Scientists find fossil of enormous bug

AP via YAHOO! ^ | 11-20-07 | THOMAS WAGNER

[SunkenCiv]

...and let's not forget the contemporary with the obvious Darwinist connection...

[isrul]

Had to be something with the gravity that allowed this stuff. Tertiary moon. I know it’s a theory associated with Nazis but it’s logical.

[ValerieTexas]

I know them, I’m their uncle!!

[ari-freedom]

it could work the other way around. if the large predators died out from some other reason, the big prey would not be kept in check, have overpopulation and get wiped out

[Don W]

PUNCHBUGGIE!

No returns!

A very old game. I remember playing it as a kid.

[ari-freedom]

I think everyone can agree with this:
The discovery in rocks suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were far larger in the past than previously known

[txhurl]

Good Lord! This is an American tradition?

She popped me like it was the correct thing to do!

[gunservative]

omg that’s a great photo!

[Don W]

Tradition? Not really. It’s just a thing that we in North America have been doing for the last 40 years or so.

It’s all good fun, provided you are judicious in how hard you hit. For example, I wouldn’t wind up and give some 6 year old girl a full-on whap, but I wouldn’t be overly shocked if her 4 year old brother hit me with everything he had.

The etiquette up here also insists that only the shoulder or upper thigh is a fair target, and “PUNCHBUGGIE no returns” ensures that only ONE person gives and gets the strike.

( I can’t believe I’m posting the PUNCHBUGGIE rules! LOL )

[txhurl]

How it went down - I was turning a longbed F-250 across incoming traffic when I got stung on my arm!

When I see her Thanksgiving, I'll tell her this is an evidently long-standing custom, and whap her again.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Marie2]

All my kids play punchbuggie.

[Thinkin' Gal]

"We have known for some time that the fossil record yields monster millipedes, super-sized scorpions, colossal cockroaches, and jumbo dragonflies. But we never realized until now just how big some of these ancient creepy-crawlies were," he said.

Where's this guy been?

[Sarajevo]

I always knew the game as Slug-Bug. It was a popular past-time in the 70's.

The object was to be the first one to see a Bug, call out the color, then slug someone.

If you called the color wrong, you were slugged back.

You could only be slugged once for each Bug.

If you slugged the driver, all rules went out the window.

[Cheburashka]

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

[moonman]

That bug is still in infant stage compared to bugs in Florida./sarc

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

First time I ever saw a palmetto bug, I thought it was a gag. Told granny the lizards on her walls weren’t big enough to handle that, maybe she should get a small doberman.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

How do they know it wasn’t just a small creature with a big claw? Like a fiddler crab maybe.

[moonman]

Florida and Texas has the biggest palmetto (cockroaches) bugs. I think Texas holds the record over past few years. When they measure, it has to be unsquashed. haha

[aculeus]

Without aculeus it's utterly harmless.