ....and bite your hand even if you are holding them behind their head), and obviously the several species of Mamba.
The second type of "snake handlers" are the wholesale/import/export guys who keep the religious folks in business.
Finally, we come to the third type ~ the Romany ~
Billzo's ("little Bill") mom would know more about this, but she is, alas, dead. Roger might know!
Very definitely an Arkancide. Too suspicious.
Aha!.... Clinton thought she was a beuty contestant and had her husband killed so he could have her.
"Uh..ah already had me Miss America in the back of the Presidential Limo".
IF he was bitten through the bag, as the cops are trying to say, then what killed him was the black mamba. They have a penchant for biting through the bags herpetologists put snakes in. It wasn't the cobra (fangs relatively short), and not the vine snake (back fanged). Hence that leaves the green mamba and the black mamba ....with the probable suspect being the black mamba since it doesn't get placated when placed in a dark space (like a bag) but continues to try to bite.
And it has long fangs for an elapid.
Another one bites the dust due to our dear friend Dendroaspis Polylepis. And that says one thing ....the guy was an amateur. No professional (at least the ones I've met who deal or have dealt with Mambas) would ever place one in a bag, and continue to hold that bag. They normally hold the bag with their snake tongs ....they give the bag the same respect they'd give the snake.
Dude made too many mistakes ....mistakes that are ok for a cottonmouth but disastrous for a Mamba.
Oh my goodness snakes!
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My great aunt had a phobia about snakes. She was scared to death of them, but she also loved to talk about them. I remember one time she was lovingly detailing the black mamba (including the old tale about it's being as fast as a horse). I remember how she acted out with her hand how it can strike again and again, and then saying "see, look at the goose bumps on my arms, just from talking about them...."
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