Venomous or Poisonous?

[Skiploder]

I use this debate to make people feel stupid all the time.

This is how:

I ask said person if they think they are fairly smart. Pretty much everyone says yes. I then ask them to name a species of Poisonous snake. I wait for the answer, which is usually rattlesnake or cobra, then tell them they are wrong.

I get some really odd looks, then I elaborate. If something is poisonous, that carries the thought you need to eat it in order for it to harm you. Rattlesnakes are eaten quite commonly. Snakes are venomous, meaning they need to bite/sting you to do harm.

No one disagrees with me.

Gale

But you are wrong.

There are in fact two poisonous snakes.

Rhabdophis Tigrinus are documented as venomous and poisonous. The cloacal excretions of ring neck snakes are also quite toxic.

Which makes them also both venomous (orally) and poisonous.

Careful who you ask that question to in the future...........