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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: tomkow6; bentfeather; fatima
LOL -- I'm afraid I have to ask fatima to vouch for me...lol. I am sane (I think).
921
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.)
To: tomkow6; bentfeather; fatima
LOL -- I'm afraid I have to ask fatima to vouch for me...lol. I am sane (I think).
922
posted on
09/21/2006 5:21:19 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: bentfeather
Ya, butt ya LOVES ME!!!!
923
posted on
09/21/2006 5:21:44 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: tomkow6
924
posted on
09/21/2006 5:22:10 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: fatima
SURE!!!
Bring lotsa SPIDERS!!!
925
posted on
09/21/2006 5:23:09 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(........Support the artists appearing in the Canteen (buy a BURKA)!)
To: onyx; tomkow6; fatima; Kathy in Alaska
LOL
A long deployment in the Canteen will make one a little loopy! ;)
To: fatima
927
posted on
09/21/2006 5:23:43 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: onyx
I know she is ,she hangs with me.Hehe Right onyx.
928
posted on
09/21/2006 5:23:47 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: tomkow6
To: bentfeather
Ketel One on the rocks also helps.
:)
930
posted on
09/21/2006 5:24:53 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: fatima
Yep, we hang together -- beats hanging individually.
931
posted on
09/21/2006 5:25:43 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: tomkow6
Great,Freddy wants to come.
932
posted on
09/21/2006 5:28:17 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: StarCMC
I'm inviting you over. I'll make Cinnamon rolls and the bevg of your choice.
933
posted on
09/21/2006 5:32:55 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: tomkow6
No cursing in the canteen.
934
posted on
09/21/2006 5:34:53 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: TASMANIANRED; fatima; Kathy in Alaska; tomkow6
To: fatima
Netlore Archive: When a woman's computer begins making strange hissing sounds, she calls Tech Support. And what should they find upon opening up the housing of her PC but a snake coiled around the machine's innards... Description: Email rumor Status: Photos appear authentic Circulating since: Nov 2002
936
posted on
09/21/2006 5:40:59 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: fatima
That looks like a scene from Bambi.
937
posted on
09/21/2006 5:42:03 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: fatima
"Did you see the one that was backwards:)"
I did but I wasn't sure what it was.
938
posted on
09/21/2006 5:42:08 PM PDT
by
swmobuffalo
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
To: TASMANIANRED
939
posted on
09/21/2006 5:42:45 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: tomkow6
Cursing and now indecent proposals...
940
posted on
09/21/2006 5:42:52 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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