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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Jun 01 - 09:12 AM Wolfgang, your post accounts for almost everything mentioned.........except Neil Young. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Wolfgang Date: 19 Jun 01 - 03:34 AM Thanks to Helen for extremely interesting link and information. The eye (and then the mind and later on the recollection) can easily be fooled under the appropriate circumstances. Even basically sane persons as, e.g., Jimmy Carter can be fooled. Carter was fooled by the planet Venus to believe having seen a UFO way back in 1969. He told about the sighting a couple of years later. As an aside, how much you should rely on memory in these things: Carter's recollection of the date of the sighting was about 9 months off the real date (with persons like Carter you can easily recheck these dates even years later). And when such an originally unimpressive story is retold and retold and retold even more inaccuracies creep in like you can see in Little Hawks attempt above: In Little Hawks tale, Jimmy Carter was governor when seeing the UFO. That can be checked easily. Carter wasn't governor when seeing what he thought was a UFO.
Or compare Little Hawk's whole slew of credible witnesses with this newspaper account: No one recalls 1970 UFO spotting by Tom Tiede (Newspaper Enterprise Association) Mt. Pleasant (Texas) Daily Tribune, Feb. 2, 1978 Leary, Ga (NEA) - Jimmy Carter had a close encounter of a highly suspicious kind here in 1970 [the date I have given above is the correct date, W.H.]. He was a political hopeful then, making a speech at the local Lions Club, and he says he spotted an unidentified flying object 30 degrees above the horizon. He also says 10 to 12 others saw it with him. As it happens, however, there is no one in Leary who remembers sighting a UFO in company with the future president. Carter insists that the object's brightness attracted a crowd, but it appears it only attracted him. Not one resident recalls anything unusual about that particular January evening. The townsfolk are mildly amused by the inconsistency of the matter. They have in fact been chuckling ever since last year when the media carried belated news of the Carter encounter. Some think that Carter actually viewed the town's silver water tower; from a distance it can look a bit odd. But whatever Carter saw, he apparently saw it alone. Mayor Stanley Shepard says he has talked with everyone who might have attended the Lions Club meeting on the night in question, "and nobody remembers anything about flying saucers." People recall that Carter's speech was dull - but as for spaceships, no.... Another researcher found a single co-witness who said he was unimpressed and thought the apparition to be a weather balloon. I do not want to make much out of errors in details. Just to warn in general not to take tales told years after an event at face value. Initial perception and later memory will take care of smoothing out some details. And you might never know which details. As for #4 in the first post, best guess is it's entoptic. As for strange lifeforms, the strangest I have seen was a tuatara. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Bert Date: 17 Jun 01 - 12:03 AM The big mucousy ball are aphids. We used to call the stuff Cockoo Spit, most are small but you do see larger ones occasionally. The Stinkhorn Mushroom is also an interesting sight. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Art Thieme Date: 16 Jun 01 - 11:39 PM Back in 1967 Carol and I moved to Depoe Bay, Oregon where we lived in a house for 62.50 a month at the top of a cliff about 70 feet above the Pacific Ocean -- above Sandy Cove. At low tide I loved to scramble over the rocks and seaweeds photographing hundreds/thousands of creatures so strange and mysterious it couldn't be believed. We are yet to communicate with any of the millions of animals that inhabit our planet with us. I constantly wonder why we assume we'll be able to communicate with any extra terrestrial life form we might encounter some day. One day I found a CHITON at least a foot long and 6 inches wide. It was covered with long hair-like seaweed and/or algae. This was early in the morning shortly after sunrise. I had to let Carol see what I found so I climbed the bluff and tossed the chiton into bed with her. Well, she looked at it (and the many worm parasites that inhabited it) screame, hit me a terrific hit, ran into the bathroom and slammed the door. I calmly retrieved my chiton, took it outside and photographed it from all angles. Then I climbed back down the cliff to the tide pools where I replaced the chiton into it's watery habitat. Then I waited for a flower shop to open, bought Carol one red rose and this coming January 3rd we will celebrate our 35th anniversary.
