# Cute spider video.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 24, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185 "2010-01-24T02:06:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185/21 "2010-01-24T21:05:06Z")

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The page that you linked to described it as a “giant” spider.

I’ve handled a lot of arachnids in my day, and there’s nothing giant about that particular creature. It’s larger than your typical house spider, but hardly “giant.”

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185/22 "2010-01-24T21:06:08Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> What did she say at the end? ‘I told you not a flaming spider’?

“I told you not to play with spiders.”

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185/23 "2010-01-24T21:38:19Z")

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> [@JThunder](#):
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> The page that you linked to described it as a “giant” spider.
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> I’ve handled a lot of arachnids in my day, and there’s nothing giant about that particular creature. It’s larger than your typical house spider, but hardly “giant.”

I think the OP was using “Huge” in the [Dungeons & Dragons](http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/glossary&term=Glossary_dnd_Huge&alpha=H) sense of the word.

(Dunno where you live, but 'round here a large house spider is maybe larger than the first joint of your thumb. Sure, the critter’s smaller than a goliath bird-eating tarantula, but you’re not going to see a bird-eater outside the Amazon rainforest).

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185/24 "2010-01-24T23:25:36Z")

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Not true. You can see a Goliath birdeater caged up in my spare bedroom. 🙂

It’s admittedly larger than most of the spiders that I’ve handled, but still… I consider the spider in this video to be a wee little creature.

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185/25 "2010-01-25T20:48:15Z")

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> [@FloatyGimpy](#):
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> [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1928197](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1928197)
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> Awe, look at the little fella.

Error: 404

It’s probably for the best, though.

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**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-spider-video/526185/26 "2010-01-26T21:32:25Z")

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Ain’t that the truth, **Hal** , ain’t that the truth. I don’t know that I’m really sorry that I got a 404 when I clicked the link.

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