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13. Reminds me of another episode -- San Francisco, maybe 20 years ago. House sitting for friend.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 06:00 PM
16 hrs ago

The Sunday paper gets delivered and includes an article about a rattlesnake bite. (Alcohol was involved. Probably a lot of it.)

At a picnic with friends, another hero encounters a rattler. Being fearless, he picks it up, and holds it by the neck and middle, looking the snake directly into it's eyes Maybe even, he looked into the snakes's eyes and saw that his soul was good, like when Georgie Bush looked into Putin's eyes that time -

Anyways, the snake stuck out its tongue at our hero. To return the insult, our hero stuck out his tongue back at him, which was summarily bitten. His tongue swelled up and he suffocated.

A Darwin Award needs the awardee to have no descendants so I don't know if he was so awarded. However, an honorable mention was surely merited.

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