View Poll Results: What shall be our tree weta's fate?

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  • Wake up Sammy the cat and set up a battle to the death - morituri te salutant!

    11 19.64%
  • Pop him in the freezer to go quietly into the good night prior to an embalming in ethano

    4 7.14%
  • Sneak into Grahameeboy's room and leave him on the pillow

    20 35.71%
  • Sneak into Stickchick's room and leave him on the pillow (hang on, that's MY room...)

    9 16.07%
  • Mix up some Steinlager Pure and Edmonds flour, heat some oil in a pan and have myself a spiny treat

    12 21.43%
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Thread: So I've just trapped this great big weta in a tupperware container...

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    Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!
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    ...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)

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    I was going to get a photo of him sitting on my arm this morning, but I slept in and had to rush around like a mad thing, so he's safely tucked away in his tupperware until this evening, at which point I will take some snaps for evidence and posterity and then let him out into the bushes while whistling 'Born Free' very badly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    I was going to get a photo of him sitting on my arm this morning, but I slept in and had to rush around like a mad thing, so he's safely tucked away in his tupperware until this evening, at which point I will take some snaps for evidence and posterity and then let him out into the bushes while whistling 'Born Free' very badly.
    YAY!!!! Long live the big fat critter...

    You're still going to creep everyone with it though, aren't you?

    *Oh and btw...I thought it was "morituri te salutamus" ?*
    Quote Originally Posted by Wolf View Post
    Time to cut out the "holier/more enlightened than thou" bullshit and the "slut" comments and let people live honestly how they like providing they're not harming themselves or others in the process.

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    Burn him!


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    Quote Originally Posted by 007XX View Post
    You're still going to creep everyone with it though, aren't you?


    Hey, if you're really lucky, he'll be annoyed with me for locking him up for 24 hours and proceed to chomp the fuck out of my arm, which Jody will then gleefully photograph.

    Quote Originally Posted by 007XX View Post
    *Oh and btw...I thought it was "morituri te salutamus" ?*
    According to Wikipedia, the only known literary reference to the phrase is in Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Claudius, XXI, where 'morituri te salutant' was used by condemned prisoners about to die in a mock naval battle.

    The phrase's use by gladiators is apocryphal.

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    Hey, if you're really lucky, he'll be annoyed with me for locking him up for 24 hours and proceed to chomp the fuck out of my arm, which Jody will then gleefully photograph.
    I don't think the native wetas are into North eastern European sausage...

    According to Wikipedia, the only known literary reference to the phrase is in Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Claudius, XXI, where 'morituri te salutant' was used by condemned prisoners about to die in a mock naval battle.

    The phrase's use by gladiators is apocryphal.

    I learn something every day in the magical world of the internets!
    I got a bit of a thing against the Wikipedia...just can't bring myself to see it as a trutworthy source of information for some reason.

    However, I found this:
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti...te%20salutamus

    which makes us both right
    Quote Originally Posted by Wolf View Post
    Time to cut out the "holier/more enlightened than thou" bullshit and the "slut" comments and let people live honestly how they like providing they're not harming themselves or others in the process.

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    a little bit of penut butter, normal butter in a pant with said circket, yummy
    Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot

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    Quote Originally Posted by 007XX View Post
    ... which makes us both right
    It's not that 'morituri te salutamus' doesn't translate properly; it's the question of which, if any, phrase was ever actually used.

    Wikipedia may not be that reliable, but I would have thought that Suetonius might have carried a little more weight...

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    I just had a thought.

    It's a good thing wetas can't fly. Just imagine hitting one bang on with your visor at 150kph!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    I just had a thought.

    It's a good thing wetas can't fly. Just imagine hitting one bang on with your visor at 150kph!

    or with your open face helmet

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    I just had a thought.

    It's a good thing wetas can't fly. Just imagine hitting one bang on with your visor at 150kph!

    I tried to imagine that....but failed. 150kph? Only loonies and child murderers would contemplate that sort of speed.
    Oh, you meant on the track? The Pahiatua Track
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    It's not that 'morituri te salutamus' doesn't translate properly; it's the question of which, if any, phrase was ever actually used.

    Wikipedia may not be that reliable, but I would have thought that Suetonius might have carried a little more weight...

    Most definitely...romans in their later years were known for their portliness, so I am sure his word had plenty of weight

    My argument not being with the narrator but rather on how accurately that word might have been passed to the next generation over the years...I was fascinated with Hadrian in my teenage years, as he was just a kick arse emperor who was (apparently) as bent as an aluminium tent pole in gale force winds...achieved amazing things though.

    I hope you left some food for the Weta?
    Quote Originally Posted by Wolf View Post
    Time to cut out the "holier/more enlightened than thou" bullshit and the "slut" comments and let people live honestly how they like providing they're not harming themselves or others in the process.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 007XX View Post
    I hope you left some food for the Weta?
    Chopped and peeled chunks of ENZA's finest and a bottle cap full of water, thank you very much.

    Never let it be said that the hospitality of chez random lessens for invertebrates!

    Edit: Und ve sind nichten ze Deutschen! 'Weta' is not a proper noun, my dear lady. Leave that 'w' in the lower case.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 007XX View Post
    ......I was fascinated with Hadrian in my teenage years, as he was just a kick arse emperor who was (apparently) as bent as an aluminium tent pole in gale force winds......
    "Backs to the wall...Hadrian's about..."
    ...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)

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