• Giant Snake

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:36 pm**

Giant spitting cobra found in Kenya wrote:Massive serpent can launch poison over a distance of several meters

updated 12:51 p.m. ET Dec. 7, 2007
NAIROBI - A giant spitting cobra, measuring nearly nine feet and carrying enough venom to kill at least 15 people, has been discovered in Kenya, a conservation group said on Friday.

WildlifeDirect said the snake it described as the world's largest had been recognized as a new species and named the Naja Ashei after James Ashe, who founded a snake farm on Kenya's coast where the massive serpents are found.

"A new species of giant spitting cobra is exciting and reinforces the obvious — that there have to be many other unreported species but hundreds are being lost as their habitats disappear under the continued mismanagement of our planet," said the group's chairman, Kenyan environmentalist Richard Leakey.

Spitting cobras, able to launch poison over a distance of several meters, are common to Kenya's lowland climates.

WildlifeDirect said the discovery would help find an anti-venom for the bite. "Lives can be saved," it added.

Ashe, now deceased, was the first to catch a larger-than-normal spitting cobra in the 1960s, and suggest it belonged to a different species.

I wonder what else is slithering around over there?

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:13 pm**

Snakes, why snakes? I hate snakes!

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:26 pm**

Good thing you're not in Africa then.

When I begin to wonder what else is in Africa, I cringe a little.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:28 pm**

I didn't figure you for the type.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:28 pm**

Ron Caliburn wrote:I didn't figure you for the type.

Yea, I didn't either. There's a loooot of spooky going on there.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:30 pm**

I was refering to Bert and snakes.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:31 pm**

Haha. I see.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:34 pm**

But I am glad I don't have to wander in any jungles, that's for sure.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:39 pm**

I was just quoting Indiana Jones...

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:41 pm**

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:56 pm**

We have a lot of movie watching to do Ron.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:57 pm**

Bert_the_Turtle wrote:We have a lot of movie watching to do Ron.

Aww.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:03 pm**

Bert . . . I hate to tell you . . . but I really don't go in for that kind of thing . . . at least not with another guy.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:04 pm**

Hannah, smack your father upside the head for me :lol:

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:07 pm**

Is that how you handle rejection?

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:09 pm**

I dunno Bert, I think she might be pretty releived.

Natasha too.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:09 pm**

Its better than the alternative

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:13 pm**

What's the alternative? Having your pussy glued to a building on fire?

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:14 pm**

I'm not very alternative.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:21 pm**

Demolitions is the alternative.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:25 pm**

what you do with c4 on your time is your business haha

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:25 pm**

My preciousssssss...

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:27 pm**

You win.

I'm going to go throw up now.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:30 pm**

The important thing is, I win!

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:30 pm**

Bert, I don't say this very often, but have you considered some professional help?

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:32 pm**

What sort of professional, precisely?

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:34 pm**

Psychiatrist . . . though I think that there are a few others who might do him some good too.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:53 pm**

Normally I suggest psychotherapists over psychiatrists, but yeah, someone of Bert's calibur might need to be drugged up... =P

Bert, have you taken your happy pill today?

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:23 am**

Happy pill?

Just some Milk and Honey :twisted:

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:08 am**

It's the nectar of the most high.