A garter snake is a totally innocuous reptile, 0.5 meters long at most. It is bright green with a brown stripe or two down the length of the body. It usually eats worms or frogs, occasionally mice or baby birds. You could sleep in a pit full of them and they would not hurt you. But when suprised by a serpent, my first reaction is not taxomomical classification, it is usually "feets don't fail me now."

I know a few San Joses; which one are you referring to? And although the NHL has a team here in Raleigh (the Hurricanes) hockey remains a Northern sport and I live in the South. The whole thing looks like a lamo scam to me. I lived in Florida for 10 years and they had a hockey team too, what nonsense. Hockey is played on ice. Florida has never seen ice more than 50 microns thick and if you tried to skate on a pond in North Carolina, you would soon be very wet and very cold.

North Carolina was indeed a Confederate state (and still is if you ask certain natives. I was born in Virgina, another Confederate state, so I sympathize.) NC is 4 hours south of Washington DC and 9 hours north of Disney World (spit, spit, spit; damn disney to hell.) Think Grid Square CA76 and CA79; I'm two hours inland. My buddy has a boat in Carolina Beach and we go out to the Gulf Stream from there. Many fish. Big fish. Tuna (horse mackrel) are the best but a cooler full of dolphin will do just as well.

Email me if you are coming this way. I'll take you fishing. You are on your own for hockey though, that's a yankee sport. I would be glad to take you to a Carolina MudCat's baseball game though.

JBC

OK Damo,

No Poisonous snakes in Australia my butt. You got me for a few hours. Good one.

There are no crooks in congress (yours or mine) either.

JBC

I think he was reffering to the infamous Ozzie Trouser Snake LOL, not venemous but is a deadly spitter :up:

Jeff

Thanks, good to know! :cool: I bet I'd eat it raw if had been without food for a month, though. :P

This thread turned out to be a regular reptile encyclopedia! Only one venomous snake/serpent in Norway, and that is about as annoying as a few wasp stings and swells a bit. So not really harmful but should be treated, especially if bitten in critical places or if you're a kid.

There, I contributed a bit to SubSim's Reptile Wikipedia! :ping:

So did I for I renamed the thread. :rotfl:

Hey, what the hey, I've learned something about snakes............gulp............. :88) ;)

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During his time in the USAF my father was stationed in Taiwan. As he explained to me, of all the cuisine he sampled perhaps the worst was snake soup. Appearantly it consisted of a gutted snake cut into chunks and simply boiled.

That's kept me away from ever eating the things. That and being a softy for snakes, since I did own three of them as pets as a child. Pretty enjoyable if you're looking for a low-maintenance creature to keep around the house. :up: