I haven’t run a competition for months, and this picture doing the rounds by email is just too good to miss.
That is not a sight I would like to see upon opening the door. A black mamba that size is even more tetchy than the smaller ones, which are bad enough, and the poison he packs could have a person dead-icated in no time flat. I tend to give our local residents of that species a wide berth!
My contribution is:
No fangs. Didn’t you see the sign, ‘No Reps or Reptiles?’
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“And they thought it was Colonel Mustard in the dining room with the dagger…”
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🙂
Thanks for reminding me – I must get them voted on!
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I’ll h-i-s-s-s and I’ll s-s-s-p-i-t and I’ll s-s-s-t-r-i-k-e your houses-s down!
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That would make pork out of them! 🙂
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~ I said “civil SERPENT” not “servant!” ~
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🙂 – Duly entered!
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Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Snake
Snake who
Sna(c)k(e)ing on you if you open the door
(Well, I’ve never professed to be a wit!)
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Profess or not, a charming contender! 🙂
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Gasp! (Not a caption) 🙂
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I insist you open this door Dora!! Right now!!
Caption aside. I doubt very much that i would have taken the time to take a photograph of that particular sight!!
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Thanks for that one!
How about through the back window of a revving Ferrari?
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I have no words Col, if I was confronted by that slithering monster of a snake I’d be struck dumb
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Very much so, it it was the snake that did the striking!
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I wouldn’t even try to cap your brilliant caption, Col. 🙂
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I’m sure you could come up with something better!
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‘Knock before entering! Strangers unwelcome!
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A very strange stranger indeed! 🙂
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“Scaling the door”
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For a minute there, the double meaning went over my head!
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“Come out. Come out. Wherever you izzzzzz.”
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Like it! (Pass out is more likely, like, though!)
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Yikes! I’d sell the house right then and there – clothes and all…..
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And who would blame you!
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I would hate to trip over that thing!! Why do I have to sign in on every ones page and have comments awaiting moderation.. so strange
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Indeed!
You seem to have lost a Gravitar identity, and I have just had to re-subscribe. I’m sure I was on before.
Strange.
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“Very rude of them to invite me for dinner and then they’re not home!”
Lovely snake indeed Col! I would invite him for tea only as I do not want to be his dinner. LOL!
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Hahaha!
He is indeed a fine upstanding specimen of snakehood.
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Indeed! 😀 Cool post Col! 🙂
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“I told you that this door camouflages me perfectly!”
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Oh, yes! 🙂
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I’ve had enough I’m going! I am not a bloody draught excluder anymore.
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Lovely – and you can’t blame him! 🙂
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Would this be sort of Come Slither effect?
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Heehee!
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A very close encounter of the slithery kind?
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Right – close and slithery indeed! Lots of suspense: will the door be answered? How quick are the reactions of the answerer? Is the snake in a good mood?
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Wow! What a sight! Scary indeed, no mattter how harmless it may have been reported to be.
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Harmlessness is relative: even if non-poisonous, it is capable of frightening one to death!
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“Who’s playing that pipe? Oooh, charmed I’m sure.”
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That caption certainly plays a different tune!
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By the way, Col, that is definitely not a black mamba. Black mambas are actually brown. They get the name “black” from the inky black colour of the mouth lining. Looks more like a South American (I think) Rainbow Python. A very beautiful snake and harmless, unless you happen to be a rabbit. So watch out on the first of the month if you are in its territory.
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You are probably right, but a real whopper of a mamba I saw here the month before last was very close to that colour (the neighbour got him caught and taken away a while later – I was hoping for a picture). Maybe some also go blacker with age, because I’ve never seen one so strikingly dark before – the smaller ones I have seen are usually a light greenish grey. The actual green mambas are, of course, bright green.
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“Please let me in! I’m cold and hungry.”
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*snigger* I like it!
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Visitor control!
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That it would! 🙂
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Oh, Shite!!!!!!!
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Open that door, and it would certainly be a spontaneous occurrence!
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