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[Goaty]

[Proudhuff]

Stop me if you've heard this one, but I feel as though we've met before. Perhaps I am mistaken?

[The Legendary Shark]

Heh, that's excellent, Goaty!

[TordelBack]

But it's just that I remind you of someone you used to care about.

Oh but that was long ago.

[Tiplodocus]

Which is why I never talk to strangers... anymore

[The Legendary Shark]

But I still love you - and I always will.

[Tiplodocus]

For Tom Waits fans, he sings On The Nickel about ten minutes in.
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[JayzusB.Christ]

Stop me if you think
That you've heard this one before

Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less
Than I used to, my love.

</Godpleton*>





*May his meme-ridden soul rest in peace

[The Legendary Shark]

Ah, I miss Roger. Right about now he'd be starting the annual Thin Ice Awards.
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I don't know where you are, you perverted little Teddy bear, but I wish you were still here.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Personally I thought he was fairly entertaining for a few years, but near the end got more than a bit bored of his memes and song-lyrics; he finally tipped over the edge from semi-troll to fully-fledged one.  But I wish him all the best.

Anyway, I'm here today to talk about that most excellently named creature, the Daddy Longlegs.  I once as a child got admonished by my Mr-Logic-like friend for calling it that ('Tut.  It's a cranefly.')  but now I see it can refer to a few creatures, both arachnoid and insectoid. 

For me it's a long-legged insect with flimsy wings, but I know for some it's some kind of spider (which, although similar in appearance, is somehow much scarier for me). What is it to you?

There is a story that the daddy longlegs is the most poisonous insect (or spider) there is, but its fangs are too small to pierce human skin.  If it's the insect; I know that is a load of trollocks, because I once watched our cat eat one whole. If it's the spider, it's still a load of trollocks because I just checked it on Google.

I once read an article in the sadly missed Dublin magazine The Slate describing the strength of one particular type of crappy E as 'like a kick in the arse from a daddy longlegs'. 

That is all.  Further daddy-longlegs-related bulletins as daddy-longlegs-related events warrant.

[I, Cosh]

What's your position on the Daddy vs Jenny Longlegs controversy?

[spoiler]The latter is used only by fops in dilettantes[/spoiler] in my view.

[Dandontdare]

never heard "Jenny" - but whatever they're called, I hate the little feckers - it's the way they sort of scuttle up a wall until they know you're looking, and then home straight in on your face. Brrrrrrr!

[TordelBack]

My wife breeds giant African land snails ('GALS', in the secret parlance of the mollusc molester) in our living room. Useful leverage considering my own foibles, or grounds for an anullment?

[M.I.K.]

My guess is that the flying Daddy Longlegs is the original and the wingless eight-legged beasties have gained the name 'cos of their similar looks, (although I've definitely heard Jenny Longlegs used for craneflies too).

The eight legged beasty that people mainly refer to as the Daddy Longlegs (also known as the Harvestman), is an arachnid, but isn't actually a spider, (there is a spider with the name as well, but it looks very spidery indeed - it's the only one with a venomous bite, but isn't dangerous to humans).

One night, several years ago I went downstairs to my kitchen and could hear a faint crunching noise coming from the direction of the table. I thought there might be a mouse somewhere, so I crept slowly up to where the noise was coming from, but instead found a Harvestman gnawing on a bit of cream cracker.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Never heard it called a Jenny Longlegs.  Sounds like some old-timey fourpenny strumpet.

I never want to find a Harvestman gnawing on anything.