# Budweiser Lizards
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 6, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019 "2000-10-06T23:43:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/1 "2000-10-06T23:43:15Z")
Ok, this is a debate but I don’t think it quite qualifies for the Great Debates forum. It’s my first time starting a new thread, so bear with me if I’ve picked the wrong spot.
Now, I’m sure most - if not all - of you are familiar with the lizards Budweiser has used in their commercials. I immediately recognized them as chameleons, but it seems that there is a strong following saying that they are in fact iguanas! Not only that, but they claim that Budweiser also says they’re iguanas! How can people be so blind?
Characteristics the lizards share with chameleons:
[ul]
[li]They have prehensile tails[/li][li]They have independently moving eyes[/li][li]Their general build is identical to the general build of chameleons.[/li][/ul]
Characteristics they have in common with iguanas:
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[li]They’re lizards[/li][/ul]
Can someone please tell me why these guys are considered iguanas? I find it hard to believe people can actually think this!
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/2 "2000-10-07T02:01:43Z")
Yeah!
And what’s up with the talking weasel? Everyone knows weasels can’t talk! They post inane questions to on-line sites!
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### Author:  [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/3 "2000-10-07T02:15:52Z")
Hey Chief! It’s a FERRET, not a weasel!
_runs like hell_
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/4 "2000-10-07T02:33:49Z")
wikki wikki wikki
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### Author:  [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/5 "2000-10-07T03:29:30Z")
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> wikki wikki wikki
That’s not French! I _speak_ French!
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/6 "2000-10-07T05:16:26Z")
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> They post inane questions to on-line sites!
Gee, isn’t that what MPSIMS is for?
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/7 "2000-10-07T05:18:16Z")
Having been a Herpetoculturalist a dozen plus years I can indeed say YES they ARE True Chameleons. Anyone that calls them iguanas should be laughed and scoffed at.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/8 "2000-10-07T05:21:03Z")
Remember, we’re talking about a corporation which puts a “born on” date on their beer so that we know that instead of drinking lousy beer, we’re drinking lousy _fresh_ beer. I wouldn’t worry too much about what they say.
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/9 "2000-10-07T05:31:43Z")
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> \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \*
> \*\*I wouldn’t worry too much about what they say. \*\*
Gotta worry 'bout sumthin!
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/10 "2000-10-07T05:35:31Z")
Well, if you REALLY want to worry about something, try worrying about the Pepsi Girl’s movie career. If you can’t worry about that, then I want some of what YOU’RE on!
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### Author:  [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/11 "2000-10-07T06:57:27Z")
The Pepsi girl has a movie career? May someone help us all, Satan, shouldn’t she belong to you?
I think the ferret is adorable but the chameleons look creepy, besides those things aren’t iguanas, I know nothing about reptiles and even I know they’re not iguanas.
Kitty
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/12 "2000-10-07T11:15:58Z")
Iguana or chameleon…
It doesn’t really matter after 12-13 beers.
And you are right, **Falcon** , it is a ferret you weasel…
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### Author:  [@filthy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filthy)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budweiser-lizards/36019/13 "2000-10-07T13:30:03Z")
Whammo
Member
Having been a Herpetoculturalist a dozen plus years I can indeed say YES they ARE True Chameleons. Anyone that calls them iguanas should be laughed and scoffed at.
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I too have been doing herps for a while and, sez I, “I have known Iguanas and you, sirs, are no Iguanas!”