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Lady spiders demand gifts from their gentleman callers — or else they eat them
Washington Post ^ | May 18, 2016 | Elahe Izadi

Posted on 05/18/2016 5:02:31 PM PDT by daisy12

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To: daisy12

Some girls take my money
Some girls take my clothes
Some girls get the shirt off my back
And leave me with a lethal dose
French girls they want Cartier
Italian girls want cars
American girls want everything in the world
You can possibly imagine


21 posted on 05/18/2016 5:28:56 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: PCPOET7

Oh, I thought it was fairly obvious that it was sarcasm!


22 posted on 05/18/2016 5:32:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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To: madison10
human males bringing fake gifts. :)

"Fake gifts" will ultimately bring on the wrath similar to that of a black widow.......

23 posted on 05/18/2016 5:34:03 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (#HillaryForPrison-2016)
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To: daisy12

[ Lady spiders demand gifts from their gentleman callers — or else they eat them ]

I think I dated her at one time.


24 posted on 05/18/2016 5:40:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Hot Tabasco

>>Strangely enough, I see a correlation between female spiders and human females.............<<

So, you have met my ex-wife.


25 posted on 05/18/2016 5:46:39 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: daisy12

And that happened “independent of female hunger.”


I think they’ve missed a key factor they should consider before assigning any deeper meaning to this so-called “ritual”. The mama spider may not be hungry when she decides to eat the male, but she is pregnant, whether she is hungry or not, and she will need all the nutrients she can get in order to maximize the chance for healthy offspring. I’d bet they probably have a hormonal trigger to gorge themselves after mating, regardless of hunger.


26 posted on 05/18/2016 5:52:18 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: daisy12

Guys better buy those little $40 packets of chocolate-wrapped strawberries our talk show shills are selling


27 posted on 05/18/2016 5:52:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: daisy12

The Female of the Species

Rudyard Kipling
1911

1 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
2 He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
3 But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
4 For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

5 When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
6 He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
7 But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
8 For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

9 When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
10 They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
11 ‘Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
12 For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

13 Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
14 For the Woman that God gave him isn’t his to give away;
15 But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other’s tale —
16 The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

17 Man, a bear in most relations — worm and savage otherwise, —
18 Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
19 Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
20 To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.

21 Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
22 To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
23 Mirth obscene diverts his anger -— Doubt and Pity oft perplex
24 Him in dealing with an issue — to the scandal of The Sex!

25 But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
26 Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same,
27 And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
28 The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

29 She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
30 May not deal in doubt or pity — must not swerve for fact or jest.
31 These be purely male diversions — not in these her honour dwells.
32 She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.

33 She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
34 As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
35 And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unchained to claim
36 Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.

37 She is wedded to convictions — in default of grosser ties;
38 Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies! —
39 He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
40 Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.

41 Unprovoked and awful charges — even so the she-bear fights,
42 Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons — even so the cobra bites,
43 Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
44 And the victim writhes in anguish — like the Jesuit with the squaw!

45 So it cames that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
46 With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
47 Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
48 To some God of Abstract Justice — which no woman understands.

49 And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
50 Must command but may not govern — shall enthral but not enslave him.
51 And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
52 That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.


28 posted on 05/18/2016 5:57:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: daisy12

more likely to be eaten by female spiders before mating
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Let’s do some necessary editing ...

more likely to be eaten by female spiders instead of getting to mate...


29 posted on 05/18/2016 6:04:08 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: faithhopecharity

Great poem— probably on the verge of being banned in most educational institutions or re-written to be politically correct.


30 posted on 05/18/2016 6:20:51 PM PDT by georgiegirl
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31 posted on 05/18/2016 6:47:53 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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#3. re “male humans are completely safe from the depredations of the female of our species”.

WAIT: Hillary Clinton is running against the white males of America. No one is safe when she is around. Put your family jewels in a safe-deposit box now. If she wins in November, keep them there or send them out of the country for safekeeping.


32 posted on 05/18/2016 6:47:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: georgiegirl

Ha! Fer sure


33 posted on 05/18/2016 6:57:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: daisy12

“Gimme some web baby, oh yeah, that’s it, just like that!”....


34 posted on 05/18/2016 7:01:40 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: daisy12
Space - Female of the Species

From the album, "Spiders."
35 posted on 05/18/2016 7:07:42 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary)
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To: daisy12

Same machinery is what makes a Black Widow. I mean a Widow!


36 posted on 05/18/2016 7:15:48 PM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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To: Lent; daisy12
I hate spiders!

Well then, you won't have to spend any money on insects and silk.

If you think about it, the human practice of bringing flowers to a woman they want to 'date' is no different from the practice of the nursery spiders.

Well... except for the cannibal part.

37 posted on 05/18/2016 7:20:34 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Ransomed
These things are amazing, they seem to solve problems like much bigger animals.

I do not believe size has anything to do with intelligence. One of the most intelligent life forms is the virus.

38 posted on 05/18/2016 7:34:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Talisker

If it were ‘evolution’, then none of the males would bring fake gifts or come empty-handed.


39 posted on 05/18/2016 7:36:21 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
What about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered spiders? What about their mating rituals???


40 posted on 05/18/2016 7:41:53 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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