X-Google-Thread: f996b,d6ec2f147ca7ee27 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid13235db79e,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.180.183.180 with SMTP id en20mr1661185wic.3.1362984356290; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Path: bp2ni85203wib.1!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Clu Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Wind scorpin/sun spider Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:45:55 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <20090607212031.I80698@bunrab.ronnet.moc> NNTP-Posting-Host: l2mQnAm2dE3hbhOTJtxL+Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 3/10/13 10:25 PM, colonel_hack@yahoo.com wrote: > One was runnning around. Like Walt's mice. Don't seem to much > creepier than any other spider to me (but they are smaller?), > but at a glance they can look like a real scorpin and cause a bit of > concern. > > It got munged before it got back to me. > Fixed: > >> . __ >> . / \ >> . | | >> . \ | | / >> . __\ \ / /__ >> . \\ || // >> . \| |/ >> . /| |\ >> . __///||\\\__ >> . /// \\\ >> . // \../ \\ >> . / | || | \ >> . | | >> . d b >> . H H >> . q p Huh... well great. :P Yeh while I was in Kuwait these were reported to be the big thing to avoid. But now thanks to this I am learning that Conus (U.S) has these as well in the desert regions. Oh well. They are fast, they are creeeeepppyyy looking, but they are also great eaters of actual scorpions and other insects, and not actually poisonous. Just reallly really creepy.