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« on: 30/03/2009 13:54:05 »
I Posted this in another thread but wondered if I would get a better result if it had it's own thread..


Whist looking for a photo for my reversing snail question I found this..

Do ewe think it is real or a fake ?

I can't seem to locate any proper info about it !

 [ Invalid Attachment ]
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« Reply #1 on: 30/03/2009 14:27:21 »
I can't find any reference to it except in conjunction with Takeshi Yamada's sideshow. That makes me suspicious.

Remember also that snails are pseudopodia. Those podia look anything but pseudo.
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« Reply #2 on: 30/03/2009 15:03:35 »
Wow that looks very odd!
I have never seen anything like that before and have no Idea about its validity...

 at first glance it reminded me of a turtle foot but then I looked closer... very odd indeed!
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« Reply #3 on: 30/03/2009 15:40:14 »
the chupacabra is a 'legendary' animal from Mexico and south America. Legendary as in Bigfoot and Yeti's.

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« Reply #4 on: 30/03/2009 17:05:45 »
Quote from: JnA on 30/03/2009 15:40:14
the chupacabra is a 'legendary' animal from Mexico and south America. Legendary as in Bigfoot and Yeti's.



Yes - Goatsucker.
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« Reply #5 on: 30/03/2009 17:07:55 »
The chupacabra is a legend whereas that snail looks like a LEG END!
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« Reply #6 on: 30/03/2009 17:15:42 »
Lol - a snail with claws, and people are asking it it's real!   [:D]
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...And its claws are as big as cups, and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps! And Mrs Doyle was telling me it's got magnets on its tail, so if you're made out of metal it can attach itself to you! And instead of a mouth it's got four arses!
 

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« Reply #7 on: 30/03/2009 17:45:39 »
I wonder if it's name was Anne Boleyn!
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« Reply #8 on: 30/03/2009 20:22:31 »
Doesn't April start in a couple of days' time?
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« Reply #9 on: 30/03/2009 20:43:07 »
Wednesday
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« Reply #10 on: 30/03/2009 20:51:19 »
Quote from: LeeE on 30/03/2009 17:15:42
Lol - a snail with claws, and people are asking it it's real!   [:D]

Not " people "....just me !! *hurummpth*
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« Reply #11 on: 31/03/2009 01:38:42 »
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 30/03/2009 17:05:45
Quote from: JnA on 30/03/2009 15:40:14
the chupacabra is a 'legendary' animal from Mexico and south America. Legendary as in Bigfoot and Yeti's.



Yes - Goatsucker.


well, no need for name calling :P
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« Reply #12 on: 31/03/2009 07:58:39 »
Quote from: JnA on 31/03/2009 01:38:42
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 30/03/2009 17:05:45
Quote from: JnA on 30/03/2009 15:40:14
the chupacabra is a 'legendary' animal from Mexico and south America. Legendary as in Bigfoot and Yeti's.



Yes - Goatsucker.


well, no need for name calling :P

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« Reply #13 on: 31/03/2009 13:36:10 »
Quote from: Don_1 on 30/03/2009 17:45:39
I wonder if it's name was Anne Boleyn!

hahaha   cute.
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« Reply #14 on: 05/04/2009 00:22:57 »
Why, one can even see the fake claws on the most of the toessin the plotograph through the plasict and/or resin from which the six-toed foot is made!

FAKE!!
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« Reply #15 on: 05/04/2009 10:09:16 »
Plotograph indeed.
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« Reply #16 on: 05/05/2009 14:01:44 »
i don't think that it can get any more fake, that or its one really mutated snail.  Must live next to a nuclear waste site or something.
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« Reply #17 on: 06/05/2009 06:25:56 »
Or my house...
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« Reply #18 on: 01/07/2011 20:20:26 »
Quote from: JimBob on 05/04/2009 00:22:57
Why, one can even see the fake claws on the most of the toessin the plotograph through the plasict and/or resin from which the six-toed foot is made!

FAKE!!

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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« Reply #19 on: 01/07/2011 20:51:52 »
This was made as part of a hoax contest on About.com.

http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostphotos/ig/2007-Photo-Hoax-Contest-Slide-/Giant-Chupacabras-Snail.-00a.htm
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