And there they tied a true love knot, Art Thieme
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Helen Date: 16 Jun 01 - 10:00 PM Okay, finally found a picture of the Brocken Bow/Spectre of the Brocken. http://nemo.as.arizona.edu/~swest/atmo/atmo.html Coincidentally, there are some other fantastic photos of light effects, including sundogs. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: CarolC Date: 16 Jun 01 - 07:56 PM Click here for rainbow thingie. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Donuel Date: 16 Jun 01 - 07:49 PM Here is a picture of a rainbow and "something else" Sorry the clicke html is not second nature yet; http://www.sightings.com/general11/rainbow.htm |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Jun 01 - 06:58 PM Right again, Spaw! Neil Young for sure. Maybe he's actually an alien whose spaceship got stranded in Ontario. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: DougR Date: 16 Jun 01 - 01:34 AM Cleigh O. Possom (ok, I've only seen a picture) |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Amergin Date: 16 Jun 01 - 01:27 AM i saw a picture of some old fart with a mullet once... |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: CarolC Date: 16 Jun 01 - 01:21 AM Little Hawk! hesperis! We forgot to mention flattop! (Doh!) |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Sorcha Date: 16 Jun 01 - 12:48 AM YOR, LOL! Been there, done that too! I remember something that used to be the Christmas Grapefruit; a gift from my mom's brother. You know, the 2 dozen grapefruit each wrapped in paper............I found them in the drawer in August when I was about 10. Asked Mum "Are these spoiled enough to throw away?" |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: YOR Date: 16 Jun 01 - 12:26 AM I don't know what in the hell it was, but I took it out of the frig and threw it away. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Jun 01 - 12:16 AM I'd hate to see such a list as this without the inclusion of Neil Young. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Sorcha Date: 15 Jun 01 - 11:53 PM Apparently "gymnospec spectabilius" is a Magic Mushroom--several sites say it contains psylocybin (sp?) Others just say it is "poisonous"............looks a lot like a regular Button 'shroom when immature, and something like an Amanita (but no red,no spots) when fully opened. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Philibuster Date: 15 Jun 01 - 11:52 PM My dog, for sure. I STILL think he's a barking pig. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Donuel Date: 15 Jun 01 - 11:30 PM Ed Sullivan was a hoot. Sundogs ?! In Rochester you could hardly have a summer sun near sunset without them. The lake must have helped. Insect: I found a Dobson Fly. 6 inches long with 2 1/2 inch pincers all for show. It lives in that form to mate 24 hours maximum then dies. The one I found must have already gotten lucky. Blue bugs in Maryland , maybe, but I don't have a sustained sighting. MD is good for UFOs. I have seen 3 here in 7 years. Pretty rare but they were all different. A 4th UFO I did not see but heard (since the sound was so ominous I did not have the timarity to go outside and look) As a musician the sound is clear in my mind to this day. In short it was as if an electrical power plant passed 10 feet over your roof with a throbbing hum. My wife was even less likly to get up and look. At the time we both said nothing but we still remember it 6 years later. I swear my unlikly reaction to the sound was that it was "saying" - danger stay away - , but it was unlike me to actually stay away. Another bizarre lifeform Gymnophilus Spectobilious - Big Laughing Jim is what Americans in MO call this mushroom. It grows on logs like Shitake but I have never eaten one. They were available through a mail order house in IN. I am sure there are some at the American Type Culture Depository which is a couple miles from me. Perhaps it should not be located 10 feet from the railroad tracks since it has all the spores and micro organisms that are fit and unfit to keep. This is where whackos ordered their Anthrax before security checks became a bit more stringent. Well thats it for my [fright nite] friday night post. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 15 Jun 01 - 10:57 PM I was only about 3 years old! :-) |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Matt_R Date: 15 Jun 01 - 10:44 PM Maybe it was someone's still-alive, unravelled brain! |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Little Hawk Date: 15 Jun 01 - 10:29 PM 6 FEET????!!! Now, that IS scary! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 15 Jun 01 - 10:25 PM I saw a really big garden worm once,it was about 6 feet long,I was only young so I got scared and ran inside. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Little Hawk Date: 15 Jun 01 - 09:56 PM Strangest lifeform? That would have to be Ed Sullivan...assuming he was alive. It was a little hard to tell for sure most of the time. Aside from that I have seen E.T.V.'s (extra-terrestrial vehicles)up reasonably close on 2 occasions, and at a great distance on another...that was pretty well what they had to be...but I did not see the obviously intelligent beings who were no doubt inside controlling them. So I guess that doesn't count, technically, as seeing "lifeforms", but rather machines. And NO!!! I am not going to elaborate and give you all the details yet again, because I am simply so fed up with the professional doubters that I can't be bothered. Tell them to debate it with Jimmy Carter. He saw them too, along with a whole slew of credible witnesses who were with him at the time, back when he was Governor Carter. