Posted on 02/22/2007 12:51:48 AM PST by Stoat
I'm curious, why is a wheel weight in picture #4?
Oh, maybe it came from the tractor tire?
Odd.
I think it there to reference the size of the sucker and hooks.
Such horrific imagery! Far worse than any demon of the deep! Surely a creation of Satan himself!
See what you've done? Now I need to cleanse my neural pathways of this toxic beastliness with angelic visions of normalcy, sanity and coherence
There! That's much better!
"snicker"
I'll just wait a little while until the sun is below the yardarm....
Well, it's common squid trick when they're caught... they pretend to look unedible... lol..
LOL... that's scary. Let's do the same too... they might have thought humans have the best meat. It's payback time.
Yummy... And the wine, exactly the right one for it.
,,, post #45 - you're right!
,,, yep, as you would a kingfish.
,,, permission to come aboard granted.
Could it be near death because it had the bends?
I am thinking because it was hooked on a line,then maybe it had ascended too quickly and couldn't decompress.
Oh, dang, that Hello Kitty / Cthulu one is funny!
My understanding that it's common for creatures from the very deepest regions of the oceans to die when they are brought to or near to the surface. Their entire physiology is based upon living under literally tons of pressure that is the norm at such great depths, and so when that pressure is eliminated their bodies and body systems are unprepared for the radical change. Although I'm no marine biologist and can't cite the specific physiological functions that are affected, I think that these creatures experience just as much of a deadly change as a human or surface-dwelling animal would experience if subjected to the pressures of such depths.
Another example of a very specific physiological design can be seen in the giraffe, whose heart and circulatory system is designed to function only with the animal upright and with the long neck providing a vertical gravity load for the heart and associated organs. When the animal cannot stand up, the gravity load is eliminated and the animal dies.
I'm delighted that you enjoyed it :-)
I must confess that I didn't make it myself but shamelessly stole it from the internet.
The rapist can't run for V.P.
I've never eaten kingfish.
,,, it's common in sushi bars here.
~~~ I've never been in a sushi bar.
I think I may have eaten some raw fish at an authentic Hawaiian luau, the dish was Lomi - Lomi Salmon and the Salmon was raw. It had lotsa other stuff mixed with it and I had consumed lotsa booze, so I don't remember if I liked it or not. >:-}
That was in 1959.
,,, the only thing that stops me from eating sushi every day is the cost.
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