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Ha! I tell everyone that when our kids were concieved, I was an "innocent bystander!"

Strangely enough, though, no one believes me! :-)

-- Connie :-)

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They are like cockoaches, you find them even in the nicest places.

All I can come up with without going into serious search mode is that the abg hirarchy is unmanaged and possibly at least initially a geographic hierarchy serving Ausberg. My german is not great, and mostly from pennsylvania dutch, so I can't make much of some of the places the search led me to. Small and neglected groups from such hierarchys are often used by trolls and suchlike vermin as their own private playgrounds. These kinds of groups attract less suspicion and less spam than an abandoned group like say alt.binaries.erotica.beaniebabies would.

NightMist

Good beg, John! :)

My grandfather used to prospect for pitchblende in Nevada. Once the shipyards in WWII got geared up, he decided building ships was way better than battling scorpions. :)

My friend, who lives in Phoenix, would agree about scorpions. One decided to get in bed with her one night early in the summer and stung her in several places. Last I knew she was still suffering some of the after effects.

Donna in Idaho

EEEWWWW that just gave me goosebumps. I lived in the Phoenix area for 17 years and never saw one.

Shoot, I found a scorpion in my garage here in Missouri! That was shocking. As a former Flagstaff and Phoenix gal, I knew what it was but sure never expected to find one here. Ugh! I kept it in a jar for a while- it was quite the conversation piece.....

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

I have access to the other group he posted from the abg one... It is almost all his posts and they are just random letters sent to groups like what he sent us. My motorbike is possessed went to the biking group for example. Anyhow, it was actually quite funny to see some of the responses he got, much like John's brilliant one :) So if you are bored it is somewhat amusing, however it is also not G rated, and some are quite offensive.

Carissa

Does anyone remember several years ago that one of our regular rctq posters posted a message about her Mom (who lived in Az) going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, drinking water out of a glass that had a scorpion in it? That one really gave me the shivers! When she called her daughter the next morning, the daughter could hardly understand the mom because her mouth/tongue (don't remember which, maybe both) were so swollen.

Donna in Idaho

So I'm not the only one who looked at that group. It just looks like he took over a defunct group. Even spammers seem to no bother with it much. Debra in VA See my quilts at

OMG! If *that* story doesn't creep you out, then nothing will. How horrid!!!

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

Yuck yuck yuck yuck........more goosebumps!!!!

Howdy!

That was Chris I. who lives in Dallas. I met her mom who seems no worse for having almost swallowed the scorpion. She's a hoot! And a quilter.

R/Sandy