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2002-07-22

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-07-22 08:32 am|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bartender! Calamari for everyone!

Posted by Anonymous 2002-07-22 08:34:28|| 2002-07-22 08:34:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Suddenly, since '86, we have mysterious big squid washing up on Pacific shores. Yep, the stars are right and there is stirring in the drowned city of R'yleh.

Posted by Pat Phillips 2002-07-22 08:53:50|| 2002-07-22 08:53:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Pat first thing that I thought when I saw that big sucker was Cthulhu. Damn you beat me to it!

Have you perchange been to http://www.shoggoth.net? That reminds me, I got to finish the next part of my tale, it seems that there are some nasty stirrings on the coast of Scotland. Deep Ones are at it again.

Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge 2002-07-22 13:13:17|| [dodgeblog.blogspot.com] 2002-07-22 13:13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 here in San Diego we've had a rash of beached Flying Squid - 100's at a time - but only 1'-2' long....does size matter (on this one)? lol
check out www.sosd.com if you doubt me

Posted by Fgaines 2002-07-22 14:50:27|| 2002-07-22 14:50:27|| Front Page Top

#5 These beach washups are signs of the new covenant.
To hell with humans; my next prophets will be invertebrates.

Posted by Allah the Dog Faced Dog 2002-07-22 18:02:41|| 2002-07-22 18:02:41|| Front Page Top

#6 A Kraken! I'll some of that calamari, thanks!

Posted by Quana 2002-07-22 19:52:33|| 2002-07-22 19:52:33|| Front Page Top

#7 "my next prophets will be invertebrates." - and the current (living?) ones are ? How 'bout that Gephardt trying to will the economy down?

Posted by Frank G 2002-07-22 20:34:43|| 2002-07-22 20:34:43|| Front Page Top

#8 When you give the ol' mal'occhia, is it the left eye or the right eye? I forget...

Posted by Fred 2002-07-22 20:37:48|| 2002-07-22 20:37:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Too much ammonia for fritters, alas.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wagh'nagl fhtagn ("In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu lies dreaming" - H.P. Lovecraft)

Posted by Joe 2002-07-22 22:57:20|| [www.pathcom.com/~kat/blogs/jkmainblog.html] 2002-07-22 22:57:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Ah yes, but can you pronounce it?

Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge 2002-07-23 03:34:49|| [www.dodgeblog.com] 2002-07-23 03:34:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Trust CNN to get something wrong in every story, "The giant squid is believed to feed on, among other things, the world's biggest animals with several eyewitness stories from fisherman who have seen the squid in fierce battles with whales.

Dead whales have been found washed up on beaches with large sucker marks on their bodies, apparently from squid attacks." Actually the assumption has always been that the squid is sperm whale food....for the very simple reason that dead whales usually have hundreds, sometimes thousands, of giant squid beaks in their stomachs and intestines (the beaks are indigestible).

Posted by carl 2002-07-23 05:58:33|| 2002-07-23 05:58:33|| Front Page Top

09:32 Fred
07:41 Brian
07:40 Tom Roberts
07:14 Mac
06:09 Fred