BS: Meet The Giant Squid!

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Little Robyn
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 04:22 PM

Somewhere there's a web site to watch the dissection live but my little computer can't manage that. But a Google search should find it - it was on telly last night.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 09:40 PM

Well then, let's get kraken!

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 09:14 PM

All the best puns have already been exhausted in this thread if you reread it.

And there will be bigger Krakin coming on line in the future, maybe even in your neighborhood.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Gurney
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 07:45 PM

'Come all ye punsters bold, and draw near, and draw near...'

or

'Whale meat again, don't know where, don't know when, but....'


The enormous squid caught by a Kiwi boat in the Antarctic is being dissected here as we speak. It took several days to defrost.

I think they were longlining for Peruvian Toothfish when they got it. In a documentary about the fishery, I saw the results of predation by squid (so they said) showing two-foot chunks bitted out of the hooked fish.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 07:24 PM

Cheney would NEVER be welcome in the hot tub at the Mudcat tavern...or was it the Jell-O pit? Anyhow, it'd never happen.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: bankley
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 06:53 PM

oh, I thought that this was about Cheney...

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 01:31 PM

I must confess that yesterday while at the Tyson's Chinese buffet,

I ate a baby squid.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: GUEST,The Giant Squid
Date: 29 Apr 08 - 08:42 AM

Aargh! Poor old Harry.

We were wondering what happened to him.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: open mike
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 09:50 PM

Last month (Febr, 07) there was a record-breaking colossal squid caught near New Zealand (or Aukland?) possibly 990 pounds-nearly
300 pounds heavier than the record.

A colossal squid is caught in the Ross Sea, in Antarctic waters, ...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910849.stm

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: MMario
Date: 12 May 06 - 02:13 PM

yes - an acknowledgment would be nice. I have to say though - I have never, *EVER*, recieved an acknowledgement of a donation except to my church - with the exception of one chairty that told me that if I donated X dollars more they would furnish a reciept.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 May 06 - 02:10 PM

I like squid and cheese!

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 04:51 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 09:53 PM

It certainly calls for another rusty nail!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: michaelr
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 08:23 PM

It's the stuff of serious worry, I'd say. Oceanic climate change could be more dangerous than ozone depletion. Anyone seen "The Day After" or whatever it was called?

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 06:20 PM

I heard this on the news yesterday. All sorts of warm water stuff is winding up hundreds of miles north of where they normally hang out. It's the stuff of stories and folksongs, seems to me!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 04:21 PM

Them squids are on the move! Thanks for the update, Rapaire.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 03:29 PM

They're...they're...BACK!!

Jumbo Flying Squid Found Off Alaska

SITKA, Alaska (AP) -- A large Humboldt squid caught offshore from Sitka is among numerous sightings of a species seen for the first time in waters of the Far North, and the first of the species recovered from British Columbia waters.

The 5-foot Dosidicus gigas, or jumbo flying squid, was shipped this week to California to be kept for research at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

The squid was one of a number caught with a dip net by fisherman Alan Otness and his crew on Sept. 18 as they baited longline gear at night. They brought back some of the creatures for examination by experts.

Eric Hochburg, curator of the Santa Barbara museum, said the species is usually found off Baja, Calif., and farther south.

The farthest north the species has been reported until this year was off the coast of Eugene, Ore., in 1997, said James A. Cosgrove, manager of natural history at the Royal British Columbia Museum. Before that year, the farthest north it was seen was near San Francisco, he said.

Until this summer, there have been no other sightings in the north, Cosgrove said.

"It's unprecedented," he said. "It speaks of a fundamental change in the ocean along the coast."

The museum is keeping a 6 1/2-foot, 44-pound Dosidicus gigas in a formaldehyde tank. The purple-bodied cephalopod with eight sucker-covered arms and two curly tentacles was caught Oct. 2.
        
Since news of that discovery was made public, Cosgrove has received seven reports of sightings since late July of jumbo squid in northwest waters from Oregon to Alaska. Beside the Sitka catch, the squid were spotted near Yakutat and Kodiak Island.

