I got a question.

[Theben]

When I was 2 living in miami, I was wading on the beach and saw a really cool squishy thing floating on the water. I grabbed it from the top, took it to my mom and said, "Look what I found!" She flipped big-time, and told to throw it away. So I went back to the water and flung it back to the sea.

It was a few years later that I found out it was a man-o-war.

[MichaeltheGreat]

The babies are sort of fun - I went to the Keys on a vacation one winter, to do some diving and such, and they had one of those events where a ton of men-o'-war spawn and the tides are all wrong, so a billion baby men-o'-war washed up on all the beaches and ****ed up most of the dive spots. I put a few on my forearm, to see what they could do at that size (about an inch in diameter - real cute little squishy things ), and after a couple of minutes, I had little red tattoos showing their imprints, and a little hot tingly sensation. A little hot water from a shower head killed off the proteins in the venom though (since they were babies, it wasn't potent at all like the adults), and the marks went away after a few minutes.

[Theben]

Yeah, but the one I found was eaily my length in tentacles. dead too, but probably plenty of venom left...I got lucky.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Yeah - the big ones can seriously mess you up, and they don't have to "sting" you - just contact with those cells causes them to ooze venom.

It's always entertaining, the crap like that we get into and get away with.

[Theben]

Che and I have talked before that we should be dead several times over.

Anyway, what was the topic again?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Theben
Che and I have talked before that we should be dead several times over.

Anyway, what was the topic again?

Copperheads?

[Stefu]

Nyet. Copperheads were Southern pro-unionists.

Actually, the correct term is 'tories'. (Or at least that's the term that often seemed to be used by Southern governors and such when complaining to the Confederate government, as per William Davis' 'Look Away!')

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
The babies are sort of fun - I went to the Keys on a vacation one winter, to do some diving and such, and they had one of those events where a ton of men-o'-war spawn and the tides are all wrong, so a billion baby men-o'-war washed up on all the beaches and ****ed up most of the dive spots. I put a few on my forearm, to see what they could do at that size (about an inch in diameter - real cute little squishy things ), and after a couple of minutes, I had little red tattoos showing their imprints, and a little hot tingly sensation. A little hot water from a shower head killed off the proteins in the venom though (since they were babies, it wasn't potent at all like the adults), and the marks went away after a few minutes.

So this is what you do when you're bored.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Stefu


Actually, the correct term is 'tories'. (Or at least that's the term that often seemed to be used by Southern governors and such when complaining to the Confederate government, as per William Davis' 'Look Away!')

We don't need any of your Swedish nonsense.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by MrFun


So this is what you do when you're bored.

That's pretty mild, all things considered, but I do find random ways of entertaining myself at times when there's not much else to do.