The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
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More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you’ve got to admire the workmanship.
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I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people’s doors and running away. God that was a good game.
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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I tend to go through periods worrying, “Where am I going, I can’t see a way out of this,” and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.
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The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
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Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you’re just doing the odd appearance, you don’t know if it will carry on.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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