Uprising
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...fly?
One that follows them around everywhere they go? |
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Kinme
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Uprising
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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I was hoping for reactions in the vein of "Yeah I got a friend who suffers from this and he's going to a psychiatrist atm to subscribe some anti-depressants to treat the emotional impact of this horrible issue"  |
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Kinme
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Oops... I ruined the intensity of the thread, didn't I? 
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globalwolf2010
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| Had one, then I bought a tarantula. That solved that problem. |
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Kinme
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| globalwolf2010 wrote: | | Had one, then I bought a tarantula. That solved that problem. |
Hell yeah! Wooh...
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Uprising
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| globalwolf2010 wrote: | | Had one, then I bought a tarantula. That solved that problem. |
Did he jump in the air and grab it while it was flying around you? |
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globalwolf2010
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| Uprising wrote: | | globalwolf2010 wrote: | | Had one, then I bought a tarantula. That solved that problem. |
Did he jump in the air and grab it while it was flying around you? |
Yes. It was really, really weird. |
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sluice
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Try a new mouthwash.  |
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CockneyRebel
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again_with_this
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| A personal Venus Fly Trap is a good remedy for this problem. |
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Kinme
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| again_with_this wrote: | | A personal Venus Fly Trap is a good remedy for this problem. |
I always loved those things when I was a child.
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Sparx
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I like it. Makes me feel less lonely.
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Apple_in_my_Eye
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There was a Greek priestess named Io, who Zeus was fooling around with on his wife (Hera). He tried to hide the affair, but Hera got suspicious, and so Zeus tried to cover it up by turning Io into a heifer (cow). But Hera figured it out and cursed Io to be forever pestered by a gad fly (horsefly), so that she would never have a moment's peace.
More detailed version of the story:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/myths/a/seductionofio.htm
| Quote: | There was once a maiden named Io, a priestess of Hera, who had disturbing dreams. Through them she learned Zeus wished to deprive her of her virginity. In time, Io told her father, Inachus, who consulted the oracle. Told by the oracle that the king of the gods would show his wrath if not satisfied, Inachus forced his daughter Io to leave his protection.
Zeus found Io wandering alone and aimlessly soon thereafter. Nor did it take Hera long to locate her errant priestess. Seeing his wife coming, Zeus turned Io into the first cow.
Hera, who herself would be known for white arms and bovine eyes, took a fancy to the beast and with more than a drop of suspicion in her veins, insisted her husband give her the animal for a gift.
What else could Zeus do? The hapless philanderer wasn't so much concerned with being caught in a lie as his precarious marital harmony, so he acceded to his wife's wishes.
Poor Io! The unwilling partner-turned-cow was put under the protection of Argus of the hundred eyes.
With so many eyes, he could never be caught entirely asleep. Io was a prisoner. Other business consumed Zeus' time until his crafty son Hermes came to his attention. With a flash of inspiration, Zeus realized Hermes could figure out a way to distract Argus and free poor cow-formed Io.
First Hermes tried music to lull the monster to sleep. He played on the pipes his son, Pan, had created from the reedy remains of his lost love, the nymph Syrinx. Many of the eyes closed, but -- unfortunately for Argus -- not all simultaneously. So Hermes devised a more devastating plan. The details are murky. Whether Hermes hurled a rock or sliced with a blade, he effectively dissociated the guard from his head and eyes.
Io was freed, but still a cow and not quite safe, because Hera set a gadfly to pester her. Io roamed mile after mile, year after year until she finally came to term. When she reached Egypt, she gave birth. Then Hera, the childbirth goddess and Io's former nemesis, released her from her torments.
Meanwhile Hera, loathe to waste such useful eyes as those belonging to the severed head of Argos, took them and inserted them into the tail feathers of her favorite bird, the peacock. |
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Jasmine90
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| I had this fly that used to follow me around as a kid, it would follow me into the kitchen, then back into the lounge where I would sit on this huge lazy boy and it'd sit on the arm rest, then my older brother pointed out that it was probably because I hadn't showered in a week, heheh. |
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