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spider time

Daily Trivia
More than 150 spiders were used in the laboratory scene in the movie "Spider-Man." An assistant auditioned spider actors and picked the ones with the most predictable behavior. The movie's bug consultant, Steve Kutcher, stated that no spiders were harmed during the filming because the Humane Society looked out for their welfare.

October is the best time to collect spider paraphernalia. There were some spider magnets at the store but they were outrageously expensive. I wouldn't consider myself especially thrifty but since I have a black fridge they wouldn't show up and my cost benefit ratio was just too high. The cleaning people came so that probably means less spiders in the corners. But the good news is....wait, I forgot. Seriously. What was it? Oh! The good news is that when it gets colder I like to knit more and knitting reminds me of spiders. Knitting, writing and embroidery all remind me of spiders.
Can I have a spider please? Thank you.

prickles and kits

Daily Trivia
Until relatively recently there was no well established word for a baby hedgehog. Although the word kit had occasionally been used, and sometimes pup or piglet, most books about mammals just called them `baby' or `young' hedgehogs.
However, by the early 1990s the word hoglet (or sometimes hedgehoglet) had been introduced, and this word seems to have been in general use among those with an interest in hedgehogs since at least the mid-1990s.
Thanks Oxford.

Isn't that precious? Not really. How would you feel if you didn't have a name? You wouldn't be too pleased if people just kept calling you by other peoples' names, or by some generic term. I bet those hedgehogs were pretty pricked off. Oh my clever clever wordplay.
Look at this jubilant hedgehoglet! Well, it is either jubilant or tired. Your guess is probably not as good as mine.

moo didn't start the fire

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The Great Chicago Fire raged from October 8th to 9th in 1871. The traditional account of the origin of the fire is that it was started by the O'Learys' cow kicking over a lantern.
The fire destroyed 3.5 square miles of the city, killing around 250 people.
Sparks from the fire started forest fires that destroyed more than a million acres of Michigan and Wisconsin timberland.
On October 7, 1997, the Chicago City Council approved a resolution which absolved Mrs. O'Leary's cow of all blame for the Great Chicago Fire.

Thank goodness because you wouldn't want a cow with you on death row. They can be really tough cellys. "Celly" is a colloquialism of prison residents commonly used to refer to the person with whom they share a cell.
The O'Leary's house pretty much survived the fire undamaged. That must have been awkward. "Sorry guys, my cow started this huge fire and now the city has to be totally rebuilt and you probably lost loved ones. But the good news is that poker night is still on for Wednesday!"

they like their estuaries

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Argentines like to say that the Rio de la Plata is the widest river in the world. At its widest point, it is more than 220 kilometers (130 miles) across. For purists, though, the Rio de la Plata is not a river at all, but an estuary.

Muah ha ha. The Argentines are wrong! This is a post from Argentina. I am at a locutorio renting this computer´s internet time, and so blogspot thinks I speak Spanish. Actually, it thinks I speak Castellano, since that is what they call it in Argentina. Instead of having a button that says "save as draft" it says "guardar como borrador."
Many gauchos were seen by us today since there was a desfile (parade) celebrating the Gaucho General Guemes. There were even little gauchitos riding regular horses. Also a dog followed us around town for some time today but when Paula tried to give it some of her cereal bar the dog wouldn´t eat it.
That is all. Happy Dia del Padre today and happy Dia de la Bandera tomorrow. Sean was right that every day is pretty much a holiday here.

UPDATE: Sean has been added as a label for this post since he requested it. Requests for label additions will be granted if and only if a valid argument for these additions is made.

make webs not war

Daily Trivia
Not all spider silk is sticky, but those spider webs that are made from sticky silk typically lose their stickiness within a few days.

I had this cool website (I really only had the address for the website, not the website itself) that was really a web site. Oh chuckle chuckle. Web. Site. It had mathematically-generated diagrams of different webs spun by species of spider and the types of silk used to spin each web and each part of the web.
It was supercool. There are some spiders that act as a loaded spring on their own web by holding a certain part of their web until someone comes along. Their web isn't sticky, but as soon as someone lands on it, the spider lets go and the inferior being gets trapped! muah ha ha.
I like spiders. That doesn't necessarily mean that I like Spiderman. This post has nothing to do with him. Except that I just mentioned him.
Also, there are some spiders that weave their webs into parachutes and stand on the top of a fence or blade of grass until the wind catches their web-a-chute and then they let the wind take them where it may.
There are spiders who weave their waterproof webs into bubbles around themselves so that they can go snorkeling. Just kidding. They don't go snorkeling. They just go underwater to escape predators I think.
What I am saying is, give spiders a chance.

EDIT: I found the link.
http://www.conservation.unibas.ch/team/zschokke/spidergallery.html

not matlock

Daily Trivia
The makers of Trivial Pursuit were sued by a trivia book author who claimed they had plagiarized from him when they listed the first name of fictional character Columbo as "Philip." Trivial Pursuit countered that they had taken material from his book and others, calling it research. They won. The Columbo character's first name is actually Frank.

That is trivia trivia. I don't know what Columbo is. I think some old people maybe watch that. Is it like Matlock? On the Simpsons the old folks wanted to name a highway after Matlock.
Matlock reminds me of Masterlock. I had a combination Masterlock for the gym but I forgot the combination so I spent about two hours systematically trying to hack my own lock (http://skattertech.com/master-lock-hack/) but I couldn't do it. Neither could my dunnies.
They started selling ice cream bars in the cafeteria but I have yet to take advantage of that opportunity. Maybe when I get Magic Straight this weekend I will go to Pinkberry.