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Originally Posted by stevie667
My one: A daddy long legs (i think it's a crane fly) has an incredibly strong poison, enough to do some serious damage to humans, but it isn't strong enough to break through our skin and inject it
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Originally Posted by Phage
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I looked at the spider from the Snopes site, and it doesn't look like the spider from the American Plains that's called "daddy-longlegs".
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Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine, the spider we call "daddy-longlegs" is an "Elegant Harvestman" and aren't true spiders. Harvestman 'spiders' have no venom.
My mother claims that if you boil one of these harvestmen in water that it will make the water toxic; but this is the same woman who swears that if a pregnant woman raises her hands over her head often the baby will be strangled by the umbilical cord.
Along the same lines as MrSelfDestruct, most of Emily Dickison's poetry can be easily sung to the tune of the Yellow Rose of Texas.