Scientists find fossil of enormous bug

AP via YAHOO! ^ | 11-20-07 | THOMAS WAGNER

[Pharmboy]

Raid wouldn't help--maybe a .50 cal from 1/4 mile away would do. Sheesh...

[Hang'emAll]

Nothing like a craw fish that can eat you.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Is its scientific name Gregor Samsa?

[Jeff Chandler]

Get the butter. Lot’s of it.

[G8 Diplomat]

[Joe 6-pack]

This reminds me of the, "lobstrosities" in Stephen King's Dark Tower series...

[Pharmboy]

I imagine some Cajun in Louisiana has a recipe for this...

[Grimmy]

Just imagine the size of the critters that ate that sort of thing.

[Freedom2specul8]

that is an alien monster with claws man!!!!! talk about bugophobia... "Honey, would you PUHHHLEEEZE COME IN HERE AND KILL THIS BUG!!!"

and it's not like you can just jump on a chair, stool or bed.. YIKES!

[Pharmboy]

LOL!! Well done...

[ari-freedom]

Schneider, who was not involved in the study, said these scorpions "were dominant for millions of years because they didn't have natural enemies. Eventually they were wiped out by large fish with jaws and teeth."
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except that the fish of today are much smaller as well.

[Pharmboy]

"Honey, would you PUHHHLEEEZE COME IN HERE AND KILL THIS BUG!!!"

...and bring the 10 gauge with you!

[bannie]

Next-door-neighbors to...THEM!

[BGHater]

‘Bigger than you, and at 8 feet long as big as some Smart cars’

Classic. In the ol’ days we measured our monsters in Buicks, now Smart cars. lol.

[KoRn]

"the next time you swat a fly, or squish a spider at home, Braddy said, try to "think about the insects that lived long ago. You wouldn't want to swat one of those."

I wouldn't swat one of those. I'd blow its dammed head off.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Need bigger bar-b-que:

[Jack Hammer]

Used to have cockroaches about that size in my apartment in Philadelphia.

[UCANSEE2]

“Jaekelopterus”

Is that like Jack-e-lope????

[P8riot]

Ah-ah Don't touch that dial!

I must offer to you a confession
I like movies that give me a fright (AAAAAAAAAA!!!!)
If the subject is horror
I've got to see more or
I won't be contented all night

You may call it my ghoulish obsession
It's a subject on which I get chatty
But the worst one it seems
Haunting all of my dreams
Was the cockroach that ate Cincinnati

I've seen ghouls and hobgoblins and witches
And some moth-eaten werewolves with fangs (owooo!)
There were creatures that chattered
And others that clattered
And Japanese monsters with bangs (Ha-so!)

Frankenstein gives me the shakes
And Count Dracula's driving me batty
But they're not on a par
with the worst one by far
The cockroach that ate Cincinnati

Oh he must have needed a seltzer
It's amazing how much he got down
For lunch he'd just chew
up a suburb or two
And for dinner he at the whole town (burp!)

Willard just sent me out laughing
I thought Ben looked a little bit ratty
But they're not half as bad
As the worst scare I've had
"The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati"

Oh my heart nearly stopped
He will never be topped
The cockroach that ate Cincinnati... Olè!
(Olè? That's dumb!)

The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati
by Rose and the Arrangement

[Humble Servant]

” Braddy said the fossil was from a Jaekelopterus Rhenaniae” ...

How’s that? A Jackelopeasaurus? Hmmm...