Hoop Snake Fail

The BBQ Pit
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Not really a pitting. Just a follow up in case anyone was interested in the not at all surprising outcome from this thread on hoop snakes.

I offered hotdog the chance to start a new thread and publish this himself, but since he hasn’t I’ll be a jerk and and do it myself.

I’m soooooo disappointed. I was absolutely sure that hotdog had hoop snakes so I went to the bank this morning and withdrew the money. 100 clean crisp C-notes. I already had it wrapped up in a brown paper package and was ready to send it to the Phillipines as soon as he gave me an address. Ah well! Live and learn.

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I want a phoenix. Can he get me a phoenix?

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I’m still looking for those “compassionate conservatives” they were talking about a few years ago.

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What a scam artist! He’ll keep throwing out obvious fakes for you to extend the offer for, then slip in a rare-but-real critter for the payoff, hoping you won’t notice the ringer.

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Well one must be careful when offering rewards for mythical creatures. I understand some stalwart souls have begun to explore the interior of Australia, an island believed to be non-existent until the late 1980s. Who knows when someone might bring out the remains of a ‘kang-a-roo’, a creature assumed to be based solely on the legend of a giant bunny rabbit.

However I beg to differ with your opinion that makes him sound like a scam artist. I think scam artists are generally insulted by that description of someone running a sub-Nigerian attempt to defraud.

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Ringers are indeed rare but real. They are the infertile offspring of a Hoop Snake and Garter Snake.

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Maybe he’ll have better luck over at JREF snerk

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A snake that knocks on the door and attacks people who answer? How does it knowck? I didn’t think snakes had hands.

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How much for a breeding pair of crowing snakes? I’ve got a friend looking for just such an investment opportunity.

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It uses one of its “limb-like protrusions”, duh.

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I will henceforth lie awake in fear at night at the thought of the Phillippine King Cobra, which grows far larger than nature chose to make any other venomous snake.

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Dammit, I clicked in because I thought “Hoop Snake Fail” was that movie where Samuel L. Jackson put Christina Ricci in chains.

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i was hoping you’d start a thread with this with an update.

who wants to fund my snipe hunt? large payback, get in on the ground floor.

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Ooh, can we ride around in Land Rovers with a camera crew on top? Or better yet, remember the thread where some young’un wanted to paint his jeep to recreate the vehicles from Jurassic Park?

I’ll bring stuff for s’mores!

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Actually, it just rings the doorbell and says “Candygram!”.

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I want a unicorn. Pretty sure they’re real because I saw them in Harry Potter. England is full of mystical creatures.

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George Michael, for instance.

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nm

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Damn it! I’m a herpetologist (sort of), I manage a captive collection, and I’ve got $10,000. Now I’ll never get that Philippine Hoop Snake I’ve been wanting for exhibition. :frowning:

I guess I’ll also never get to meet that other rarity, a Philippine entrepreneur who speaks stilted English, doesn’t understand International time or common business practices, but is completely conversant with a variety of American slang and idiom.

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Flowers!

(sorry, couldn’t help myself)