{"id":26346,"date":"2020-06-12T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26346"},"modified":"2020-06-12T09:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:17:40","slug":"when-life-gives-you-a-snake-skeleton-make-snake-skeleton-quips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/when-life-gives-you-a-snake-skeleton-make-snake-skeleton-quips\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Gives You A Snake Skeleton, Make Snake Skeleton Quips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other evening driving out of Nogglestead, we frightened a couple of turkey vultures from their bounty at the end of the driveway.  I assumed the hawks had gotten and dropped another bird, but when I went to the mailbox on foot, I saw what they had been picking at.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/snakeskeleton.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I wondered if it might be the remains of the famous Ozarkian <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/25\/have-a-nightmare-on-me\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">giant carnivorous, venomous centipedes<\/a>, but it&#8217;s actually a snake skeleton.  Given that it&#8217;s picked pretty clean, they probably dragged an old skeleton out of the ditch to pick at.<\/p>\n<p>But when presented with a snake skeleton, of course I had to take a picture and put a wry comment on Facebook.  But a snake skeleton yields more quips than a single Facebook post could provide.<\/p>\n<p>Think of this as a multiple choice quiz.  Try to guess the quip I actually went with on Facebook and post your own in the comments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can anyone identify this kind of snake?  It kind of looks like a diamond-backed water snake, but I&#8217;m not sure.<\/li>\n<li>Does anyone need a snake skeleton?  I have an extra.<\/li>\n<li>When snake is served at Nogglestead, not a scrap goes to waste!<\/li>\n<li>For proper snake broth, remember to simmer the snake carcass for two hours or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strangely enough, there&#8217;s enough boy in me yet that I have the urge to do something with the skeleton other than toss it in the ditch on the other side of the road.  Instead, I will probably ignore it until it gets crushed by passing cars or disappears&#8211;possibly due to the intervention of actual boys present in the household.  I&#8217;ll let you know if I find it in their rooms in a couple years when cleaning them after they move out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other evening driving out of Nogglestead, we frightened a couple of turkey vultures from their bounty at the end of the driveway. I assumed the hawks had gotten and dropped another bird, but when I went to the mailbox on foot, I saw what they had been picking at. I wondered if it might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26348,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions\/26348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}