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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: bentfeather
801
posted on
09/21/2006 4:24:40 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: Lady Jag
Comments: True. What you see in the composite image above is a panoramic view of the Millau Viaduct (Viaduc de Millau), a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Tarn River in southern France. Standing 1,118 feet high at its loftiest point, it is indeed the tallest bridge in the world.
802
posted on
09/21/2006 4:24:45 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: AZamericonnie; fatima; All
--DEAD OR ALIVE?
See if you know if the following cast members of The
Sting have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
--1. Paul Newman
--2. Robert Shaw
--3. Eileen Brennan
--4. Ray Walston
To: txradioguy
*tapping tiny foot*
Did you miss telling us about a ceremony that you were in? Hmmmmmmm???
804
posted on
09/21/2006 4:25:10 PM PDT
by
luvie
(We didn’t lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
To: tomkow6
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
To: tomkow6
806
posted on
09/21/2006 4:25:29 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
John Jacob Jingle-Himmer Smith!
807
posted on
09/21/2006 4:27:02 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: bentfeather
Wow,I wouldda never guessed that one.
808
posted on
09/21/2006 4:27:29 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: onyx
......don't mind me.......I'm mentally unstable....
809
posted on
09/21/2006 4:28:09 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: tomkow6
LOL -- I tried to duplicate your triplicate posts.
I failed miserably.
810
posted on
09/21/2006 4:29:14 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!...YUPPERS!!!!
811
posted on
09/21/2006 4:29:27 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: tomkow6
To: onyx; bentfeather
...I have MANY "voices" that help....
813
posted on
09/21/2006 4:30:23 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: tomkow6
Oooooooooh, do you now?
Fascinating.
814
posted on
09/21/2006 4:31:43 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather; Kathy in Alaska
...........you're NOT NICE!!!!
MAAAAAAAA! 'Feather's pickin' on me!
815
posted on
09/21/2006 4:32:21 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: tomkow6
To: onyx
Hi onyx,want a spider:)
Comments: True. Shown above is the world's largest water bridge (or canal bridge), built over the Elbe River in Magdeburg, Germany at a cost of 500 million Euros. Completed in December 2003, the bridge is 918 meters long and has been modestly described as "a giant, kilometer-long concrete bathtub."
817
posted on
09/21/2006 4:33:50 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: Lady Jag
That IS odd! There must have been something redeeming in those foods that your body needed.....
818
posted on
09/21/2006 4:34:01 PM PDT
by
AZamericonnie
("Patriotism, I now believe, isn't some sentimental, old conceit. It's self-preservation.")
To: fatima
Hiya (((fatima))) Are Rachael and Mary okay? How about you?
819
posted on
09/21/2006 4:35:29 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: tomkow6
No, got the flu.
You are preggers again, are ye?
820
posted on
09/21/2006 4:35:46 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.)
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