# Spider Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175 "2007-02-14T10:46:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/21 "2007-02-14T23:09:57Z")
Does anyone remember the animated The Hobbitt? And the scene in the spider forest where the drawf troup is captured? Well, I was left to babysit (age 14)and we (Becca, sister-age 11; Hank-age 8; Ju-ju-age 2) had argued over whether to watch the movie on broadcast (NBC if I remember correctly). I won the arguement šŸ˜ƒ and we sat down to watch. We were all kinda enjoying the movie. But it was broadcast. So there were commercial breaks. This was before satellite, BIG CABLE, and PPV. And the editors saw fit to cut to commercial right after Bilbo discovers the situation. So Becca goes to the restroom and comes back WAY to quickly and screams, ā€œThey are in my bedroom! The spiders are in my bedroom!ā€ And I think to myself, ā€œCool! Big cartoon spiders. This I must see.ā€ :smack: Nope. Just your regular everyday quarter-sized house-spider. Becca is directing me from the hall to. ā€œKill it, kill it!ā€ So I take my shoe off and ::WAP:: it against the spider which falls behind her bed and vanishes. Could not find the expected ā€œlegs foldedā€ corpse. :: oops:: šŸ˜• Even moved the bed. No soap. I now think it was killed but landed in her sheets::EEEWWWHH:: :eek: But I have never said anything to her about it. I may have told the nephew as a story and told him not to repeat it to his mom. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/22 "2007-02-14T23:24:05Z")
[QUOTE=astro] [Clock Spider](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Clock+Spider) [/QUOTE] Thatā€™s it! Thanks, **astro**. Big bastard, isnā€™t it? ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/23 "2007-02-14T23:38:35Z")
Iā€™m not a spiderphobe, but these big-ass spiders are giving me the creeps. I donā€™t know what Iā€™d do if I found something like Clock Spider in my house. Twice Iā€™ve had encounters with [garden spiders](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.infobreaks.com/insects/ggs.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.infobreaks.com/ggs.html&h=600&w=896&sz=86&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=klHirQlmq5XRDM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=146&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgarden%2Bspider%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG). Theyā€™re harmless, but theyā€™re creepy-big. One built a web across my bedroom window and another built one across the access door to the garage. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/24 "2007-02-14T23:42:53Z")
So far **threnodyangelfire** has a commanding lead for best story. **astro** spider vs mouse was cool! - Spider, spider on the wall, Ainā€™t you got no sense at all? Donā€™t you know that wallā€™s just been plastered? Get off that wall you sillyā€¦ spider.\* šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/25 "2007-02-15T00:31:02Z")
Well since last night, Iā€™ve been turning on the lights and checking the walls before I enter the room and now that Iā€™ve read these stories, especially banana spider story, my soul is crying and doing the Icky dance. I need a cat. One that will _actually_ do itā€™s damn job. My dogā€™s cat canā€™t catch anything! (If she could, Iā€™d keep her at my place rather than Nanā€™s). ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/26 "2007-02-15T00:31:13Z")
I dealt with a big bugger the other day, by inventing a new game: Spider Snooker. Take a long broomstick, or if youā€™re lucky enough to have one around, one of those extension poles for painting the ceiling. Prod spidey gently with the other end, changing his course with your ā€œcueā€ until he scuttles out the nearest door, then close and lock door, cover gap under door with door snake, despite 40dg heat, then Icky Dance as per OP. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/27 "2007-02-15T00:46:02Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] . . . Allā€¦ except one. One fine day I found [THIS](http://www.math.umd.edu/~schris/kadavy.jpg) on my bathroom wall. (Not a spiderā€“NOT for the squeamish-to-insects types out there.) Iā€™m still convinced itā€™s not an earth-bound life-form. For the first 20 minutes of it sitting there I was certain it hated me. I could feel its ill will. And that is all. šŸ™‚ [/QUOTE] Then I take it youā€™ve never been introduced to [this](http://www.mokihana.com/big%20centipede.jpg) little snuggums. (Every time thereā€™s a thread about creepy-crawlies, somebody or other is sure to trot him out. Itā€™s my turn this time.) ---
**Author:** ![Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roboto)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/28 "2007-02-15T00:48:33Z")
I went in to work completely hung over one morning. I sat in this back dungeon office . . . I was an intern at the time. I set down my bookbag, sit in my chair, and then am aghast to see an ungodly huge, hairy, and mean looking spider racing across the carpet. I grab my notebook, take careful aim, and WHACK . . . . . . at which point, literally 50 or 60 baby spiders EXPLODE out of the original spider and start scattering everywhere!! Keep in mind, Iā€™m EXTREMELY HUNG OVER, so it took all my strength not to vomit. I called for backup, because I couldnā€™t believe my eyes. At my co-workers urgent suggestion, I massacred all of the fleeing baby spiders in a panic-stricken frenzy . . . smashed them all with my notebook. Later I find out that wolf spiders carry their young in a pouch or something to protect them after they are hatched. It was a wolf spider all right. I feel like Iā€™m going to puke now. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/29 "2007-02-15T01:27:47Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Aieeee! An earworm! [/QUOTE] _Earworms crawl in Earworms crawl out Earworms play pinochle On your snoutā€¦_ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/30 "2007-02-15T01:56:53Z")
