# Tonight I am releasing ONE MILLION spiders on to the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335 "2007-07-27T05:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/21 "2007-07-27T14:07:30Z")
I still don’t know if all you’re doing now is CYA after 20 people told you what a retard you were. You sure seemed serious for the first 15 posts in that thread. If you weren’t, I don’t see how you meant that post as a joke. A joke on who? A joke intended to make someone laugh? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/22 "2007-07-27T14:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] I still don’t know if all you’re doing now is CYA after 20 people told you what a retard you were. You sure seemed serious for the first 15 posts in that thread. [/QUOTE] **Trunk** has caught me everyone. I planned to jeopardize a life long career in laboratory medicine for a stupid and unethical, as well as mean stunt on coworkers. I also really did obtain three tremendously huge spiders from said “rare pet shop” conveniently in the town in which I live. I also think that said arachnids have a true affinity for clocks, whilst I drop a link for an internet-wide subculture mention of the so-called “clock spider”. [QUOTE=Trunk] If you weren’t, I don’t see how you meant that post as a joke. A joke on who? A joke intended to make someone laugh? [/QUOTE] As I said earlier. It was a joke for myself that I found funny. Even the first person who replied ( **ScaryFaerie** ) admitted to responding with some over the top ideas because of her own fear of spiders. Sometimes people who have phobias about a particular thing enjoy fantasizing about simulated confrontation. I said I was sorry to everyone who thought it was real, and as soon as I realized that I hadn’t dropped enough hints that I was just acting silly I came forward. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/23 "2007-07-27T14:32:26Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] \*\*bigbabysweets2000[/BI really have to pour some sugar in the tank of his new car some of these days. That will be a hoot. (Hmm..yep, using humor this way does have a certain appeal… 🙂 ) [/QUOTE] That’s kind of drastic. How about using some side cutters and clipping off all his valve stems. No permanent damaged but a real pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/24 "2007-07-27T15:06:50Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] **Trunk** has caught me everyone. I planned to jeopardize a life long career in laboratory medicine for a stupid and unethical, as well as mean stunt on coworkers. I also really did obtain three tremendously huge spiders from said “rare pet shop” conveniently in the town in which I live. I also think that said arachnids have a true affinity for clocks, whilst I drop a link for an internet-wide subculture mention of the so-called “clock spider”. [/QUOTE] Well, shame on you, young man. This will show you. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/25 "2007-07-27T15:17:51Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Et tu, Brute? [/QUOTE] **Brutus** ain’t here, man. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/26 "2007-07-27T15:39:35Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Good luck with that. I was shot down fairly recently for making the same point. And by the way, OP, it’s “gotcha ya”. [/QUOTE] “Shot down?” Why? Also: “Gotcha ya?” Really? How do you figure? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/27 "2007-07-27T22:15:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] I don’t think “mean” means what you mean it to mean, meanie. [/QUOTE] It can’t not. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/28 "2007-07-27T22:39:13Z")
I have to admit, I was impressed at a joke – on a board where people devote entire threads to ranting against “recreational outrage” – that ended up with dozens of “Oh, won’t someone _please_ think of the _spiders_!!!” posts. Truly an achievement, and if there was a golf-clap smiley, I’d let the OP have it. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335/29 "2007-07-28T01:15:59Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] I changed the title for you. [/QUOTE] I would have gone with ONE MILLION BARKING SPIDERS… I have to admit, I initially thought you were serious, and it wasn’t until people started bringing up how cruel it would be to the spiders that I gave it much thought. I’m glad you’re not actually releasing cute, cuddly little spiders to their certain doom. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-one-million-spiders-on-to-the-sdmb/413335.md?page=1)