The literal snake in the literal garden
A series of strange text messages
Grungella: I’ll be in Grimbelt 6ish if anyone wants din-din.
Ernie: I’ll join you if I finish work early.
Big Bird: I can’t join you. Looking for something in my room that may kill me. Tell you bout it later.
Grungella: Killer cockroach? Air Supply albums? Gas leak? Voodoo doll?
Big Bird: A snake entered my room and hid under my bed. The moment I stepped out door to garden, it slipped in. I turned round and saw about 2 ft of it. Yesterday I looked for it but didn’t see it. Got so confused, was thinking someone had bewitched my imagination. But I’m positive I saw it. Been sleeping in my parents’ room. They’re away.
Grungella: Eek! Find it! Call animal control! Get out of the house!
Big Bird: I accidentally nudged it with my foot and it didn’t attack so it must not be poisonous.
Grungella: Indiana Jones has nothing on my snake fear! I couldn’t open the green Walt Disney encyclopedia!
Big Bird: If I still don’t find it I’m consulting the tarot card reader.
Grungella: Big Bird looking for snake in house, literally.
Ernie: He’d have better luck looking in that mall.
Grungella: Maybe he can lure it out with Alice Dixon or Snooky as Galema.
Ernie: Or he could get a mongoose. Do they have mongooses in Bio-Research?
Grungella: Is it mongooses or mongeese?
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
May 29th, 2008 at 02:50
It’s both mongooses and mongeese according to Webster. I had the same bout of curiousity when somebody asked me how to pluralized the word cul de sac.
May 29th, 2008 at 09:51
Hey, I read a joke about that many years ago, about an animal keeper I think it was, who sent two mongooses (or mongeese) to a zoo.
Anyway, I think it’s mongooses.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:18
Maybe Sam Jackson has something to say about this. Just a thought. :)
May 29th, 2008 at 14:43
This happened to me back in campus…my dad apparently saw a snake crawling/slithering up the stairs and straight under my bed. After some time of trying o find the snake, we decided to tthrow the upper mattress away…it could have slithered in that broken mattress ventilation.
Aside from mongoose, geese are also effective snake deterrents. Apparently they attack snakes ( some people keep them in Myanmar for these reasons). I was asked by the team there if they could get geese again ( the ones they ahd before ended up in a pot after a bird flu scare from neighbouring thailand). Bteween bird flu and snake bite, guess which i would prefer.
May 29th, 2008 at 22:49
I grew up in the province where it’s normal to see reptiles inside the house from time to time. Aside from snakes, we had a resident “tuko” in the ceiling. I even gave him a name. Anyway, my dad usually dealt with the snake problem by hacking their heads off. But in reality, these snakes are harmless, they don’t even have fangs.