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.
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.
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.
That's because the U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to pack each one with acetaminophen, the generic equivalent of Tylenol, which can kill a snake in 72 hours.
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