OH REALLY?
Posted on 10/20/2007 6:48:19 PM PDT by UnklGene
BTW:
A man goes into the restaurant and asks the waiter, “Do you serve crabs?”
The waiter replies, “We serve anyone.”
Chto tyeper, smotri eta Russki krebski lyudii!!
Hitler fought them with tanks, and lost.
Now, just bring on the butter, lemon juice, and shell crackers! Nasha pobyeda!
Let us now enjoyably fight off the Russian crab invaders!
;^)
Crab enchilladas are much better than lutefisk. Trust me on this.
I think we're zeroing-in on a major part of the problem here.
As a second thought, this sounds like a job for Forrest Gump. Lessee, there's boiled crab, fried crab, sauteed crab, steamed crab, crab cakes, crab bisque, crab croquettes, crab gumbo, crab rangoon, crab louie, cracked crab, crab fritters...
I say notify “Red Lobster” and get the price of the lobster feast way down!
This reporter seems to be as confused as the Norwegian government.
What is there about leftist environmentalism that fries people’s brains?
On the one hand they worry that these crabs are unstoppable, and will wipe out every other species. On the other hand, they set strict limits on catching them. On the third hand, they are considering an extermination campaign.
The headline should read, “environmentalist bureaucrats are crazy.”
“One leg is enough to provide a grown man with a filling meal.”
I challenge that. I’ll bet I could eat half dozen.
H G Wells The Time Machine chapter 11:
‘Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and flittering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond. The sound of its voice was so dismal that I shivered and seated myself more firmly upon the machine. Looking round me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly towards me. Then I saw the thing was really a monstrous crab-like creature. Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennæ, like carters’ whips, waving and feeling, and its stalked eyes gleaming at you on either side of its metallic front? Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there. I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved.
‘As I stared at this sinister apparition crawling towards me, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had lighted there. I tried to brush it away with my hand, but in a moment it returned, and almost immediately came another by my ear. I struck at this, and caught something threadlike. It was drawn swiftly out of my hand. With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me. Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me. In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters. But I was still on the same beach, and I saw them distinctly now as soon as I stopped. Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the sombre light, among the foliated sheets of intense green.
This is one instance where I'll be happy to trust, but not verify... /grin
BTW, re: 'Stalin's Last Army', the author is wrong - they're in the US Congress, the MSM and academia...
Man is it’s natural predator, and we just need to eat more.
OH REALLY?
The only reason to eat lobster is the butter.
Global Warming did it.
Given how delicious they probably are, where’s the problem here?
LOL...I was thinking the same thing. Send up 10 Cajun shrimp boats and their crews, and tell them crabbing is illegal. Problem solved!
Yeah, aren’t the enviro-geeks usually worried about over-fishing, over-harvesting driving some species or other to extinction? This would seem to be a perfect opportunity to try it intentionally. (And get some good seafood in the bargain)
>>>some photographs of the ocean floor in Kirkenes in northern Norway show a writhing mass of the ugly, spiny animals. <<<
Okay, there is some serious disconnect here.
The disconnect is the government won't allow any serious harvesting of the scruptious pests. Hence the impact on the crab population is negligeable and the price stays sky-high.
The author has obviously never met me.
In the 1990s, for reasons nobody quite understands, the population exploded.
Duh! Global Warming
I have to differ with you on that. Bastard though Stalin was, his soldiers were brave and tough. Our Congress, MSM and Academia are neither. Fact is, they don't even approach the level of the crabs in this article.
So? King crab is a hundred times better than clams.
-ccm
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