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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Another of my mishearings, or someone else’s mis-speakings. I’d certainly prefer to be bitten by the verminous variety should there be any choice in the matter. Oddly enough vermin is derived, via various tongues and guises, from the Latin vermis, meaning worm or serpent. So that’s a snakey snake then.
The black mambo is rated the dangerous verminous snake in the world.
We have 10 of the most verminous snakes out here we are just so lucky.
I hate snakes, we have the most verminous snakes in the world, in Australia.
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This also makes me wonder whether some people think that vermin are venomous.
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