Work safe.
What kind of sick men are we sending to Iraq?
I saw the original photo on AP. That was a picture of a few of the “Camel” spiders they have over there. The soliders where holding them up so other people would understand the living quarters over in Iraq.
You can tell that someone has used an editior to put the text in on top of that picture, it is not a sign. Do not be so quick to judge the soliders over there for someone else’s editing a photograph.
Are you serious? If so, I’m embarrassed for you.
Yes, indeed, they have sentient, literate giant spiders in Iraq.
Incidentally, although the spider is real, it is a lot closer to the camera than the men are, so it looks a lot bigger than it really is.
Here is an uncharacteristically shoddy page from Snopes about the original pic. I assume you realise that the pasted-on sign is a joke on this infamous photo, right?
From Snopes: “Camel spiders rely on speed, stealth, and the (non-venomous) bite of powerful jaws…”
Nobody expects the camel spiders!
Those things look like bloody facehuggers. :eek:
Yes. Yes they do. Perhaps they were the model for the facehuggers in Aliens.
Look, there’s only 2 choices here:
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Pvt. Johnson knocked up that spider’s sister and made the spider hold up that sign. Very demeaning.
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He didn’t knock up that spider’s sister, but still hung him in the air, and made him hold up that sign. Still quite demeaning.
Let’s hope it’s #2.
Wouldn’t this be an Iraq-nid?
LOL. Do you mind if I pretend I made that up when I steal it and use it later?
From AP wire reports.
Some news accounts have implied that, although the message written on the pictured sign does not reflect anything Lance Pvt. Johnson actually did, the photograph is indeed real and was a poor attempt at humor on Johnson’s part:
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During his deployment in Iraq last year, Johnson was stationed in Al Kut, the capital of Wassit Province, which runs southeast of Baghdad to the border with Iran. His duties there with a headquarters unit kept him largely confined to the big concrete hangars at an air base on the outskirts of the city, and he had little contact with spiders. Though other members of his troop regularly engaged in sex with camel spiders, Pvt. Johnson was not know to have done so.
Johnson could not be reached for comment. His commander during the 3/23rd’s Iraq mission, Lt. Col. David Couvillon, called the photo a sophomoric attempt at humor.
“Look, he didn’t actually do what that sign says,” Couvillon said. “This is stupid, Private stuff that he thought was cute. But it’s not, and I was informed the commandant of the Marine Corps had it and the Marine Corps will deal with this. Furthermore, have you ever tried to have sex with a spider? It’s very difficult, especially with one that can run 25 mph and eat through to the guts of a camel. However, we do have reason to believe that Pvt. Johnson may have killed the Spider’s father when it came up through a water spout.”
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As of 19 April the Marine Forces Reserve has said only that Pvt. Johnson insists the photograph has been altered and that the (formerly “complete”) investigation into its origins has been reopened:
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Maj. Gen. John J. McCarthy, Commanding General, 4th Marine Division has reopened the investigation into the photo of Pvt. Ted J. Johnson Jr., 24, 3rd Battalion 23rd Marine Regiment, taken in Iraq. The investigation will focus on the authenticity of the photograph. We are retaining the assistance of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). We would also like to alert that media that there may be more photos of this type arise in the near future, including photos of sexual humilations of spiders, and photos depicting spiders-right violations.
Marine Forces Reserve takes this matter very seriously and will conduct a thorough and complete investigation.
Marine Forces Reserve would ask that media respect this Marine and his family’s and the spider’s privacy.
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grooooooaaannnnnnnnn
these types of puns give me Iraqnophobia.
The OP & that Iraq-nid thing…gawd I love this place! I’ll be giggling all day now!
Look, you don’t know for SURE what that spider’s sister was wearing. It’s real possible she was asking for it. Get all the facts.
Spiders do NOT equal work safe! :mad:
Spiders do equal harmless screaming in fright and running away from the computer. :eek:
: shudddddddder :
it’s make-believe, it’s make-believe, it’s make-believe, it’s make-believe, it’s make-believe, it’s gotta be make-believe, OG, please let it be make-believe
You bet it was make-believe! They’re nowhere near as big as that one seemed to be.
Those suckers are only five inches or so across, say, big enough to cover your entire face if one fell onto you in the middle of the night.
Anyone who’s worn the baggy fatigues shown can recognize the object in the upper-right corner of the picture as a sleeve. The hand holding the spiders (or whatever the spiders are holding onto) is directly above the camera. The leg in the background is at least seven feet away. The spiders appear to be about the size of hamburger buns.
And they were wearing burkhas, which Pvt. Johnson finds inexplicably arousing.
!@#$%@#$$% :mad:
What’s your phone number so I can have someone to talk to, say around 4 in the morning when I can’t sleep?! :mad:
!@#$%
Camel spiders as opposed to crotch crickets?