Egypt Seizes 7,000 Dried Lizards

AP | 8/03/02

[kattracks]

CAIRO, Egypt Aug. 3 — Egyptian customs agents seized 7,000 dried lizards from a Syrian passenger Saturday, airport officials said.

Ahmed Mahmoud Salem, who was about to board a plane to the Jordanian capital, Amman, said he was going to mix the lizards with honey to make an aphrodisiac.

He was allowed to leave. Authorities kept the lizards in Egypt.

Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[Jonathon Spectre]

Well. Um.

[Mr. Lucky]

I wish I could get Mrs. Lucky to seize my dried lizard a little more often.

[muggs]

As Jonathon Spectre says above, Well. Um.

[southernnorthcarolina]

This can't be just a coincidence.

The perfect thing with which to wash down those honey-dipped dried lizards...

[kattracks]

I guess some people need all the help they can get,

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Dry Me A Lizard

Now you say your sorry
You dry the whole night thru
Well you can dry me a lizard, dry me a lizard
I dried a lizard over you

[kattracks]

Now that's funny!

[Orual]

...he was going to mix the (7,000) lizards with honey to make an aphrodisiac.

That's a lotsa honey, but maybe he has a lotsa honeys.

[mlocher]

did anyone check to see if bin laden was among the lizards?

[buffyt]

I think that would work better for me than SlimFast..... Dried lizard and honey, I wonder if Martha Stewart ever makes that on her show?????

[Ken H]

Is this the same place where 300 cobras escaped from a man's suitcase a few days ago?

[StriperSniper]

No, that was Riyadh, but the guy with the cobras was from Egypt.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Ahmed Mahmoud Salem, who was about to board a plane to the Jordanian capital, Amman, said he was going to mix the lizards with honey to make an aphrodisiac.

Poor man's Viagra?

[aculeus]

...he was going to mix the (7,000) lizards with honey to make an aphrodisiac.

That's a lotsa honey, but maybe he has a lotsa honeys

... and a very large blender.

[dighton]

What, no chips?

[tet68]

Try'd soaking it in hot water?

[Chewbacca]

Man! They stole my order of Lizard Jerky.
Where the heck am I supposed to get my order filled now?

[PatrickHenry]

This article raises so many questions:

1. Since when is it illegal to transport dried lizzards?
2. Was it really 7,000? Who counted them?
3. Did they all fit into his carry-on luggage?
4. And finally ... how many lizzards does it take to make an effective dossage?

[surely_you_jest]

This takes the old expression about "draining the lizard" onto a new level . . . .

[csvset]

I'll be moving to Cairo soon
Gonna' be a lizzard tycoon
With thousands of honey soaked lizzards
All the ladies would say I was mighty grand

[PatrickHenry]

Can't you just see the Egyptian customs officer, sort of an Inspector Clouseau type, opening the luggage and looking inside ...

"Ah yes ... and what do we have here?"

"Those are my lizzards," said the Syrian. "I'm taking them to Jordan."

"I can see that they're lizzards; do you take me for a fool? Anyone can see that they're lizzards. But we have laws here in Egypt ... "

[xJones]

I wish I could get Mrs. Lucky to seize my dried lizard a little more often.

3 posted on 8/3/02 11:21 AM Central by Mr. Lucky

Now that's bad, very very bad. LOL, and you have 7000 of them. :)

[csvset]

I wonder if they were they Egyptian Spiny Tails?

[Tokhtamish]

There were 200 cobras let loose in Cairo airport when someone's luggage was searched a few days ago. Now 7,000 lizards.

What's next, a partridge in a pear tree ?