[thechat] animals
Andrew Forsberg
andrew at thepander.co.nz
Fri Sep 28 16:31:47 CDT 2001
Do you mean snakes in zoos? Because we don't have snakes here ... at
least no native ones, and I can't say I've never seen one 'in the
wild'. Occasionally there's a hoo-haa about some imported crate or
vehicle filled with one large snake and a lot of babies... You
weren't thinking of Australia, Ron?
We have several rather lovely spiders.
Oh, and the singing fish: only on that one episode of the Sopranos.
Our time will come, I'm sure.
>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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