Daddy Long Legs are not the Most Venomness Creature

bigmouse64 · 17 Sep 2007 at 18:50

The one with wings I always call a dragonfly, and the one without is a daddy long-legs. My brother calls them a dandy long-legs, he's stuoooopid.

azzerz · 17 Sep 2007 at 19:02

Gilly said:
Since when has a daddy longlegs had wings? Fools.

Thats a jimmy spinner/crane fly.

thats not a daddy longlegs??

Gilly · 17 Sep 2007 at 20:02

azzerz said:
thats not a daddy longlegs??

I'm glad we agree

Wicksta · 17 Sep 2007 at 20:15

You do know that this is exactly how languages evolve. Gay doesn't just mean happy mmkay.

Participant · 17 Sep 2007 at 20:16

Gilly - there's no such thing as right and wrong in language. Common parlance is a good argument as it's how every single word has made it into the dictionary at the end of the day. However as far as I'm concerned a Daddy Long Legs is the weird spider as pictured above, nothing else.

So anyway - if that ****er crawls into your mouth in the night, is it actually poisonous enough to kill you if you eat it? Or is that a fib.

KNiVES · 17 Sep 2007 at 20:20

I hope people here realize I wasn't entirely being serious.

D.P. · 17 Sep 2007 at 20:33

anyway, none of the so called daddy-long legs are venomous or harmful at all.

Stupid people :rolleyes:

Lew · 17 Sep 2007 at 21:22

cheets64 said:
Daddy long legs round here, Jimmy Spinner sounds like a DJ

lol

Daddy long legs here too

Liverpool-Lad · 17 Sep 2007 at 21:27

Where did this 'jimmy spinner' nickname originate from?

It certainly made me laugh.

TaKeN · 17 Sep 2007 at 21:31

Kreeeee said:
Not in Telford.

It is here in Whixall.. roughly 7 Miles from Wem.. Which is another 7 miles to Shrewsbury

Mat · 17 Sep 2007 at 21:35

Daddy long legs.

McManicMan · 17 Sep 2007 at 21:41

never heard of a jimmy spinner?, lol, but yes we have daddy long legs and the cats love em (cranefly)

Morba · 17 Sep 2007 at 21:42

Gilly said:
It is

No it isn't. Thats a Jimmy Spinner. People incorrectly calling it that have simply wrongly taken the name for something else and applied it to the crane fly.

never in my life have i heard someone, other than you, call it a jimmy spinner.

WHAT!!! · 17 Sep 2007 at 22:15

Mr_White said:
Mythbusters did this a while ago.

OMG that so looks like Jamie hahahaha

The Myth
A Daddy long-legs spider has the most potent venom of all spiders, but is unable to pierce human skin.

The Result
A Daddy long-legs was able to bite through the skin of Adam's arm. He reported nothing more than a very mild, short-lived burning sensation. Analysis of the venom proves it does not approach the potency of the Black widow spider.

taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBu...in_Concrete.2C_Daddy_Long-legs.2C_Jet_Taxi.22

Mat · 17 Sep 2007 at 22:17

WHAT!!! said:
OMG that so looks like Jamie hahahaha

Hahaha! your name still makes me laugh

Havent seen you about in ages.

WHAT!!! · 17 Sep 2007 at 22:22

Mat said:
Hahaha! your name still makes me laugh Havent seen you about in ages.

hehe

Yeh i lost my sodding password again for awhile but thanks to werewolf for the new one

I was just browseing these forums for a good while, as always there is something to read and giggle at

mks2005 · 17 Sep 2007 at 22:29

A Daddy-Long-Legs is not a Crane Fly.

Cyber-Mav · 17 Sep 2007 at 22:42

is "daddy long legs" the official term for these?

Malt_Vinegar · 17 Sep 2007 at 23:45

Cranefly = Daddy Long Legs

Nitefly · 17 Sep 2007 at 23:47

May wikipedia forever bury the arguement (Which I have been pushing

):

Numerous other common names have been applied to the crane fly, many of them more or less regional, including, mosquito hawks, mosquito eaters (or skeeter eaters), gallinippers, gollywhoppers, and jimmy spinners. In the United Kingdom they are commonly referred to as daddy long-legs, but this name can also refer to two unrelated arthropods: members of the arachnid order Opiliones (especially in the United States) and the cellar spider Pholcidae (especially in Australia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly