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You don't want this bird watching your kid.. (Original Post) HipChick Dec 2012 OP
Reminds me of the nine months I spent in the jungle, the bush, we called it... bluesbassman Dec 2012 #1
I keep telling people that movie is funnier than it looks. Iggo Dec 2012 #3
One of my all time favorites. bluesbassman Dec 2012 #4
Trying that quotation with this video on FB. Love that movie. Did not bother with the remake. n/t dogknob Dec 2012 #5
Is that Gandalf as a child, or the eagle? nt rrneck Dec 2012 #2
I say fake. Archae Dec 2012 #6

bluesbassman

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1. Reminds me of the nine months I spent in the jungle, the bush, we called it...
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 12:50 AM
Dec 2012

It was unbelievable. I saw things...They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles. Really. In the evening, I would stand in front of my hut and watch in horror as these giant flies would pick children off the ground and carry them away. Oh, it was an incredible sight. Peasants screaming... chasing these flies down the road, waving brooms. You can imagine the pathetic quality of this. Waving these crudely fashioned brooms at these enormous flies... as they carried their children off to almost certain death. Natives had a name for them. "José Grecos de Muertos." "Flamenco dancers of death." The enormous flies flapping slowly away into the sunset. Small brown babies clutched in their beaks. A sight I'll never forget. I was stunned. Appalled. Sadly, there is very little you can do because of the tremendous red tape in the bush. Enormous red tape. These flies, for example. They're protected against pilferage under the provisions of the Guacamole Act of 1937.

Cool video BTW

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