Posted on 05/26/2008 10:26:35 AM PDT by Stoat
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian fishermen have hauled up a 20-foot-long giant squid off the country's southeastern coast.
Skipper Rangi Pene said Monday that the 500-pound squid was already dead when it was caught in a trawler's nets Sunday night in waters more than 1,640 feet deep.
Paul McCoy, a fisheries research biologist, said it took 10 men to lift the squid onto a stretcher and place it in a storage freezer in the city of Portland. A museum will collect it this week.
McCoy said an analysis by the museum would determine the type of squid, its age and possibly how it died.
Toss it into the air in a Japanese neighborhood and not a piece of it will hit the ground.
Lovecraft would be rolling over in his grave...
...and I’m rolling on the floor laughing.
Both of those pics are GREAT, but the animated one is just WONDERFUL!! :-)
Thanks so much for posting :-)
*mixes wasabe*
Wow, that thing must have sucked.
LMAO
Hoping you have an industrial cement mixer to prepare it in :-)
Hosting a ‘giant squid calamari party’ would probably last so long that the neighbors might become unpleasant.
Neighbor: “I’m just wondering if your twelve-day bash might be drawing to a close sometime soon? Your 250 guests are making it a bit difficult for us to get into our driveway....”
Miss Heels: “But we’ve barely gotten through one tentacle....would you care for some more?”
With MY KID? ppffttt.... It wouldn’t last an hour....
Oh Lawdy....that brings particularly vivid imagery to the neural landscape :-)
I do hope that you'll keep your fingers well clear during feeding times....you will have much greater difficulty typing at Free Republic if any of your digits are mistaken for a snack :-)
She's a beautiful 120lb college student now, and would never wolf down food like that....
in front of her boyfriend anyways...
Astonishing....I'm sure that the restaurant was delighted to have you and the staff cried when you left, pleading with you to come back soon :-)
She's a beautiful 120lb college student now, and would never wolf down food like that....
in front of her boyfriend anyways...
ROTFLMAO!
Her future husband will be in for a bit of a surprise the first time he returns home after a long day at work:
BabyHeels' Hubby: "Honey, didn't we have two large turkeys, a giant squid and sixty pounds of wasabe here in the refrigerator yesterday? I thought that I had picked those up shopping, but I suppose I could be mistaken......"
BabyHeels: "burp"
Yep. But I think he’s starting to suspect. We had steak tonight and she daintily ate at least a pound of meat, 2 helpings of mashed potatoes, 1/2 a big zucchini out of the garden with ranch dressing and a homemade chili rellano. Then polished it off with some rocky road. Boyfriend is 6’4”. Barely finished his dinner. Just watched with his mouth open in astonishment.
Well, hopefully he has business associates in the wholesale foods distribution industry who can arrange some sort of volume delivery system. He'll have to come up with some sort of plausible cover story however, like "we're hosting four Vietnamese families in our basement while they finish up their Citizenship program" or "we're starting a wild animal safari park in our back yard, and we've found that the lions and bears all prefer steak, zucchini and giant squid".
Imagine her pregnant. *shiver*
That shouldn't be too much of a problem if the distribution system is well-established. If she begins to have special cravings, it should be no problem to tick a few extra boxes on the internet order template. It may be an issue if these cravings are wildly divergent and occur at odd times of the day and night however. Hopefully they will be living near a 24-hour gourmet grocery store that can accommodate BabyHeels' Hubby when he rushes in at 4AM in a bathrobe, screaming at the top of his lungs that his wife needs to have two cases of pickled pigs' feet, a pallet of chocolate covered pickles and a giant squid STAT!
That shouldn't be too difficult, should it?
"snicker"
And when MiniHeels is born, everything is just doubled. Simple, right? :-)
I’m scared. I won’t lie. People. dogs. cats. lions. fish. I’m terrified.
Just keep a tranquilizer gun handy. If relatives or neighbors start disappearing and she starts ordering a lot of "how to build a giant barbecue with rotating spit in your backyard" books from Amazon and begins to look at you in a decidedly different way, just "trank" her and drop her off at the Zoo. She'll have a nice snack there and will be fine for probably several hours. :-)
Next day, a new Zoo.
and stoats?
barely a meal....
Isn't that what petting zoos are for?
and stoats?
barely a meal....
Hopefully my scruffy appearance and reputation for having "an occasional flea issue" will make me quite unattractive as a potential culinary option
"nervous chuckle"
Anyway, when the subject matter turns to stoats as entree items, I've come to regard this as a good time to say good evening, which I must do now as tomorrow begins all too early.
May I say that it was a distinct pleasure in chatting with you, and I hope that we might do so again one day, perhaps when there is not quite as much danger of me winding up on a barbecue?
Thank you so very much for spending time with me, and I wish the very best for you and yours.
Goodnight :-)
"waving paw"
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