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Toothy invader causes piranha scare [Texas pacu]
Del Rio News-Herald ^ | August 17, 2005 | Jennifer Killin

Posted on 08/19/2005 9:36:20 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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Anyone know how pacu tastes?
1 posted on 08/19/2005 9:36:21 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: vrwc0915; norton; America-First-55; nwctwx; gbaker; ex-Texan; austinmark; tyw; ...

Pacu Ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.


2 posted on 08/19/2005 9:42:59 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Invaders-beyond your expectations!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

I would say there is something fishy about this. :-)


3 posted on 08/19/2005 10:04:33 PM PDT by punster
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To: SwinneySwitch
"Anyone know how pacu tastes?"

Yep, I sure do. When I was in college a buddy of mine had a huge fishtank with six red piranha and one large pacu in it. We'd been drinking beer and he told me he didn't want to keep the pacu any more, so it came out of the tank and a knife came out of the drawer and I ended up pan frying it with some red chile sauce. It was actually quite tasty, (white, flaky meat), but there were a lot of bones.

4 posted on 08/19/2005 10:07:53 PM PDT by elmer fudd
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To: SwinneySwitch
"“This is a severe problem for the natural biota. It could conceivably crash the ecosystem,” Garrett said"

Has there ever been an environmentalist whacko who hasn't co-opted alarmist rhetoric?

5 posted on 08/19/2005 10:08:44 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: elmer fudd

Brought the friggin fish in to the newspaper office, newspaper writes an article on the piranha look alike and the newspaper doesn't even have a picture of the thing?!?


6 posted on 08/19/2005 10:10:57 PM PDT by RushingWater
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To: SwinneySwitch

Now THAT'S the ticket for a good cheap start to cut down on those swimming across the Rio Grande.

Let Texas introduce some more hybrid fresh water fish along the border.

Flaco: "Come on, Man. Let's swim across the borrrrder"

Jose: "No way, Man. Those feeshes will eat all my skin off!!" LOL.

Come on Gov. Perry. Here's a cheap way for you to pull your head out of your ass and make a stand on illegals here in Texas.


7 posted on 08/19/2005 10:18:49 PM PDT by ElephantinTexas (Republican ladies are the fairest of them all!)
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College + Beer = Dead Pacu
8 posted on 08/19/2005 10:25:34 PM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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To: ElephantinTexas

What about those fish that swim up ones pecker?


9 posted on 08/19/2005 10:26:58 PM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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To: endthematrix
"What about those fish that "swim up ones pecker?"

Not sure Matrix. They may be contacting you for one of their first guinea swimmers.

10 posted on 08/19/2005 10:35:28 PM PDT by ElephantinTexas (Republican ladies are the fairest of them all!)
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To: endthematrix

The Candiru

It swims up other "channels" as well. Watch your backside. : )


11 posted on 08/19/2005 10:42:24 PM PDT by Peace will be here soon
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To: ElephantinTexas
Uh, forget that.


12 posted on 08/19/2005 10:44:39 PM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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To: endthematrix

Understood, you chicken. lol.

Now that the 3rd special session is over with nothing done AGAIN, maybe you and I can offer some of our elected RINO's and other elected idiots up in Austin a free 30 day trial visit to skinny dip in some of South Texas finest places.


13 posted on 08/19/2005 11:15:31 PM PDT by ElephantinTexas (Republican ladies are the fairest of them all!)
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To: endthematrix

Yikes, a urologist has pictures of the extraction surgery from that very appendage:

http://www.internext.com.br/urologia/Casosclinicos.htm


14 posted on 08/19/2005 11:55:19 PM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: RushingWater

Red Bellied Pacu
15 posted on 08/20/2005 5:12:02 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Invaders-beyond your expectations!)
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To: elmer fudd

Thanks, elmer. Apparently they can grow up to 50 pounds!


16 posted on 08/20/2005 5:17:46 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Invaders-beyond your expectations!)
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To: sockmonkey

Ouch!


17 posted on 08/20/2005 5:23:19 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Invaders-beyond your expectations!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

It tastes just like those frogs that taste like chicken--or is it chickens that taste like frogs?

After all, frogs came first in time.


18 posted on 08/20/2005 6:30:47 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: Pirogue Captain

Pacu Ping!


19 posted on 08/20/2005 6:50:35 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Invaders-beyond your expectations!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

The one I cooked was probably about 2 lbs, which looked pretty big in the fish tank, bigger than the piranha anyway.


20 posted on 08/20/2005 9:58:37 PM PDT by elmer fudd
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