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Eleanors38

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62. I like them too. They are smart. Years ago, the family was clearing out trash and came across...

Sat Jun 18, 2016, 12:42 PM

Jun 2016

A rotting ply wood sheet with a big -ass rainbow skink beside it, looking at us warily. Now, normally these guys take off with humans around, so we were puzzled. No matter, we raised up the board. Suddenly, a fleet of cruiser-sized roaches boiled out into the sunshine. We jumped back, but the skink jumped in. Biting, biting biting ...every roach in sight. We thought it was gratuitous killer instinct at its worse. But no. The skink took a rest, and proceeded to eat at leisure. Half-hour later, he was still at it. Few of the roaches were killed, only wounded. But the skink knew it was easy-peasy to scarf 'em up. And he knew what we were up to. Wolf aids man, man aids skink. Now that is abstract thinking at its best.

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I'd like to say that I very much prefer to talk about Alligators [View all] Aerows Jun 2016 OP

I'm sure there are more than a few missing children in GDP. rug Jun 2016 #1

Amen to that. n/t Aerows Jun 2016 #2

It's pretty easy to simply Sherman A1 Jun 2016 #3

Destress - Trash GD:_P liberal N proud Jun 2016 #4

I just can't go in there anymore Aerows Jun 2016 #5

Year after year after year... the same nastiness and spite from some. demmiblue Jun 2016 #6

Massive energy burn. n/t Aerows Jun 2016 #12

And it's always the same very few people who create 90% of the ugliness. QC Jun 2016 #55

Fried gator is pretty good. ohnoyoudidnt Jun 2016 #7

That last bit is TMI liberal N proud Jun 2016 #8

Yeah, I avoided Aerows Jun 2016 #10

Fried gator Aerows Jun 2016 #9

I've never had frog legs. ohnoyoudidnt Jun 2016 #14

I don't have food phobias, so unfortunately, I can't relate. Aerows Jun 2016 #15

Doesn't gator have to be marinated in acid and have the tar pounded out of it? AngryAmish Jun 2016 #39

Turtle is very tasty Aerows Jun 2016 #40

Not near as good as turtle GulfCoast66 Jun 2016 #42

Cher, we have absolutely the best chefs Aerows Jun 2016 #43

Mon Dieu, that's the truth GulfCoast66 Jun 2016 #48

Me too Hayduke Bomgarte Jun 2016 #11

It is downright bizzare to me that Louisiana and Florida both have about GumboYaYa Jun 2016 #13

I live and grew up in the Cajun belt. Aerows Jun 2016 #16

It's that Cajun spiciness - gators have sensitive palates. nt hack89 Jun 2016 #23

They wouldn't Aerows Jun 2016 #30

Even Florida gators SwankyXomb Jun 2016 #27

Isn't that a function to geography? AngryAmish Jun 2016 #41

Not at all GulfCoast66 Jun 2016 #44

Check this out - Google child riding alligator jberryhill Jun 2016 #59

To borrow a quote from Archer Rocknrule Jun 2016 #17

I love that show Aerows Jun 2016 #31

Alligators are about as cute and endearing as humans are. Quantess Jun 2016 #18

I haven't gotten that cynical yet. Aerows Jun 2016 #19

Oh, don't forget the lampshade serial killer! Quantess Jun 2016 #20

That was real!? Aerows Jun 2016 #21

I get mixed up about Ed Gein and the clown serial killer, Quantess Jun 2016 #22

I hang out my underwear in the carport to dry. A big gecko got into them... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #24

See, I'd rather read about this Aerows Jun 2016 #29

Beats a skink. Those guys will put a bite on you. Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #60

On no, they are extremely cute! Aerows Jun 2016 #61

I like them too. They are smart. Years ago, the family was clearing out trash and came across... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #62

This one stayed away malaise Jun 2016 #25

This message was self-deleted by its author Gomez163 Jun 2016 #26

I live in Florida and have been fairly close to a number of alligators ... spin Jun 2016 #28

In short spurts Aerows Jun 2016 #32

Exactly. During the day they seem passive and love sunning themselves. ... spin Jun 2016 #33

During the day Aerows Jun 2016 #34

I feel messing with an alligator is a bad idea. (n/t) spin Jun 2016 #37

There isn't anything Aerows Jun 2016 #38

no shit OneGrassRoot Jun 2016 #35

LOL! Aerows Jun 2016 #36

PETA, olive garden, cornflake chicken, porn, children in restuarants, moon bombing Warren DeMontague Jun 2016 #45

Moon bombing? Aerows Jun 2016 #46

Oh my god, the moon bombing threads were EPIC. Warren DeMontague Jun 2016 #49

Thank the Lord I missed that Aerows Jun 2016 #51

Here's the backstory: NASA crashed a probe into the moon in 2009 to get data, including Warren DeMontague Jun 2016 #52

Okay, I'll revise my statement Aerows Jun 2016 #53

Ooohh...Grasshopper...you know not what you missed. A HERETIC I AM Jun 2016 #63

Can we go back to discussing yankee fried chicken? Aerows Jun 2016 #64

DU topics run in cycles, I've found. A HERETIC I AM Jun 2016 #65

The pee bucket talk libodem Jun 2016 #47

I stand corrected. Aerows Jun 2016 #50

I don't envy Skinner the job of trying to put this place QC Jun 2016 #54

QC - I wash my hands of it. Aerows Jun 2016 #56

I've never been there except as a juror. ronnie624 Jun 2016 #57

I'm big on getting a knife to the chest Aerows Jun 2016 #58

Sounds nice. I am more of a Crocodile kinda guy. Xyzse Jul 2016 #66