Comments on: Spider in waiting https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:01:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: George Warburton https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2519222 Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:01:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2519222 If you ever find a Biden/Kamala supporter in your shower, smack it in the head and wash it down the tubes.

Then the poor deluded creature will not suffer the embarassment that awaits in November 2020.

The creature can be identified by the white face and trhe BLM tee shirt.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2519041 Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:57:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2519041 Amy – reminds me of a prank some friends pulled on their daughter when she returned from college one summer. They filled her room with balloons and then, just as she started laughing and popping them, informed her that some of them were water balloons.

My family was less inventive – they plugged a tape player (I’m that old) into an outlet connected to the light switch while I was asleep the first night, and loaded a cassette queued to “The Star Spangled Banner.”
It was a loud awakening in the morning.

]]> By: Amy https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518991 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:01:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518991 Rufus, yes the spider photo on the bathroom floor prank worked perfectly, and on BOTH daughters because one was on a far side of the house when the first one flicked on the bathroom light and yelled something like “holy sh*t!”, then, “MOM!”, then laughed, and I got her to promise to be quiet and not tell and then we both got to enjoy the other daughter’s similar reaction. Big hairy spiders really are scary.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518871 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:21:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518871 Neo – agreed about the size consideration – the ick factor of spurting spidery body fluids is a limiting factor for squishing.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518869 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:17:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518869 In case anyone is wondering if Jeff just made it all up, this is a guaranteed true story, as told to me by a female Scouter during a break between activities at summer camp.

She and her husband married late in life (possibly the second time for one or both; I don’t recall), and of course were very much in love, but had some difficulty merging their life-styles. One thing, she said, particularly irritated her. When he undressed at night, he dropped his clothes on the floor instead of putting them in the laundry hamper in the bathroom.
Despite frequent, loving, reminders, and occasional half-hearted attempts to comply, he continued to fall back into his accustomed habit.
One day, the wife being a logical person and also a dog owner, she moved the hamper into the bedroom, to the precise spot where her husband usually shed his clothing. Since the basket was right there, the clothes fortuitously landed inside of it.
She was careful not to make any comments.
In a couple of days, once that connection was established, she moved the hamper a few feet closer to the bathroom. He walked over the necessary few steps and dropped his clothes inside.
In a week or so, the hamper was right outside the bathroom door.

That night, after he undressed — in the original location, as always — he picked up his clothes and was half-way to the hamper when he suddenly stopped, turned to her (visualize Foxworthy’s face on his way back to bed after turning on the fan), and said, “I see what you did there!”

However, as she suggested sweetly, since he was now in the hamper habit, why not keep it up? – and he did.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518868 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:10:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518868 By the way, I’ve killed plenty of spiders in my time. Little ones. If they pass a certain size and weight limit, I can’t bring myself to do it.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518864 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:01:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518864 However, Jeff Foxworthy’s bit about the ceiling fan is mansplaining done right: gives you useful information you might need someday.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518853 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 03:35:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518853 “Women will never truly be liberated until they can kill their own spiders.” – Roy

Just don’t be mansplaining about how to do it!

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518851 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 03:34:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518851 ” I eliminate the “hey let’s go out into the open” gene one spider at a time.” – Bryan

I am envisioning an arachnid Rod Serling saying, “Imagine, if you will, a terrifying alternate-reality world….”

Bonus story:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/could-rod-serling-really-have-conceived-of-this-twilight-zone/

]]> By: Edward W Wagner https://thenewneo.com/2020/10/07/spider-in-waiting/#comment-2518832 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:42:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100443#comment-2518832 Final say on this topic.
Flanders and Swann : The Spider (in the Bath)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z3D5Jutw1Q

Eww

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