tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post2512379959178541442..comments2024-01-30T02:21:59.326-06:00Comments on Ben and Bawb's Blog: SNAKES ALIVE! BUT DEAD IS BETTERUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post-23852512162094919442012-07-25T06:26:33.889-06:002012-07-25T06:26:33.889-06:00You guys got any hoop snakes down there?
"No...You guys got any hoop snakes down there?<br /><br />"Now the Pennsylvania hoop snake is something to be reckoned with. It is long, and its colors vary with the type of whisky you've been drinking. But everyone agrees that you can tell a hoop snake from a regular snake by the way it moves. When a hoop snake travels around, it grabs its tail (with the poison stinger at the end) in its mouth and rolls along until it sees something it wants to sting. Then it whips the stinger out of its mouth quick enough and lashes out with its tail.<br /><br />One feller I knew, he was hoeing in his field when a hoop snake came rolling towards him. He ducked behind his hoe, figuring he was a goner, but the snake's tail hit the hoe instead of him, and there it stuck. Well, he just high-tailed it out of there right quick and headed for home. He knew he had to to wait until dusk to get his hoe. Hoop snakes what get into fights never die before sundown. Sure enough, he went back after sundown, and that hoop snake was as dead as your average doornail. The handle of the hoe was so swollen up with poison that the farmer had it cut up and shingled his barn with it. 'Course, I happen to know that they all fell off after the first big storm because the rain washed the poison right out of them. But you can't blame a feller for trying."<br /><br />http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/08/hoop_snakes.htmlBawbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194337224433517477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post-65251317164762110942012-07-24T21:50:18.829-06:002012-07-24T21:50:18.829-06:0030 feet is a bit of an exaggeration Bawb, hardly a...30 feet is a bit of an exaggeration Bawb, hardly any can strike over 20 and as long as the door is 3 inch thick solid timber the buggers can't get at you.<br /><br />They did though, inspire A B Patterson to write the following:<br /><br />Down along the Mooki River, where the overlanders camp, <br />And the serpents are in millions, all of a deadly stamp; <br />Where the station-cook in terror, nearly every time he bakes, <br />Mixes up among the doughboys half a dozen deadly snakes: <br />Where the wily free selector walks in armour-plated pants, <br />And defies the stings of scorpions, and the bites of bulldog ants: <br />Where the adder and the viper tear each other by the throat, <br />There it was that William Johnson sought his snakebite antidote. …<br /><br />Many years ago my grandfather had a close call when a death adder bit his shovel handle, but we figured the handle was the softest thing it could find.Jim Fryarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post-90409573341458184522012-07-24T06:45:27.642-06:002012-07-24T06:45:27.642-06:00Jeez, Ben. You think I carry just ONE gun?
I thou...Jeez, Ben. You think I carry just ONE gun?<br /><br />I thought of you and your Aussie reptiles when I was writing this one, Jim. Never knew they also had an Aussie copperhead. You guys have snakes that can kill a man at 30 feet and ones that follow you home and break down your door, don't you?<br /><br />Now with all this talk, I have to go watch Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road" on youtube.Bawbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194337224433517477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post-11865722593877045082012-07-23T20:54:28.471-06:002012-07-23T20:54:28.471-06:00What happens if you've got snake loads in your...What happens if you've got snake loads in your .44 and you get charged by a grizzly? Guess that's why you've got your Bowie knife.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13153793623409748857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post-10620382424706004512012-07-23T20:48:53.787-06:002012-07-23T20:48:53.787-06:00"Rattlesnakes are shy, retiring creatures. If...<em>"Rattlesnakes are shy, retiring creatures. If left alone, they won't bother people."</em><br /><br />Governments must all consult the same experts, ours tells us the same thing about red bellied blacks, king browns, taipans, copper heads, ...Jim Fryarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.com