# You can Bite, but Don't Envenomate

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bite-but-dont-envenomate/451017>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 29, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bite-but-dont-envenomate/451017 "2008-05-29T15:12:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bite-but-dont-envenomate/451017/21 "2008-05-30T05:49:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Cisco]  
Are you serious? I just told you that.  
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See post 7.  
ETA: My lame attempt at humor.

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bite-but-dont-envenomate/451017/22 "2008-05-30T11:45:01Z")

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Does anybody know the circumstances? i can’t imagine how this incident took place-what-the guy was showing off to a snake?? 😃

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bite-but-dont-envenomate/451017/23 "2008-05-30T13:18:17Z")

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[QUOTE=ralph124c]  
Does anybody know the circumstances? i can’t imagine how this incident took place-what-the guy was showing off to a snake?? 😃  
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One eyed trouser snake?

I saw a movie (z grade ) many years ago along the same theme as the earlier jokes about “You’re going to die”. The Lone Ranger got bitten on the end of his equipment by a rattle snake and Tonto refused to suck the poison out. That was a terrible movie.

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bite-but-dont-envenomate/451017/24 "2008-05-30T15:04:57Z")

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**ralph** , considering that the site of the incident was a roadside toilet stop, I imagine the snake was _in_ the toilet, and bite something that invaded its space, so to speak. (Assuming there was a formal toilet - if there wasn’t, the guy may have been pissing on a tree, with similar results.)

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bite-but-dont-envenomate/451017/25 "2008-05-30T15:57:38Z")

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[QUOTE=CalMeacham]  
Man, the guy was lucky.  
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I’d reserve “lucky” for if the snake had been a constrictor.

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