"We'll try to get a handle on are they moving north with warmer waters, and then do they die out as they head north, or does the cold water constrain their northward movement?" Hochburg said.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 05:19 PM

Be my guest, Long John:Grog Song

Now, I think I'll surf for more giant squid stories.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: GUEST,Looooooooooooooooooooong John Sliver
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 11:23 AM

Ah, that does a man good, that does! Now, where was I? Ah, yes, I was tellin' ye about Captain Chance and how he suffered because he couldn't, wait, let me think of a word that won't offend the ladies present...ah, micturate. Well, mateys, one day, when we were seventeen long weeks from landfall at Hilton Head, Cap'n Chance's eyes turned yella. Bright yella. Awful, it was, to see him starin' at ye out of bloodshot yella eyes! One day, a hurrycane overtook us. We worked in hightops, takin' in sail, waves as high as the mainmast washin' o'er us, and the sea took three good sailors, too, that day, Thumbless Harry, Crawler, and Whalespit Jim, good men and women all.

More grog fer yer old ghostmate? NO!!??? Screw ya for a bunch of dirt-eating, land-lovin', swabs! No grog, no rum fer a thirst old ghost who...WATER?!?! Water's fer sailin' on, and beside, whales SHIT in water!

I'll finish no stories until I get me grog.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 02:43 PM

Long John-

Here's a refreshing tribute to you!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: GUEST,Looooooooooooong John Sliver
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 09:58 AM

Arrrh!!! Welcome back, Mateys! Old Looooooooooooooong John needed a cup o' grog an' his shipmates come ta supply it!!

Mighty fearsome things, the colossal squids and the giants are. 'Course, we never called 'em those names. Nay, we had our own names fer 'em.

I remember on time, when I was ghostin' on the old "Thundermug." We was bound for Pago-Pago and Alma Alta with a load of cheap tin tray, we were. Oh, the Mate had told the owners that there was no market fer cheap tin trays in the South Pacific, that ye had ta take 'em to England, but they wouldn't lissen to 'er, so there we were, fightin' the spray, out of Maui 'round the Horn.

Now, I know what yer thinkin'. But our Mate, name o' Mary Reed, was bettern' any other I've ghosted under. She'd knock a man down fer lookin' cross-eyed, and ol' Cross-Eyed Jack spent the voyage black and blue. Half the crew "fell on their cutlass", an' it weren't no accidents that she was holdin' the cutlass they fell on.

Cap'n Chance was in charge, we called 'im "Fat Chance" an' not because of his weight, either. We sailors, we figgered that was the chance we had to drop the hook in Alma Alta, seein' as how it's landlocked. And our route there and to Pago Pago didn't make us any more confident in the Cap'n, either.

'Nother grog, but with more rum and less water. Aye, thankee.

Well, like I was sayin', we was riding the horses o' the sea, as the poets say, when we saw this fish, a shark we thought, about 24 meters long, like in the news articles. The crew took a right fright, tellin' the Mate an' the Cap'n to turn about, but the Mate coldcocked White Tom, gouged out a coupla eyes, bit off an ear, and sent all hands aloft, with or without their owners. Oh, she was a tough one!

Cap'n Chance looked ahead an' said, "Sail On! And on! And on! And on!"

Well, we hit that fishy square on, right in the middle of its belly. An' it reared up an'....

Will ye excuse an old salty ghost fer a moment? This grog is passin' right through me, an' I have ta go see a man about a dog er shake the ectoplasm from the ol' lilly er somethin'. I'll be right back, an' don't any o' you swabbies touch me grog!

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 08:03 AM

Sam-

Happy New Year to you as well!

Great links! I especially like the photograph of the researcher lying next to a large squigly on a tarp, evidently exhausted from the throes of fornication. You may have provoked some new verses to our ballad!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 01:49 AM

Gor b'lime Charley,

Was it just six months back we were on thia topic? It seems longer. Herewith a couple of URL's we seem to have missed.

