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Arachnophilia

Jacob Sullum | 9.9.2004 3:39 AM

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If only Alan Hale were still around to help us wage the War on Spiders.

[Thanks to Nicolas Martin for the link.]

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).

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  1. joe   22 years ago

    "Opposition politicians said the prison records showed prisons were like "holiday farms"

    Uh, yeah, sounds like Club Med.

  2. Ruthless   22 years ago

    I just hope those spiders are not being roughly handled as their venom is taken from them.

  3. crimethink   22 years ago

    Errrmmm... I think Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys would have been a more fitting pop-culture reference. But that was a great episode of mst3k.

  4. Sarnath   22 years ago

    Errrmmm... I think Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys would have been a more fitting pop-culture reference. But that was a great episode of mst3k.

    Clearly, a Volkswagen Beetle with some legs on it so it appears like a big spider trumps Willis.

  5. s.a.m.   22 years ago

    Quick! Someone get Pamela Andersen over there to protest Spider milking! (She may even get some respect from a captive audience.)

  6. Todd Fletcher   22 years ago

    Hey, watch what you say about The Giant Spider Invasion - it had the first topless scene my innocent early teen eyes had the joy of seeing.

  7. hmm   22 years ago

    The redback is related to the black widow, of which I know a bit. I cannot believe anyone would inject that - even diluted - without having one seriously masochist streak.

  8. Mark S.   22 years ago

    TOPLESS SCENE??? I saw the MST3K version of Giant Spider Invasion, but I do remember the redneck girl running around in her skivvies while the Volkswagen... I mean, the spider attacked her. Curse you Sci-Fi Channel censors! Curse you to the pits of tartaras!

    Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnce!

  9. Sarnath   22 years ago

    TOPLESS SCENE??? I saw the MST3K version of Giant Spider Invasion, but I do remember the redneck girl running around in her skivvies while the Volkswagen... I mean, the spider attacked her. Curse you Sci-Fi Channel censors! Curse you to the pits of tartaras!

    Well, you assume that the topless person was the redneck girl, not the redneck wife. The censors might have been doing you a favor.

  10. Mark S.   22 years ago

    It could have been worse... It could have been the redneck farmer in his truss.

  11. Sarnath   22 years ago

    Btw, they weren't rednecks; GSI took place in Wisconsin. You may be confusing it with Squirm, another hideous example of rustic MST3K fodder.

    Oh, Wisconsin. That means they're hicks, right?

  12. crimethink   22 years ago

    Clearly, a Volkswagen Beetle with some legs on it so it appears like a big spider trumps Willis.

    Ah, but 12M featured Willis eating a spider while in prison...

  13. Nike Melson   22 years ago

    TOPLESS SCENE??? I saw the MST3K version of Giant Spider Invasion, but I do remember the redneck girl running around in her skivvies while the Volkswagen...

    Don't you remember the scene where I said, "The spiders are using all eight of their eyes now..."

  14. crimethink   22 years ago

    Btw, they weren't rednecks; GSI took place in Wisconsin. You may be confusing it with Squirm, another hideous example of rustic MST3K fodder.

  15. Hammer   22 years ago

    mmm... I'm from Wisconsin... We're not all hicks. Some are wiggas... Scary, eh?

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