To continue the tradition of Dennis Leary to start our Weekend Fun Challenge and Billy Connolly to follow I’m posting one of my favorite of his clips from the 1980’s. In this he talks a great deal about many things and a little about some of the ‘scary’ Australian wildlife and his first introduction to the Funnel Web Spider. Now to really appreciate why he was quite so freaked out by it you need to understand what it looks like and no one who hasn’t seen it can possible understand just how freaky the little blighter’s can be, hence the charming image staring at you through eyes that have seen the coldest pits in hell and returned just to mess with us.
Female Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, (Hadronyche versuta)
Unload and Unwind 
I’ve posted this to my sister’s FB page. This is hilarious…. I love this man. Gotta go pee. 😀
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OK – the man is a laugh riot!!
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That, Jenni, is the hardest I’ve laughed in longer than I can remember. I had to keep my hand over my mouth for fear of waking the other tenants in the building. Thank You!
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Oh it is definitely chortle worthy!! 😀
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Continued watching…”If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket!” Just love this guy!
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He is chuckle worthy to say the least. Jenni
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Funny to look at his different styles throughout the years, but I could listen to him all day long…except, like Teela, I’d pee my pants! 😀
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Sad but true – very funny man but my husband says when I listen with head phones all he can hear is a woman cackling like someone out of a horror movie asylum. Rude if you ask me – true I am sure but rude to bring it up.
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ROTFLMAO!
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[indignant sniff] well yes I suppose it is funny [pout]
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I get the most immense sense of fright, when it comes to spiders. I had to strategically scroll to hide that little critter of death! However, nothing will prevent me from clicking on a Billy Connolly video, not even that critter of death. I’ve always (to this day) dubbed him my surrogate husband. I’ve no bloody right too, but it happens anyway. Great post.
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I did worry about people who had true issues with ‘the spider’ which is why I put it at the bottom so those who wanted to watch Billy Connolly could do so without being completely freaked by our Funnel Web
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Thoughtful and hilarious. It’s a good juxtaposition
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🙂
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I should clarify, the spider isn’t the one I dub as the Hub’
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I wonder for a moment – glad you enjoyed the clip if not the image.
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