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Nosce te ipsum
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Friendly house spider.
Calmly avoiding my sponge
Lives to spin again.
 
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Spread the Disease
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Nice.

Why does this happen?
Squealing like a little girl.
It was just a fuzz.


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Be prepared for loud noise and recoil
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Larger than a nickel.
I should be better than this.
I reach for my shoe.





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"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson
 
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Don't Panic
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Eating all those bugs
Webs that catch the morning dew
Why aren't we all fans?
 
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My cat eats them.
Then pukes them up!
Sometimes still alive.


End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
 
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In my house....



Smart spiders ply their trade OUTSIDE.
 
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I run with the dumber than slugs crowd so yes I believe in gifted spiders.


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Posts: 5260 | Location: southern Mn | Registered: February 26, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Mistake Not...
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Watching me with eyes
Numbering as many as legs
Nuke them from orbit


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A Grateful American
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It's a Black Widow
Even though it is not black
Has eight legs. Smoosh!




"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
 
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Lost
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They are for a fact smarter than most people think. Studies have demonstrated spiders' ability for learning, like memorizing the correct path through mazes.



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Posts: 17235 | Location: SF Bay Area | Registered: December 11, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Happiness is
Vectored Thrust
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Why must you spin web
At face height to walk into
You sit back and laugh



Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.
 
Posts: 6791 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: April 30, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Muzzle flash
aficionado
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Smarter than most Democrats? Yes.

flashguy




Texan by choice, not accident of birth
 
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Originally posted by mojojojo:
Why must you spin web
At face height to walk into
You sit back and laugh


LOL Smile

Walk into big web
Surprised, I am disgusted
Dancing like a freak




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One wants to live
I put down my club
Now two hundred


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Nosce te ipsum
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Not much bigger than a pinhead ... but far smarter.



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