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Researchers Search For 3-ft Long, Spitting Worm

mercurynews.com — The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from "Dune" or those vicious creatures from the movie "Tremors."

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  • OfNumbers, on 07/12/2009, -0/+45The Spice must flow.
  • inactive, on 07/12/2009, -2/+26I got one right here!
  • trymene, on 07/12/2009, -2/+22*awaits many "That's what she said" jokes*
  • slavery10264, on 07/13/2009, -0/+15If we walk without rhythm, we won't attract the worm.
  • LilJimmyNordin, on 07/13/2009, -1/+15PENIS JOKE
  • smacksaw, on 07/13/2009, -1/+9I'd spit on you as well if you doused my home with vinegar and mustard.
  • skipvt, on 07/13/2009, -1/+6The next headline; "Researchers Searching for Giant 3 Foot Long Spitting Worm Disappear Without a Trace."
  • OyVeh, on 07/13/2009, -1/+5"The shocker can deliver up to 480 volts. That makes it dangerous to touch, and it could potentially fry a specimen."

    "Conservation groups quickly petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the worm as an endangered species, citing as proof the lack of sightings."


    Maybe if we stopped shocking them to death they wouldn't need to be protected.

  • vroom101, on 07/12/2009, -4/+8I, for one, welcome our mysterious three-foot-long-spitting-worm overlord!
  • inactive, on 07/13/2009, -1/+5Goddamn, every time I'm outside tanning in the nude they have to start some scientific study...
  • DiggerDave08, on 07/13/2009, -0/+4"One of Johnson-Maynard's graduate students found this specimen in 2005, and it is the only confirmed example of the species. The worm in the tube is about six inches long, well short of the 3 feet that early observers of the worms in the late 1890s described."

    Well if that's all they are looking for is a 6 inch spitting worm, than....nahhh...too easy.
  • RupertPupkin22, on 07/12/2009, -1/+5I thought that thing died when John Holmes did.
  • CiDaemon, on 07/13/2009, -4/+8"Researchers Search For 3-ft Long, Spitting Worm"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_cobra

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  • rocknog, on 07/13/2009, -2/+5*passes up obvious Dune references in favor of a Tremors reference*
  • socrates17, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2Pic, or it didn't exist.
  • 3rdDay, on 07/13/2009, -1/+3Spit what at predators?
  • snagglefoof, on 07/13/2009, -1/+3"scouring the Palouse regoin"

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  • inactive, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2I saw a dead one of these last year in a dirt pile between Moscow and Pullman, had no idea what it was. I guess they really love the Palouse loess that covers everything after a slight breeze. Freaky sandworms ftw!
  • waisosrs, on 07/13/2009, -1/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Death_Worm
  • frieddonuts, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Worms like this are known to exist in other places, such as the Giant Gippsland worm in Australia. http://thegreencommunity.org/giant_worms.html
    On a side note, loess is a very strange word.
  • GreatSunJester, on 07/13/2009, -1/+3"Conservationists also want the Obama administration to protect it as an endangered species, even though there is scant scientific information about its existence."
    and
    "Conservation groups quickly petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the worm as an endangered species, citing as proof the lack of sightings. But the agency said there simply was not enough scientific information to merit a listing."

    Why am I not surprised? We have no proof it exists, so it must be endangered.
  • ASSASSYN360, on 07/13/2009, -1/+3"He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!"

    " Father... father, the sleeper has awakened!"
  • wolfing, on 07/13/2009, -1/+2MAUD 'DIB!
  • Loki101, on 07/13/2009, -1/+2MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM!
  • Xzelick, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1How bout you let us know when you find it...
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1There has been a 3-foot long, spitting worm on TV for many years and its name is Bill O'Reilly.
  • MuadDave, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1Yes?
  • KiDMAJORA, on 07/15/2009, -0/+0Have they checked my pants?
  • 4AntiStupid, on 07/14/2009, -1/+1Nothing like an extended dick joke to fill a dull evening.
  • Singerspell, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1Nice article. However, I want to see a picture of it!
  • thrashermx, on 07/13/2009, -2/+2Is 3-ft Long Spitting Worm an euphemism?
  • austinharding, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1what would Freud think about this search?
  • TobiasParker, on 07/13/2009, -2/+2I can beat 6 inches, even if she is ugly.
  • inactive, on 07/13/2009, -2/+1Remarkably restrained on the "TWSS" front, digg.

    But honestly, you're all just trying to find the perfect wording, amirite?

    You're all pretending you're above it (just this once) but go on, admit it.
  • techmaster, on 07/13/2009, -3/+1There are two things I *HATE*....mustard, and period blood.
  • grey580, on 07/13/2009, -3/+1What? No I got one of those in my pants jokes?
  • bitterprick, on 07/13/2009, -2/+0"Researchers Search For 3-ft Long, Spitting Worm"

    Sounds like the title of a porn video.

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