That's always going to be because folks once again, a snake-bitten gun-shy from the last time.
When I was a child, every county fair, and every carnival had a snake oil salesman.
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There Walter meets Phyllis Nirdlinger, a housewife with the survival instincts of a snake.
They look as a cross between a snake and a frog and some alien creature.
When you want to kill a snake you have to strike it squarely on the heart.
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"Hi, " I said extending my hand, whereupon Jerry Lee withdrew his like a snake'd bit it.
One of them tries to charm me by touching me with a talisman, a snake head.
"It sounds like a snake oil project, I know, " said Simmons at a reception in Houston Tuesday night.
As skinny as she is, she suddenly becomes a mass of seething flesh, as sinuous as a snake.
The two farmers, identified as Hukkul Khan (a snake charmer) and Ramkul Ram, have not yet been apprehended.
"You don't have to form a snake-killing committee to kill a snake, " says Thomas Zimmerman, the plant's UAW chairman.
Also there's a 95 percent chance that you'll be eaten by a snake.
However, those born in a snake year are said to be "charming and popular", according to China Daily.
So discovering a snake slithering around the bottom of our raft was not exactly my idea of a fun excursion.
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This doesn't happen often in the wild says Clark, because squirrels possess a "remarkable ability" to dodge a snake attack.
And as soon as someone with a phobia of snakes actually touched a snake in that room, they were fine.
It's a sequence of events, an inexorable chain reaction where each small link is fundamental, like a snake of upended dominoes.
So we're basically trying to cut the head off a snake - but the body is so damned long, it's unbelievable.
They told me about the hazards of the job, which included having a snake jump out at you from between the rocks.
Mr. Payne contributed the first feature: a snake run, or bumpy concrete rut that starts shallow and opens into a deep bowl.
"I will not be in the clubhouse with a snake, " Maddon said.
If it is a snake I'll tame it, and it will follow me everywhere, and I'll let it sleep round my neck at night.
Lu Maw compares the military government's move toward civilian rule to a snake shedding its skin - in the end it's still a snake.
Then, having observed Katia, he slid forward like a snake because he did not want to step on a sharp rock or a pine cone.
Then he'd have the person stand in front of a two-way mirror looking into the room where a friend of theirs was holding a snake.
Mel built a snake house and the couple never looked back.
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Indeed, if superstitious, take into account that Ancient Chinese wisdom advises a Snake in the house because it protects you and and your family from starving.
The Sun says voters liken him to a snake, although Downing Street aides point out the other options in the survey included a poodle and a lizard.
Like a snake lying in wait, earnings growth for the tech sector in the Year of the Snake is going to strike where the market least expects it.
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At present, Superbot units respond to direct instructions, such as to form legs and climb a hill or reconfigure into a snake-like shape to go through a pipe.
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