Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Overheard in the Hallway:

Wafting from the bathroom, where roomie is getting ready for work:
RX: "That's what those two-tone emergency sirens are actually saying: 'Spi-der! Spi-der!' That's why whenever one goes by, all the little spiders stop what they're doing and look up. And then when it's gone past, they start to bark."

Me: "They what?!?"
Barking spiders? It must be the hairspray fumes or something.
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14 comments:

  1. Julie9:55 AM, September 29, 2010

    i'll be checking what's in her coffee ...

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  2. Anonymous10:00 AM, September 29, 2010

    RX uses hairspray?!

    It seems too...girly girl for her.

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  3. Anonymous10:16 AM, September 29, 2010

    Yup spiders bark ! Why else would they name it Darwin's bark spider !!

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/photogalleries/100917-darwins-bark-spider-new-species-spider-webs-madagascar-science-pictures-strongest/

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  4. BobG10:27 AM, September 29, 2010

    Wrong country for barking spiders.

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  5. og10:35 AM, September 29, 2010

    Spiders bark here all the time. Usually caused by milk, not sirens. Trust me: Bark, worse than bite.

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  6. JohnW11:03 AM, September 29, 2010

    Holy crap, you mean that there really ARE barking spiders??? (And not Venezuelan, either.)

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  7. Douglas Hester11:17 AM, September 29, 2010

    That's certainly better than certain other things that could be wafting from the bathroom ;)

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  8. Jim11:56 AM, September 29, 2010

    Oh, they're real all right. The ones on my last ship used to hold contests to see who could have the loudest and longest bark. It was horrible to behold...

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  9. Anonymous12:48 PM, September 29, 2010

    Jim. I suspect your ship had the same kind of "barking spiders" that my ships (CV-67, CV-59) had. And their breath is just terrible...

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  10. Anonymous2:05 PM, September 29, 2010

    Barking spiders also inhabit Army barracks, and are most likey heard after a Friday night party.

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  11. Chris2:55 PM, September 29, 2010

    "Wafting from the bathroom" unfortunate phrasing there :).

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  12. chiefjaybob3:56 PM, September 29, 2010

    I believe you are talking about arachna flatula. Many of this genus are know to have a noxious odor as a defense mechanism.

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  13. Roberta X7:46 AM, September 30, 2010

    I use hairspray. Fat lotta good it does me.

    --As for barking spiders, I swear I had no conscious intent to reference the humorous euphemism -- but the image may have been influenced by it due to the room I was in. Mostly it was Tam's fault for leaving a big collection of Charles Addams cartoons in the loo.

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  14. FatWhiteMan9:45 AM, September 30, 2010

    We had Barking Spiders at Boy Scout Camp in Florida some 30+ years ago.

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