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Monster Squid Grips Racing Yacht?
Discovery ^
| Jan. 16 2003
| Editorial Staff (AFP)
Posted on 02/07/2003 7:57:44 AM PST by vannrox
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Amazing stuff.
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posted on
02/07/2003 7:57:45 AM PST
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
Jules Verne? More than amazing. Suspicious!
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posted on
02/07/2003 7:59:13 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
To: vannrox
The French would make good squid food.
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:00:01 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Semper Gumby - Always Flexable)
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To: vannrox
That's exactly why O'Shea thinks the sailors are having a little fun with the media.
They don't sound like they're joking.
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:01:27 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Defend America against her most powerful enemy -- the Democrats.)
To: vannrox
Isn't it odd that it came so near the surface, if it was a squid? I thought they were only seen at great depths.
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:03:14 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Start Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: vannrox
To: vannrox
To: vannrox
This is what the french get for bombing the Rainbow Warrior.
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:06:17 AM PST
by
js1138
To: bmwcyle
Yes... Nice and cheesey; just the way Architeuthis like 'em!
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:09:39 AM PST
by
Redcloak
(Jøìn thë Çøålìtìon tø Prëvënt the Åbûsë of Ûnnëçëssårìlÿ Lënghtÿ, Vërbøsë ånd Nønsënsìçål Tåg Lìnës)
To: vannrox
Actual photograph of giant squid as taken by crew members!
To: Redcloak
well, that's the thing. it wasn't a squid, it was a moose, and not a giant moose but a chief moose who, searching for a sniper got a skipper instead, and not just any old skipper but a cheese-eating surrender one. all of this was apparently lost when the story was translated; i hope i've clarified it for everyone.
dep
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:12:02 AM PST
by
dep
To: dep
What does a squid and a frenchman have in common?
NO SPINE!!!!
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:15:26 AM PST
by
McBuff
To: Endeavor
ping!
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:15:55 AM PST
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(Happy people live longer. I plan on living forever)
To: vannrox
Man ! I
hate it when a giant squid tries to capture my boat !!!
Seriously, during the Korean war, a giant squid tried to do battle with a US Navy minesweeper. Its tentacles have suction cups with hooks inside them, and it actually managed to penetrate the lighter steel of one of the gun housings : leaving ring-shaped indentations behind. Fortunately, none of the crew were nearby at the moment...
To: vannrox
Why anyone would voluntarily go on the ocean is a mystery to me.
Everything I know about the ocean I learned from Jules Verne. Everything I need to know about the ocean I learned from Jaws.
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:34:25 AM PST
by
templar
To: vannrox
I heard an amazing story set during WWII. A ship was torpedoed by the Nazis in the South Atlantic, and a group of men ended up clinging to debris, floating and waiting for rescue. In the darkness, they suddenly saw something black blotting out some of the stars right above them, and several of the men were grabbed by the tentacles of a giant squid.
I don't remeber if any of them were taken down into the sea by the suid, but at least one of the survivors had the tell-tale sucker marks on his skin after the incident.
To: BushMeister
OOPS! "Suid" = "squid", obviously. I'll try to post a link to the above story if I can find it.
To: vannrox
That's exactly why O'Shea thinks the sailors are having a little fun with the media.
"I wasn't there and I know it couldn't possibly have happened," said the angry O'Shea. "That the non-scientific community would have the nerve to observe phenomena frankly makes me mad enough to scream."
O'Shea also added that any new discoveries or observations that go against predetermined scientific opinion are simply hoaxes, unless perpetrated by the right people.
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:40:06 AM PST
by
Goodlife
To: vannrox
And its all true. I swear by my tattoo.
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posted on
02/07/2003 8:41:31 AM PST
by
strela
(If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughta go back home and crawl under your bed.)
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