Thursday is Snake Day?

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We're working on a Snake Theme here, people. WTOP's Hank Silverberg reports that a house fire in Fairfax County has claimed the lives of dozens of snakes, scorpions, and lizards that were trapped inside cages in the attic when the fire broke out. Resident Zachary Frodge had been breeding the animals, which included "non-poisonous ball pythons, corn snakes, rat snakes, Columbia red tail boa constrictors, bearded dragons and a green iguana," for sale. No humans were injured in the blaze, though the house, which is in the Alexandria section of the County, was pretty badly damaged.

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That's it. Tonight I'm either watching Conan the Barbarian to see James Earl Jones turn into a snake, or Escape from New York to see Kurt Russell turn into Snake Plissken.

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"I've had it with these motherf**kin' snakes on this motherf**kin' plane!"

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No, in this case it should be "I've had it with these m-f- snakes on this m-f- website!"

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At least there were no geckos. Me and my gecko would have been sad if any of his distant relatives met a fiery end. But non-poisonous ball pythons and boa constrictors ... the world really doesn't need any more of those.

I want a pet snake and I want to name it Molly.

hmmm... tastes like chicken

Snakes bite cheetahs. I hates snakes.

My one-eyed viper was burning once, but penicillin took care of that.

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Where's Paul Reubens when you need him?

See, you write snake, but all I see when I read it is Peter Nickles.

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