[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: A regional term for the crane fly (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Okay, if you call a crane fly a daddy longlegs (and you should be calling it a mosquito hawk, as every Right Thinking American does), what do you call this:

http://healthyhomegardening.com/images/Blossom/daddylongleg3.jpg




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> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      A regional term for the crane fly
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> > "The crane fly, a winged insect which looks like a large [gigantic,
> > IMO - W] mosquito, is called a daddy longlegs in some parts of the
> > world (such as
> > England) ..."
> >
> > http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.asp for
> > the crane fly
> >
> > It's also called a "daddy long-legs" in East Texas.
> >
> > Well, by the colored, anyway.
> > --
> > -Wilson
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