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: GUEST,petr Date: 15 Jun 01 - 09:53 PM donuel, my dad saw ball lightning as a youngster and described it pretty much as you did. What about sundogs? thats another phenomenon that you tend to observe in winter in the northern climes It looks like on either side of the sun quite a distance away in the sky there is small reflection of it. I saw one last week although it was only one. petr |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: GUEST Date: 15 Jun 01 - 09:21 PM Nice site, hesperis. Donuel's 4th "lifeform" made me think of faeries too. I have seen a bunch of these flying around very fast in a rooughly spherical group. Definitely not just "floaters". They were tiny, though, about the size of grains of rice. I couldn't get Allan C.'s Moonbow clickie to work. When I worked in a Reference Library about 20 years ago a woman told me about the Brocken Bow but I couldn't find anything for a couple of years and finally found a picture of a similar one in China. I used to have site which showed a picture, but it is gone now. http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF7/779.html Helen |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: CarolC Date: 15 Jun 01 - 09:09 PM Another one I just remembered... A few years ago I encountered a bug here in West Virginia that would walk around people and other obstacles, rather than over them. And they would scream if you tried to touch them. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: SINSULL Date: 15 Jun 01 - 08:18 PM We had something similar in the corn crop. Big white mucousy balls that were sticky to the touch. I thought they were some sort of bug nest. They grew on the stalk, not the corn itself but were enough to turn everyone off to eating the stuff. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: RangerSteve Date: 15 Jun 01 - 08:10 PM I had something growing on my basil plants one year that I can't identify. It was a white goo, something like phlegm, but way too much to come from a person, even if he had a major cold. It only grew on the basil, not on the surrounding plants. And this was something called bush basil. The standard generic basil was untouched. After I cut of the offending branches, it never came back. This was maybe 10 or 12 years ago. Ive never seen anything like it since. Any clues? |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Gareth Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:56 PM Strangest life form ? Well actually I thought it was William Hague, that is untill I saw Anne Widicombe ! Sorry UK joke. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Donuel Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:46 PM Spaw , finding the secret water falls is great fun. South of Fredonia NY (by the mink farm) is a clamshell waterfall into a naturally smooth stone 40 ft slip and slide. Then further down the water boils down into a DEEP crevass and bubbles out of the same hole and continues down stream eventually I assume into Lake Erie . I always thought one could put their laundry into that bubbling water hole and they would come up clean. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Amergin Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:37 PM you want to see ugly folks look at my calendar photo.... |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Matt_R Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:32 PM I've seen something really strange here in eastern North Carolina. It's some sort of insect. At first glance, it appears to be a firefly, but it's not. As fireflies light up by a sort of short "fade in-fade out" glow, this insect has a steadily sustained radiance. Fireflies usually glow a greenish-yellow color, while thing creature glows bright blue. It also tends to fly in a directly straight line, whereas fireflies kind of swoop and fly with no set direction. It scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it, this fat blue light come bobbing down a country lane at 10pm, in a straight line, about 4 feet off the ground. Then the light would go abruptly out after being sustained for about 30-45 seconds. Then it would appear 20 feet further away, flying straight again. My parents didn't believe me, but one night I managed to show it to them. It was flying about 15 feet in the air, in a straight line, and appeared to land on a tree limb, and it just sat there, constantly glowing. Then it disappeared. I also seemed to remember that it buzzed somewhat, even though I was about 50 feet away when I saw it. Bizarre. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Bill D Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:23 PM I just pasted uglypeople.com into my Netscape, and it went right to it (kinda sad place, though....) makes you wonder why someone would bother collecting all those? Unless you're Diane Arbus |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Matt_R Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:21 PM Mrrz, you mean those aliens that looked like warty chicken marionettes? |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: CarolC Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:14 PM The neon orange stringy stuff is definitely 'dodder', as MMario suggested. It looks like neon orange silly string sprayed all over a bunch of plants. I thought I was seeing something 'not from this world' first time I saw it.
