My eBay feedback is at 499! Now 500!!!! WINNER IN LAST POST

Aethelred · February 2, 2005 12:35PM

I am thinking about a giveaway at 500.

O.k. folks, this is a giveaway, post if you want a chance to win!

spinaker2000 · February 2, 2005 12:36PM

Let me be the first to enter!!

hope it's something copper!!

and blue!!

trozau · February 2, 2005 12:38PM

Just do it!

Aethelred · February 2, 2005 12:39PM

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hope it's something copper!!

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spinaker2000 · February 2, 2005 12:40PM

I edited and added "blue"!

Aethelred · February 2, 2005 12:41PM

<< I edited and added "blue"!

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spinaker2000 · February 2, 2005 12:42PM

XXX · February 2, 2005 1:01PM

Aethelred...........................You must have a thing for snakes? Yes.? Pretty scarey. Nice Pics.

Steve27 · February 2, 2005 7:19PM

Please enter me in the giveaway for the blue snake.

ajaan · February 2, 2005 7:26PM

Cobra meat is a delicacy in Thailand.

syraq · February 2, 2005 7:44PM

Have you ever tried it Don?

wybrit · February 2, 2005 7:50PM

If you're giving away a genuine Gothic Crown or an Una, I'm in!

theboz11 · February 2, 2005 8:01PM

Congrats and please let me join in on your generous snake giveaway.

AndyBruce · February 2, 2005 8:41PM

Thanks Aethelred - count me in!

No snakes though - they'll frighten the wife!

AuldFartte · February 2, 2005 11:27PM

Congrats on the 499

but, snakes ...

rhound1977 · February 3, 2005 12:41AM

I'm going to have to buy something so I can NEG ya......

Congrats....

tbirde56 · February 3, 2005 2:08AM

Congrats! Please enter me as well.

wildjag · February 3, 2005 2:29AM

499 with 100% feedback is a great accomplishment. Congrats and enter me if your giving some nice German stuff away

HTubbs · February 3, 2005 7:15AM

count me in!

lordmarcovan · February 3, 2005 7:17AM

I gave away something purple to celebrate my purple star on eBay. It was an amethyst. As I recall, Cosmic Bill won it.

lordmarcovan · February 3, 2005 7:24AM

Oh, speakin' of snakes and Aethelreds, you should tell 'em the story of the "snake" you shot in your backyard in Alexander...

Aethelred · February 3, 2005 7:38AM

<< Oh, speakin' of snakes and Aethelreds, you should tell 'em the story of the "snake" you shot in your backyard in Alexander...

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AuldFartte · February 3, 2005 7:41AM

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With that kind of reaction, I'd bet the story is really worth hearing

Aethelred · February 3, 2005 7:42AM

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With that kind of reaction, I'd bet the story is really worth hearing

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No, it is really rather boring!

lordmarcovan · February 3, 2005 7:48AM

I'll tell it for him.

To make a long story short, he saw a "snake" in his backyard, went and got his gun, shot it, and it didn't move. I think he shot it a couple more times. It still didn't move. Eventually he got up the nerve to go up and have a closer look, when he discovered he'd just shot up an old semi-buried, rolled-up tarp.

I later saw the shot-up tarp in question, and it was one of those woven kind, and brown- it really did look somewhat snakey, the way it was lyin' there in the leaves.

AuldFartte · February 3, 2005 7:51AM

Great story!!!

See, Aethelred? I knew it'd be good

spinaker2000 · February 3, 2005 8:01AM

lordmarcovan · February 3, 2005 8:03AM

One time we were out metal detecting in Fernandina, Florida, when he came down this way for a visit. As he was stooped beneath a palmetto tree, I dropped a rubber snake, which slipped off the palmetto fronds and fell on his hat. Boy, you shoulda seen 'im come chargin' outta the brush!

Aethelred might not have been in any danger of snakebite from my rubber snake, but I came dangerously close to gettin' my lights punched out when he found out it was a prank!

(Actually, I've had a real snake drop out of a tree branch and land across the visor of my cap once, when I was out detecting. It was just a little green snake, but when his head swung over the brim of my cap and dangled in front of my nose, I had myself a wee little adrenaline rush fer a second!)

goldrush00013 · February 3, 2005 8:08AM

Great stories!

python · February 3, 2005 8:21AM

Well if you are giving away snakes you can count me in.

lordmarcovan · February 3, 2005 8:25AM

Sorry, but he's fresh outta snakes. How 'bout a bullet-riddled tarp?

Aethelred · February 3, 2005 8:36AM

If a real snake ever fell on me I would have a heart attack and die, I have a snake phobia! I am sure the people who lived near me were more worried about "the guy with the crazy look in his eyes shooting that .410 than any snakes that might have been around!

lordmarcovan · February 3, 2005 8:41AM

Snakes don't especially bother me, although they will get a reaction from me when they fall across the bill of my cap. I'm not one to hold 'em or cuddle with 'em, but when I see 'em, I go my way and let 'em go theirs.

Spiders scare me worse than snakes, particularly if I'm out in the woods.

AuldFartte · February 3, 2005 8:48AM

<< If a real snake ever fell on me I would have a heart attack and die, I have a snake phobia! >>

Same here ... and I used to have pretty regular run-ins with rattlers, cottonmouths and water moccasins

Jeez, I hate snakes

wybrit · February 3, 2005 9:18AM

Far be it from me to bring a thread back on topic, but aetheldeath has reached 500.

Congratulations!

Aethelred · February 3, 2005 9:20AM

<< Far be it from me to bring a thread back on topic, but aetheldeath has reached 500.

Congratulations! >>

Thanks!

lordmarcovan · February 3, 2005 9:25AM

Boo! Hiss! (pun intended)

Who wants to get back on topic? This thread was so well-hijacked!

Well? What's the giveaway?

Spiffy469 · February 3, 2005 9:26AM

a SNAKE GIVEAWAY! cool

lol

Throw me in for a chance.

Jeff

ajaan · February 3, 2005 9:28AM

Never tried cobra. I had seen only one in my yard when I lived in Chiangmai. We had one trapped in a mouse glue trap in our drop ceiling. It came in the house through a hole the contractors never closed. I was running late for work so the nanny took it out and gave it to some workmen building a house across the lane. They ate it.

cosmicdebris · February 3, 2005 9:29AM

ajaan · February 3, 2005 9:31AM

I know it is a good story Bill, but I didn't expect any applause.

indianabyron · February 3, 2005 9:33AM

Snake giveaway cool im in on this one. Snakes dont bother me its the spiders, its the one thing I cant deal with all 6f4 of me. Just imagine this a 6f4 guy walking in the woods running into those webs that spiders string up between trees to catch humans. Well them imagine that same 6f4 guy screaming like a scared little girl and failing around like im having some kind of sezure and running at the top speed humanly possable. Flapping all the way out of the woods and still being creeped out for the next hour or so. That should give you a good idea of how spiders affect me. Good thing my cat has that natural spider killing driver in her.

Oh ya this is supposed to be a giveaway ummm enter me please.

Byron