MrVampire
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I am a Galactor.
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Registration Date: 25-12-2009
Posts: 43
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| quote: | | .... I don't mind as long as they're small enough to squash under my shoe and don't chase you, which I understand some dangerous spiders do. |
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Funnel web spiders (the most venomous spider on earth) will not just chase you it will jump up at you and sink its massive fangs (capable of penetrating fingernails or soft shoes) into your calf and inject its acidic, multiple toxin laced venom into your leg whereon you will experience nausea, vomiting, sweating, difficulty berating, twitching, disorientation, fluid accumulation on the lungs, coma then a horrible death either through low blood pressure, asphyxiation or swelling of the brain.
That would probably spoil your holidays.
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I'll write something else entertaining here eventually...
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18-01-2010 01:56
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Madilayn
Mistress of Ebil
I am a Swan.
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Registration Date: 01-02-2006
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Green: love it!! Though - they might have a problem with the cricket ground going - especially since they also use it for football (all types) as well.
Oops - good job not attacking Brisbane - there is Suncorp Stadium (football - the cricket ground is at the Gabba - other side of town) and the XXXX Brewery next to it... Thank heavens Arnotts moved, or the Tim Tams could also have been threatened in one hit!
About a year ago, there was a discussion on Galactor and Australia on the BotP list. I had a plotpuppy and sent this in:
The truth is they came, they landed, they had a series of problems.
1. Mecha landed on a bull ant nest. Not immediately noticed until the ants made it inside. Goons covered in bites.
2. Reconasaince party sent outside and met some wildlife. One got kicked in the goolies by a kangaroo. Second one had a drop bear fall on his head. Third one was tragically killed when he inadvertently put his hand down a wombat hole and the wombat got frightened, sat on his hand and crushed it, then collapsed the burrow on the crushed hand and arm. Goon died of embarrasment as he couldn't bear to explain what had happened.
3. Goon found outisde dunny. Got bitten by the Red Back on the toilet seat.
4. Goon tried to pet snake. Silly goon.
5. Captain du Jour went swimming in a lovely billabong in the top end. Discovers that in Australia "Crocs" don't mean shoes...... Croc later had to be treated for indigestion.
6. Katse decided to leave Australia alone after he tried vegemite. Lesson learned: don't put it on your toast thickly. You only need a tiny scraping on it if you're a beginner. You need to be hardened to Vegemite to be able to put it on your toast at any level of thickness!
7. ON leaving, Katse ony just makes it out alive after making disparaging remarks about Australian sporting prowess. Mecha is severely damaged by accurately hit cricket balls and footy players going for the tackle and/or mark.
Galactor puts Australia on it's "do not got there" list.
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19-01-2010 11:19
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I'm sure that apart from these facts, Australia is one of the most wonderful places on Earth ... that's how people who have already visited it tend to describe it! 
But we need the cold and the snow in Nova Scotia -otherwise we'd have blackflies and mosquitoes biting us all year round!
It takes much longer to rebuild a brewery to get it just right, and the storehouses... OMG, not the reserves!!! Beer shortage - the horror, the HORROR!! 