BS: Giant Squid

Subject: BS: Giant Squid
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:31 AM

A squid weighing over 900 pounds and 39 feet long....Giant Squid

Interesting reading.

LQF

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:38 AM

Mmmmm,Kalimari....

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:45 AM

Sashimi!

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:46 AM

Okay, you've got your "giant squid", your "colossal squid" - if they discover an even bigger variety, what are they going to call it - your "super-duper god-like squid"?

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Alec
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:48 AM

Guest,meself in the same story is the comment "New Zealand Fishermen catch Massive Squid."

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:06 AM

The sea creature with eight testicles . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:09 AM

Where's that sick squid you owe me?

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:15 AM

'Massive, Missuss Brennan!'

Question of the day: who said that, and was he describing a giant, colossal or super-duper god-like squid?

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:41 AM

I guess this means we'll have to enlarge the Mudcat Tavern's Jello wrestling pit. It already has one giant squid in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: MMario
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:46 AM

well - it seems one of the main food sources for colossal squid are giant squid and other squid - so I'm not sure that's a good idea. I suspect that means the Tavern "Giant Squid" is an actual Giant Squid - because he raises a stink anytime anyone mentions calimari!

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Midchuck
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:00 AM

I think a larger squid than a collossal squid is simply a BFS.

I also think they have ten. Octopots have eight.

This has possibilities for a parody version of "The Squid-Jigging Ground."

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Alec
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:03 AM

A Squid does have 10 legs.So how come this one has 39 feet?

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: MMario
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:04 AM

he didn't say "tentacles"

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Crystal
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:19 AM

So CUTE!

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:28 AM

I believe there's giant, collosal, super-duper-god like and Holy f**k

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:29 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:46 AM

"Okay, you've got your "giant squid", your "colossal squid" - if they discover an even bigger variety, what are they going to call it - your "super-duper god-like squid"?"


Cthulu.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Bee
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:42 AM

And hope to be eaten first.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:47 AM

"Cthulu."

Hunh? Now that would be Latin for - what?

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,The Giant Squid
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:48 AM

Look, dammit, that's my cousin Abner. He ain't done nothin' to you people. Here he was, just cruising, suckin' up food, workin' over the occasional blue whale, just groovin', and some broke-dick mamaluccas drag him up and show him off to the world!

This is gonna royally piss off Abner's mom. And like they say, when Momma ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:50 AM

BASTARDSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

Poor Great Uncle Henry. Wondered why I hadn't heard from him in a while. Why can't these Kiwis stick to sheep shagging?

On second thoughts, maybe they were using a sheep as bait. Very partial to a sheep or two was Uncle Henry. Sometimes he ate them too.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:00 PM

Are you SURE that's not Shane McBride?

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:10 PM

Well at least there was no green jello. Sorry about your uncle. (I don't know an emoticon for crocodile tears. . . )

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Alec
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:12 PM

meself, "cthulu" is an allusion to H.P.Lovecraft.
Becca72, the Despair Squid from "Red Dwarf" is a good example of a Holy F**k Squid.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Midchuck
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:13 PM

"Cthulu."

Hunh? Now that would be Latin for - what?

Nahhh...That's only Cthulu's head.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:56 PM

You've got that right, Alec.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Bee
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 01:06 PM

If you like squid (besides for eating)PZ Myers, a biology prof, has a wonderful science blog called Pharyngula, that often features stories on squid and octopodes - he's a cephalopodomaniac. Lots of pics of cephalopods in his archives.

Best squid recipe I've eaten: pot of gently simmering beer, bit of garlic and pepper; simmer squiddly bits briefly, eat with a mite of melted butter. Very very tender!

But you'd want a very big pot and a lot of friends over for the OP squid.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Don Firth
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 02:35 PM

The Scourge of the seven seas, a real outlaw:

Billy the Squid.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 05:56 PM

I saw a program recently that was put together by a diver who has an interest in squid.

He went right down to the depths and spent a fair amount of time with them.

He found that they were non aggressive and curious creatures, tactile and intelligent, and when it was time for him to go he ended up quite moved by the whole experience.

The documentary was quite moving itself and he went on to explain how they are possibly endangered, though due to their elusiveness this is an unknown factor.

Ultimately, he convinced me to view the kind of thing referred to in this thread as pretty barbaric.

Certainly, the footage of him surrounded by hundreds of Giant squid, yet not in the remotest danger, was quite breathtaking.

Just thought I'd drop that in there.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,The Giant Squid
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:20 PM

We are cute, cuddlesome, gentle, and kind little creatures and why anyone would make a "Teddy Bear" and not a "Teddy Squid" completely escapes me.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:49 PM

I saw a program like that about the Hell's Angels ...

