What do you fear?(Pretty scary)

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 30 Dec 2012, 09:01

This week? Congress...(oh, and spiders)

clintessential · Post by **clintessential** » 30 Dec 2012, 11:57

I'm afraid that God might take bribes. And that Donald Trump has bought his way into the Kingdom of
Heaven and lives in the house next door. I guess I shouldn't complain, that's how I got here. I'm glad I took it
with me. I can just imagine what's available Down Below. A double wide next door to Michael Vick and
10 dobermans who bite him whenever he complains his leash is too tight.

pagolmon · Post by **pagolmon** » 02 Jan 2013, 07:54

Dark, I can't live in dark and it makes me very scary.

BooksNJoy · Post by **BooksNJoy** » 03 Jan 2013, 02:31

pagolmon wrote:Dark, I can't live in dark and it makes me very scary.

It's because when your in the dark you imagine something/someone could hurt you while you won't be able to see it. When I was a a teen, I always had migraines, so I was living like a vampire since light was one of the causes of migraines.

The things I can't bear: snakes. I won't be able to go in a country where snakes live. I can't bear the sights of snakes in real life, TV or poster (even in stuffed animal or toys).

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 03 Jan 2013, 05:23

BooksNJoy wrote:
pagolmon wrote:Dark, I can't live in dark and it makes me very scary.
It's because when your in the dark you imagine something/someone could hurt you while you won't be able to see it. When I was a a teen, I always had migraines, so I was living like a vampire since light was one of the causes of migraines.

The things I can't bear: snakes. I won't be able to go in a country where snakes live. I can't bear the sights of snakes in real life, TV or poster (even in stuffed animal or toys).

Are there no snakes in rural France?
We have no snakes in Ireland (well, expect for politicians!) ... St Patrick got rid of all the snakes for us way back around the year 432 ... so you would be most welcome if you'd like to come and live here.

clintessential · Post by **clintessential** » 03 Jan 2013, 13:37

@Fran
Don't you think the idea of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland to be a little spacious? Implausible?
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered. Am I? Know what I think? What I think drove snakes out of Ireland?
It's the same thing that's driven the snakes out of any enclave populated by the Irish(with whom I
would never find fault. I've got too many freckles to cast the first stone.) Prohibition drove the snakes out
of Ireland. It's a state of mind. I mean why would a snake take up residence in a location where clothing
optional is not an option? Show me the last time a Finian streaked an Ian Paisley speech? Snakes like
heat. That's why they have their conventions in Las Vegas. That and the fact that snake prostitution
is a misdemeanor and not a felony in Las Vegas. The ONLY snakes in Ireland were the ones created by a mind pickled
in Guinness or Hennesseys. You heard about the guy who woke up from a nightmare in which he saw
nothing but snakes? He asks the first guy he sees "I thought St Patrick got rid of all the snakes in Ireland"
The guy says "He did sir, welcome to rehab." Before I get too far afield, I guess I should answer the question.
I'm afraid of waking up some morning and finding myself in jail. I'm in jail because I broke the law that
makes it illegal to be a handsome, square-jawed son of Erin. Additional years have been added to my sentence
because the prosecutors were able to prove that I'm a heartbreaker, a life taker, and once lied to girls about
my marital status so they would be more generous with me than if they knew i was married and had a daughter
old enough to be their mother. I still maintain that "creative license" trumps the law and that Iowa, the state
where I'm incarcerated, has no sense of humor. If Fran, who I've addressed my post to, continues to treat me like
a Moor facing the inequities of the Star Chamber, I'm going stop throwing myself on the mercy of her court, and
begin a talk show with me as host. I'll have guests on that even she will have to admit have impeccable credentials.
People like members of the Molly McGuires, Michael Collins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Murley Evers, anyone tried in the
"court of public opinion" or "pilloried in the public square." I'm also going to have actors(with fake Russian accents)
lie about their treatment in Russian gulags. And compare it to her relentless, almost totalitarian reign of psychological
terror which she has applied to my entreaties for forgiveness with the same zealotry that burned Joan Dark at the stake and " made damn sure that
Pilate washed his hands and sealed His Fate." Of course I'm not going to do any of this. But I do think that you're
refusal to accept my apology is unfair and unlike you. ddddddd

BooksNJoy · Post by **BooksNJoy** » 04 Jan 2013, 03:19

@Fran
Yes we do have snakes in France (even where I live in Picardy I walked one day very close to a dead one and I noticed it when my mother-in-law saw it. I know in summer there are also vipers in their garden) and unfortunately I've always lived close to vipers. I'm always very careful in the countryside.
I've been twice in Ireland (Cork and Dublin) and I love it. Yes, I know St Patrick's story but there are grassworms that could be compared to "snakes". Normaly the image of the snake is supposed to represent the "evil" since it took place when Ireland became catholic.
Our politicians are good boa constritor, always take money from us to feed themselves until they leave us like rag and bone persons.

