EnsenadaDr
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Daddy Long Legs...
Oh my son is a card...he gave me this video to watch...its so crazy but actually think about us learning Spanish...well this German guy actually
probably represents some Mexicans learning English and how funny the English language sounds to them...and German is supposed to be the closest
language to English...and Daddy Long Legs..yeah..Baja has alot of those....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsXyRVQN70U
[Edited on 11-21-2011 by EnsenadaDr]
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Bill Collector
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Now that was funny- thanks for sharing
Barb
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Skipjack Joe
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The original daddy long legs:
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Too funny - he was so serious about it! Mother Nature's creations while on coffing break!
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DEPENDS WHAT IT IS
Myth: A "daddy-longlegs" is a kind of spider.
Fact: This is a tricky one. Unfortunately, different people call completely different creatures by the "daddy" term.
Most Americans who spend time outdoors use the term for long-legged harvestmen which are ground-dwelling outdoor creatures. Harvestmen are arachnids,
but they are not spiders -- in the same way that butterflies are insects, but they are not beetles. Harvestmen have one body section (spiders have
two), two eyes on a little bump (most spiders have eight), a segmented abdomen (unsegmented in spiders), no silk, no venom, a totally different
respiratory system, and many other differences; not all have long legs.
The British, some Canadians, and some southeastern Americans use the "daddy" term for long-legged flies (crane flies, family Tipulidae) which are
insects. That usage is found in Edward Lear's famous nonsense poem "The Daddy-Longlegs and the Fly."
Finally, people who seldom venture outdoors may only have seen one long-legged arachnid, the house spider Pholcus phalangioides and use the "daddy"
term for that. So there is one "daddy-longlegs" which is a spider, and a couple of thousand species which are not spiders.
Confusing, isn't it? I think so too; in fact, it's so confusing that the "daddy" term really doesn't mean anything, and it would be better to just
forget it and say "harvestman" when you mean harvestman.
Bob Durrell
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bacquito
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
Myth: A "daddy-longlegs" is a kind of spider.
Fact: This is a tricky one. Unfortunately, different people call completely different creatures by the "daddy" term.
Most Americans who spend time outdoors use the term for long-legged harvestmen which are ground-dwelling outdoor creatures. Harvestmen are arachnids,
but they are not spiders -- in the same way that butterflies are insects, but they are not beetles. Harvestmen have one body section (spiders have
two), two eyes on a little bump (most spiders have eight), a segmented abdomen (unsegmented in spiders), no silk, no venom, a totally different
respiratory system, and many other differences; not all have long legs.
The British, some Canadians, and some southeastern Americans use the "daddy" term for long-legged flies (crane flies, family Tipulidae) which are
insects. That usage is found in Edward Lear's famous nonsense poem "The Daddy-Longlegs and the Fly."
Finally, people who seldom venture outdoors may only have seen one long-legged arachnid, the house spider Pholcus phalangioides and use the "daddy"
term for that. So there is one "daddy-longlegs" which is a spider, and a couple of thousand species which are not spiders.
Confusing, isn't it? I think so too; in fact, it's so confusing that the "daddy" term really doesn't mean anything, and it would be better to just
forget it and say "harvestman" when you mean harvestman. |
Thanks, interesting
bacquito
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