And I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords.
November 30th, 2002
Millions of spiders have woven a web which stretches 60 acres across a field in British Columbia.
Bang goes any prospect of my having a nightmare-free sleep this evening.
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November 30th, 2002 at 18:20
Y'know, I don't really mind spiders. But even THAT is a bit much for me. Eeeeek.
November 30th, 2002 at 19:32
I really *do* mind spiders, so you can imagine how I must feel. Read this story in conjunction with the one from this April about the ant supercolony which surrounds much of southern Europe (see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0418_020418_TVantcolony.html for details) and you'll understand if I start to think that we're living out an old science fiction story. (I'm thinking of one particular Arthur C Clarke short story where an anthill turns out to be far more important than we'd ever have believed possible.)
November 30th, 2002 at 19:55
Ew. As long as they're not cockroaches, centipedes, or scorpions, I won't start to panic.
*gulp*
November 30th, 2002 at 23:53
Actually, I think it's just that we haven't noticed the cockroaches practising marching in step yet.
December 1st, 2002 at 03:56
Bug giant spiders! Eeeek! like in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? Where's a flying car when you need one?
December 1st, 2002 at 04:05
No one saw arachnaphobia the other night ?
::Evil cackle:: hehe
December 1st, 2002 at 04:06
No one saw arachnaphobia the other night ?
::Evil cackle:: hehe
December 1st, 2002 at 04:06
No one saw arachnaphobia the other night ?
::Evil cackle:: hehe
December 1st, 2002 at 13:17
Kristen: Never mind a flying car, I want a king-sized can of bug spray.
December 1st, 2002 at 13:18
Simon: I didn't know 'Arachnophobia' had been on TV lately. According to DigiGuide, it's on BBC1 next Sunday.
Like 'Eight Legged Freaks', it's a film concept that I know I should like but which I'm not planning on seeing any time soon.
December 2nd, 2002 at 03:05
Ah, Must have been looking at next weeks listings.
Interestingly digiguide have starting publishing sat listings months in advance. Up till now it was just a few weeks. So I now know when buffy and angel start!!
December 2nd, 2002 at 07:04
The improvement I like most in version 6 is that they don't add listings in weekly clumps now.
December 3rd, 2002 at 10:38
Horrid! No No No!
Actually John it reminds me of John Wyndham's novel "Web" which you should avoid – it's quite readable though!
December 3rd, 2002 at 22:39
I haven't read that particular Wyndham, though I should certainly have thought of it with a title like that. (The only Wyndham I've read as far as I can remember is 'The Day of the Triffids'.)
(Come to think of it, the whole story of spiders spinning a 60 acre web reminds me of a certain Far Side cartoon.)
December 5th, 2002 at 10:08
Camilla produced a pair of field-glasses and studied the cliff-tops as well as she could against the slight rocking of the boat. Presently she lowered them.
'I don't know. It doesn't seem to move at all. It must be a blight of some kind. Can't we go a little closer in?'
I borrowed the glasses off her. It was impossible to keep them trained on one spot, but I could catch glimpses of the outlines of leaves and branches through the stuff that shrouded them on the nearer trees, further away it seemed to grow more opaque and to lie on them like a bank of soiled snow. But what it was I could form no guess.
December 5th, 2002 at 12:44
I'm going to take a wild guess that the narrator and Camilla ended up finding out far more than they wanted to about that stuff…
December 8th, 2004 at 15:02
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