She's a Real Charmer!

Well hi there! How's it going? A little snaky today, are we? Well that fits right in with the topic of the day. Soon as you fill your mug and hoist a  virtual megamuffin onto your plate, I'll tell you about it.

The beauty pageant each April at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas, requires traditional skills like interview poise, evening-gown fashion and talent, but also some ability and inclination to milk and skin rattlers. 

High school senior Kyndra Vaught won this year's Miss Snake Charmer, wearing jeweled boots one night for her country-western ballad, then Kevlar boots and camouflage chaps the next as she took on dozens of rattlers in the wooden snake pit. Vaught expertly held up one serpent, offered its tail-end rattles for a baby to touch, then helped hold, measure, milk and skin a buzzing, slithery serpent. 

A Los Angeles Times dispatch noted that Vaught hoped to be on her way soon to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Wonder if she'll take up the snake charmer's flute or recorder or whatever it is they claim to be able to charm snakes with. Whatever it is, it's a sham because snakes don't have ears. They don't sway back and forth to the music...they don't have the sense of hearing. It's the movement of the snake charmer that does it...but you knew that, right?

Good luck, Kendra. (Just don't piss her off, eh!)

See  ya!

Bob