This one was strange more for its location than anything else... When I was a zookeeper, I was responsible for the 'North American Small Mammals'. One day, I was working in the outside run of the Arctic Fox enclosure. The foxes were inside the building and the outside run was empty. The enclosure had walls on two sides, chain link fence on two sides, and chain link fence above. About two or three feet above the upper chain link fence, there was a corrugated metal roof supported by I-beams. I never really used to look up at the roof, so I was startled to the point of jumping when something landed with a loud chinky thump on the chain link above me. I looked up at it and didn't recognize it as anything that occurred naturally in that area. And I was very familiar with the native species because I had spent a recent summer working as an interpretive naturalist, where it was my job to know those kinds of things. Turns out it was one of the brown lemurs from the primate section that had escaped. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 15 Jun 01 - 07:01 PM Tried to find ugly people, can you provide a blue clicky please? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Bill D Date: 15 Jun 01 - 06:58 PM hmmm...messed up my HTML above try this: but this is also pretty strange... frogfishes |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Cobble Date: 15 Jun 01 - 06:39 PM Allan C.. Thanks for the info on Cumberland Falls. Pleased to know others have seen a moonbow, and it was'nt the faries Interesting it is stated it's the only place in the western world this phenomenon can be seen! How do we define " Western World" ? We saw the Moonbow by Loch Greshornish, Isle of Skye off the West Coast of Scotland. Mrs C
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Amergin Date: 15 Jun 01 - 06:19 PM mollificent is a bit odd.... |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Donuel Date: 15 Jun 01 - 06:11 PM If you are going to single out people there is always Warren Christopher (Vulcan?) or you can go to uglypeople.com |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Jun 01 - 06:08 PM Beat me to the Cumberland Falls Moonbows. I've been there on several occasions when they were visible. Only happens at specific times of the month and also under the right atmospheric conditions. I've spent many nights there when they should appear but don't. Great place to stay BTW......beautiful country and great hiking. About 35 miles away is one of the most beautiful places that no one ever goes......a 4 foot wide and 103 foot tall waterfall in this lovely hollow....the best! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Bill D Date: 15 Jun 01 - 06:04 PM well, I happened on a punk-rock concert once...two-legged beings with green, spiked hair and safty pins thru their noses were leaping from the speaker cabinets and landing on their heads, which only exacerbated their bizarre behavior.....I went away from there... |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Jim Dixon Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:59 PM The strangest life form I have ever seen was my newborn son. He came out all purplish and bloody, and with this long gray thing attached to his belly. But they got him cleaned up pretty well, and now he seems almost normal. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: mooman Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:54 PM I just love Tardigrades and the more I read about them the more fascinated I am. Clickit here is a good starting page about them. mooman |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: mousethief Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:41 PM Well the floaters I've had all my life; at least since I was 5, anyway. My stepdad calls pork chops baked in cream-of-mushroom soup, "floaters." I wonder if they can cause cataracts? Alex |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: mousethief Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:39 PM Oooooh, I had a visual migraine once, about 4 years ago. Totally freaky. It was like a really psychodelic light show, but without the drugs (or the Pink Floyd soundtrack). Maybe this is related, then. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Sorcha Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:36 PM Beginning cataracts can cause floaters, too, but I don't think they are usually shiny. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Donuel Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:26 PM Transparent cockroaches WOW. Someone mentioned getting the bright shinies last year and if it was mental illness. Well yes and no. It could be the aura onset of migraine headaches that do not evolve all the way to pain. The silvery flashes can be small or encompass ones entire vision. Then there are lesions but we won't go there. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: mousethief Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:25 PM To answer the question of the thread title, a pair of moths apparently fornicating on the back of a house in Chicago, Illinois. Wingspan was about 10 inches. Each. (each moth, not each wing) Alex |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: Allan C. Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:22 PM I just want to offer a clickie here for the location of the moonbows mentioned above. It is at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in Kentucky. |
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Subject: RE: BStrangest lifeform you have ever seen! From: mousethief Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:19 PM I weighed 3 lbs when I was born, but turned out to be human after all (at least I assume I'm human, being able to interbreed with other humans (unless my first wife wasn't human, which might be worth pondering)). Alex |
