the year of the snake

In My Humble Opinion
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in work we were making plans for lunch in honour of the year of the snake. i mentioned that i found it strange that of the 5 people i knew born in snake years, all of them had a snake phobia. 2 were extremely phobic to the point of not being able to have a picture of a snake near them. 2 were able to see pictures but not touch them. 1 was okay with pictures but a snake toy would make them very uncomfortable.

since i only know a small sampling of snake people, i turn to y’all with the following questions:

are you a snake child or do you know someone who is?

are you or the person you know phobic about snakes?

the snake years are as follows:

feb. 4th, 1905 - jan. 24th,1906

jan. 23rd, 1917 - feb.10th, 1918

feb. 10th, 1929 - jan. 29th, 1930

jan. 27th, 1941 - feb. 14th, 1942

feb. 14th, 1953 - feb. 2nd, 1954

feb. 2nd, 1965 - jan. 20th, 1966

feb. 18th, 1977 - feb. 6th, 1978

feb. 6th, 1989 - jan. 26th, 1990

thank you.

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My son is a snake and he has no problems with either our boa or our python.

(Of course, the boa is a Kenyan Sand Boa and only around 20 - 22 inches long and the python is a Ball Python that is still fewer than 3 feet long, but a phobia would not generally be affected by size.)

(I wonder what Melissa Kaplan’s Chinese sign is?)

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I was born a poor…

Oops, wrong reference - sorry.

I am a ‘year of the snake’ kid. No phobias here about snakes, or any other critters for that matter.

I have had two Burmese pythons, 14’ and 16’, and currently have a royal python(3’) and a red-tail boa(12’).

Got any questions, I’ll be glad to answer 'em.

The biggest phobia about snakes seems to be the fact they eat “cute little bunnies and rats”. Each time I hear that phrase, I gently inform the speaker about how the whole prey is being used by the snake. Then I remind then how humans only utilize a couple of cow chunks each time they hit the drive-thru.

Reminder to self - pick up 6-pack of rats on the way home…

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I was born in the year of the snake. I like snakes - my older brothers used to catch small snakes and bring them home as pets.

5

I’m a Year of the Horse.

I HATE snakes. Oh god-even pictures of snakes or snakes on tv scare the crap out of me. I’ll run screaming and flinching.

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I liked it a lot better when it was the year of the Dragon. For obvious reasons :smiley:

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Year of the Snake person here. I think they’re kinda neat, but I don’t really have much opportunity to interact with snakes.

Last time I was in PetCo, two of the checkout girls were wearing snakes across their shoulders. I thought that was pretty cool.

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interesting, snake children of the sdmb not so afraid of snakes. that brings us to:

4 non phobic (sdmb)
5 phobic (work)
1 phobic horse child

ftr i 'm a rat child not snake phobic. just don’t show me a picture of beetles.

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Hmmm. I’m a “year of the dragon” and was never bothered in the slightest by one. Of course they tend to persecute virgins and actually I…

Never mind.
Veb

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Year of the Rabbit (or Cat, depending on which horoscope book you read) here.
And I like snakes IRL, and most reptiles in general.
But no roaches. Ick. Ecch. Ptui. Brrrrrrrrr!
::shivers::

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um, there is no Year of the Cat, IIRC. The story goes that the emperor invited all the animals over for a banquet, but the Cat was too lazy to show up and so the Cat has no year named for him.

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I always thought that too, but I have a postcard (didn’t buy the book, too expensive) that has ‘cat’ as an alternate to ‘rabbit’ with the same dates and info as ‘rabbit’.

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FWIW, I’m a Year of the Ox, and I’m deathly afraid of cattle. :slight_smile: