The black widow….
This spider, one of only a few poisonous spiders in the USA, can be found all over the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The spider releases a neurotoxin into the victim that, if not treated, can cause death!
The black widow hooks-up with the male then sucks the very life out of him after mating!
She’s very easy to spot…
The female has a very wide backside, is black, and has a red hour glass shaped marking on her belly….
You can find this spider in:
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Closets
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Wood piles
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Under beds
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And soon……
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THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!
Thanks Gene
This is actually really inappropriate and not really very funny. I am of the opinion it be removed because this site is so much better than that.
Love this!!!!
We call them Redbacks down here in OZ. We get them everywhere. Under your toilet lid (check before you go!), in the shed, in your shoes, everywhere. Man, you have to check everything before you touch it.
Although I’m not sure who the woman is. Nice dress though.
I found this incredibly awful. It implies that soon Michelle Obama will become a widow. And this is aside from the racist undertones as well. Let’s hope it doesn’t come true, but yuck. I just lost lots of respect for this website and I check it everyday.
Oh no. This was humor? I wish I scrolled thru to the pic of Michelle. When I read where you can find them, I dumped gasoline all over my house and burned it down – that should kill ’em.
Oh. Humor. I get it now.
I need a room for a couple of days…
This was in poor enough taste that I may never visit the website again. I know the joke was about the color of the dress, but given the threats being made by racist idiots, the double meaning of Michelle Obama as a “black widow” was to obvious to be accidental. If this is truly the case, I can think of few things more objectionable.
‘black’ and ‘widow’- offensive and a bit racist
I heard she was going to give up the conk and go back to a fro for the inauguration.
It’s a JOKE! It’s just a play on the shape of the colors of her dress and that of the spider. That’s where the joke lies.
If stuff like this offends you then you might as well stay away. You’re not going to like what you see here.
I guess anytime anyone uses humor, or makes any kind of reference to the Obamas that isn’t positively worshipful, it will be called racist.
That’s too bad, because there is a lot of potential humor in this next administration. In any administration, actually.
(Think back, people, to what’s been said over the past 8 years about the current administration.)
This is going to be a miserable 4 years.
Oh c’mon people. Lighten up!
What a beautiful looking lady, but I don’t like the bottom half of her dress. Would’ve been good if the bottom half of the dress were all black. The red at the bottom just makes it look weird. Actually, purple or blue would look nice in that design, instead of all the red.
It IS a really unfortunate dress.
(I though it did a great job of building toward the fashion faux-paux, personally.)
I thought: gee, the spider’s hourglass looks strikingly similar to Mrs. Obama’s dress and I chuckled. I did not consider the import of the words “black” or “widow” until I read the comments. I do not believe the post was intended to offend. It seems to me that some people are spending too much time looking for reasons to be offended.
Oh guys….it’s a joke and a funny one at that! It doesn’t imply anything, but perhaps a slight chuckle!
If there is ever to be any true equality, we all need to lighten up a bit and stop taking things (especially something from a HUMOROUS website) so damn seriously and STOP reading too deep into things!
i thought i had an *extremely* liberal sense of humor that gave a banana to the politically correct, but i thought this was neither funny nor appropriate … in the past couple of years i’ve been visiting nearly everyday, i’ve seen you do better.
NOT funny at all.
90% of your stuff cracks me up – even the slightly “off color” stuff that shouldn’t be laughed at, b ut instead tsk, tsk’d about.
But this?
please remove it.
Because not only do you not know Michelle Obama from your next door neighbor, it’s racist, rude, and suggestive. In a very negative tone.
Oh, GEEZ, people! Don’t you see that YOUR righteous indignation in ITSELF is RACIST! If that had been Hilary Clinton in the same dress, it wouldn’t have been a problem. I happen to like the Obama family, and I’m appalled at the violent and racist comments made against them by ignorant rednecks, but COME ON!
Jonco: this joke was funny, and if some liberal closet-racists wanna leave, I say good riddance.
LMFAO
WOW. If you use the word Black in context with a African American person, your a racist?
Your all aware its a color right? And that many many people are compared to a Black Widow, and it isn’t a euphuism for “Your black and your husbands going to be murdered thus making you a widow haha”
Let me break it down for some people: The Spider has a red hourglass shape on its belly; She has a red hourglass shape on her dress.
Funny.
Whats very sad, is if it were anyone else of a diffrent skin tone wearing the dress, nobody would be saying anything.
Theres something called reverse-racism, you know.
Better change the name of that spider species to something different than ‘black widow’ so the brownshirts aren’t offended.
What’s next? Blackbirds? Blacktop roads? Black-tie dinners? Chicago Blackhawks? The Black Hills of SD? Black coffee? Power blackout? Airplane blackboxes?
Black Holes in space?…Oh I forgot…that’s already been deemed racist – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zGRUPztc
I just don’t get people like that.
Damn, Jon, I cannot beleive you posted something like this? what were you thinking? I just want to go on record to say that ALL spiders have venom and you do those who cannot harm human an injustice by excluding them. What sort of species discrimination is this?
Just because a spider can’t hurt you doesn’t mean it isn’t posionus.
I just wish more people could understand this.
Mike F – “All spiders have venom”
Is that sarcasm or fact? Cause I need to know about the quick little black (oh god) I mean really really really totally dark gray one living up in a corner of my shower…
I think he’s staring at me…
Everyone….lighten up….it’s just HUMOR. You liberal freaks made SO much fun of GW Bush and Sarah Palin, just to name a couple. Now we get a chance to have a laugh…BIG DEAL.
By the way…it’s quite obvious the red hourglass image on the dress was PHOTOSHOPPED onto her image.
DJ….thank you for pointing that out…just because someone mentions the word BLACK…..lookout – we’re being insensitive RACISTS!!! I’m white and I experience reverse racism every DAY. Was my great-great grandfather a slave owner? NO, he was out there picking cotton with the rest of the non-slave owners. Do I feel personal guilt or shame for the plight of the negroes, or owe anyone an apology? NO. Slavery was (and still is) an unfortunate and shameful act. Blacks these days are still raising their children to hate all whites….give it a rest already. Teach them the history, but for crying out loud, give it a rest.
Topflite,
I was right there making light of Bush and Palin and McCain also… and I caught Hell for that too. I been sent stuff about Obama that I haven’t posted that was negative. But that’s not the reason I didn’t post it. I didn’t find anything funny about it. This…. I thought was funny… and still do.
I voted for Obama, but he’s going to catch Hell here if it’s funny. I don’t care. Nobody is sacred here.
To those who want to take every word literally… BLACK … WIDOW…. then take the rest of it literally too. That way, if she becomes a widow it’s because she “sucked the life out of her mate”. Nobody assassinated him. If we’re so damn literal, why aren’t we up in arms about her fatal sucking style? Give this shit a rest.
Geeez!
This just goes to prove that it is going to be very difficult to crack wise about the incoming administration. The set up was kind of funny, but the pay-off leaves a lot to be desired.
We can be offensive about ANY white person we want in the government, BUT WE SAY ONE WORD ABOUT A BLACK PERSON and everybody goes INSANE. It wasn’t even about her skin color, it was about the dress she was wearing. People are too damn touchy!
Believe me, no one would even think about wanting her to become a widow. I can’t stand the thought having a holiday in Barack’s honor in my lifetime along with all the monuments and memorials, etc, etc. Long live Obama. HHHhhhhhhhh.
I have to admit that as soon as she stepped out on that dress, both my wife and I commented on how the dress resembeled a black widow spider. I really don’t see how this could offend anyone. If she was wearing yellow we might have said it looked like Big Bird. I’m still going to come back, Jonco.
Gosh, I can’t stand you PC assholes.
Jonco –
I completely agree with you….if its funny, doggone it, post it on here! No one is sacred…there’s humor in almost everything. I’m just sick and tired of blacks and white liberals getting their panties all in a wad anytime blacks are portrayed stereotypically. Hell, rednecks are too. And regular white-collar caucasians too…Mexicans…Vietnamese…you name it. No one is sacred. The time has come when blacks can no longer blame things or claim to be oppressed by “the man” because “the man” is a 1/3 black, 1/3 arab, 1/3 caucasian president named Barack Hussein Obama.
Keep the funny stuff coming. Thanks for letting me vent.
Jonco didn’t make her wear the dress. Why not go to the source and attack the designer Narciso Rodriguez or even Mrs. Obama who willingly put the thing on?
I’m pretty cool about jokes that push the envelope, but I do agree that this was tasteless. I’m not gonna get my panties in a bunch, but I do have to say that this will go down as one of the least funny things I’ve seen on this site over the year (years maybe?) that I’ve been coming to this site.
To those that don’t understand why someone would be insulted, just imagine if someone wrote a joke about 9/11 in a similar fashion. Some of us may even find it funny, but understand that some won’t and never will find that sort of humor funny nor appropriate.
Much in the same fashion some people won’t ever find crude jokes about Jesus funny either.
not funny.
i’m deleting my bookmark for this website.
not funny.
Right on, Sander!
I’d just like to point out that a strong majority of the posters in this thread are talking about how it’s stupid that people get offended by something like this…those who expressed offense are in the minority. So let’s stop talking about them like they’re in the majority, and let’s stop lumping those of us Liberals who DID laugh in with the high-and-mighty. I actually CAMPAIGNED for the guy, and gave money to the campaign…and I thought this was really funny.
This was hilarious. For those of you who are offended, I’d like you to know that it never occurred to me that the word black in black widow stood for her being black, and the word widow did not predict anything about her becoming a widow. To me this was all about the dress.
I first saw the dress on Election Night and didn’t care for it at all. for me, it was just putting two and two together and I realized why it wasn’t a pleasant visual design.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, let the we are all racist comments start,geez I look forward to pissing off the liberals about the messiah its almost funny anything can be said about Bush but nothing can be said about the messiah proof that liberalism is a mental problem for which there is no cure and take the PC sh*t and shove it,I have been bitten by the spider,not the woman two times I can tell you its a day of feeling like sh*t,but only fatal to babies or older people,zzzzz
This is also a joke, what will last longer Obama or a turkey, all bets are off. I laughed but soon realized the poor turkey is gonna be gone by thursday.
She has ugly legs (and that has nothing to do with race!).
RIGHT ON, INFIDEL!!!
It’s funny (that’s funny “Peculiar”, not funny “Ha-Ha”) that they can bash Bush for 8 years but nobody can say anything about the anointed one. Face it, lib’s – – you won. Let us have the same kind of fun that you had when Gore & Kerry lost. As the Carpenters sang: “We’ve Only Just Begun”!
Be realistic – – she DOES have a big butt!
Note: You missed Arizona as one of the states in which it can be found, Jonco.
Didn’t like this one.
I’m just wondering how long it will take the FBI to start monitoring this blog!
DJ,
Yeppers, all spider come armed. 99.99% of them do not have either enough venom or strong enough venom to affect large critters like us people.
But they are still spiders even though they are different.
And that one in your shower?
If hasn’t died laughing yet I would just leave it be.
I am curious how all this got so out of hand. It’s not a slight against race but more so over the design of a dress.
It is nice to see the left wing has the same sort of knee jerk reaction to humor as the right wing people.
Jon, I have to point this out publically, but every time you poke at these people they jump through the hoop on cue. It’s like they were trained or something.
I’m interested in having someone point out exactly how any of this is racist in nature. Moreover, I’d like to see someone do it without resorting to a bunch of emotional whining about how evil Jon and the rest of us are for thinking it was funny.
And by the way, I thought it was funny because of the dress.
If the FBI wants to moniter me, or what i write, they can have at it with a will. I need the hits on my blog.
With legs bow’d like that…she couldn’t stop a pig in a passage…
bitch is pigeon-toed, I bet she bobs her head when she walks
Oh good grief people, LIGHTEN UP! I voted for Obama and I still think this is funny. The whole point that I got was that her dress choice looked like that spider. I never thought while reading it or after reading it that it was racist or sexist or whatever term you want to give to it. That’s one of the problems today- everybody gets so damn offended by every little damn thing.
I LOVE your blog!
ABOUT AS FUNNY AS CANCER OF THE COCK, YOU RACIST REDNECK INBRED HICK TWAT
SORRY I MEANT TWATS. YOU’RE ALL DOOOOOOMED!!!!!