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rob, Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Now......I've always had something of an obsession with spiders. Don't know why, they're just fascinating - to the point where I know latin names, can identify the spider in the bath and so on and so forth.
Few years back now, went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with my then best friend. Great film, had a laugh, ate too much popcorn, all the usual stuff, except one scene really bothered me. Stood up at the end, and delivered the line I'm still strangely proud of, but have yet to live down:
"It was great, but the spider in the boggart scene was wrong. The spinnerets indicate it was meant to be Latrodectus mactans*, but the markings were quite clearly Latrodectus hasselti**."
The entire cinema went silent, and I got stared at all the way to the car. The best friend never forgave me for "making a spectacle" of her, which was quite alright by me as she was a clingy little cow anyway :)
*Black Widow
**Redback Spider (from the same family, but with distinct differences)
What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?
(, Sat 5 May 2007, 8:56, Reply)
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