Thread: Quip Of The Day

My wife has no fear of snakes. Saw her once move a garter snake out of the way when she was working in the garden.
However, let a small, warm blooded, scared to death mouse appear and the squeals commence.
Go figure.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

So this weekend we went to my sons, strapping weight lifter dude, for a BBQ, he walked out the door to the patio and straight into a spider web at head height, Yup, Bruce Lee incarnate, high pitched girly scream, slapping himself to get the web off his face.

The spider went flying landing on the floor. Then he started the rain-dance to kill it, without it jumping on him.

My 18 month old granddaughter calmly walked over, filled with curiosity and squished it with toe of her tennis shoe and squatted down to inspect her work, poking it with her finger.

Her dad recomposed himself enough to grab her and yank her away, saving her from the deadly spider. She looked at him like he was crazy…

This is a funny story.
Thank you

Originally Posted by Euclid440

So this weekend we went to my sons, strapping weight lifter dude, for a BBQ, he walked out the door to the patio and straight into a spider web at head height, Yup, Bruce Lee incarnate, high pitched girly scream, slapping himself to get the web off his face.

The spider went flying landing on the floor. Then he started the rain-dance to kill it, without it jumping on him.

My 18 month old granddaughter calmly walked over, filled with curiosity and squished it with toe of her tennis shoe and squatted down to inspect her work, poking it with her finger.

Her dad recomposed himself enough to grab her and yank her away, saving her from the deadly spider. She looked at him like he was crazy…

I'd pay good money to have a DVD of that!!!!

Originally Posted by rolodave

My wife has no fear of snakes. Saw her once move a garter snake out of the way when she was working in the garden.
However, let a small, warm blooded, scared to death mouse appear and the squeals commence.
Go figure.

Pick up this movie and have her watch it! Corny? YUP! But funny as all Holy Hell! I watched a thing about the making of the film and 90% was done with a trained mouse.

Here's a promotional clip;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgjUMHGjO0k

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Pick up this movie and have her watch it! Corny? YUP! But funny as all Holy Hell! I watched a thing about the making of the film and 90% was done with a trained mouse.

Ha, I'd forgotten about that one. It's a good movie, well worth looking up.

Thanks for the reminder.


rs,
Tack

All this talk about irrational fears reminded me of this quip:

I've discovered that I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.


rs,
Tack

I was taught to not scream when under water! However a shark could get me running on the surface and screaming!
~Richard

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Pick up this movie and have her watch it! Corny? YUP! But funny as all Holy Hell! I watched a thing about the making of the film and 90% was done with a trained mouse.

We have watched that flick mainly to see Nathan lane.

Arachnophobia

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