Ok. I love spiders. I really do. I played with our pet tarantula in middle school. However, not too long one got the better at me. I arrived at work a little earlier than everyone else. About 10 feet from my desk I found a spider, not a big one, about quarter-sized, walking up the wall. I left it alone, as no one was there to make me kill it - I am the Insect Killing Queen in the office - and went about my work. Well, about two hours went by. And everyone was in the office. You guessed it - the spider came over to say thanks, or something. I turned my head at one point and the damn thing was\* in my hair\*. NOOOOOOOO! No bugs in my hair! I screamed and covered about four feet without touching the ground in between. My coworkers had never heard me scream, so they were more than a bit shocked. I heard one say ā€œWhat was that?ā€ And the other said ā€œI think it was \*\*Anaamika \*\*screaming.ā€ Yuck -s tay out of my hair! ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/31 "2007-02-15T02:19:08Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] (Every time thereā€™s a thread about creepy-crawlies, somebody or other is sure to trot him out. Itā€™s my turn this time.) [/QUOTE] Iā€™m hoping the unit of scale in that photo was inches and not feetā€¦ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/32 "2007-02-15T03:19:05Z")
[QUOTE=astro] [See this video of a Goliath spider catching & eating a mouse](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061027-tarantula-video.html) [/QUOTE] Nasty hanta virus and Lyme disease bearing rodents. Good on 'em to the spider. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/33 "2007-02-15T03:41:49Z")
> [@](#): > > What in the name of Satan and all his unholy minions was that thing??? It is commonly known as a house centipede. It took me a long time to believe such a thing actually existed in nature. Apparently they are very common in some areas. The creepiest thing about them is they move FAST ā€“ and when they run and all their legs are flying, you get this crazy centipede-leg ripple effect. _shudders_ I donā€™t know what it is about centipedes. I like every other kind of insect that exists. I like millipedes. I LOVE spiders of all kinds. Iā€™m not even particularly grossed out by cockroaches. But manā€¦ those centipedesā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/34 "2007-02-15T03:50:57Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Push Up Bra] My dogā€™s cat canā€™t catch anything! [/QUOTE] If your dog can have itā€™s own cat, I think you can have one as well. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/35 "2007-02-15T04:00:05Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] If your dog can have itā€™s own cat, I think you can have one as well. šŸ˜‰ [/QUOTE] Youā€™d think so wouldnā€™t you? It was supposed to be my brotherā€™s cat, but she prefers the dog to any other human, save my grandmaā€™s boyfriend because he feeds her. She goes nuts without him. Iā€™d have a cat too but Iā€™m but a poor student and canā€™t really afford one right now. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/36 "2007-02-15T04:16:33Z")
No one has mentioned that late fall is **tarantula season** on the left coast. In the foothills of central and southern California,the males are out in force, seaching for eight-legged love. Itā€™s common to see them crossing roads in large numbers in places like Henry Coe State Park, where the [TarantulaFest](http://www.coepark.org/tfest.html) is an annual event. I canā€™t find the link now, but there was a great short story over at [desertusa.com](http://desertusa.com) about someoneā€™s encounter with a veritable army of the hairy arachnids while driving in the Anza-Borrego desert. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/37 "2007-02-15T04:34:31Z")
I own a massive [Goliath Birdeater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_Birdeater). Not recommended for beginners, but Iā€™ve been keeping such animals for many years now. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/38 "2007-02-15T12:58:29Z")
**threnodyangelfire** , why did I click that link? Tears are rolling down my cheeks as I rock back and forth, moaning, ā€œFestoonedā€¦it was _festooned_!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/39 "2007-02-15T13:03:55Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] I own a massive [Goliath Birdeater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_Birdeater). Not recommended for beginners, but Iā€™ve been keeping such animals for many years now. [/QUOTE] Okayā€¦now thatā€™s just \*wrong. \* What in the ever-loving FUCK do you feed this beast? I like you just fine and everything, but this is a detail of your personal life I would have been happy to never know. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175/40 "2007-02-15T13:11:13Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] I own a massive Goliath Birdeater [/QUOTE] Well, that pretty much guarantees I wonā€™t ever be coming to visit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-thread/392175.md?page=3)