On Monday, since I still didn’t have any power, I decided to take down some storm windows to let some light in my house. After laying one of the metal sheets on the ground, a brightly colored creature crawled out from under it. It was a snake colored red, yellow, and black. I knew it was either the venomous coral snake or the harmless king snake, but forgot how to tell the difference. I vowed then and there that, once I learned how to tell them apart, I would make sure to never forget again.
I decided the best way to remember things, despite my poor singing abilities, was a song. So, that night, after getting info from SarahK, by candlelight I wrote a song about it.
Want to hear it?
Here it goes…
Coral vs. King Snake Song
Could I possibly be first for achange?
Wish I could hear it, but I just got like this gibberish HTML code that looks heiroglyphics except not. Lol.
Franks best impersonation of Stephen Hawking yet!
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
now i will have this song in my head the rest of the day.
Must find snake to test new knowledge….
Frank, old boy. You need to do a music video with SarahK doing funky backups.
Hahahah!
HAHAHAH!
Hahahah!
HAHAHAH!
WOOOOOOOO funny stuff.
Great song! You’re the next Sinatra, Frank… Er – I mean Frank, you’re the next Sinatra, not you’re the next Sinatra comma Frank. Pretty much I’m saying you’ll be like Sinatra, Frank, but his name is also Frank, which is why I’m confused.
Rarr! Getting funky code again! This sucks! Urge to get new computer getting stronger… Must pay of Best Buy purchase for camcorder first, and some of the Mastercard bill! Fu– udge….!!!
Yer girlfriend is hot
Oh,
And the problem with the Coral Snakes, is that they do not have the Diamond shaped head like other poisonous snakes that lets you know that they are poisonous. So until you figure out the difference, run like hell when you see one, or shoot the F*ck out of it until it is Snake puree!
Red touch black, poison lack
Red touch yellow, kill a fellow.
But I think American Idol better watch out for Frank J.
If you can get close enough, you can look at the eyes. Non-poisonous snakes have round pupils like we do, but poisonous ones have verticle slits like that most evil of all creatures, the cat.
Was that Chomps singing? or you, Frank?
Led Boots,
Yep, pretty much.
You know, it was the “Shebang” that really brought that song home for me.
Is there some way to prevent ever having to listen to something like this again in the future? Clasping the coral snake to my breast would be less painful. Oops that was an asp wasn’t it.
I honestly thought a chimpanzee rapper had escaped from the zoo.
led boots & frank, 🙂
i heart your song, frank.
hehehe, that was a laugh I needed. nice work, frank
Red and black, friend of Jack
Red and yellow, kill a fellow.
…is how I’ve heard it.
How about putting the song into a normal audio format, such as MP3 or WAV? Even Ogg-Vorbis would be better than WMA. :-/
…and that’s Frankj, going to the top of the charts with a bullet (large caliber of course!)
Maybe next time you could give us a little Sinal Tap.
“Big Bottom! Big Bottom. Talk about bum cakes my babes got ’em!”
Frank….please stick do drawing cartoons…
The easiest is, coral snakes have a black nose.
[sniff] That was beautiful, Frank dear. Simply beautiful. Made all the more beautiful when I take your dire situation into consideration.
If it bites you and you survive, it’s a king snake.
If it bites you and you die, it’s a coral snake.
See, it’s easy.
dat shit was tight yo.
King snake? King snakes are black and maybe yellow, no red at all.
Milk snakes look like coral snakes.
Not to confuse the issue, but it also could have been a Florida scarlet snake, also.
Did the red and black strips go all around the body?
I’m shaking my head. That was VERY funny.
I quote Rod (or was it Todd) From the Simpsons, “Oh, my frikkin ears.”
Frank said gay – HA.
Seriously, I want that minute and 33 seconds of my life back – NOW!
/cowers in fear
I’m from the upper mid-west and even EYE could have told them apart-see spetiams post.smirk If you had to “get” a poisonous snake, a coral snake was better than most. they’ll go out of their way to AVOID people. Glad your encounter turned out well.
Barb
sorry, who can keep this poem straight when under stress anyhow??
Black and yellow, kill a fellow, black and red, you be dead.
Anything you don’t understand, kill it.
good song by the way. thankyewthankyewverrymuch
Anybody ever tell you that you sing like Jed Clampett? 😛
that was seriously cute.
We also need songs for identifying aquatic life forms. Songs like this one:
Oh, what kind of an eel
Is long, brown, with big teeth,
It’s a Moray!
It’s a Moray!
Don’t quit your day job (presuming you have one). I learned that the bad snake always has a black nose. I better go look that up before one of the red nosed ones kills me.
“Interesting” song there. The standard short version:
Red on black, you’re ok Jack.
Red on yellow will kill a fellow.
Proceed.
To the tune of “That’s Amore”:
When you’re wading in a creek
and an eel bites your cheek
That’s a moray!
Yeah, poor singing ability sure does cover it
coral snakes do usually go out of their way to avoid people. another help is that they usually can’t bite through human skin in one fell swoop. they need to chew, since their mouths are too small and their teeth (or fangs, or whatever the hell they’re called in snakes) aren’t long enough to puncture the skin.
or so i was told by the army. i can’t say that is knowledge gleaned from personal experience.