Mini-Skwibs: Critters Edition

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You do not own a snake. You know that. You are awakened by the delicate, excruciating pain of having your arm squeezed by a four-foot python. And then it bites you.

After you fling it off, and get some medical attention, a thought occurs to you: your day can only get better, right?

Right?

A Hundred Freaky Feet

You are unsure what is rustling behind the TV, but it’s probably a mouse.

Nope, it’s a venomous South American centipede.

And it says: “hej majn, what are joo looking at?”

Venomous AND psycho-reactive.

Pathetically Endowed Fish Love

Bob the mosquitofish never had much with the ladies. His tiny thing was of no interest to them. They much preferred the whale-like yang of Jeremy the Bahamian mosquitofish. This was both bad and good news.

Bad news: Bob didn’t get much of a chance to pass along his tiny thing DNA.

Good news: Much less likely to be eaten because Jeremy was slowed down by his whale-like yang.

A personal note from your mutated host

I am totally screwed.

I mean, the article from the “beeb” (link below) about redheads being much more at risk of skin cancer is out of the “duh” file, but still, it reminded me that I am, indeed, a mutant with highly reactive melanosomes in my skin, which have a propensity to create nasty things. The science is kind of interesting though, as is the British description of us mutants as having “ginger” hair.

Ah well, at least I’m not sitting in the Superdome listening to the sound of the roof being ripped off and waiting for a flood of toxic junk to fill my city. I’m definitely not rooting for the hurricane.

Why red hair ups skin cancer risk [BBC]