Red and Rover by Brian Basset for August 23, 2009

I like Spiders - they weave the most beautiful webs. I had a big long legged spider in my bathtub the other night. Caught it in a Plastic Container to take outdoors & told it to have a good time catching bugs out in my garden!

As the song says, I don’t like spiders and snakes.

Spiders I can take (at times). Snakes [Shudder] I cannot!

Shudder I hate spiders. They’re so creepy.

One of my sons was keeping a pet centipede and a pet spider in the tub for a few days… I had to remove them when he was asleep.

Centipede all over the Christmas tree.

Spiders and snakes and bugs, oh my!! Nope, wrong channel!!!

@BC13 Jim Stafford? i know it’s the same guy as “Guitarzan” and “My Girl Bill” and “Ahab the Arab” but can’t remember the name.

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Ray Stevens did “Guitarzan” and “Ahab the Arab” and a whole lot more crazy stuff. Jim Staffaord did “Spiders and Snakes” and” My Girl Bill”. And don’t forget, Loudon Wainwright III who did “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road”.

yyyguy You are correct. I have it on an old Goofy Greats album, along with such songs as “Snoopy & the Rd Baron”, “L’il Red Riding Hood” and “Itsy, Bitsy, Teenie Weenie, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.”

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yyyguy Also the “Purple People Eater” and may more.

My mother used to chase me with daddy long leg spiders.

I hate spiders the daddy long legs the worst of then all I will take a can of raid and kill the suckers dead but I love spider-man thu.

thanks, stonehenge. i always got stafford and stevens mixed up. BC13: i remember ALL of those songs, and also “the streak” (which was ray stevens, if memory serves)

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“No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes; and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.” (But we had the daddy-long-legs BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!)