Squid predator

Sex trap for giant squid

Such is life

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 03:54 PM

Nancy, just go to the link provided in the very first post...

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: GUEST,nancy noyola
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 02:36 PM

i would like to see a picture of the giant squid

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 14 Aug 03 - 08:39 AM

G'day M'arties, yet more Sea Monsters - again, quite slow loading, be warned. Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 06:04 PM

I thought ALL gelatinous blobs stunk. I mean, a dead whale or a dead giant squid doesn't stink? Only if you're upwind...way, way upwind.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 05:33 PM

Not to worry, Rapaire. Here's your story:

Another gelatinous blob, but this one stinks

Friday, August 8, 2003 Posted: 10:11 AM EDT (1411 GMT)

                   LITTLE EGG HARBOR
                   TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) -- It
                   smells like rotten eggs at best,
                   decomposing flesh at worst. It
                   looks like the pods from
                   "Invasion of the Body
                   Snatchers."

                   To the people whose homes back up
                   onto a Tuckerton Creek tributary where
                   the gelatinous substance recently
                   appeared, it's just "The Blob."

                   "It's frightening," said Eileen Masterson.
                   "We can't swim because the odor is so
                   horrible and we won't crab here because
                   we don't know whether it's safe."

                   The substance, which was noticed about
                   two weeks ago, consists of jelly-like
                   bulbs that undulate with the waves just
                   below the surface.

                   By most accounts, it generally stays
                   submerged in about 8 feet of water in the
                   lagoon. At low tide, some of it pokes
                   through the surface of the water, looking
                   like marbled r ocks.

                   But no one's sure what it is.

                   The state Department of Environmental
                   Protection poked at the blob and took
                   samples as part of a half-dozen field
                   tests Tuesday before deciding it's not
                   hazardous.

                   "We've determined that it's not toxic. It's
                   mostly like some algae or fungus," said
                   DEP spokesman Jack Kaskey. "It may be
                   an algae growth that lived on the bottom
                   of the lagoon and after its life cycle
                   ended, gases brought it up to the surface."

Robert Ingenito, environmental health coordinator for the Ocean County Health Department, said he hadn't seen anything like it in 30 years of public health work.

"In the dead-end lagoons, you normally see vegetative material that rots, fish kills or dissolved oxygen problems, but I've never seen anything like this," he said. "It's strange."

END OF STORY

But I did have to copy your link, close down Mudcat, and then do a new search so the link wouldn't blow up on me.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 05:25 PM

Nimrod is certainly a wondeful read, and what graphics. Thanks, Sam. However, heed the warning about clearing the decks before you click on the link; it's a whooper!

For some reason, Rapaire, your link "It's Back" is so massive that it cloggs my pathetic dial-up line. I don't suppose you could post some of the relevant text here?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 06:04 PM

Nice to see this old thread alive and kicking!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 02:00 AM

Found it in Nimrod of the Sea - William Davis {1874)

Remember, it's a full book - it just took 3min to reload, when checking the "blue clicky" - open in new window.

PS - I do it automatically using MyIE2 a Windows browser with a "tabbed" interface for multiple web sites - I've got a dozen open at the moment, and can just tab or click between 'em. Neat!

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 01:35 AM

Here's the link to PokSquid

In a more serious vain vein, I found an excellent source of on-line, full-text classic whaling literatue - Dana, Melville, Beale, various journals and reports et al. They include illustrations and some have "sailors songs". It's called The Plough Boy Journals

Each book is in one huge HTML file, so takes a fair time to download on a dial-up (open in new window). Rats, can't find the book with the great squid engulfing the ship piccy I saw last night. Look yerselves.

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Naemanson
Date: 09 Aug 03 - 11:10 PM

While driving around on Guam the other day I saw www.poksquid.com on the tailgate of a pickup truck. I immediately thought of you, Charley, and your suigglies. However, that site has nothing to do with squids.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 03 - 10:18 AM

Dear God, it's back!

