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November 30, 2002
And I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords.
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.
Posted by John at November 30, 2002 02:54 PM
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Y'know, I don't really mind spiders. But even THAT is a bit much for me. Eeeeek.
Posted by: Jen at November 30, 2002 06:20 PM
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.)
Posted by: John at November 30, 2002 07:32 PM
Ew. As long as they're not cockroaches, centipedes, or scorpions, I won't start to panic.
*gulp*
Posted by: Jen at November 30, 2002 07:55 PM
Actually, I think it's just that we haven't noticed the cockroaches practising marching in step yet.
Posted by: John at November 30, 2002 11:53 PM
Bug giant spiders! Eeeek! like in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? Where's a flying car when you need one?
Posted by: Kristen at December 1, 2002 03:56 AM
No one saw arachnaphobia the other night ?
::Evil cackle:: hehe
Posted by: simon at December 1, 2002 04:05 AM
No one saw arachnaphobia the other night ?
::Evil cackle:: hehe
Posted by: simon at December 1, 2002 04:06 AM
No one saw arachnaphobia the other night ?
::Evil cackle:: hehe
Posted by: simon at December 1, 2002 04:06 AM
Kristen: Never mind a flying car, I want a king-sized can of bug spray.
Posted by: John at December 1, 2002 01:17 PM
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.
Posted by: John at December 1, 2002 01:18 PM
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!!
Posted by: simon at December 2, 2002 03:05 AM
The improvement I like most in version 6 is that they don't add listings in weekly clumps now.
Posted by: John at December 2, 2002 07:04 AM
Horrid! No No No!
Actually John it reminds me of John Wyndham's novel "Web" which you should avoid - it's quite readable though!
Posted by: John at December 3, 2002 10:38 AM
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.)
Posted by: John at December 3, 2002 10:39 PM
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.
Posted by: John at December 5, 2002 10:08 AM
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...
Posted by: John at December 5, 2002 12:44 PM