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: bubblyrat
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:17 PM

OK, so Uncle Billy Hawkins wears FIVE pairs of stockings !!

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:33 PM

The key to cooking squid is either cook it very fast...or very very slow. Anything in between is rubbery, but not the kind of rubber squid I collect.

I dunno. I like small succulent squid for eating, although I'd like to try the Humboldt squid (big but not giant) that the West Coast had a run on a year or so ago.

Cuttlefish is good eatin', too. And octopus. I guess I just like tenticles.

Vampyroteuthis infernalis, is probably my favorite non rubber, non dinner type squid -- "vampire squid from hell," -- it has the largest eyes of any animal.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:59 PM

Here's a link to a previous thread about giant squids which includes some ditties: Click here for a good time!

Feel free to add a few more verses.

I do wish the New Zealanders practiced "catch and release." It takes a long time for a squid to grow that large.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 05:10 AM

The only things that New Zealanders will release are sheep.

Squid and French photographers are fair game as far as they're concerned.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 11:14 AM

Squid Jigging?
How do they do make all them feet keep in time with the music?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 11:21 AM

I though squid got to that size really rather fast. All squid have a calcified structure in their body, that are though to have daily growth rings. Mature Males show ranges of 300-420 rings, and females, being larger, somewhat more, implying a life of 1-2 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 12:36 PM

I'm not all that impressed. The squid in the movie "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" (a film about aquatic baseball) was MUCH larger than that. So was the one in "Pirates of the Caribbean II".

That's just a medium-sized squid. Not collosal in the least if you ask me.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: beardedbruce
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 01:50 PM

Again, LH, you confuse Hollywood with the real world.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 02:41 PM

"you confuse Hollywood with the real world."

You mean you question the reality of Hollywood??

#%&* un-American commie pinko....

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 03:51 PM

You are right Lox, there are some smart-assed bastards on this Site, why did the Kiwi shit-house have to kill this innocent sea creature.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 03:55 PM

Um - I think you're putting words in Lox's mouth - don't recall him saying anything about "smart-assed bastards on this Site", or about anyone on this site or any other site, for that matter. Might've been thinking it, of course ...

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Bee
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 04:15 PM

I gather from the discussion on Pharyngula that the squid was caught accidentally, and they did discuss releasing it before deciding it was likely too injured to survive. There are great pictures there. The thing really is colossal.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 05:57 PM

Thanks meself,

I would have said smart arsed ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 06:44 PM

Heh! ;-) Them commie bastards can be found everywhere. Some are even registered Republicans. Don't let their "conservative" act fool you....

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 06:49 PM

I'd really like to see a conservative act.

Perhaps Dick Cheney as Kramers replacement on seinfeld.

Condoleeza Rice as Mrs Cosby

David Cameron as Dizzee Rascall (ha ha ha ha ha)

Subject: RE: BS: I Love My Wife, But O You Squid!
From: Severn
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 06:57 PM

Guest GS, shouldn't that be "cuttlesome". Does Victoria's Secret make Teddys for squids?

Humans have to worry about lipstick on the collar and things that can be hidden or avoided, but I'd think strange sucker marks from a clamdestine molluscan embrace would be a dead giveaway. Best for you folk to be "naughty-less, I suppose....

But for a good read on the subject, try Richard Ellis' "The Search For The Giant Squid" available from Penguin as a paperback. "The Biology and Mythology of the world's most elusive sea creature", it says. I enjoyed it, but I'd like to hear an actual squid's reaction to it, GS.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 07:00 PM

Hey! Reagan acted all the time, didn't he? And then there's Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, and Arnold Schwarzenneger. Republicans can act.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 08:16 PM

I contemplated removing my cookie and coming in as a Patagonian Toothfish, but then I thought again and I couldn't be bothered.

All squid are predators. This one ate a LOT of fish to get to this size. Most squid only live one year, but perhaps this one lived longer. They were not fishing for it, it is by-catch.

If you made squid-rings out of this one, they 'would be the size of tractor tyres' and so would need a very large plate.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 08:19 PM

From what I see in that photo, the tractor would have to have very, very small tires.

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 08:40 PM

For an erotic look at the giant squid (WARNING X-RATED): Click at Your Own Risk!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,Observer
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 08:54 PM

They better be careful with it -- Fox News says Howard K. Stern is its father...

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 04:55 PM

"Hey! Reagan acted all the time, didn't he? And then there's Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, and Arnold Schwarzenneger. Republicans can act."

well ... Clint eastwood anyway ...

Subject: RE: BS: Giant Squid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 05:25 PM

LOL! I wondered who would take advantage of that straight line.