daveemory How many Tarantula(s) do you own?: 4,248,591
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Location: Tarantuland
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject: new T addict struggling to keep a lid on the habit
I've been posting for a few months, but I figured I'd actually introduce myself here before Saturday. My real name is Peter, and I've always loved tarantulas (and had one as a kid... but that just didn't work out). I won a little G.rosea in the raffle at the Spring meeting - I told my then-girlfriend, whose idea it was that we go to the meeting, that if I won the raffle, I'd go home with a spider, but if I didn't, I wouldn't. We went across the street to eat, came back, were just about to leave, and my name got called! And that was that. Now I'm totally addicted.
A few months later, I got a greenbottle blue, and will be picking up a B.emilia at the meeting, plus... ?? I can't stop!
To paraphrase W.C. Fields: about my girlfriend, "she drove me to tarantulas... it's the one thing I'm indebted to her for."
Lookin' forward to putting faces to the names on Saturday!
BayLee SFBATS Secretary How many Tarantula(s) do you own?: 45
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Location: Vallejo, CA
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject:
Great story Dave, can't wait to meet you.
I will be a 6' 6" tall woman with the weird accent. _________________ Visit me @Tarantulas.us
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
--"The World As I See It," originally published in FORUM AND CENTURY, 1931.
- Albert Einstein "
I speak English, German and Lonish.
daveemory How many Tarantula(s) do you own?: 4,248,591
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Location: Tarantuland
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject:
BayLee wrote:
Great story Dave, can't wait to meet you.
I will be a 6' 6" tall woman with the weird accent.
Indeed! I reckon I met Dee Casey already, as it was she who gave me some G.rosea advice at the time, and maybe Edgar, too. Is the guy with the big huge nasty scorpions on this forum? I will never forget watching when some guy with his kid came up and asked, "of course, you've removed their stingers, right?" and whomever this was at the table said, "what, these?" and shoved his hand into a nest of scorps and pulled one out with his hand, by the tail. I think the color drained from dad's face.
By the way.. it's really Peter, not Dave. But south bay radio listeners might get the pseudonym reference...........
BayLee SFBATS Secretary How many Tarantula(s) do you own?: 45
Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 2732 User Online:
Location: Vallejo, CA
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject:
Oops sorry, second time I have confused names this week. Oh, there is no telling what I will call everyone on Saturday.
I believe you may have met Dee and her husband Sean.
Edgar was with them at the table as well. Edgar is actually Dee's and Sean's adopted son.
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
--"The World As I See It," originally published in FORUM AND CENTURY, 1931.
- Albert Einstein "
I speak English, German and Lonish.
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