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

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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.

[GrandEagle]

Good morning Esmeralda!

My day has started out pretty much like I was using this:



The good news is, it has to get better.....
How is your day?

[beachn4fun]

(wiping brow)


Whew!


I almost missed it

[txradioguy]

Yup...you!

[beachn4fun]

Godo morning, sugar

how ya doing?

SMOOCHES back atcha

[EsmeraldaA]

Hi sweets {{E.G.C.}}

I'm doing okay, hope you are too. ;)

[GrandEagle]

Well.... I WAS going to grab the 50.....
BUT NOOOOOOOOOO, somebody was lurking.......

How are you today! (GE returns wink)

My day got off to a bit of a bad start, but things are looking up.

[stand watie]

FINE!

looking forward to SEEING you/hubby at the rally. are you coming to the dinner too???

free dixie,sw

[GrandEagle]

Good morning!

[stand watie]

GM! are you COMING to the RALLY????

free dixie,sw

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Ladies and Pretty Kitty and Booboo.....

Happy Thursday!! ((HUGS))

[stand watie]

GM, Kathy!

did you have your PANCAKES yesterday???

free dixie,sw

[beachn4fun]

I don't think we are planning on the dinner.

We might stay and do some more walking around, depending on how tired we are after a long day. Some of us get up before NOON (wink)

SMOOCH

[beachn4fun]

Howdy neighbor

Are you and the missus coming Saturday?

[MozartLover]

That is beautiful.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, almost afternoon to you, shezza....wee bit here too. Fall seems to have arrived.....it has warmed up in the last hour.

[txradioguy]

What's going on satyrday? *confused look*

[EsmeraldaA]

My day was okay but is getting that way now....LOL!

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you. Good morning to you.

[beachn4fun]

LOL

I had to do it......REALLY......I almost missed it cause I was trying to catch up on the thread. And, of course, once I saw that I got it, I just HAD to tell someone.

My day is actually going sorta slow, which gives me time to prepare more documents for October. And, sitting here wishing I convince myself to skip out on work and go somewhere by the water and read and enjoy this b-u-tif-ul day!

But, NOOOOO.....I have to be such a responsible person.....drat! LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]