FReeper Canteen~ Camel Spiders Found in Iraq , Urban Legends and Folklore ~Sept.21,2006

[fatima]

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Camel Spiders Found in Iraq , Urban Legends and Folklore Urban Legends:Subject: FW: Camel Spider found in Iraq--This is a huge spider!!!! Yuck. I sure am glad we don't have these here. Although we probably will after this war..... This picture is a perfect example of why you don't want to go to the desert. These are 2 of the biggest I've ever seen. With a vertical leap that would make a pro basketball player weep with envy (they have to be able to jump up on to a camels stomach after all), these spiders latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you. They eat flesh, not just suck out your juices like a normal spider. Comments: The photo appears to be authentic. Fortunately for all of us — especially the guys in the picture — the same cannot be said of the accompanying text, which merely repeats false rumors circulating since the start of the Iraq war. This scary-looking creature (actually, it's a pair of scary-looking creatures dangling end-to-end) is indeed commonly called a camel spider, but it is found in arid locales all over the world — including the southwestern United States — not just in the Gulf region. A typical specimen can grow to about the size of a child's hand, but, though they are known for being vicious predators, camel spiders are neither venomous nor a threat to human beings. They don't eat camels, either.

World's Tallest Woman Netlore Archive: Emailed photos purport to show the tallest woman in the world Description: Emailed photos Circulating since: 2002 Status: False

The Giant Grizzly Bear Not quite a world record In real life, the big grizzly in the first two photographs measured 10' 6" from nose to tail and weighed an estimated 1,000 to 1,200 pounds — unusually large for the vicinity in which it was found, says the USDA Forest Service, but not quite a world record, nor even a record for Alaska. It was killed on October 14, 2001 by U.S. Air Force Airman Theodore Winnen on Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound. The photos were taken by his hunting partner, Staff Sgt. James Urban. Both were stationed at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks at the time. Though the bear was within 10 yards of the hunters' position and moving towards them when he fired the first shot, Winnen says, it did not charge them, contrary to what the email claims. "I don't know if the wind was in our favor or what," he told the Anchorage Daily News. "We were dressed in camouflage. He might not have seen us." Winnen's weapon was a 338-caliber Winchester Magnum, not a 7mm semi-automatic as alleged. The first bullet pierced the bear's brain but left it standing; five more in the chest brought it down.

[fatima]

Sure is,does that mean I'm country now:)

[MozartLover]

No, it means you're a cheesehead!

[fatima]

She watched it but we watched her.It was too funny and her son loves bugs like me and has a bug container and picks spiders up by their legs.

[MozartLover]

Here ya go!

[fatima]

Is that good:)

[MozartLover]

Of course!!!!!!!

Cheeseheads are great & wonderful people!!!:)

[AZamericonnie]

LOL! I guess Tom had it pegged!:)

[luvie]

Great picture, Tx! Too bad we didn't get to see the actual ceremony! :D

[fatima]

Great I'm a cheesehead.

[txradioguy]

Hey all you Mac users...security update is waiting for you.

[txradioguy]

Thank you ma'am.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks. Looking for update now.

[Lady Jag]

"her son loves bugs like me and has a bug container"

You're a bug and they lock you up?

[fatima]

Hehe.I got the new camera.I have it sitting here.I am going to try it out in the morning.Can you believe it-we can shoot in high definition .I am really excited.

[Lady Jag]

You're going to shoot bugs tomorrow?

[fatima]

No silly.I am going to test it.I can hook it up to our high def TV and see the picture.Way to cool.It will be going out on the road Sunday and we begin segments for a little TV show we are putting together for children..

[Lady Jag]

. . . son loves bugs like me . . .

So you are not a bug are there are no bugs like you?

[Allegra]

I can just see being in a hurry and having your feet go out from under you in the mud.

Heh! I did that at Taji in early '05. Only I wasn't walking from the shower...I was lugging my laundry bag walking through that Iraqi mud to the laundry facility and slipped. Landed right on my keister. Had an appreciative audience, too and heard about that performance for the next few days. LOL

Went and changed clothes, added the muddy ones to the bag and then proceeded on to the laundry. Yeah, I love rainy season. (It's just around the corner....)

Are you living in a dry unit? I lived in one of those at Victory North (back before it was Liberty) before I did my tent stint at Taji.

I've got the good life now in Baghdad and you never hear me complain. It's PAVED there! ;-)

[Allegra]

Hi tomkow!

[fatima]

Ok you got me again.You must be feeling better.