Comments on Imperial Spider

BBC covered this story yesterday. The best line was the last sentence of the article which was grammatically incorrect and sounded like the camel spider was found using the internet. I pictured the spider surfing porn sites when the kids got home.

"The spider is nothing other than a sign of British guilt."

uhm....not really since it was a real spider that killed a real dog. you can make as metaphorical as you want chuckles, but you can say it was nothing more since it started as a physical manifestation. I know that probably doesn't interest you since it wasn't made out of concrete, but c'mon...

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That article is flat-out idiotic; a camel spider is not an insect. It holds the same relationship to spiders as do scorpions.

It also neglected to mention that camel spiders have no venom, so it would be very difficult for one to kill a dog.

What? No shoutouts to "The Adventure of the Speckled Band?" Screw you, Charles.

Mudede of the Baskervilles!

NO MORE SPIDER PICTURES PLEASE.

Gyehh.

love you CM

wow over thinking HURTS. lame.

The dog's British guilt killed it? That is one conflicted pooch. And I thought that the bark of a French dog and that of a limey canine were the same. I thought you were through with metaphysics, Charles.

By the way, there are no zebra mussels in the Great Lakes either, it's just white guilt over anti-miscegenation laws. And there are no Asian longhorn beetles infecting trees either, rather it's the guilt of how we treated Asians during World War II.

Dutch Elm disease is the manifested guilt of the first immigrants to New York for not bringing more of their home country's easy-swinging ways. While dandelions don't actually exist in North America, but are the tummy aches of the world's children from eating too much sugar in the summer time.

This is kind of fun. I want your job, Charles.

Fantastic. "The Moonstone" is a family favorite.

"It seems too much of a coincidence that she died at the same time that we saw the spider," she said.

Not to be weird, but surely there's a way to tell? And unless the dog had a stress-induced heart attack, I don't think so. They're not poisonous.

... something CNN reported incorrectly, BTW. They say its bite can kill small animals - only the Indian species has any kind of venom. The Iraq one just has a really unpleasant bite.

Anytime I see the words "colonial anxiety" I always scroll back up to confirm that Charles Mudede is writing the post. It could be about spiders, children being run over by cars, or peanut butter sandwiches and it would still mention something akin to "colonial anxiety" and it would always be Charles.

That's no spider. It's a solifuge, which are sometimes called "sun spiders" or "wind scorpions". As #4 points out, it would be just as (in)accurate to refer to it as a scorpion.