Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists

Reuters ^ | 07/02/03 | Reuters

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Missed it. Fishing shows on TV just make me want to go out a buy more fishing stuff.

[Bluntpoint]

I don't believe watching Ron Jeremy would lead to an urge to buy a fishing pole. Maybe a razor and a bottle of Nair.

http://magicmovie.8m.com/jeremy.jpg

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I guess we don't get that show on our dish.

[Bluntpoint]

Trying turning off your "adult" filter.

[yankeedame]

Cryptozoology placemarker. "

Try hydrocortisone cream.
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Right! And take motrin for discomfort as need, likewise an ice pack, and drink plenty of warm juice.

[BenLurkin]

".... mass of decomposing lumpy grey flesh"

[Snake65]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

[Bluntpoint]

You are Nyarlathotep!

[SquirrelKing]

Cue the "thong song"...

[Snake65]

"That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule on earth. The time would be easy to know, for them mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."
-H.P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu, 1926

[Marysecretary]

That does conjure up some image, huh? Ah, if only....

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[Slyfox]

LOL - Hey, that bikini top did not cover up ALL her nips!

[Bluntpoint]

"Hey, that bikini top did not cover up ALL her nips! "

Sounds like a discussion after a viewing of Rosie in a bathing suit.

[AdmSmith]

The existence of the giant squid, genus Architeuthis, is well accepted by science though few have ever been seen, and little is known about their habits.

Giant squid are carnivorous mollusks that have a long, torpedo shaped body. At one end, surrounding a beak-like mouth strong enough to cut through steel cable, are five pairs of arms. One pair, thinner and longer than the rest, are used to catch food and bring it to the mouth. Just past the mouth are the eyes. Eyes that are the largest in the animal kingdom, getting as big as eighteen inches across.

or take a look here
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/squid.html

[AdmSmith]

"Take a DNA sample."

Yes please there are just a few sequences studied:


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide&cmd=Search&dopt=DocSum&term=txid34555[Organism:exp]

[COBOL2Java]

Just finished a study of the Book of Job with Dr. J. Vernon McGee on Thru the Bible radio program. Magnificent piece of sacred scripture.

[COBOL2Java]

So that's what happens when water spills on her!

[Movemout]

I just finished Bill Bryson's newly published book, "A Short History of just about everything"

Mr. Bryson reports that it is believed that amber is the result of giant squid beaks, which are apparently indigestible to Sperm Whales, being left behind after the death of the whales, and their subsequent decomposition. A live giant squid has been reliably sighted once, maybe. Their carcasses wash up on the shores of New Zealand and Australia from time to time.

[TXFireman]

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