Federal fish fighters this week are preparing further assaults on the feared Asian carp, with nets, electrified fences, poison — whatever they can do to stop the terrifying beast from entering the Great Lakes. Posted on 02/17/2010 7:06:54 AM PST by mlizzy
Federal fish fighters this week are preparing further assaults on the feared Asian carp, with nets, electrified fences, poison — whatever they can do to stop the terrifying beast from entering the Great Lakes.
Yet as scary as the jumping Asian carp may be, there's something even scarier.
The blobfish.
As you can see from the accompanying photograph, the cunning blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is the most terrifying fish in the world.
And if you're not afraid of it yet, you should be, because there's always something lurking out there that can get you.
Its hideously deformed body is quite boneless, a gelatinous orb hovering in the deep, covered in slime and mucus. But there's something even worse.
Its face.
Most fish don't really have faces. You've heard people refer to "fish eyes" or "fish lips," or they say, "Oh, shut up, you old fish face."
But the blobfish actually has a face. Not a fish face, but a human face, complete with lips and a big, bulbous nose.
A blobfish looks like some fat, drunken judge and may be highly intelligent. And therefore quite dangerous.
It frowns. It leers. Sometimes, it even drools.
"That's gross!" said an editor around here who didn't believe me. But once she saw the photos, she began gnawing the knuckles on her right hand in sheer, abject terror.
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And to think “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”
"Haa cha cha cha !"
Helen, is that you?
HP Lovecraft reference from the “Call of Cthulhu”. Actually pretty funny, even funnier if the fish had an octopus like face.
The Durante Fish!...................
The Durante Fish!...................
I think it's cute!............
Dude that thing looks like old Clinton crony WEB HUBBELL!
From WIKI:
Blobfish are found at depths where the pressure is several dozens of times higher than at sea level, which would likely make gas bladders inefficient. To remain buoyant, the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. The relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that floats by in front of it.
So it looks like this fish is living Lutefisk..........
The allusion is to Cthulhu, and terrible alien creatures living beneath the ocean (as another poster surmised) but since you ask for a translation, it is: “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”. The chant doesn’t have great significance, but a nod to Lovecraft is always fun.
perfect. It’s the Ziggy fish
wow, a new leader
I think it looks like Barney Frank. He’s a spineless blob too.
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