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 02:41 PM

Reminds me of the little ditty that was popular with our choir during our UK tour in 2001:

"Failed in whales, failed in whales
All the Tories failed in whales.......
All the Tories failed in whales."

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 10:15 AM

Charley, you old bar-steward, if we're whiling our time whaling at the bar, it's only because YOU fleeced us!

Slainte - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 09:49 AM

It's so satisfying to set you guys up!

Well, it's really time to set up a new thread, and let there be no whaling at the bar!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 11:47 PM

In the words of the immortal Welsh Bard, Ned Seagoon, Wales glorious whales

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 10:42 PM

You can't see hairs on whales, because they shave. Or rather, they go to barbers to be shaven...shove...shaved. People contribute money and things to this end. Everyone seems to want to shave the whales.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 08:14 PM

Sam-

This story certainly suggests new dimensions to the golfer's goal of "a hole in one." And afterwards, I'm sure, they'd be some real wailing in the club bar...

Now Frisco Bay was supposed to be frequented by at least one whale, at least in song, but I didn't see hide nor hair of it.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, back home in Maine

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 27 Jul 03 - 12:53 AM

Should be in good practice since they are still whaling - for scientic reasons only.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 03 - 11:45 PM

Maybe the Norwegians can explode a whale better than the Oregonians.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 26 Jul 03 - 02:29 AM

Not as gross as the latest hazard on a Norwegian golf course. It seems to fit here, and may give Charley more inspiration.
_____________________________________

Whale washed up on Norwegian golf course

A 20-metre-long whale has been washed up on a golf course in Norway.

The creature could cause problems for the members of the Lofoten Golf Course if it starts to rot.

A club official says the whale was spotted in the sea near the course about a week ago, reports Nettavisen.

Frode Hov said: "It is correct that we are in a bit of a rush to get the whale back to the sea again before the process of rotting starts properly. That could be very unpleasant for the golfers."


Story filed: 11:11 Thursday 17th July 2003
____________________________________________

Actually, if the golf course is THAT close to the sea, shouldn't it be a "golf links"?

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 03 - 11:42 PM

Wow! A gross of posts!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Jul 03 - 02:48 PM

Rapaire-

Very nice. Glad to see you've still got creative energy!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble in San Francisco

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jul 03 - 10:39 AM

Cross-threading!!

There's gnomes of all sizes and Bill in the bargain,
Shatner that is, and gnomes blue, red, and brown,
Chopped up they're first rate, so we use 'em for bait
Whenever we're out on the squid jiggin' ground.

And

Some folks were thinkin' of young Lili Aine
The youngest mudkitten who lives in our town,
So we brought the kid a forty ton squid --
A gift from us folks on the squid jiggin' ground.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 06:37 PM

Have fun, gang, tending this thread. My wife and I are flying out to San Francisco for a week, she to conference, me to have fun. We'll be at the Chantey Sing at McMahon's Pub in Alameda, 8 pm, 7/22, if anyone wants to join the fun.

I promise to describe the giant lobster we once had for Thanksgiving when I get back.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 12:16 PM

Hey, they must be massively crabby in the UK at the moment. Another Giant Lobster has been saved from the pot, only to die of stress in an aquarium - in Wales this time, so it sort of fits this thread. There's a better site on ic Wales, but, again the link won't form. Try:

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/content_objectid=13195464_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Lucky-the-Lobster-dies-of-stress-name_page.html

Or, search on "Lucky the Lobster" on Goggle News - Yup, 'Lucky's' luck didn't hold out long.

Cheers - Sam

PS, years ago, here on the Island, the first 'bull cray' (rock-lobster of the size of these ones) of the season would be led ceremoniusly through the bar on a string. As well as the crayfish getting stressed, so were many visitors.

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 11:12 AM

Whoops, it always to use 'Preview' to Check Links before posting. Lost a line of the URL - the local Devon rag has more detail than Ananova.

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 10:40 AM

umm..Billy...don't know what happened in your link, I 'specks that this the lobster of which you speak.. (the moral is to hide out until you are of more interest as a topic of discussion than as a meal)