When you’re a terrifying, deadly monster, and somebody wants to cuddle you, that’s confusing. Scary, too – because, what kind of terrible monster isn’t afraid of poisonous, venomous, fire-breathing lizards?
We, of course, know that the answer is ‘The BEST kind’ 🙂
…If the power of love and friendship (and being poison proof) winds up winning over the Axolotls, Unity needs to get a transformation sequence.
(TUNE: “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas”, John Rox)
I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
They look as if they’d be a lot of fun!
These would appear
That they’ve been zombified …
We’ll analyze ’em later if we somehow haven’t died!
I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
You never said I couldn’t keep just one!
They’re closing in,
Our situation’s dire …
They’re poisonous and venomous and full of napalm fire!
Now we’re stranded in an alternate
And strange reality!
A dimension parallel
That’s a little slice of hell
And where an ax-o-lo-tl’s toasting me!
I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
If you’ll agree, I might be keeping two!
Don’t want a pup
Or kitten I can coddle
I only want
Mutant axolotl!
Who isn’t tame, so lotsa flame he’ll spew!
Oooh! Now *I* want to keep a Mutant Axolotl! And not just because the original singer of “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas” lives down the road from me!
OK, if you’ll pardon my ignorance here, I always figured “venomous” was just a subset of “poisonous,” but Sweetheart and Sergio seem to be using those terms in some other way. Am I missing something? Do biologists (or whoever) use those terms to mean different things?
[Pauses, thinks a moment]
Or is it that “venomous” means it’ll poison you if it bites you, whereas “poisonous” means it’ll poison you if you bite it?
which means, as one isn’t going to eat the axolotls, being poisonous is a bit of a non-issue. Although, hypothetically, I suppose something can be so poisonous that one can be poisoned by touching or breathing it’s fumes. Maybe. I *think* venomous also refers to a method of transfering and/or storing a specific poison, or venom, whereas as being poisonous simply means one is itself the poison. There are many poisonous frogs but I read recently of the first discovery of a venomous frog that release toxins through spiny barbs on its skin. Both are harmful if you touch them but the poisonous frogs are themselves toxic but the venomous frog has venom reserves.
Then again, I might not know what I’m talking about.
The distinction for poisonous vs. venomous is roughly what you said: A venom is injected into the target, while a poison is (usually) ingested. That said, there are poisons that are absorbed through the skin or mucus membranes.
The other way to think of it is that a venom is an active attack that requires the breaking of the target’s skin, while a poison is a passive attack that does not.
Now the difference may seem unimportant, but it does matter. Most venoms aren’t poisonous: Provided you don’t have any cuts in your mouth/throat or ulcers in your stomach you can drink most venoms without any ill effect. Poisons, meanwhile, tend to still be problematic if they get under your skin in any way, shape, or form.
I would think the “dead and full of swamp vegetation” bit would tend to cancel out the fire-breathing, but it’s best not to assume in these sort of situations.
Awwww! I want to see Unity in a zombie axolotl hat now!
That axolotl does not look happy Unity caught it
It looks both confused and scared
Which is weird
Is it because she is The Destroyer?
When you’re a terrifying, deadly monster, and somebody wants to cuddle you, that’s confusing. Scary, too – because, what kind of terrible monster isn’t afraid of poisonous, venomous, fire-breathing lizards?
We, of course, know that the answer is ‘The BEST kind’ 🙂
…If the power of love and friendship (and being poison proof) winds up winning over the Axolotls, Unity needs to get a transformation sequence.
I want to see UNITY with a horde of new pets!
Hmm, too bad she can’t aerosolize herself…
Have you considered working for Anasigma? We- er, they- would value an employee capable of such ideas.
I’d never meet the shoeshine requirements.
You can telecommute!
…which, of course, means something totally different in anasigma
Would axolotl zombies want axolotl brains? ‘Cause when it’s humans (even Unity) it’s human brains…
My copy of Volume 5 came!
Axolotyl brains probably grow back…
(TUNE: “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas”, John Rox)
I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
They look as if they’d be a lot of fun!
These would appear
That they’ve been zombified …
We’ll analyze ’em later if we somehow haven’t died!
I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
You never said I couldn’t keep just one!
They’re closing in,
Our situation’s dire …
They’re poisonous and venomous and full of napalm fire!
Now we’re stranded in an alternate
And strange reality!
A dimension parallel
That’s a little slice of hell
And where an ax-o-lo-tl’s toasting me!
I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
If you’ll agree, I might be keeping two!
Don’t want a pup
Or kitten I can coddle
I only want
Mutant axolotl!
Who isn’t tame, so lotsa flame he’ll spew!
Oooh! Now *I* want to keep a Mutant Axolotl! And not just because the original singer of “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas” lives down the road from me!
OK, if you’ll pardon my ignorance here, I always figured “venomous” was just a subset of “poisonous,” but Sweetheart and Sergio seem to be using those terms in some other way. Am I missing something? Do biologists (or whoever) use those terms to mean different things?
[Pauses, thinks a moment]
Or is it that “venomous” means it’ll poison you if it bites you, whereas “poisonous” means it’ll poison you if you bite it?
@Andy4Hire, correct. Cobras are venomous, mushrooms are poisonous.
which means, as one isn’t going to eat the axolotls, being poisonous is a bit of a non-issue. Although, hypothetically, I suppose something can be so poisonous that one can be poisoned by touching or breathing it’s fumes. Maybe. I *think* venomous also refers to a method of transfering and/or storing a specific poison, or venom, whereas as being poisonous simply means one is itself the poison. There are many poisonous frogs but I read recently of the first discovery of a venomous frog that release toxins through spiny barbs on its skin. Both are harmful if you touch them but the poisonous frogs are themselves toxic but the venomous frog has venom reserves.
Then again, I might not know what I’m talking about.
The distinction for poisonous vs. venomous is roughly what you said: A venom is injected into the target, while a poison is (usually) ingested. That said, there are poisons that are absorbed through the skin or mucus membranes.
The other way to think of it is that a venom is an active attack that requires the breaking of the target’s skin, while a poison is a passive attack that does not.
Now the difference may seem unimportant, but it does matter. Most venoms aren’t poisonous: Provided you don’t have any cuts in your mouth/throat or ulcers in your stomach you can drink most venoms without any ill effect. Poisons, meanwhile, tend to still be problematic if they get under your skin in any way, shape, or form.
I would think the “dead and full of swamp vegetation” bit would tend to cancel out the fire-breathing, but it’s best not to assume in these sort of situations.
http://funnyjunk.com/Poisonous+vs+venomous/funny-pictures/5020190