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Spiders, winters and too many legs!!
~:*-Venus-*:~ Posted Sep 25, 2005
Not if you cover them with shower gel or shampoo! 
Spiders, winters and too many legs!!
F F Churchton Posted Sep 25, 2005
Never underestimate the power of a flicking towel!!!
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Teuchter Posted Sep 25, 2005
Isn't there some 
statistic about the number of 
s one swallows whilst asleep?
How do they know this?
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Sep 25, 2005
They don't. This is one of those things that was made up and circulated round the internet to see how many people would believe it and quote it.
RF
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Black-Eyed Girl... Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity! Posted Sep 25, 2005
Teuchter, you're right, supposedly we will eat 8 spiders while we sleep. Imade up my quota in chocolate spiders and had 12 just to be sure!!
Spiders, winters and too many legs!!
Black-Eyed Girl... Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity! Posted Sep 25, 2005
I should make it clear thats in one life time, not one night!!!
Will
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Sep 25, 2005
You won't eat any spiders in your sleep.
What you do in your waking hours is up to you.
RF
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Mrs Bojangles Posted Sep 25, 2005
's don't half make a crunchy sound when my cat eats them!
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Sep 25, 2005
That'll be the crispy chocolate coating...
RF
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Mrs Bojangles Posted Sep 25, 2005
disgustable things....and as for the flying ones...okay, I know they're not 'technically' spiders...but nothing that looks suspiciously like a spider has any business being able to fly!
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Sep 25, 2005
Those would be crane flies...possibly the crappest insects ever invented.
RF
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Mrs Bojangles Posted Sep 25, 2005
That's the fellows! Don't so much fly as kind of bump into stuff.
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~:*-Venus-*:~ Posted Sep 26, 2005
What is the point of crane flies? They serve no purpose at all. Apart from scaring people that don't like them 
They can't even fly in a straight line!
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Sep 26, 2005
Crane flies (known in Ireland as Daddy-Long-Legses) are there so that there can be baby crane flies.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Sep 26, 2005
They're called daddy-long-legs here, too. Useless bloody things. Supposed to have 6 legs, usually end up with rather less.
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F F Churchton Posted Sep 26, 2005
Crane flies are supposed to be the most poisonest creature on the planet. Each one has enough venom to kill two hundred Elephants, but they're fangs can't pierce our skin. There is only one known fatality by someone who was bitten in the eye!!!
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sprout Posted Sep 26, 2005
I'm a bit doubtful about that. A friend of my brother's (when he was a toddler) ate one without any obvious side effects.
sprout
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Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate Posted Sep 26, 2005
mmmmm never heard daddies called crane flys.....learn sommat new everyday
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Sep 26, 2005
The poisonous daddy-long-legs and the eating spiders while you sleep are both myths that are exposed by the Spider Myth page:
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/index.html
Spiders, winters and too many legs!!
Deb Posted Sep 26, 2005
That site is fascinating. Skin-crawlingly creepy, but fascinating!
Deb 
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