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We went to the movies tonight & they showed a preview of an upcoming "Anacondas" movie. The clip showed a scene w/ huge snakes everywhere & a character saying "it's breeding season". I told my hubby- "no worries then, they won't be eating if they're breeding!" I bet Hollywood hates the herp community because of things like this! LOL
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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby
0.1 Hog Island Boa Isaboa
1.3.0 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.4 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John & Helmut Newton
1.1.0 cats Gus & Mena

My wife rented the first anaconda movie for me even though it's the last thing I ever wanted to see.My sister a few years back went to a rattlesnake round up and brought me back a mounted rattlesnake.I wanted to choke the living sh$t out of her.Not to mention my wife's gift of canned rattlesnake.Non herp people gotta love them,or at least try to tolerate them....Paul

Seen the anaconda movie...it was interesting but completely unlikely that a real anaconda would behave in the way that snake did. I also doubt it would pursue it's prey that relentlessly.

Though I have to agree, non herp people can't seem to understand why having a pet you can't 'pet' is cool. My friends who don't own/like reptiles can't understand why I do and I can't seem to give them a logical reason, though my reasons seem logical to me. Heck one friend can't even understand spending $150 on a reptile when you can get cats/dogs for free. My answer then was pretty much, why get what everybody else has, tends to cause more problems than they are worth at times when I can get something 90% of the populate won't have and about 50% never heard of.

Not only do I complain about reptiles that are suposed to be in the wild, in movies, but have no business being in that part of the world, but I also complain about movies where I see the actors playing cops and they too do all kinds of wrong things. Last night I was watching a movie where a doctor was checking on people who were suspected of having a very deadly illness and I complained as he never changed his gloves from person to person.
So I guess I'm a geek too LOL
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

that dominates the herp world. I also tend to notice other errors in movies, like the dr. not changing his gloves. One of my most dominant personality features is that I'm detail-oriented & tend to retain obscure facts in my head, sharing them with the surprised people around me.
What characteristics do you all have that you think might also be common to other herpers?
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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby
0.1 Hog Island Boa Isaboa
1.3.0 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.4 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John & Helmut Newton
1.1.0 cats Gus & Mena

Not only misplaced animals and incorrect procedures, but when supposedly intelligent characters do something that makes you say "that was stupid - why didn't they just do this", etc. I think part of the reason I hate it is because we have all seen so many TV shows and movies about so many subjects that we have little real experience with. When you see things repeatedly presented as reality, it is difficult to really and truly understand that it is only fiction. For instance, I have some experience in the natural world and in the health field, so I can often see the mistakes there. But I have no experience in many other fields. Example: I have seen LOTS of court type shows and movies, but have no firsthand experience. So I would have to tell myself not to expect my media "experience" to be real if I ever have to be involved with the system in real life. But if the media is my only experience, I think it would be difficult not to somehow expect it be similar to what I have seen, no matter what I tell myself. And many people may not think to tell themselves anything at all.

That is the downside of these silly reptile "monster" movies. WE all know how goofy they are, and most thinking people will realize it is all fiction. But if they have no exposure to real herps, they will have no basis to know how much is fiction and how much is taken from some real live reptiles.

Sorry to be so long winded, but it really irritates me to pay good money for a movie and see people doing really stupid things.

I've been a cop for 9 months now, have arrested over 200 people, and only read the Miranda rights to two people. Ya know that "Right to remain silent, right to an attorney" thing you here everyone say on all those shows? Yep, twice. Good times.

AJ

p.s. I'm not a bad cop, you don't have to say those things if you don't intend to ask them any questions!
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1.0 Hypo Okeetee - Wesley (Princess Bride)
0.1 Ghost - Sydney (Scream)
2.0 Striped Amel - Jay and Aiden (Kevin Smith movies)
1.0 Snow - Silent Bob (Kevin Smith movies)
0.1 Anery - Columbia (Rocky Horror)
1.0 Creamcicle - Brandon (Mallrats)
0.1 Zig Zag Anery - Pepper (didn't name her)
0.1 Normal - Bindy (Croc. Hunter)
0.1 Motley - Craven (Underworld)

np.

I tend to have almost a photographic type memory when it comes to many things, including obscure fact, names, address (which bad guys seem to fine very scary) and just about anything along these lines. My trigger is based on visual stimulation, which is why I will forget every time when my wife calls and asks me to bring something home from work LOL!
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com