Funnel-Spinning-Spidars

[K3 V iN Cummiskey]

Speaking of spiders today I heard these girls yelling and screeming out-side my window 'bout the humongous spider-web, maybe we're in the year of the dogged spiders.


--- On Thu, 9/4/08, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: "spidery" - Word of the Day from the OED
> To: kevincummiskey at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 12:29 AM
> I was bitten by a spider today (fortunately, no brown
> recluse in my neck of the woods, but unfortunately, no
> spidey power emerged); oddly, I'd been
> "researching" (i.e., looking at gross pictures on
> the internet) spider bites the day prior due to the sudden
> onslaught of funnel-spinning spiders in my basement ...
> perhaps spidey precog powers were already in place ...
> 
> Oh, wait ... the word was "spidery", not
> "spidey".
> 
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 (21:06:15 -0700),
> kevincummiskey at yahoo.com wrote:
> > does OED really need to take up 18 inches of my screen
> to describe spidery, these people need a life
> 
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