At 03:27 PM Friday 11/13/2009, Julia wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 8:03 AM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: RE: How to tell if a star has planets? At 12:35 PM Thursday 11/12/2009, Julia Thompson wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship >Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:55 AM >To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion >Subject: Re: How to tell if a star has planets? > >At 04:39 AM Thursday 11/12/2009, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > >David Hobby asked: > > > > > > Whatever happened to good old snake oil? > > > > >Became biodiesel. > > > >Alberto Monteiro > > > >How many snakes do you have to squeeze to get a gallon? > > >. . . ronn! :) > >_____________ > >Depends on the snakes. A little grass snake isn't going to yield much. >A 9' rattler, on the other hand, if you can squeeze it hard enough >without getting bit, will give you more. > > Julia I'm surprised no one tried to make something out of "snakes" = "oil company executives" . . . (And I've heard of rattlers that size who survived to crawl away after being run over, backed over, then run over again . . . ) ________ I've witnessed that. Also, dropping rocks on the thing is just going to prolong its misery. Get a hoe! Just get a hoe!
The last snake I killed was (1) not a rattler and (2) by accident: I didn't know there was a snake in the grass until after I ran over it with the lawn mower, and not having a hoe or shovel or anything similar nearby enough (I was in the front yard and the tool shed is in the back yard almost diagonally opposite where I was at the time) the best thing I could think to do was to keep backing up over it and running over it again until it stopped thrashing
(And I'm sure you appreciate my not putting another interpretation on your exclamatory advice.)
(We should probably buy a couple of extras for just in case we see that sort of thing again, so we can give the clueless neighbor one without depriving ourselves. That, or make sure the next-door neighbor has ammo for his small-caliber gun.)
My next-door neighbor had not yet reloaded his shotgun with larger shot after using it to kill snakes (cottonmouths in this case) down on his son's property when he needed it earlier this week for an intruder who was running from the police and made the unwise decision to bail out and try to run on foot through here. (Bad idea 'cuz there's only one direction in or out by vehicle or on foot, and he was heading in the opposite direction.) I'm not absolutely sure if he got stung with a few pellets or not, but he did change direction after that at least (not in the direction of the only way out, though). Fortunately the police caught the guy (and that I wasn't outside when he came across my yard, and that everything out there like the tool shed he might have tried to hide in was locked, so the first I learned of it was after he was already in custody when I walked outside to go to the store and wondered what all the police cars were doing on the street in front of my house and then why there were a bunch of uniformed and plainclothes officers gathered in between my house and said neighbor's).
. . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
