[thechat] animals

spinhead evolt at spinhead.com
Fri Sep 28 16:15:05 CDT 2001


Sure, Ron. Why should the silly New Zealanders have laws about mailing
snakes, anyway?

(Wait; if I gave you my old address, the one where my pesky BROTHER lives
now . . . )


----- Original Message -----
From: "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at compaq.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: RE: [thechat] animals


> Hi Joel,
>
>
> "Candygram?"
>
>
>
>
> Ya know, pal ... it's an internet world [soooo ... "all your address are
> belong to us!"] ... but I know ya really don't want a Rock python.
> Maybe a nice Dumeril's ... or a Carpet ... a Burmese ... an Indian ...
> or even a lovely Diamond ... but not a Rock ... or a Blood or ... (ick)
> ... a Retic!
>
> [Ooooo!  But if some of our Kiwi pals could break about 10,000 of their
> draconian animal transport laws and mail us up some 'Black-Headed'
> and/or Womas!!  Yum!  {big money - big money}  ... <sigh> ... Just
> kidding! (Not about the $$ though - the little girls used to go for
> about $10,000 -- $8,000 for the little boys!)]
>
> Hmmm ... there's another lovely Australian python that lives in the
> trees - fabulous irridescence ... can't remember the proper name - it'll
> come to me after I hit "send", but the natives know it as "face-biter"
> ... so the disposition is a tad "iffy" ... but Dang ... they sure are
> pretty!
>
> I used to make some people very very nervous by reminding them that
> rattlesnakes can be had (with proper connections of course) for as
> little as  $20 a pop.
>
> Naturally ... you have to realize that's for one of the "ugly" ones! ...
> but it's still pretty reasonable!
>
> ;-)
>
> Actually ... snakes "mail" very very well!  [That poikilothermic {gotta
> love that word - pronounce it with a Curly Neal accent} metabolism keeps
> their oxygen requirements pretty low.]  Fish are often mailed too - but
> that's a fair bit trickier.
>
> RonL.
>
> I once saw 'A Fish Called Wanda' - does that count?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spinhead [mailto:evolt at spinhead.com]
> Subject: Re: [thechat] animals
>
> But actually, I was sucking up to RonL to see if he'd mail me a rock
> python
> or something.
>
>





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