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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »Popular Mechanics has an article about Texas and Hammerhead Flatworms:
There’s an invasive species of worm making itself known in Texas once again—the hammerhead flatworm. These worms are toxic, hard to kill, and dangerous to native critters like earthworms, but likely pose little danger to humans or larger animals. Experts encourage people to kill these worms on site, and to avoid touching them directly, as the toxins they produce can irritate skin.
They might not be as ferocious as the sandworms from Dune, but hammerhead worms are nothing to sneeze at themselves. They’re toxic. They can carry parasites. They can grow to over a foot long. If they're cut in half, both halves regenerate.
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The biggest spider I have ever seen was out in the middle of nowhere in Texas. I didn't kill it, I got the hell away from it.
I believe that. Biggest spiders I've seen are in Texas for sure.Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
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with the pivots being replaced by the flex in the springs - I assume the shaft in the centre is the drive shaft. The adjustment nut in the bottom pic looks like it should be some sort of friction damper control, but what is it acting on?
The control dial looks like the clockwork timer control on the first auto oven timer stove that my mother had. I remember this as she was over the moon chuffed about it - like she had won the lottery or that they had invented Viagra 25 years early just for Dad.
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You talking about this:soundfreak1 wrote: »Look up a WOLF SPYDER in florida. We hunt them with 410 shotguns.
https://spyderwheelz.com/en/e-chopper/wolf/
(or did you mean Wolf Spider?)
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OOPs, got in trouble for being a guy again.....so I pulled out the stops: grilled chicken with a butter, white wine, garlic, heavy cream sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy with green beans.....off the hook yet again!!
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soundfreak1 wrote: »Look up a WOLF SPYDER in florida. We hunt them with 410 shotguns.
Hey, that's real right there! We'd walk through the woods on my grandads farm in Sommerset TX and come across a web that stretched across the path. We'd go to break it with our 22. rifles and the twig ends would break off the limbs....their web was like a super lightweight fishing line. The rattlesnakes we could at least get a warning from, but these spiders???? They are NO jokeSource: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
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The big spiders in Texas came out after dark. I remember stomping on a huge one
on the patio at about 1a.m. it looked so big because it was a mommy spider.
Hundreds of little ones came off her back and up over the sandal onto my foot.
Just like some cheap b horror film.
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sucks2beme wrote: »The big spiders in Texas came out after dark. I remember stomping on a huge one
on the patio at about 1a.m. it looked so big because it was a mommy spider.
Hundreds of little ones came off her back and up over the sandal onto my foot.
Just like some cheap b horror film.
The one I spoke of was descending from a tree at the edge of nightfall. I did a double take, then booked it.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Riding our mini bikes in florida we’d run right into those banana spider webs that were built across the trails.
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Another BIG creature
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Huh???Man, you stopped quickly and made sure that spider was on you!Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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sucks2beme wrote: »The big spiders in Texas came out after dark. I remember stomping on a huge one
on the patio at about 1a.m. it looked so big because it was a mommy spider.
Hundreds of little ones came off her back and up over the sandal onto my foot.
Just like some cheap b horror film.
I did a double take, then booked it.
LOL, that's old school lingo right there!!!
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Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Huh???Man, you stopped quickly and made sure that spider was on you!
I'm thinking he forgot the "not" as in not on you.... -
I'm not sure what that is (other than an insect). It looks like something on the grasshopper-katydid-praying mantis-walking stick spectrum, but not anything I am familiar with. It also looks like it's missing one of its big back jumpy-leggy things(?).
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two from our budskis at ASR that tickled my fanny fancy. (my little joke is even more perversely funny - or funnily perverse - if any of all y'all are from the UK)
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I only understood the plumber school one.
Billy didn't know how to use the wrench.I disabled signatures. -
Well you know that at least I am from the UK - but didn't get your "little joke". Is it the "tickle your fanny" reference? If so, you may be the wrong sex. Or was that the joke?
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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »Popular Mechanics has an article about Texas and Hammerhead Flatworms:
There’s an invasive species of worm making itself known in Texas once again—the hammerhead flatworm. These worms are toxic, hard to kill, and dangerous to native critters like earthworms, but likely pose little danger to humans or larger animals. Experts encourage people to kill these worms on site, and to avoid touching them directly, as the toxins they produce can irritate skin.
They might not be as ferocious as the sandworms from Dune, but hammerhead worms are nothing to sneeze at themselves. They’re toxic. They can carry parasites. They can grow to over a foot long. If they're cut in half, both halves regenerate.
They are also up here too -
Getcher Cotton Candy wrapped Japanese Beetles heeuh!
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mhardy6647 wrote: »I'm not sure what that is (other than an insect). It looks like something on the grasshopper-katydid-praying mantis-walking stick spectrum, but not anything I am familiar with. It also looks like it's missing one of its big back jumpy-leggy things(?).
Nah, it was the angle. I have another shot for you. The thing was pretty good size for a grasshopper. The body alone was close to three inches....
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Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Texas: the Australian Outback of the US.I disabled signatures.
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OOPs, got in trouble for being a guy again.....so I pulled out the stops: grilled chicken with a butter, white wine, garlic, heavy cream sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy with green beans.....off the hook yet again!!
But... there's only one plate.
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I only understood the plumber school one.
Billy didn't know how to use the wrench.
You know better than that. Billy wasn't offering full disclosure."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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Hopefully, I'm not double-posting here:
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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I know this is just a photo, but each time I see it, I keep waiting for those boot tips to wander inro the front spokes, and a Flying Endo finisher.I disabled signatures.
