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Post by TempestFennac on Sept 14, 2017 5:33:34 GMT
Doesn't America have some poisonous spiders though?
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 14, 2017 5:41:24 GMT
All spiders are venomous... its the danger that venom poses to humans that is the thing. Black Widows or Brown Recluse spiders are dangerous to humans (making them rather ill and killing small children), but most only cause an irritation. Even the Brown Recluse isn't likely to bite, though can cause necrosis sometimes when it does.
Jumping Spiders are neat. Daddy Long Legs aren't even spiders, though are arachnids, and are not at all venomous and can't even create venom. Etc etc etc.
Make a book about Daddy Long Legs if you like. That name is just... amazing.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Sept 14, 2017 6:19:07 GMT
I used to have a kids book about daddy longlegs that I loved. No clue what it was called or where it went to. A cursory search of Google turns up nothing but books about a father with long legs.
The kids used to tell each other that they had the most powerful venom in the world but because they had such small fangs they couldn't bite through your skin. Of course that was BS.
Funny enough if you look up "daddy long legs" on the web you keep getting images of crane flies.
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 14, 2017 6:25:09 GMT
Crane flies also get called Daddy Long Legs sometimes. Its weird. Hell, apparently there is another spider called a daddy long legs, a "Cellar Spider." Try a Harvestman. They're the standard Daddy Long Legs I think.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Sept 14, 2017 18:04:35 GMT
Speaking of ill advised books for children. Prolly not good to suggest kids pet a rattlesnake. Also that mouth is anatomically wrong unless this snake has two tongues.
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Post by Harkovast on Sept 14, 2017 20:13:42 GMT
It's not too bad. I mean the anatomy looks okay. The premise of the book might not be so smart! Mind you, it might have bene written in a part of the world (like over here) where it would be like saying my pet shark or something. If you live in texas, telling your kids to go hug a rattlesnake is less well advised! And I heard that thing about daddy long legs toO! Its one of those things that sounds like an interesting fact nad people pass around but is just totally made up bullshit.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Sept 14, 2017 20:38:16 GMT
Oh, that's right. Snakes have that extra trachea. That seems like something 9 year old me would know and 42 year old me forgot.
Certainly in the UK the chance of a child happening across a rattlesnake is quite low, but the background of the image suggests south/west US. Maybe Arizona. You certainly don't want your children to have cuddly intents towards them in that part of the world.
Maybe a good name for a children's book is "Don't Pet a Rattlesnake".
Don't pet a rattlesnake.
Don't hug a porcupine.
Don't feed an alligator.
Don't kiss a shark.
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Post by Harkovast on Sept 14, 2017 20:53:29 GMT
It was written in New Mexico and the guy won awards.It can be harmful to teach kids to hate or fear wild animals, cause you should respect nature...but teaching them to be kind ot a rattlesnake and it will follow you home like a puppy? People in New Mexico are strange.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Sept 14, 2017 21:12:32 GMT
There's a difference between teaching them to hate or fear an animal and teaching them to respect it from a distance.
They certainly shouldn't be taught to interact with them if they are dangerous.
Hmmm... maybe a book about keeping something as pets that don't exist?
"How to Care for Your Pet Dragon"?
"What to Feed the Monster Under Your Bed"?
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Post by Horsie on Sept 14, 2017 22:08:35 GMT
I figure at this point there's probably been a children's book written about nearly everything. Though a guide to looking after something imaginary is pretty harmless, and there's a lot of options for that.
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Post by StyxD on Sept 14, 2017 22:33:29 GMT
Just what could this first book be about (the second is self-explanatory)?
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Post by Harkovast on Sept 14, 2017 23:43:39 GMT
Renard stop trying to plug the childrens books you write on here!
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Post by wordweaver3 on Sept 15, 2017 3:34:35 GMT
"It's Not Going To Get Any Better When You Grow up"
or
"The Pessimist's Guide to Raising Children Who Commit Suicide"
I guess it's all been done.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Oct 27, 2017 9:13:13 GMT
So this is a Cajon.
Basically just a box with one thin side for drumming and a sound hole on the back or side. There's snare wire in the top to get the snare sound and you get a bass sound when you hit it toward the middle.
I think this will be my next instrument project.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Feb 9, 2018 4:43:51 GMT
So I showed my nephew the little cigar box guitars I made and he was immediately taken with the idea that he could build a guitar. So we're on day three of a build for him. Of course he wasn't going to be okay with a one or three string acoustic POS like I made. We're making him a six string electric guitar. It's proving to be time consuming. We're calling it "Project Dirty Rat" after the cigar box he chose to use. it's going to be a very small bodied guitar so it won't have much acoustic capabilities, but since he rarely plays without an amp that shouldn't be an issue. This is an "as much as we can from scratch" build, so we're carving the neck and head from slab lumber. We ended up with a very unique looking step down head. I'm hoping it won't break when we finally string it up.
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