I woulda sent in so many boxtops to join the club and get my secret decoder ring.
I like the name, though. “Arachnateers”. I should steal it.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I woulda sent in so many boxtops to join the club and get my secret decoder ring.
I like the name, though. “Arachnateers”. I should steal it.
So, the UM-Morris will be the first university with an Arachnateers Club, for your researchers?
“Who’s the leader of the gang that’s made for you and me?
M-Y-E R-and-S preceded by P-Z!!!”
Perfect name for your spider squad.
There’s a Japanese show where they ride armoured spiders. Their catchphrase is “Arachno-Power!”.
I’ve watched like, one episode, and it was pretty terrible. Has a catchy theme tune though.
“Eleven-year-old Hunter Steel searches for the legendary inner world by following instructions in his grandfather’s journal. He enters a cave where he finds a mysterious manacle attaching to his arm. A spider startles Hunter, who falls into a hole to the center of the Earth and into the subterranean world of Arachna. There, he discovers a small group of elite warriors struggling to survive and to save Arachna from the attack of Invectids, a race of insectoids. The warriors are children, each fighting with the help of their own 10 ft (3.0 m) battle spiders. They call themselves “Spider Riders”. In the English TV series, the ages of the characters were reduced. There is a prophecy that says a surface-dweller or Human, like Hunter, will bring disaster to the Inner World. Sparkle mentions it in the beginning of the TV series.”
A-R-A
We’re going to poison you and suck your insides out!
C-H-N
Why? Because we’re evil!
A-T-E-E-R
There’s always the Steam Powered Spider (video) — and no, I don’t mean the fictional one in that crappy movie remake of The Wild Wild West (video), this is the real deal. Some more info, including sketches of a possible 2nd version…
PZ, how close where you to looking like the kid in the panel? The dark hair and glasses are there.
azpaul3 @5,
Not evil, just hungry.
Spam cleanup on aisle 9.
@10 abbeycadabra
I read the whole thing waiting for the joke.
@9 Oh boy did you come to the wrong place on the internet.
@11, So did I. Then I had to have a shot of whisky to clear out the damaged brain cells…
Knee HERPES!!!
#7:timgueguen — I’m afraid when I was a kid, I was skinny and gangly and bobble-headed, with a buzzcut. I’ve since fled that look and gone in the opposite direction, and I’m sorry to say it didn’t help at all.