Writers: Are you always second-guessing your work? Constantly erasing, writing, and re-erasing until you find just the right “voice”? Put an end to this paralyzing habit with the NOPEncil™, the writing implement that surrounds the eraser with baby vipers so you’ll be encouraged to keep your hand at the pointy end where it’s safe. From the makers of BackZap™, the keyboard with the electrified backspace key.
I’ll just use a pen, John B. (via Houston Zoo.)
Hahahahaa! And also, squee! I love snakes. And the thought of such teensy little snakelets is enough to make my head ‘splode.
You got to the squeeee! before I did Puddleglum! Ahhhh! they are different colours too! *thunk * kinda snakelet Neapolitan.
I would like to wear one as a ring please. 🙂
*(barfing /gagging sounds)* I may never be able to eat Neapolitan anything!!
Sorry Clairedelune 😀 I would be the same if it were centipedes– Geezzus Christ I hate those things.
Though I’m terrified of snakes (sorry, snake lovers), I needed this pencil in high school and college to stop myself from changing answers on multiple-choice tests!
EEEEKKK!!!! I have a phobia – I HATE SNAKES of any kind, since childhood. Now I’ll be checking the pencils on my desk every morning… I can’t unsee these creepy creatures!!
I love snakes but as someone with a phobia of insects, I completely understand.
Well, I think spiders are creepy and scary because I never know if the one looking at me is a venomous one – otherwise, I am not scared of insects – OK, I admit, I hate mosquitoes! – and love butterflies and certain kinds of grasshoppers with gorgeous colored silky wings normally hidden under the hard grey forewings, but visible when they fly.
Spiders, grasshoppers, butterflies, all bugs … I will quote you EEEEKKK!!!!
I have crickets in my basement, and a friend scared of insects. I have declared my house a No Squashing zone (and the spiders mostly take care of that anyway). This friend is a frequent guest, and also has chronic digestive problems. The easiest to get to bathroom from where we hang out is the basement one, so she and the crickets frequently have to coexist, however briefly. This has resulted in a dramatic decrease in her fear of insects. Sometimes, she talks to them.
What I’m getting at is the cure for what ails you is an eccentric friend and uncontrollable pooping.
Too bad you cannot get a feedback from the crickets… I wonder of THEY feel about the frequent invasion of their home by a human with uncontrollable pooping. 😀
I think they are adorable…wraped around the end of a pencil, not me…in a far away photo, not up close and personal?
I tend to think most tiny/baby animals are cute, but I sometimes enjoy that kind of cute more from a distance!
My whole response to this is an endless loop of “oooh, venomous… but cute!… but venomous… but still cute…”
And tri-colored! One baby viper would be cute, but 3! 3! In different colors, even!
It’s like they’re posing for jewelry design…
That’s pretty much where I’m at, too! with “and different colors!” thrown in for good measure.
I don’t mind snakes and insects, as long as they don’t sneak up on me. Once on a nature trail my ex husband and I were surprised by a lizard running across the path in front of us. My ex shoved me towards it, screamed, and ran the other way. I had a good laugh about it.
Was this before or after he became your ex? or perhaps the reason he became your ex? 🙂
Yeah, it was an indication of his true self, he is the only one that mattered. My kids called him Jesus Jeffrey, and he took it as a compliment, said he was more perfect than Jesus. He left when his family came for a family reunion, and my kids and I failed to act like the perfect family. Said we made him look bad in front of his siblings, who, the day before had threatened one another with knives over how to cook potatoes on the grill.
:D!
Holy smokes – I’d rather take my chances with a lizard!
Pretty colors.
Such cute tiny colorful snakelets!
Blond(e), brunet(te) & grey-head! So cute! Wonder if they feel happier or safer curled around things, like a twig or a pencil?
Those snakelets should get together with the ant-sized chameleons in the last post. It would be an explosion of mini-cute!
I’m torn between wanting to snuggle the snakelets and not wanting to disturb them. Probably safest for them to be far away from me, because I usually come down on the snuggle side of the dilemma, as a long list of dogs, cats, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits can attest. And some lizards. And snakes. And birds. And some toads before I learned they could catch a disease from me.
So cute! I love their coloring – it’s like one of those old-timey hand tinted photographs.
Those are *adorable* snakelets! If they’re vipers, however, they’re also adorable snakelets to be admired from a safe distance. I have no problem with constrictors, but poisonous snakes are, IMO, to be admired ONLY from a distance where I can ensure it won’t be able to strike me!
As someone who once gave a home to two — yes, two — boa constrictors (one for each kid) and went from finding them attractive at a distance but icky to deal with, I learned to really appreciate what amazing creatures they are. For example, they lie around ALL the time and do as little as possible — except when they’re presented with a meal. Then suddenly they’re so strong they can move faster than you can believe to grab their food and wrap themselves around it. As a human who has to work for ANY kind of healthy musculature, I am very envious of snakes’ ability to maintain theirs by doing absolutely NOTHING 99% of the time!
NOPE, indeed! I’ll take the BackZap.