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I have my "snake fight" scheduled for two weeks from now, so this is good to keep in mind.

My plan is to prepare numerous backup slides with lots of Python that I can use to distract the snake.

This sounds like the "I bring a bomb onto the plane, which I don't explode. The odds of there being two bombs on a plane is so tiny it's insignificant, so I'm safe from terrorism" plan. Seems sound to me!

Other potential safety precautions involve bringing a polka-patterned snake-catching device: specifically, an ASP.NET

distract it with ants

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