Glad to hear you have no lasting effects from your sting, and that you stopped up their bungee hole (oo-er, sounds a bit rude).
I have never been to Tasmania, but I thought that when I did get there I'd have someone to visit. Ever-so-slightly less enthused now. ;-) Don't have white-tailed spiders, do you?
The only scorpions I've seen IRL and not behind glass were behavioural research animals kept by one of the students on my college floor when I was at uni.
I'm not familiar with white-tailed spiders, but a quick search reveals they are found in Tasmania. I've never had a run in with one. Maybe the scorpions scared them off...
Never actually been bitten by a scorpion. Have eaten one though.
Think I'm kidding, don't you.
Truth to tell, I ate rather more than one. You can eat them locally at a few restaurants. After a couple of drinks they look pretty apetising.
Ok I was lying about the looking apetizing part. They actually look at once a little sad (being dead and all, with their wee lifeless legs up in the air) and a little dangerous (with their wee stingery thingies also sticking up in the air). They are fried or something so it's a kind of crunchy taste, not at all unpleasant really (after the requisite couple of drinks).
Scorpion dish: 1200 yen. Expression on friends faces: priceless.
Anyway so what I'm thinking Fah is you need to get into the restaurant business.
Speaking of which - is it my imagination of is the Livejournal "spell checker" limited to the spelling favoured by our American cousins?
The restaurant business huh? Now there's an idea. There is a gap in the market for scorpion restaurants in this neck of the woods.
Eating scorpions sounds like an Amazing Race roadblock. I'm thinking I'd need more than a couple of drinks to get me anywhere near a scorpion dish, fried or otherwise.
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OK, I'm not really big on scorpions. Or on big black spiders either, which have now started falling on me on warm nights from the grapevine.
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I have never been to Tasmania, but I thought that when I did get there I'd have someone to visit. Ever-so-slightly less enthused now. ;-) Don't have white-tailed spiders, do you?
The only scorpions I've seen IRL and not behind glass were behavioural research animals kept by one of the students on my college floor when I was at uni.
I did however find a false scorpion in our lounge room when I was about fifteen. I have to say, it was horrendously cute (http://www.bugwise.net.au/guide/pseudoscorpions.htm).
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Think I'm kidding, don't you.
Truth to tell, I ate rather more than one. You can eat them locally at a few restaurants. After a couple of drinks they look pretty apetising.
Ok I was lying about the looking apetizing part. They actually look at once a little sad (being dead and all, with their wee lifeless legs up in the air) and a little dangerous (with their wee stingery thingies also sticking up in the air). They are fried or something so it's a kind of crunchy taste, not at all unpleasant really (after the requisite couple of drinks).
Scorpion dish: 1200 yen. Expression on friends faces: priceless.
Anyway so what I'm thinking Fah is you need to get into the restaurant business.
Speaking of which - is it my imagination of is the Livejournal "spell checker" limited to the spelling favoured by our American cousins?
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Eating scorpions sounds like an Amazing Race roadblock. I'm thinking I'd need more than a couple of drinks to get me anywhere near a scorpion dish, fried or otherwise.
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