posted by Lang'uid Squal'or, a student of the transexual art on April 28, 2004
"Now that is what I call a SPIDER!!
From someone stationed in Baghdad. He was recently bitten by a camel spider
which was hiding in his sleeping bag. I thought you'd like to see what a
camel spider looks like. It'll give you a better idea of what our troops
are dealing with. Enclosed is a picture of his friend holding up two
spiders."
The first pic has me wondering how they'd taste battered and deep fried, all smothered in country gravy....... (drooling on keyboard)
that soldier's pants are very tight in the crotch.
i am delighted to say that i have been duped by an internet hoax. Here is a Scopes debunkment of ye ole camel spider
https://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp
So....... No Southern fried camel spiders for dinner? (siiiighhhhhhh) Guess I'll just have some more leftovers of McFreeze's penguin meatloaf again....
fuck swopes. i gave you the skinny in the first comment goddammit!!!!
Wow. Swopes is smarter than any of us. None of us was smart enough to figure that out.
tom, of course you did, im just too dum to recognize your smartness, it's like dick says..
I bet if Tom was around he coulda figured it out.
fuckers.
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camelspider to scale
that photo's perspective makes them even worse than they are. in fact, though, these critters also live in new mexico and other southwestern states in the usa, and are known variously as windscorpions, sunscorpions, sunspiders, romans and beardcutters. they are not spiders or scorpions, really.
they are arachnids and are of the Order Solifugae. they have wicked looking chelicerae - those pincer things around their mouths, that they use to tear up their prey. good news is, they are so pronounced because they have to tear their prey - often termites or ants - because they don't have any venom glands or ways to produce toxins. the biggest they get is about 7 cm.
Posted by: tom, biology nerd. at April 28, 2004 12:18 PM