Camel Toads..

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lozina

lozina

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LOL Nice!

edit: and licking "camel toads" does indeed have a hallucinating effect!
 
cKGunslinger

cKGunslinger

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
do you know what newspaper printed that?
it is interesting, but i suspect fakery
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"Hays Daily Newspaper," perhaps. Still unclear on the 'legitness' of it all..


edit: Another scan.
 
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Stretchman

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Wow, that is pretty funny. Legend has it that camel toads hoard treasure. They have been known to breath fire as well. Most noteworthy news!:)
 
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labgeek

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http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/cameltoad.asp

Origins: The amusing question-and-answer exchange quoted above came to us when what appeared to be a scanned image of a newspaper advice column began to circulate via e-mail. Just in case some of the references aren't familiar to everyone, we'll point out that the
humor in this item stems from the advice-seeker's puzzlement over a cryptic phrase in a letter written by her godson, and her confusion of cane toads (amphibians whose skin is sometimes licked or even smoked by thrill-seekers who believe the toad's secretions produce hallucinogenic effects when ingested) with "camel toads" as well as her apparent unfamiliarity with the term "camel toes" (a slang term for the visible outline of pudenda produced when women wear tight-fitting lower garments, so called because it resembles the shape of a camel's foot).

Naturally, this item prompted a flurry of "Is this true?" queries from our readers. As with many such entries, there are multiple levels of "truth" to be considered:
Was this question-and-answer exchange published in a newspaper's advice column?

Did the question come from a submission received by the columnist (rather than being something she made up herself)?

Was the letter on the level, or did the submitter simply fabricate a narrative for humor's sake?
The answer to the first question is yes ? this exchange appeared in the 15 June 2005 installment of "Ask Leslie," an advice column written by librarian Leslie Potter for the Hays Daily News in northwest Kansas.

The answer to the second question is also yes ? as Ms. Potter told us:
There were several staff members at the library's front desk the morning the "camel toads" letter arrived. When I opened and read it, I was thoroughly puzzled, as I had never heard of either camel toads or camel toes. But when I read it aloud to the staff, they practically started rolling on the floor. And their explanation is almost word-for-word what I used in my answer. I kept the original letter as a memento ? and to show people who didn't believe it could be real!
As for the third question, we'll have to leave the answer as undetermined. Ms. Potter told us she had no reason to doubt the letter-writer's sincerity:
I recognized the handwriting on the envelope as being from someone who writes in frequently, if anonymously ? always legitimate questions, so I have no reason to suspect this particular question was a fraud.
Personally, we think the set-up is too perfect, the tone of the letter too amusingly tongue-in-cheek to be anything but a deliberate attempt at humor, but that's just our opinion. We're not about to let such small details get in the way of a good chuckle.

Unfortunately, the "camel toads" column was one of Leslie Potter's last, as she and her husband moved out of Kansas the month after it was published. We have the feeling this entry will expose at least one of her Hays Daily News efforts to a whole new audience, however.
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