Thursday, May 31, 2007

Waiter, what is this fly doing in my soup? It would appear to be the backstroke, sir.

Ever noticed how similar a completely docile and nonvenomous insect looks to the vicious, would eat-your-face-as-soon-as-look-at-you, cousin of said harmless insect? Is that a nonvenomous Tarantula that just wants to hang out or a crazed Brazilian Wandering spider that picks fights with animals 100x bigger than it for fun?

If you're the kind of guy who doesn't bother killing the bug scaring your girlfriend/wife with a newspaper, but picks up the little guy and ushers him outside, this is the site for you. Because (1) it is nice to know that that 'little guy' isn't going to inject you with neurotoxin and turn you into a drooling idiot, and (2) the experts from WTB? don't really appreciate the unnecessary killing of insects, and if they found out you were whacking the little buggers semi-professionally they might not be completely honest with you if you ever ask, "is this thing crawling on my arm venomous?"

No. It is most definitely not going to bite you and require the doctors to wake you up from the coma to tell you that they had to amputate your arm, your face is permanently swelled up to that size, and your pubes have all fallen out.

What's that bug? (whatsthatbug.com)