A toast to Bernard, the Low-Expectations Spider...

Robb

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Fri May-28-04 08:59 AM
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A toast to Bernard, the Low-Expectations Spider...

So I walk out onto my lawn (that still needs a good trim) and found a beautiful spiderweb, spun horizontally across the tips of the blades of grass. In the center was a little spider I have named Bernard.

Seems like an odd place to spin a web, although I guess he'd pick up the little no-see-ums rising from the grass first thing in the evening. :)

:toast: to Bernie! Go get 'em, tiger! :D

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SOteric

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Fri May-28-04 09:32 AM
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1. I hope that you're flexible enough in this

to consider changing his name to Bernadette.

The long-lived, web-spinning arachnids are usually the females. :hi:

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TXlib

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Fri May-28-04 09:38 AM
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3. Hey SOteric... what's that new avatar?

I can't make it out...

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SOteric

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Fri May-28-04 09:45 AM
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5. It's a drawing of a rose

sent to me by some charming fellow and shrinky-dinked to the appropriate size.

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sniffa

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Fri May-28-04 12:57 PM
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10. he musta been in the pooL

it causes 'shrinkage'

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Robb

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Fri May-28-04 09:45 AM
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4. Come to think of it,

that spider did have a penchant for show tunes.

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SOteric

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Fri May-28-04 09:50 AM
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6. Can you believe

that woman is 56? I tell ya she looks like she's barely out of her 20's.

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Robb

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Fri May-28-04 09:52 AM
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7. She so kicks ass...

...a friend gave me a video of a stage performance she did of "Into the Woods" that just slayed me. :thumbsup:

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displacedtexan

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Fri May-28-04 11:04 AM
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8. Wasn't she the greatest witch?

I love that show!

To this day, when I see any of those actors, I always ID them as "the baker's wife" (Joanna Gleason), etc.

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Robb

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Fri May-28-04 12:52 PM
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9. Talk about mind control...

...Even now I go for days with the song in my head. "Into the woods, dee doo, dee doo, dee doo doo doo doo doo doo doo...!" :D

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GOPisEvil

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Fri May-28-04 09:34 AM
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2. Oh please...you're just looking for an excuse not to mow the lawn!

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