The Spider That Ate Saskatoon!!!!

[Big Brother Dunk]

AAAIIIIEEEE!!!!! RUN!!!!!



http://members.shaw.ca/dkm.pod/spider%20copy.jpg

Ok, here's the real story.

I work at a TV station, and this is an actual shot of a spider that spun a web on the lens of our skycam that we use in our weathercasts. Notice he’s lunching on a fly that got caught in the web.

[Moose]

*rofl* That's pretty cool.

[CalabashCorolla]

Does this mean that the Guess Who don't get to perform "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" anymore? :)

I'd be interested in knowing what the standard weatherman pun was in response to this. "Yes, as you can see, folks, above downtown there is a very rare cumulus arachnidius at this time...expect scattered webbing and a 30% chance of falling fly carcasses this evening."

[Enzp]

That building used to be forty stories tall...

[Candy]

What's the red dots leading from the left to the right? Is that the flies death blood drag? OH, GROSS!

[Moose]

Probably just the web itself refracting/reflecting light like a prism. The red just happens to be pointing directly into the camera lens at those points, just strong enough for the camera to detect, but nowhere else.

AFAIK, spiders don't smear their prey. ;)

[Big Brother Dunk]

Calabash, the weatherman's reaction was pretty funny. He plastered himself against the green wall, looking like he was stuck in a web, then started saying, in a high-pitched voice, "Help me...help meeee..."


Candy the red spots as well as the green ones at the bottom are the results of drop-outs on the video tape. Those are faults on the tape that show up with much usage. They'd be barely noticeable when the tape was playing, but on the freeze frame they show up.

[dakini]

What's the red dots leading from the left to the right? Is that the flies death blood drag? OH, GROSS!
Bugs don't have red blood. They kinda have this bizarre yellow-green-ish goo.

[Candy]

Calabash, the weatherman's reaction was pretty funny. He plastered himself against the green wall, looking like he was stuck in a web, then started saying, in a high-pitched voice, "Help me...help meeee..."


Candy the red spots as well as the green ones at the bottom are the results of drop-outs on the video tape. Those are faults on the tape that show up with much usage. They'd be barely noticeable when the tape was playing, but on the freeze frame they show up.

I didn't even notice the dots at the bottom.
I couldn't take my eye off of the spider's area.
I wish you had a photo of the weatherman?
Oh yeah, thanks dakini for your bug guts analysis.

http://www.cinefantastico.com/terroruniversal/imagen/price05.jpg

[mahesh]

hi ya !!

all you guys are sooooo funny!

and candy - you are a real hoot, posting the fly poster

luv y'all

mahesh

[Swift]

Didn't the original "The Fly" take place in Canada (Quebec?). You Canadians and your spiders :lol:

[dvb]

Thankfully we don't get the really big ones. :x

[Candy]

and candy - you are a real hoot, posting the fly poster
I couldn't find a photo of Vincent Price's head on the fly. I searched.

This is usually my reaction when finding a spider my accident. http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/verschiedene/p010.gif

[Swift]

I couldn't find a photo of Vincent Price's head on the fly. I searched.

Probably because Vincent wasn't the one who got mixed up with the fly.
IMDB.com (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051622/)

[Big Brother Dunk]

Andre Delambre trapped in the spider's web...

[Candy]

LOL. I always thought it was Vincent Price.

[HenrikOlsen]

If you want spiders, here's (http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/images/camelspider.wmv)1 a real spider for you.

1. The file is about 1MB to fetch.

[Robert Andersson]

If you want spiders, here's (http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/images/camelspider.wmv)1 a real spider for you.
Don't want to be a party pooper, but Camel Spiders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_spider) aren't "real" spiders. Their order belongs to the class of arachnids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid), along scorpions and "real" spiders (Araneae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneae)).

[mahesh]

henrik / robert...hi..thanks for sharing.

my favorite ones are charlotte and her babies

[Candy]

http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/tiere/a015.gif

[Big Brother Dunk]

If you want spiders, here's (http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/images/camelspider.wmv)1 a real spider for you.

1. The file is about 1MB to fetch.
Holy smokes! That's some video.

[mahesh]

thanks a bunch candy!

....wilbur, where are you,
where ARE you wilbur?

wilbur!!!!!

[Candy]

http://www.gbtc.com/wilbur.jpg

mahesh
:)

[HenrikOlsen]

Don't want to be a party pooper, but Camel Spiders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_spider) aren't "real" spiders. Their order belongs to the class of arachnids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid), along scorpions and "real" spiders (Araneae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneae)).
I stand corrected.

[weatherc]

Don't want to be a party pooper, but Camel Spiders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_spider) aren't "real" spiders. Their order belongs to the class of arachnids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid), along scorpions and "real" spiders (Araneae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneae)).
I don't care if they're "real" spiders or not; if I saw one of them anywhere near me, it would still FREAK ME OUT. :eek:

[Robert Andersson]

For your enjoyment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_images/Nature/Animals/Spiders) :)

[Candy]

I don't care if they're "real" spiders or not; if I saw one of them anywhere near me, it would still FREAK ME OUT. :eek:
It's been a whole day, and I still can't get that image out of my head. Poor Swift! Get it, Swift's Avatar? ;)

[mahesh]

candy, thanks...

for sending wilbur to me......

you are an angel

[JohnW]

If she's still hungry after eating Saskatoon, here's a snack (http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/archive/hall-of-fame/20040928-mutantfly2.shtml).

[Big Brother Dunk]

If she's still hungry after eating Saskatoon, here's a snack (http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/archive/hall-of-fame/20040928-mutantfly2.shtml).



LOL!! Very funny John.