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What is the dumbest thing you have ever heard?

How about a PM to your for sale add and their message is "Contact Me"

What are you to say to that? All the info I have I put in the add. Am I to read your mind or something. Do you want a lower price or have something to trade? :shrugs:
 
reptile_jones said:
How about a PM to your for sale add and their message is "Contact Me"

What are you to say to that? All the info I have I put in the add. Am I to read your mind or something. Do you want a lower price or have something to trade? :shrugs:
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Some people just have no etiquette!
 
Hm. Well as for snake ones, my friends response when I introduced her to my new corn was "Oh cool! Its so small. Ill put one in my old fish tank!" Keep in mind her tank is probably 2 gallons. I had to explain that they do, in fact, do this weird thing know to some people as growing!

As for regular stupid people, when a "friend" (younger) of mine that I hadn't seen in a while learned of my boyfriend of seven months she said "You could get raped!". My reply was "I'm sure he has no intentions of raping me. He asks first". Lets just say that got her pretty fired up. I sat back and watched her have her fit.

Heres another- a girl I had just met decides to ask me when I got my lip pierced and where. I said I did it myself on November 2, 07. Her reply? "is it real?"

When a friend learned I barrel raced she asked me why horses were so big. Um. Because evolution made them that way, sweetheart?
 
Oh, just remembered a time when I was the stupid one. My friend, her mom, and me were eating out. We asked the waiter what they had as far as drinks. He said "pepsi products" and I said "howa bouta coke"

I felt so stupid...
 
If that's a serious question, the answer is no. At least none of mine ever have, and I have some bitey damn boas!
 
It was a serious question. I was telling someone the other day ALL my snakes rattle their tails. But then I remembered Noah... All my _colubrids_ rattle their tails!
 
I guess hoggies, garters, and Asian rats are the other colubrids that don't tail-rattle that I can think of. Maybe some Asians do, Kunisars, blue beauties, and radiateds I've kept didn't.
 
My tri-hog rattles. But really only when he is extremely upset, like when he went to the vet to be wormed...
 
Interesting. I never saw that out of my buddy's tris, but that's only 3 adult animals that were really tame. He sold them to me and I got a better offer when I really needed money the next year. I miss 'em. They breed like rabbits and feel really cool (anyone who has held 'em knows what I mean). I tried to buy them back twice! There are so many species I regret getting out of before I got in enough time with them. Tri-hogs are probably the top of the list, though.
It's interesting who wonder whether the tail rattle evolved to sound like a dangerous animal or was a normal behavior that two populations of dangerous animals were able to enhance.
 
What I have read about the origin of the tail rattle is that, when snakes moved away from their swampy habitats to the big prairie, they needed a way to warn bison not to step on them. They rattled their tails! Pit vipers, being heavy and slow moving, elaborated on the tail rattle by developing specialized scales on their tail tips for even more volume.
 
Cool, I'm Googling for more information now. Evolution is such an amazing process. To have no end in mind, so many seemingly "quirky" adaptations have defined life on Earth.
 
My reference is Snakes of Florida by Alan Tennant, which has the _best_ chapter on snake evolution.
 
Nanci said:
What I have read about the origin of the tail rattle is that, when snakes moved away from their swampy habitats to the big prairie, they needed a way to warn bison not to step on them. They rattled their tails! Pit vipers, being heavy and slow moving, elaborated on the tail rattle by developing specialized scales on their tail tips for even more volume.
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Interesting I remember reading the same thing somewhere too? I wonder if the non-poisonous ones haven't evolved to do it as a form of mimicry, like how so many snakes literally pattern themselves after corals snakes. I wonder if it's only snakes that have habitats with or near rattlesnakes that do in fact tail rattle? hmmmmmmmmm...maybe I'll ask venomdoc
 
I have a Korean ratsnake and a Radiated ratsnake who both tailrattle - no rattlers in their natural habitats! My Japanese Ratsnake X Corn ALSO tailrattles, as do both of my kings and my Western hognose.

I haven't seen a boid or python do it, but that doesn't mean they don't!
 
Not snake related, but........."Democracy is a governmental system, socialism is an economic system. "
Just read it. :)
KJ
 
Yeah, I know I was just being a jerk, and there is no excuse for that....but it IS funny.....lol.
 
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