# Chinese Whiskey and SNAKES!?!?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 5, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-whiskey-and-snakes/117465 "2002-07-05T07:33:09Z")\
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> [@thicksantorum](#):
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> Venomous, not poisonous. **They do not mean the same thing.**

We’ve been through this before. This is a bit of incorrect pedantry. Venomous is a subset of poisonous. It’s perfectly correct to refer to snakes as being poisonous; they are also venomous.

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