Posted on 06/16/2016 3:38:49 AM PDT by C19fan
What do you do when you witness your house being broken into by a freakishly huge monitor lizard? Record the whole incident down of course.
Attanai Thaiyuanwong was in for a rude surprise on Sunday when he arrived back at his home in Nonthaburi, Thailand, to find an unwelcome visitor trying to get into his house.
The intruder was a giant monitor lizard, that looked as tall as an adult human, was standing upright on its hind legs with its mouth around the door knob.
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Sublet to him and move to a better neighborhood.
Roy Rogers would have had him with the first toss of the loop.
I would D-I-E!!!
The video is a real thigh-slapper.
The monitor lizard has a look that I can only describe as, “OH SH*T!”
The dog is barking, people are non-stop talking, and when the poor lizard moves his tail everyone shrieks.
Sound: Knock, knock, knock.
Woman: [speaking through closed door] Yes?
Voice: (mumbling) Mrs. Arlsburgerhhh?
Woman: Who?
Voice: (mumbling) Mrs. Johannesburrrr?
Woman: Who is it?
Voice: [pause] Flowers.
Woman: Flowers for whom?
Voice: [long pause] Plumber, ma’am.
Woman: I don’t need a plumber. You’re that clever shark, aren’t you?
Voice: [pause] Candygram.
Woman: Candygram, my foot! You get out of here before I call the police! You’re the shark, and you know it!
Voice: Wait. I-I’m only a dolphin, ma’am.
Woman: A dolphin? Well... Okay. [opens door]
Should never have married it in the first case. Thai divorse courts are brutal.
How did he “almost lose” his home? I guess there’s no news on Trump so someone normally assigned to him got to write it.
Throw a coin at it?
If my wife had suggested that, I would have thrown her at it.
Candygram
Probably because that's the first word that comes out of your mouth when a dinosaur knows how to open a door!! Look up in pilot terminology; "JC maneuver" LOL!
Fire up the barby we have a guest to eat.
Lizard for Dinner.
The Australian monitor lizard - more commonly called the goanna – has an important place in Aboriginal culture and medicine and in Australian folklore. It also, apparently, makes good eating. The tail is said to be the best part, and - not surprisingly- is said to taste like chicken, or like fish, or ‘sweeter and more juicy than rabbit.’
The simplest bush recipe for cooking goanna was to roast it in the ashes, so that that when the ashes were brushed off, the skin came with it, and the flesh was then ready to eat. By the time of the Perth newspaper’s bush recipes competition in 1938 (mentioned yesterday), there was less of the bush and more of the French kitchen about goanna tail recipes, as the following competition entries show:
Goanna Tail.
Scald and skin the tail of a goanna. Cut into three-inch slices. Dip in egg and bread crumbs, and fry quickly to a golden brown. Olive oil is the best to fry in, but some do not like the flavour of olives.
Goanna Tail with Parsley Sauce.
Skin tail and cut into small pieces. Place in a saucepan, and just cover with water. Cook till tender. Make parsley sauce as follows:-Boil one pint of water, throw into it one tablespoon finely minced parsley and half a teaspoonful of salt. Then add two ounces flour, mixed to smooth paste in a gill of water. Stir over fire until it thickens. Break into it one or two ounces of butter. Put cooked tail into this, and serve hot.
Quotation for the Day.
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
Morley Safer.
(Note: he did not say “The Washington Post.” ;)
http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2011/04/lizard-for-dinner.html?m=1
Monitor lizards that are pets can be taught to follow verbal orders from their owners, just like dogs. Of course these are taught to follow directions from when they are small, and not adult jumbo-sized monitors.
The reptile brain is quite different from the mammalian brain and I suspect they learn better when young. Then again, there is that old saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”
Still, the possibility of a monitor lizard screen saver remains intriguing.
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