Monday, December 8, 2014

al capone's snake

i was all excited about some lunatic getting eaten by a snake but somehow i forgot all about it until (spoiler alert) I READ THIS.

"When I went up to the snake, it didn't try to eat me right away," Rosolie recounted. "It tried to escape. And when I provoked it a little bit, and acted a little more like a predator, that's when it turned around and defended itself." In the end, Rosolie wasn't swallowed whole by the giant serpent, but instead wrestled with the beast as she coiled around him before he aborted the mission.

AND IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE 4.1 MILLION PEOPLE DUMBER THAN ME.

well, you gotta give the guy credit, not many people could convince a tv network to schedule a prime time event showing a crazy man being eaten alive by a great big snake. i guess all us fools should have read the fine print before getting excited. who knew he was going to have to catch a snake then convince it to eat him. i was thinking they had caught a giant snake a few months ago and were depriving it of food so it would be real hungry and gobble up our intrepid daredevil. so it goes.

last year my xmas gimmick was naming the best christmas carol and if i remember correctly the winner was:

is it kosher to have the same gimmick 2 years in a row?

on or about dec 25, i'll name the 4th best xmas carol.

there are few songs that never fail to pick up my spirits. this might be at the top of the list:

i love you sons of bitches.

16 comments:

peppylady (Dora) said...

Not much into gore stuff. There was a guy who was attack by bear here. Actual he died for a bullet wound. His friend was trying to shot the bear and got his friend instead.

I like the song "Brown Eye Girl"

Coffee is on

BBC said...

I think I would enjoy beating the fuck out of an Anaconda with a tire iron.

Got your lights up yet?

If word verification shows up in my comment box you should be able to bypass it by just clicking publish, I don't have it turned on, and now I see it showing up here also, I guess it is just Google fucking with us.

billy pilgrim said...

dora - i'm almost laughing about the guy shooting his pal rather than the bear. it's always nice when the prey escapes.

king - you'd need a pretty big tire iron. i put my parent's lights up yesterday but i don't have enough festive spirit to put any up at my own house. i'm still in mourning.

where's thims to fix this google shit? my google calendar is inserting green holidays all over the place and i can't get rid of them.

BBC said...

Thims is a really nice guy but I don't think he has any pull with Google.

I'll stick with my short tire iron for close quarter work.

thimscool said...

Google knows when you've been sleeping, they know when you're awake...

Gorilla Bananas said...

I had forgotten about that story too - he was going to wear a suit that made him indigestible. I'm glad the snake was smart enough not to fall for the trick. What they were doing was like tricking a human into eating plastic fruit.

Dixie@dcrelief said...

Nasty business with the snake - bring back Nicki!
Been playing the Pogues ever since I dropped off the link at my place - love the damn song! Brown eyed girl ain't so bad either - once I move past Pogues obsession - that is.
No lights - no problem - "Happy Christmas; I luhve ya baaabay!"(smile)

FYI: Google was effed up most of the day... it was in the news(LMBO)

billy pilgrim said...

king - i'd rather have my 3 foot wrecking bar than a tire iron.

thims - yes, google is big brother. and probably the artificial intelligence that will soon be our master.

dixie - good idea, the lovely nicki could probably attract a big enough snake to eat our intrepid hero.

BBC said...

Wouldn't a three foot wrecking bar take a lot of the challenge out of it? It hardly seems fair to the snake to have that much of an advantage over it.

McRaven said...

I love you and that is all I can say. Seriously love you. ;)

texlahoma said...

Brown eyed girl - excellent choice.

My word verification is out of control too, I tried to turn it off, but no can do.

I feel about snakes as you feel about cops!

BBC said...

There are critters I fear a LOT more than snakes. Two of them are bears and humans....

billy pilgrim said...

king - i figure a 20 foot snake still has the advantage if i have a 3 ft wrecking bar. as long as we're on land i figure i could run faster than a python could slither.

mcraven - i love you too, but i've kinda lost my mojo since ruby went over to the other side. things might not pick up until i get another 4 legged soul mate.

tex - i've never been punched or choked by a snake so cops bug me more but i still wouldn't turn my back on a snake.

BBC said...

"i've kinda lost my mojo since ruby went over to the other side."

Grief is a bitch of an emotion that can hit you pretty hard but seldom lasts as long as you think it will at the time.

It flames up, burns hot for a bit, then dies down. You will be fine before long.

Dixie@dcrelief said...

So hoppy chriztmuz - I love yuh bayabee! Just messing with ya(smile)!

billy pilgrim said...

feel free to mess with me ad infinitum.