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Originally Posted by Damo1977
JB...........the first time I saw a real live wild snake was two years ago when I nearly stepped on it (brown snake) 2m long makes your garter snake sound like a noodle..what is a garter snake anyhow?...... JB my plans are that I will be hitting European shores or American shores within 2yrs.....must see San Jose play in the NHL though.... where is North Carolina? was it a confederate state?
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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