@Clintessential
It's very lively betwen Fran and you. It's nice. I love it.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 04 Jan 2013, 06:45

[quote="BooksNJoy"]@Fran
Yes we do have snakes in France (even where I live in Picardy I walked one day very close to a dead one and I noticed it when my mother-in-law saw it. I know in summer there are also vipers in their garden) and unfortunately I've always lived close to vipers. I'm always very careful in the countryside.
I've been twice in Ireland (Cork and Dublin) and I love it. Yes, I know St Patrick's story but there are grassworms that could be compared to "snakes". Normaly the image of the snake is supposed to represent the "evil" since it took place when Ireland became catholic.
Our politicians are good boa constritor, always take money from us to feed themselves until they leave us like rag and bone persons.

OMG Vipers ... I'd be out of there like a shot.

By the way the snake is also the symbol of the medical profession (originates from Ancient Greece, I think) so they must have some good aspects. Probably the "encounter" with Mother Eve earned them a lot of bad press!
Grassworms - never heard of them, the most I've ever seen here is an occasional earthworm & they are really, really good guys (if you're into gardening) but I don't think you could call them snakes by any stretch of the imagination.

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 04 Jan 2013, 08:53

Running out of coffee...and spiders, of course.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 04 Jan 2013, 10:03

Running out of coffee is a serious thing. Also peanut butter.

BooksNJoy · Post by **BooksNJoy** » 05 Jan 2013, 03:23

@Fran
Sure every animals or insects are useful. Yes, I love gardening! Unfortunately I don't really have green fingers. I nurtured my ficus and azalea too much, and my mother-in-law took them away from me to "save" them from drowning. All I do now is the trimming.

My snakes phobia includes everything that crawls (with or without scales) plus lizards and some fishes looking like snakes.
But I don't fear Aligators, crocodiles or tortoises.
You're right the snake is aslo a medical symbol (yes it's Ancient Greece), but you know that everything good own a "dark side". Snakes could cure, but the poison can also kill and snakes were used in Ancient Times to get rid of people (Cleopatra for instance who got rid of Ptoleme and suicide herself).

@Carla
I used to fear spiders, but when I was a scout I was the only one who could throw them out of the tent. My fiancé also fears spiders. So I'm still the one able to get rid of them.

Coffee or tea are essential to wake up in the morning!

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 05 Jan 2013, 07:09

Laughing...

If a spider got in my tent...it was HIS. Even the little ones. Ridiculously arachnophobic. No idea why.

Reptiles on the other hand...no problem. Have owned (in the past) pythons and boas and an assortment of common (non-poisonous) snakes.

Go figure.

BH...yes...peanut butter....right up there with running out of coffee and tea and chocolate...

clintessential · Post by **clintessential** » 05 Jan 2013, 10:23

@ Carla and Fran:
Hi Carla. Guess What? I've been incarcerated in Iowa!! We're pratically neighbors. They pulled me over
for the load of mynah birds I had in my pickup truck.(I was doing a guy a favor. He's a Marine Biologist in Chicago
and some of his porpoises were really sick. There's a cure he found online that uses enzymes found in mynah birds
and he had me pick up a load of them from an aviary in Wyoming. Just as I crossed the Iowa state line a IHP
pulled me over and arrested me. You're not gonna believe the charges: Crossing interstate lines with mynahs for
immortal porpoises!! It's still on the books!!!!!! He also gave me a ticket for being a handsome, square-jawed son
of Erin. I guess the Irish are without advocates in Iowa. Hope you are well. And that Fred
has taken up residence elsewhere(like another Solar System)
I LOVE CARLA AND THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE!!!IT'S WRITTEN IN BLOOD!!!the dinwit.

-- 05 Jan 2013, 11:40 --

Carla Hurst-Chandler wrote:This week? Congress...(oh, and spiders)

Some genius left this in "Favorite Quotes."
If Congressmen would congress more often, they might act more statesman-like
and less congressional.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 05 Jan 2013, 15:26

@ clintessential, when St Patrick banished snakes from Ireland, he did it from the Republic of Ireland as well, you quoting Ian Paisleys speech comes across as if it was Northern Ireland only..

clintessential · Post by **clintessential** » 05 Jan 2013, 16:28

What I meant was as much as Paisley is despised, no one moons him because it's too cold. They wait for him
to address the Snake Convention in las vegas in August when its 140 degrees. But I have to admit the History of Ireland
that I know might be, shall we say, "revisionist." Here's a trivia question. Name the snake that had his stainless steel,
high performance sports car, with gull wing doors built in Belfast. He also liked cocaine(that's what the FBI said,
it might be just a vicious rumor)