I had a friend
with a snake.

Quite a long one. Well one day he came home and found it dead. It was stretched out and stiff, and he was very upset.

In the midst of his grief he encountered a comedy (to me anyway) problem. How do you bury a long stiff snake? quiet at the back please Do you dig an eight foot long, thin, shallow grave, or a tiny, round eight foot deep one?

Fortunately for him, and the snake, he didn't have to choose either, as the snake woke up from being torpid (or turgid or whatever it is snakes become when they shut down).

Still makes me giggle when I picture him standing there in his garden with a spade in one hand, wielding the snake in the other like a lightsabre, gazing at the ground in consternation.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 23:57, Reply)