[thechat] animals

[Andrew Forsberg]

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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