Did you ever meet one of those self-proclaimed "snake people" who supposedly know everything about snakes? They are usually found at your local "crappy" pet store, you know, the one with the freshly imported BPs and starving iguanas crammed into a ten gallon tank.
You say, "Oh, I have a few BPs, maybe a boa" and they go into this long spiel about how "real" snake keepers have rattlers and cobras, and then proceed to tell you that they own a monster anaconda. They'll talk about how you have to "tame" a snake, and how they can feed live kittens to their huge burm (ok, I may be exaggerating, but you get the point right?) And they always say "Oh, I own a 20-foot ball python!" or some other such nonsense. People who are uneducated about snakes, will go "Ooh" and "Aah" while this dummy rattles on and on about his snakes (which he probably owns none and lives in his friend's garage, lol.)Then the guy asks you about some weird, invented snake like a "blue python" or a "garden snake" and look at you like you're a moron if you don't get what they're saying.
Doncha just LOVE people like that?
sorry guys, had to vent. Remind me why I bother going to local pet stores around here...