my friend & I were talking about this in school, after he saw it on a TV documentary on spiders or something, and he said that we swallow an average of 4-5 spiders a night - well, that’s what the TV show said.
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Unless there is a possibility that the TV show meant (as the speculation above went) dust mites=arachnids==>(treat as spiders), there is simply no way that most people eat 4 - 5 actual spiders in a night.
(Hint: you can almost trust us in high humor more safely than you can trust most TV information.)
Tom~
I would hate to think I had 4-5 spiders for each person in my house to be swallowed a night.
Let’s do the math for fun.
What is the life expectancy of a spider? How often does it breed?
There are currently 3 people living in my house.
So I need a minimum of 12 spiders a night. I think the gestation period of a spider would likely be at least a few weeks. Lets go for 4 just for grins.
So, 12 spiders per night, for a week yields 84 spiders a week. Times 4 weeks for the creation of new spiders would be 336 spiders for the month, till new ones arrive. That’s 4,368 spiders for the year. Dang it where are all those spiders hiding? I do not see them in the basement, I do not see them under the bed, I do not see them in the closet.
I think someone has seen Arachnaphobia (sp) too many times.
Jeffery
As a side note flowery, is haging with friends some new sex slang I’m unaware of ?
So vegetarians aren’t if they been eating dust mites.
tom, I didn’t think about it that way, but you are right, mites are spiders. That must be the missing clue we all needed.
\1mite "mit\ noun [ME, fr. OE mite; akin to MD mite mite, small copper coin and perh. to OHG meizan to cut] (bef. 12c)
: any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors
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Handy, this is the 3rd post on this topic.
Seems Boris has already introduced the dust mite posibility a while ago.
I agree, it is the only logical posibility for such a number per night. I hate spiders and if there were that many around, I’m fairly sure I would have known about it.
Actually, I just wanted to try out the Reply w/Quote feature.