BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!

Subject: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:20 PM

I know we've had an earlier thread on these cephalopods but they have been causing all kinds of distress off the coast of Chile - at least to the hake.

And upsetting the local fishermen, too!

All is revealed in this story.

Enjoy!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: LadyJean
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:24 PM

I fear I must say it.
Squid pro quo

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:32 PM

Jean, he suckered you into that pun!

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:33 PM

Noone knows pro quo, but certainly squid erat demonstrarum!

(O, now I'm scrod, I just know it!)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Kaleea
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 12:56 AM

Further proof that global warming is all in our imaginations?!

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Peace
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 12:29 PM

Is that the marine creature with eight testicles?

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 12:34 PM

No that's an Octobollock.

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 12:42 PM

That's a hake of a story there, Amos. It had me perched on the edge of my seat. I squid you not. It probably wouldn't have happened if menhaden messed around with those greenhouse gasses and such.

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 01:33 PM

So now we're both scrod, Bruce... Hand me my electronic tuna!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Peace
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:03 PM

Did that just for the halibut.

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:09 PM

Knowing that the net effect would simply be the blues, I feel that I must refrain from taking the bait and expressing myself in puns. I will take the moral high ground and assume that what everyone before has said is just a fluke. If it isn't, I shall leave you to flounder about in the mud, cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:10 PM

And don't come and carp to me about it!

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:11 PM

hook bouys, let's net go off the deep end here!

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:47 PM

Amos,

I didn't know you were fluent in the pluperfect subjunctive !

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:48 PM

LOL! It wasn't all that pluperfect, Art, but at my age you take what you can get!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:30 PM

I for one am not going to wallow in this abyss as you other pundits are. Have you no shame!

Giant Squids, indeed! The ones mentioned are hardly more than 3 meters long, much smaller than the ones that triggered our old thread.

Thanks for the link, Amos!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: open mike
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:53 PM

For those of you who missed it, here is the old "meet the giant squid" thread

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 05:11 PM

this is not a giant squid - its me after a long meeting at work, on a bad hair day..

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: GUEST,Loooooooooooooooong John Sliver
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 06:42 PM

Argh! 'Tisn't a giant squid thar! I knows giant squids, an' that aren't one! Why, that'd make jest a meager mouthful ta the squid which gave me me timber leg an' then killed me deader'n a flounder three days on the beach! THAT war are giant squid! Twenty cables if she war an inch! Tennykles that wrapped clear around the old "Thundermug" (which are the ship I was shippin' in when I got killed) and pull her right down to the bottom!

We war off the Bight of Benin, we war, when we war attacked by the giant squid. Betsy-Poo, that war her name, I learned later. Little Betsy-Poo. And I'd tell ya more, but it's all down in the other place, that thread er whatever it is ya calls it. Go look thar and give me some more rum.

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:19 PM

Okay, so they're not GIANT squid, just DAMNED BIG squid. They'd still make fried squid rings the size of basketball hoops.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:22 PM

Sure you weren't listening to 'The Kraken Wakes' on the radio?

That would put you all in your plaice.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:07 PM

Why would I want a fried squid ring as big as a basketball hoop? I don't even like calamari!

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:16 PM

You could nail it to your garage and play basketball, Rapaire!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:54 PM

Or, considering the consistency of the squid I have eaten, use it for a tire on a little red wagon.

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 04:27 AM

Just got back from a trip to Korea where I ate a nice local delicacy.

We were served up with a dish of still wriggling squid/octopus tentacles. Dash of chilli and some garlic added.

A sod to pick up with metal chopsticks and the suckers still stuck to the plate as well as the palate when you popped them into yer mouth. The guy who owned the place saw our difficulties and added a dash of sesame oil which stopped the suckers sticking!

Maybe the Koreans would appreciate this invasion.

Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 09:58 AM

No problem, SC. You shoulda et them with winter kimchee.