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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; fatima; Kathy in Alaska; tomkow6; onyx; All

Duke Ellington~Louis Armstrong~ Jam Blues

941 posted on 09/21/2006 5:43:11 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

Thankie.


942 posted on 09/21/2006 5:43:44 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: swmobuffalo
They all Little piglets:)
943 posted on 09/21/2006 5:43:58 PM PDT by fatima
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To: TASMANIANRED

How ya doing tonight, babes?


944 posted on 09/21/2006 5:44:13 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: fatima

Breath takingly beautiful and so tragic.


945 posted on 09/21/2006 5:45:56 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: bentfeather; All

Jerry Lee Lewis~Let the Good Times Roll

Yee Haw!!

946 posted on 09/21/2006 5:46:30 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: tomkow6

this one is mine!


947 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:07 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: tomkow6

this one is mine!


948 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:08 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: tomkow6

this one is mine!


949 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:09 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: tomkow6

this one is mine!


950 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:09 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather; tomkow6

MINE!!!


951 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:11 PM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: bentfeather; tomkow6

MINE!!!


952 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:17 PM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: bentfeather; tomkow6

MINE!!!


953 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:20 PM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: bentfeather; tomkow6

MINE!!!


954 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:27 PM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: txradioguy

.......hehehehehehe.......


955 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:51 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!


956 posted on 09/21/2006 5:47:58 PM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: fatima

Do you have acrophobia?


957 posted on 09/21/2006 5:48:13 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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To: txradioguy

YES!!!!!!!!!!


958 posted on 09/21/2006 5:48:17 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: TASMANIANRED

He caught it right before the trees were gone.


959 posted on 09/21/2006 5:48:37 PM PDT by fatima
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To: txradioguy

Hehe:)You guys are too funny.


960 posted on 09/21/2006 5:49:38 PM PDT by fatima
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