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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic
KEYWORDS: canteen; troopsupport
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To: tomkow6
901
posted on
09/21/2006 5:12:57 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: bentfeather
902
posted on
09/21/2006 5:13:43 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
903
posted on
09/21/2006 5:13:43 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
904
posted on
09/21/2006 5:13:44 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
905
posted on
09/21/2006 5:13:44 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
906
posted on
09/21/2006 5:13:45 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
907
posted on
09/21/2006 5:13:45 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: tomkow6
To: onyx
To: bentfeather
BRATTFeather!!!!!!!!!!
...may a million pregnant FLEAS take up residence in you private feathers....
910
posted on
09/21/2006 5:14:50 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: bentfeather
LOL -- I understand it now --- y'all do this at the end of the page -- from post number _ 95 on.
911
posted on
09/21/2006 5:15:28 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: sasha123
Your welcome sasha123.
Subject: This is an amazing photo of the Montana fires This is truly an amazing picture so I thought I would share! There is sometimes an aspect of true art in tragedy. John McColgan a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska took the attached photo while working in the Bitterroot National Forest of Montana on August 6, 2000. He took it with a Digital camera. Since he was working while he took the picture, and since he did not own the camera, he cannot sell or profit from it so he should at least be recognized as the photographer of this once in a lifetime shot. THIS PHOTO IS INCREDIBLE!!!
912
posted on
09/21/2006 5:15:30 PM PDT
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fatima
To: tomkow6
WHOA!!! Keep my feathers out of this!
To: sasha123
I didn't write it sasha123.How are you:)
914
posted on
09/21/2006 5:16:49 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: onyx
Well, that is one way. There are other very secret methods employed by 50 takers.
To: onyx; bentfeather
Don't pay NO never mind to Ms Feather..........She's NUTTSSSS!
916
posted on
09/21/2006 5:17:42 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: onyx
I feel like I'm on a roller coaster here,Hehe
917
posted on
09/21/2006 5:18:16 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: fatima
......Wanna go fer a ride on my BURKA roller coaster?????
918
posted on
09/21/2006 5:19:19 PM PDT
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tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: tomkow6; onyx
Have to be NUTS to be near you Tomkow6.
To: tomkow6; bentfeather; fatima
LOL -- I'm afraid I have to ask fatima to vouch for me...lol. I am sane (I think).
920
posted on
09/21/2006 5:21:18 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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