Operation Lizard

Considering the fact that the pallis keep insects at bay treat them with reverence. So it is not just palli yezuchi but tiruppalliyezuchi! (Tiru here applies to the revered lizards not to homo sapiens).

ha..ha...Another Funny post from you Balajee. I was reading everyone's experiences with these quick running rascals..gives me shivers. I hate anything crawling and you should imagine - we had not just the plain - greyish-yellowish lizards, we had those big -iguana/camelion' looking things called 'Thonda' (Telugu)... Ooooooooooooooooo..I am shivering!

I can feel it's claw on my hand, it's head peice and it's red neck skin...it's long tail...Yuck..Yuck Yuck..I can't write about them anymore. And imagine one of these crawling and passing on your body when you are on the neem tree in your backyard. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..

Another time, a baby lizard just ran like my baby sister to my mom and vanished in her saree. It was a hell screaming match between all the women in the room, while my mom pulls away her saree with a lightening speed in front of my uncles. Well everyone is a close family member so no one minded (as if it makes a difference with family member and non family people - she would have stripped off that saree even in the middle of the street in her terror!!). But I was rolling on the ground - laughing holding my stomuch..until the baby lizard got freed from my mom's saree and jumped on me. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..........

Originally Posted by Kamalji

Dear Mr.Balajee,

It seems u have the ladies eating ( lizards) out of yr hands.Hilarious account, and i know half the stuff is yr imagination, but well put.

I am not scared really, but my wife and dauighter are, though they dont scream.Daughter dosnt understand why i make no effort tp throw them out.Bs one goes, 6 othes will come in.In her eyes i am a traitor.HAHA.

Good one, laughing really.Regards.kamal

Kamalji, hafving lizards at home is better than using insecticide which at times is suicide. They hardly harm the insects but the sprayer gets affected. Studies have shown that many insecticides contain neurotoxins. So let the lizard do the job even if your family considers you a traitor for not joining the screaming fit. .

Originally Posted by uncannybal

Yes lizards are natural insecticides. My bro used to scare us with this story of a girl who on her wedding day had a lizard stuck in her 'kondai' (hairpiece). She dint want to make a fuss and kept quiet during the ceremony. She died of the bites he said. i always wonder if the made up that story

Santosh

Santosh the likes of your brother are responsible for the unfair malicious propaganda about the harmless house geckos. If the bride died of the bite of a lizard in her hairpiece it must have been a Gila Monster, the sole lizard with poison found in Mojave desert. I wonder how it travelled to India without a ticket and got into a hairpiece without being noticed. If it was in the hairpiece it must have been the main attraction of it as it is a huge, visible lizard. The bride must have had tremendous patience and ability to carry off a burden.

Originally Posted by Venonimiss

ha..ha...Another Funny post from you Balajee. I was reading everyone's experiences with these quick running rascals..gives me shivers. I hate anything crawling and you should imagine - we had not just the plain - greyish-yellowish lizards, we had those big -iguana/camelion' looking things called 'Thonda' (Telugu)... Ooooooooooooooooo..I am shivering!

I can feel it's claw on my hand, it's head peice and it's red neck skin...it's long tail...Yuck..Yuck Yuck..I can't write about them anymore. And imagine one of these crawling and passing on your body when you are on the neem tree in your backyard. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..

Another time, a baby lizard just ran like my baby sister to my mom and vanished in her saree. It was a hell screaming match between all the women in the room, while my mom pulls away her saree with a lightening speed in front of my uncles. Well everyone is a close family member so no one minded (as if it makes a difference with family member and non family people - she would have stripped off that saree even in the middle of the street in her terror!!). But I was rolling on the ground - laughing holding my stomuch..until the baby lizard got freed from my mom's saree and jumped on me. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..........

I think you are talking about the creatures known in Tamil as Udumbu. They are famous (or notorious) fir their strong jaws.So strong that during sieges of forts in the ancient days soldiers used them to scale the walls. They used be thrown on the wall with a rope tied around their tails. They , it is said, used to grip the walls and the soldiers climbed up using the rope! They look like iguanas.

PS:They are also a delicacy in south Indian non-veg cuisine.

Dear Balajee,

U know indus will throw u out for scaring the pretty ladies here.Look at Veron,what a story she has come of with,HAHA.

I make a blog out of fishes, and u make one out of lizards.Lets put a vote here.what is better to eat , fish or lizard.Regards.kamal

Dear Balajee,

That was a funny post.... actually I dont mind them, but cockroachs and spiders are creeeeepy.

And SS, enjoyed reading your incident too.....

regards,
Anu

Originally Posted by Kamalji

Dear Balajee,

U know indus will throw u out for scaring the pretty ladies here.Look at Veron,what a story she has come of with,HAHA.

I make a blog out of fishes, and u make one out of lizards.Lets put a vote here.what is better to eat , fish or lizard.Regards.kamal

Kamalji, I wouldn't touch lizard meat even though the iguana like monitor lizards (known as ghorpad in Marathi and Udumbu in Tamil) are a delicacy (I known Menaka Gandhi will get a heart attack). Fish is definitely better. I love fish.

Originally Posted by Balajee

Kamalji, I wouldn't touch lizard meat even though the iguana like monitor lizards (known as ghorpad in Marathi and Udumbu in Tamil) are a delicacy (I known Menaka Gandhi will get a heart attack). Fish is definitely better. I love fish.

Aproop, nice to know someone who is not scared of lizards but instead finds cockroaches and spiders creepy. My sentiments exactly.

Dear Mr.Balajee,

Do people eat lizards? Yech ! but each to their own.Glad to know u will treat me to fish when i come to delhi.Looking forward to that.HAHA.Regards.kamal