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FReeper Canteen~ Camel Spiders Found in Iraq , Urban Legends and Folklore ~Sept.21,2006
Posted on 09/20/2006 6:01:45 PM PDT by fatima
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.
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KEYWORDS: canteen; troopsupport
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To: beachn4fun
DONE.
free dixie SMOOCH,sw
541
posted on
09/21/2006 9:22:11 AM PDT
by
stand watie
( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
To: GrandEagle
They had this same rally last year. I couldn't make it cause I only found out the last minute. This time I heard in enough time to plan.
I think they'll have one every year as long as the interest lasts or the last guy/gal comes home.
542
posted on
09/21/2006 9:22:26 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered".......(Thomas Paine))
To: GrandEagle
543
posted on
09/21/2006 9:22:35 AM PDT
by
stand watie
( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
To: stand watie
544
posted on
09/21/2006 9:25:02 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered".......(Thomas Paine))
To: GrandEagle
Gee, are you busy?
See what's up ahead?
545
posted on
09/21/2006 9:25:48 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered".......(Thomas Paine))
To: beachn4fun
I would have loved to go but, as you can imagine, with our four children, it takes a bit of coordination and planning with my wife for me to be gone for very long.
Meghan and Rebecca both would LOVE to come with me to D.C.
Hopefully work will allow me to go next year.
To: beachn4fun
Maybe I would like to claim it!!
To: beachn4fun
Maybe I would like to claim it!!
To: beachn4fun
Maybe I would like to claim it!!
To: beachn4fun
Maybe I would like to claim it!!
To: bentfeather
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
W H
551
posted on
09/21/2006 9:27:46 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered".......(Thomas Paine))
To: beachn4fun
Gee, are you busy?
LOL!!! (slapping my knee) - THAT's a GOOD ONE!
To: GrandEagle
To: bentfeather
#550 WOO HOO for Miss FEATHER! #550
free dixie,sw
554
posted on
09/21/2006 9:28:25 AM PDT
by
stand watie
( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
To: stand watie
Hey sw!! How you doing??
*HUGS*
To: GrandEagle; bentfeather
Did you see what Ms. Feather did? She stoles it from us. She stoles our precious.
556
posted on
09/21/2006 9:29:30 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered".......(Thomas Paine))
To: beachn4fun
Gotta be fast beachy!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: bentfeather
finer than frog's hair & frog's hair is so fine that it's INVISIBLE!
free dixie,sw
558
posted on
09/21/2006 9:30:31 AM PDT
by
stand watie
( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
To: beachn4fun
I broke my danged pinger with that 550!
To: bentfeather
Good morning!
I see YOUR the sly one today - lurking in the shadows, just waiting for a 50.
I do hope your day is going well!
Gotta scoot for a bit. BBL (hopefully that means be back later)
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