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.

[tomkow6]

YOU were in Iceland, too????

[tongue-tied]

We're in the 40s now!!!!:) :) :)

LOL...and I know that ain't a weather report!

[tongue-tied]

LOL...stoopid monkey.

I THINK this may be getting better! Faster loading for these past few...let's hope it stays that way.

[fatima]

Hi BykrBayb(((Hugs))Want a spider:)

[Lady Jag]

Good Friday Eve, AZEE!!

[fatima]

Wow tongue-tied,it sounds beautiful.

[fatima]

I didn't ping you to all of them.

[Jet Jaguar]

I will scroll back through and check them out. Thanks!

[fatima]

Isn't that pretty.

[MozartLover]

Hey sweetie!

Nope, not the weather report.:) :) :)

It's a good thing he's coming home soon because I am running out of ideas for care packages. Don't want to send too much "stuff" now because he'll just have to bring it home in a few weeks; I've sent just about every treat I can think of; chocolate is out for the duration 'cuz I don't want him to open up a box of chocolate soup; he's got all the toiletries, etc. he needs.......

Maybe I'll just send him his Halloween package a bit early; because he's coming home right after that; so this would give him time to enjoy his trick or treats (non-chocolate, of course). And maybe a few spooky decorations for the barracks.

Yeah, that's what I'll do.

Thanks! You've been a big help!;^)

[Kathy in Alaska]

YOU have been working VERY hard helping to keep all of us free and safe, for which I thank you. Are you off for the day? Are you going to work before the sun? Tuesdays and Wednesday's are turning into really tough days for me with this new system.

[Kathy in Alaska]

It's beautiful.....I'm trying to picture some clown and a bunch of old tires.

[fatima]

They are way cool.

[fatima]

Hi MozartLover(((Hugs)))

[fatima]

Can you imagine:)

[MozartLover]

Hi sweetie-pie!

BTW, I asked Ev if he had seen any camel spiders...........his response: "No, I haven't seen any Camel Spiders. They're around though- sometimes they show up out at the K crossing. "

He has seen lots of lizards, though. Big ones. And scorpions.

Yucky.

[tomkow6]

Evening, JJ!

[Soaring Feather]

BRATT TOM!

[fatima]

The Sydney Iceberg
On April 1, 1978 a barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting it. Dick Smith, a local adventurer and millionaire businessman (owner of Dick Smith's Foods), had been loudly promoting his scheme to tow an iceberg from Antarctica for quite some time. Now he had apparently succeeded. He said that he was going to carve the berg into small ice cubes, which he would sell to the public for ten cents each. These well-traveled cubes, fresh from the pure waters of Antarctica, were promised to improve the flavor of any drink they cooled. Slowly the iceberg made its way into the harbor. Local radio stations provided excited blow-by-blow coverage of the scene. Only when the berg was well into the harbor was its secret revealed. It started to rain, and the firefighting foam and shaving cream that the berg was really made of washed away, uncovering the white plastic sheets beneath.

[AZamericonnie]

So Tom ran off the Tourist guy did he. Did he buy a burka before he left????