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What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 7:27:43 AM   
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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 8:32:39 AM   
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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 8:46:08 AM   
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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 8:48:00 AM   
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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 8:53:55 AM   
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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 10:26:40 AM   
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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 10:47:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		These were still extant about five hundred years ago, about the size of a small whale; man was on the menu. They are portrayed on two different old sea maps. Also about one thousand years earlier they are mentioned in the account of a far sea travel.
 
Presumed extinct now, as the breeding population was exterminated. On the other hand... The oceans are large and perchance there are still some fertile individuals.

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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 12:48:32 PM   
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Suddenly, that old movie about the giant ants doesn't seem so far fetched.... they were supposed to be about 6 to 8 feet long....

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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 1:56:47 PM   
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They are portrayed on two different old sea maps
Hmmmm so were dragons, unicorns and sea serpants...hardly a rational basis for deciding if a creature existed or not.

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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 2:16:09 PM   
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I slept with him in 1993 and all i can say was it was a long dry spell i was going through, before you judge me

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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 5:14:35 PM   
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RE: What a bug!! - 11/21/2007 7:36:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		More like the "Hampton Worm" than a proper dragon... actually very much like the little critters that we saw in the first part of the japanese movie "Rhodan."

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