June 28th, 2007
#278 – Snake
I’ve only seen a few snakes around here in the Chicago suburbs my whole life. I caught one of them when I was a kid and kept it as a pet for a few days. I was playing with it in the front yard when it escaped into the grass. That was probably a good thing because I didn’t really know anything about snakes and so it would have died from starvation eventually. I did see a lot of snakes in Florida though. While driving down an isolated gravel road my wife and I came upon a cottonmouth. I got out the video camera to film it and my wife excitedly told me to get out of the van so I could get a better shot. I explained that this wouldn’t be a good idea. She then uttered her famous reply… captured on video “There’s no poisonous snakes in Florida!”
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June 28th, 2007 at 12:04 am
heheh, venomous toast…also, first post!
June 28th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I saw a snake recently, don’t remember what kind it was though. Somebody had run over it and it was writhing in pain.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Ha I live in the only area in North America without any (naturally occurring) poisonous (deadly, there’s a few that would give you a rash though) snakes. Southern Ontario (Canada).
June 28th, 2007 at 12:24 am
How’d he pull that off?
June 28th, 2007 at 12:36 am
He hasn’t yet.
He probably did it after he changed the Launch feature to a more normal setting.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Just a little nitpicking, DNA should be capitalized, as it’s short for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Other than that, nice comic. Toaster looks a little on the small side, though.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:53 am
wouldn’t it be DnA then?
also; chris, you should totally post that video.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Actually, she was right.
There are no POISONOUS snakes in Florida.
There is no such thing as a POISONOUS snake.
Snakes are VENOMOUS. xD
June 28th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Sax, I think you are right.
Godathon, my wife has been released from ridicule on a technicality!
June 28th, 2007 at 7:47 am
My Mom owns a pet store (here in Florida), where we sell a few snakes…none poisonous, but I wouldn’t reccomend keeping one as a pet unless you know all the exact little details about each ones’ habitats. It took me a long time before I realized that Banded Water Snakes eat fish, not mice.
Florida is actually home to all the poisonous snakes in the country, by the way. Last year, the neighbors found a cottonmouth in their backyard and brought it over so we could get rid of it…being pet store people and all.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:07 am
It looks like Biff is up to his old tricks of lateral improvement ideas again.
Godathon wins an award for the most amusing application of pointing out a technicality.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:39 am
:My wife has been released from redicule by a technicality.” is the funniest thing I have read from you, Chris, since, well, forever (Biff comic excluded). Love your comix, love you, love your comments. /hugs.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Why doesnt the toaster go for a mouse XD Chris why were you videotaping a cottonmouth??Most people would run it over (being careless) i would just get a stick, lift it up (with the stick) and put it to the side.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Love your comics Chris.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Where the hell did Biff get Snake DNA? XD
I like this one, nice work!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Does being able to swallow you count a venemous?
June 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am
There are posionour snakes. Being able to swallow you is pretty poisonous…
June 28th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Pixilated; Sorry to burst your bubble, but you’re mistaken. If you look up ‘massasauga rattlesnake’ in wikipedia, you will find details about the only snake in Ontario that could kill you if you don’t get timely treatment.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Uhh, pixilated? Mississauga Rattlesnakes. As in Mississauga, Ontario. Sorry, we DO have one venomous snake
Also, I was kind of surprised by the lack of a “Biff finds that” or similar phrase. The comic just seems…incomplete without it.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
yeah… i felt it was missing something… i just couldnt put my finger on it….. but it was still hilarious!!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Wow.. snake DNA. How does he do it? XD
June 28th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
If you wanna talk about venomous snakes… I’m from Australia.
You always have to be aware that they can be anywhere. Especially if you live away from any towns or city’s like i do.
We have more than our fair share of snakes
June 28th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Archatheron, it is ‘Massasauga’, not ‘Mississauga’. Or we could just call it Sistrurus catenatus and leave it at that. I saw one on a canoe trip once, from about a metre away. I think they’re cute.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
I’ve only encountered a garter snake 10 years ago with my mother on my walk to Target. We don’t have many snakes in Washington state, but they are harmless little ones.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I’ve never seen a wild snake before. I have, however, seen a wild tarantula. Scariest moment of my life.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Radical Edward – Western Washington, maybe not, but Eastern Washington has plenty of Rattlesnakes, extremely venomous. I remember once my Mom and I were driving through a camp ground and saw what I assumed was a dead Rattler on the road. I got out to go look and then realized, as it began to slither off, that it had just been sunning itself. Yikes! I knew one kid in high school who lost his leg to gangrene because he could not get to a doctor in time after being bit, and a child who died in my grade school. If you hike in Eastern Washington take a snake bite kit.
Our toast is safe though.
June 30th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
i have to ask…what purpose would one have for integrating any DNA into a household appliance, let alone a snake’s into a toaster…?
June 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Chris can you post the video on youtube? (If you are can you tell us the name?)
June 30th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
>Chris can you post the video on youtube?
Maybe I will. But at the moment that tape is in box that is under some boxes that are behind some other boxes. So it will have to wait until I have time to find it.
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Aw, how cute, it wants to cuddle.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Toaster homonculi?
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:35 am
In soviet Russia, Toaster toasts you. LOL SRY. couldn’t help it
August 13th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I love snakes. My sister and I used to go and play in the old timber across the road. There was always a few reb belly’s in there.
Only twice have I been really worried about snakes, once my aunty stepped into a circle of boulders that had 4 king browns and once when I was really wasted and I almost stood on a taipan.
I spent some time in a town called Caboolture, which is an aboringinal word for carpet snake, so no points for guessing which snake is predominant there.
I love snakes and my sis now breeds them.
September 9th, 2007 at 3:28 am
I would have poke the snake with a stick.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I want a toaster snake! I really want a snake, and one that toasts would be awesome!
December 20th, 2007 at 12:44 am
What would a toaster-snake eat? Rat pinkies made of bread? Does it eat frozen-thawed or live?
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Let your pythons hunt live prey or they’ll strangle you as you clean the cage.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Heh. Sounds like the exact idea and outcome I’d get if I could do things like that.
Oh, and Pixilated, if you’re on Rogers or Sympatico (or one of their resellers), you may want to switch. They’re phasing in new “pay more, get less” deals. I’m switching to TekSavvy for my DSL.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:16 am
a snakester
June 25th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Your wife sounds like a future Darwin Award winner, although only an Honorable Mention if she has already spawned.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Just ‘annoying’? I’d say deadly too…… a good one.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Elkian: sounds like personal experience in your comment there…
October 9th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I would sic my integrated-mongoose-DNA microwave on it.