It didn't die.
It moulted.
( Cawl, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 10:58, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

It whatted?
Like a dog or a cat?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 10:58, Reply)

It shed its exoskeleton
*shudders*
/arachnophobe
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 10:59, Reply)

Yep!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecdysis
( Cawl, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:02, Reply)

Ecdysis!
That is such a cool word.

I may have to look for opportunities to use it in conversation.

Could be tricky.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:03, Reply)

Thank you
at least the mystery is solved. I was attaching fat too much significance to the incident.
I feel sick now. I'm going for some tea toast to make me feel better.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:05, Reply)

It's an awesome word!
Just talk about spiders a lot.
( Cawl, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:06, Reply)

But spiders give me *teh fears*
And I can't impress breast-bearing lady-types with my wide vocabulary if I'm making myself look like a complete ravelling nancy at the same time...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:09, Reply)

Talk about striptease instead
A fancy name for a stripper is an ecdysiast.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:26, Reply)

You think
I should tell them I'm a stripper?

Or ask them to strip for me?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:37, Reply)

You should
Confine this line of chat to strippers.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:42, Reply)

Women love it
when men are scared of crawlies.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:27, Reply)

Really...?
Back in a minute...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:38, Reply)

yes. Well not all
But lots. I saw a man run like the wind, actually believing a spider was chasing him (maybe it was) and suddenly he was endeared. And it isn't just me. I'm not weird*
*I am, but that's not important.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:40, Reply)

In which case
It was not advisable to run, screaming, past the door of the office full of women down the corridor, with a reasonably lifelike (not at all lifelike) rubber tarantula attached to me at a distance by a fine thread...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:52, Reply)

it was advisable
they'll either think you're funny, a bit mentally vulnerable, or merely scared of spiders. Either way you're bound to be in there with at least three of them.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 11:57, Reply)

Awesome
Though I have just realised that only one of them has made it in today.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:02, Reply)

if you're lucky
she might like the funny, the mentally vulnerable, AND the arachnophobic
(that needed the Oxford comma, I feel.)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:04, Reply)

Yeah,
I think I'm just disappointed after your statistical analysis got me geared up for the idea of a foursome...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:07, Reply)

be careful what you wish for
a foursome, with three of your female co-workers. Your life would be hell either very quickly after it began or immediately after it finished, or maybe somewhere during.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:11, Reply)

True
Especially if the prof next door were to hear the noise. She doesn't like to be disturbed. (Though they did recently install extra soundproofing between those two offices)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:14, Reply)

Oh the text
it's all running down the wall. I don't like it. It's making my right side heavy.
How can we make it normal??
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:16, Reply)

I'll start a new one
at the very bottom of this thread
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 12:21, Reply)