re: #295 BigPapa

Biggest one I’ve seen must have been more than 10”. Typical big ones here are 6-7”

I’ve been bit by a small blue one and an older 4”. Both times close to a big sting. I suppose I got one fang or not a full dose. Imagine if a big one got a hold of you and gave you a full dose of venom it would be nasty.

There’s a scene in one of the James Bond novels — I forget which one — where someone attempts to assassinate Bond with a giant poisonous centipede. Bond manages to avoid being bitten, and crushes the centipede on the floor. He then throws up in the bathroom. That scene humanized Bond for me, because I could imagine how disgusting centipede innards would look like.

In the movie version they left out the vomiting part, IIRC.