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Congratulations? 

Nah Duff, it's just kind of fun info to share.  You can take the boys out of football, but you can't take football out of the boys. 

[DuffMan]

You can take the boys out of football, but you can't take football out of the boys.

Then, they grow older and backs, knees, etc. start going to hell. 

[OzJohnnie]

Thanks for the pics, duff. My family enjoyed them.

My dad tells me that the snow pile at home is as tall as the garage.  He's got an asv that he uses to push the driveway snow into a pile in the field.  That pile won't melt until late May if it's that big. Dat's sure a lotta snow der, ya know.

[BDB]

I think it's about time to cry "Uncle" and shut everything down for a couple weeks.

[MUC57]

I think it's about time to cry "Uncle" and shut everything down for a couple weeks.

BDB

Say it isn't so! 😥

[AO]

Who needs a snowblower when you've got a 4 year old to do the shoveling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ciqvw6i9Q

[MUC57]

Who needs a snowblower when you've got a 4 year old to do the shoveling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ciqvw6i9Q

AO

My 4 year old is 54 and lives in Florida. No help but we have little snow. Just very cold temps. ☃ 😳

[skunks_sidekick]

Every time I think I have my better half convinced to make a journey to Oz, a story like this pops up on social media.  She immediately shoves her phone in my face to show me, and says "no way in HELL".   

www.fox13news.com/trending/enormous-spider-climbs-into-car-unbeknownst-to-driver

[OzJohnnie]

Who needs a snowblower when you've got a 4 year old to do the shoveling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ciqvw6i9Q

Man, I can't believe that's March.  Crazy.

[OzJohnnie]

Every time I think I have my better half convinced to make a journey to Oz, a story like this pops up on social media.  She immediately shoves her phone in my face to show me, and says "no way in HELL".   

www.fox13news.com/trending/enormous-spider-climbs-into-car-unbeknownst-to-driver

Ha!  The beloved huntsman spider.  They don't spin webs, instead they sneak around and hunt prey.  Mrs Oz absolutely hates them and if I ever want to go full Saudi Arabia then I need only show her this video and she'll never get in a car again.

I have two great huntsman stories that involve her.  In one we were driving down the freeway in a just-picked-up rental on vacation when a huntsman about 3/4's the size of the one in the video climbed up out of the vent in front of her as a passenger, scuttled across the window and climbed back down into the vent in front of me driving.  On the inside of the car.  Her fear reactions (paralysed then screaming hysterically then spasmodically trying to open the door on a freeway-bound car) were hilarious (if not a little dangerous).

The other was one that occurred when she was alone shopping at the local shops.  She's walking down the sidewalk and sees a huge (as she relays it, four inches across) huntsman slowly climbing up a shop window.  She steps forward to have a close look, thinking the glass can protect her and help her overcome her uncontrollable fear of those beasts.  As she's in tight getting a really good look she realises she's looking at the behemoth's back, not it's belly.  She claims she had her face about one foot away from the monster when she realised what was really going on.  She nearly collapsed on the spot.


I still bring both up and chuckle.  She gets pretty angry when I do. 

[Warren Thompson]

Every time I think I have my better half convinced to make a journey to Oz, a story like this pops up on social media.  She immediately shoves her phone in my face to show me, and says "no way in HELL".   

www.fox13news.com/trending/enormous-spider-climbs-into-car-unbeknownst-to-driver

Ha!  The beloved huntsman spider.  They don't spin webs, instead they sneak around and hunt prey.  Mrs Oz absolutely hates them and if I ever want to go full Saudi Arabia then I need only show her this video and she'll never get in a car again.

I have two great huntsman stories that involve her.  In one we were driving down the freeway in a just-picked-up rental on vacation when a huntsman about 3/4's the size of the one in the video climbed up out of the vent in front of her as a passenger, scuttled across the window and climbed back down into the vent in front of me driving.  On the inside of the car.  Her fear reactions (paralysed then screaming hysterically then spasmodically trying to open the door on a freeway-bound car) were hilarious (if not a little dangerous).

The other was one that occurred when she was alone shopping at the local shops.  She's walking down the sidewalk and sees a huge (as she relays it, four inches across) huntsman slowly climbing up a shop window.  She steps forward to have a close look, thinking the glass can protect her and help her overcome her uncontrollable fear of those beasts.  As she's in tight getting a really good look she realises she's looking at the behemoth's back, not it's belly.  She claims she had her face about one foot away from the monster when she realised what was really going on.  She nearly collapsed on the spot.


I still bring both up and chuckle.  She gets pretty angry when I do. 

Have you ever had an encounter with some of Australia's more dangerous creatures, e.g., a  brown snake, either variety  of taipan, and Mother Nature's apparent mistake, a platypus?

[OzJohnnie]

Have you ever had an encounter with some of Australia's more dangerous creatures, e.g., a  brown snake, either variety  of taipan, and Mother Nature's apparent mistake, a platypus?

Not really, but from a distance.  We were on a bush drive with a friend once, his boy riding a bike in front of us down the two-track, when the boy pointed to something on the ground.  It was a brown snake writhing because it had apparently been run over by a previous 4wd.  My friend got out and chopped it in half with a shovel.  That's my closest encounter.

I've had a few redbacks around the house, though, and they are good for a little fright.

Otherwise I've only been in areas with warnings but no sightings.  A links-style golf course that gave you a free drop if you hit into the brush because of taipans and a creek that had a "don't bother the platypi" sign, but they are pretty much nocturnal and stay away from movement so I've only seen them in the zoo.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Oz, is the huntsman spider directly venomous to humans, or just very big, hairy, and ugly?

[Oleblue]

Not sure if this has been talked about, but did Concordia lose their whole darn coaching staff? Any insight on that? As an old ole I remember hearing about coach kostish up at moorhead. Gotta be a tough loss for the Cobblers.

[OzJohnnie]

Oz, is the huntsman spider directly venomous to humans, or just very big, hairy, and ugly?

Apparently not but they have big fangs that really hurt when they bite (or so I just read).  But they run away and won't bite unless you pick them up and mess with them for some reason.  In which case you pretty much deserve to get bit.  So don't mess with them.