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Ancient Seafood Buffet Uncovered on Channel Islands
livescience.com ^
| 03-03-2011
| by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Posted on 03/03/2011 3:21:34 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: JRandomFreeper
ex-zactly...
You reminded me of when I lived on the Florida gulf coast...25 years ago...
There was a certain time of the year the locals called "the jubillee'. It was some kind of mating season when crabs crawled up on the beach by the thousands.
The locals would take a big pot and a pack of matches to the beach, scoop up a pot full of water, gather up some driftwood and build a fire and set the pot of water on to boil.
Then they would walk down the beach and pick up blue crabs and go back and toss them in the pot. When they turned red and floated to the top they were 'done'.
They would eat their fill, dump the pot of water on the fire to put it out, and go back home.
22 pounds of shells?
That's like 'nothing'.
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03/03/2011 4:49:02 PM PST
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Repeal The 17th
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To: Repeal The 17th
What part of the Gulf Coast did you live on?.....
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03/03/2011 5:09:48 PM PST
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Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
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03/03/2011 5:18:52 PM PST
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Repeal The 17th
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To: Repeal The 17th
I live in Ft. Walton Beach, and have for 30 years in October.
The days you describe are long gone into history.
Today, we cannot build fires on the beach.
To harvest crabs requires a license.
There are Size limits as well as quantity limits.
Certain species of crabs are protected.
No egg bearing female crabs allowed.
Fines and / or jail terms for non-compliance.
http://www.eregulations.com/Florida/fishing/saltwater/
When I was a kid this was a free country.......
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03/03/2011 5:35:03 PM PST
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Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
Ft. Walton is cool, been there many times.
I lived in Mexico Beach, worked in St. Joe,
and we had to go to Panama City to buy groceries!
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03/03/2011 5:49:59 PM PST
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Repeal The 17th
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To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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03/03/2011 6:35:13 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Sacajaweau
Seafood while living on an island...Who would have thunk... Yeah! It's amazing! I, for one, would have never made such a link between the two.........
</sarcasm>
Aren't we all so happy that our tax money was used for this oh so important study?
Ancient people living on an island surrounded by water feasting on seafood.
Will wonders never cease?
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03/03/2011 7:56:19 PM PST
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Fiddlstix
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To: Red Badger
These people may have killed off the Pygmy Mammoths. Oxymoron, no?
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03/03/2011 8:56:03 PM PST
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Mike Darancette
(The heresy of heresies was common sense - Orwell)
To: SunkenCiv
That article was written for fourth graders (from our time), but I bet that these days, college grads might struggle to understand it.
At least their intelligence can’t be insulted.
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posted on
03/06/2011 7:03:19 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Rio
Mmmm. Abalone is good eats, but hard to find.
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