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I found a Lizard in my box!

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  • 30-04-2010 12:45am
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    starbelgrade
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    I was out in the back garden today & saw a little animal in one of the plant boxes, which I thought was a frog (as we'd one living in the front garden until he met an unfortunate death with the lawnmower), but turned out to be a little lizard!

    I'd no idea where it'd come from as I'd never seen one in Ireland, but it turns out that they are native to this country.

    Here's a pic of the little blighter...

    http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/122/l_60969e13f9d4432bae23124d9750be6b.jpg

    Has anyone else seen any or known that the live here, or am I the only one who didn't know this?


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    #2
    TPD
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    A friend of mine caught a few when he was younger.


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    orourkeda
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    Very misleading thread title.

    I thought you were a chick with a lizard up her hootenanny


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    M5
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    What a thread title!!!!! little disappointed by the content tho;)


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    M5
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    Very misleading thread title.

    I thought you were a chick with a lizard up her hootenanny

    DAMN YOU!!!!


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    flas
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    looks like a newt or something is it!?


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    It's probably a newt is it?

    Opportunity to tell crap joke : A man walks into a bar one day. Barman says 'Is that a little lizard on your shoulder?'
    He says 'He's not a little lizard, he's my newt!!'


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    Sid_Justice
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous_lizard


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    orourkeda
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    Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »
    It's probably a newt is it?

    Opportunity to tell crap joke : A man walks into a bar one day. Barman says 'Is that a little lizard on your shoulder?'
    He says 'He's not a little lizard, he's my newt!!'

    Dont get it


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    starbelgrade
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    flas wrote: »
    looks like a newt or something is it!?

    Nope - it's a lizard. I googled it & apparently the Wildlife Trust are doing surveys on lizard sightings across the country. It seems that they like bogland, which would explain him being in my garden as the soil is always wet.


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    whiteboy
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    lizards are pretty f*ckin cool


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    m@cc@
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    Dont get it

    mi·nute 2 (m-nt, -nyt, m-)
    adj.
    1. Exceptionally small; tiny. See Synonyms at small.
    2. Beneath notice; insignificant.
    3. Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination: held a minute inspection of the grounds.


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    M5
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    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Minute.

    ahhhhhh of course


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    fletch...
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    could be a Common Brown Lizard ? doesnt look newty enough.
    done a google and found this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055891379


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    m@cc@
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    M5 wrote: »
    ahhhhhh of course

    Joke would work better with a salamander since a newt isn't a lizard.


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    Dont get it

    hence the crap joke bit
    'little lizard' my newt = minute :o:o


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    orourkeda
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    m@cc@ wrote: »
    mi·nute 2 (m-nt, -nyt, m-)
    adj.
    1. Exceptionally small; tiny. See Synonyms at small.
    2. Beneath notice; insignificant.
    3. Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination: held a minute inspection of the grounds.

    Yes. Thats it.


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    CathalDublin
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    BEst thread title I've seen in a while:D
    Yea I haven't seen one of them since I was a kid, knew they existed though


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    Sid_Justice
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    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Joke would work better with a salamander since a newt isn't a lizard.

    Neither is a salamander. Don't know what you're trying to say.

    Anyway, it's definitely and unequivocally a Zootoca vivipara


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    m@cc@
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    Sid_Justice wrote: »
    Neither is a salamander. Don't know what you're trying to say.

    Anyway, it's definitely and unequivocally a Zootoca vivipara

    I meant as in 'little salamander'. ;)


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    starbelgrade
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    CathalDublin wrote: »
    BEst thread title I've seen in a while:D
    Yea I haven't seen one of them since I was a kid, knew they existed though

    I preferred the one about "there's a mad squirrel in my bathroom". That was nuts.


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    #22
    Kiera
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    I found a snake in my box a few times ;)


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    monkeyfudge
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    Typical.

    I get my monkeyfudge account back and now we have threads about lizards... sheesh..


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    m@cc@
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I preferred the one about "there's a mad squirrel in my bathroom". That was nuts.

    Boo!! GTFO!


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    Kiera wrote: »
    I found a snake in my box a few times ;)

    Careful now


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    Kiera
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    Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »
    Careful now
    You gonna send me that "tiny" pic again? :P


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    m@cc@
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    Kiera wrote: »
    I found a snake in my box a few times ;)

    Date rape?


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    Kiera wrote: »
    You gonna send me that "tiny" pic again? :P

    No!
    People look up to me around here woman :mad:


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    #29
    starbelgrade
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    Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »
    No!
    People look up to me around here woman :mad:

    Only coz if we look down at you, we're afraid of bursting out laughing. :D


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    Kiera
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    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Date rape?
    Sleepy sex ftw!
    Dulce Microscopic Battery wrote: »
    No!
    People look up to me around here woman :mad:
    lmfao! You should post this post ^^^^ in the thread where the dumped girl wants to be cheered up :D


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    #31
    --LOS--
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    I'd say that thread title was completely accidental Starbelgrade!

    On topic I've never seen a lizard in this country, even frogs are hard to come by these days now.


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