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BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!

23 Mar 04 - 11:20 PM (#1144466)
Subject: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos

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


23 Mar 04 - 11:24 PM (#1144469)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: LadyJean

I fear I must say it.
Squid pro quo


23 Mar 04 - 11:32 PM (#1144474)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Stilly River Sage

Jean, he suckered you into that pun!


23 Mar 04 - 11:33 PM (#1144476)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos

Noone knows pro quo, but certainly squid erat demonstrarum!

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

A


24 Mar 04 - 12:56 AM (#1144512)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Kaleea

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


24 Mar 04 - 12:29 PM (#1144930)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Peace

Is that the marine creature with eight testicles?


24 Mar 04 - 12:34 PM (#1144935)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Dave Bryant

No that's an Octobollock.


24 Mar 04 - 12:42 PM (#1144945)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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.


24 Mar 04 - 01:33 PM (#1144995)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos

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



A


24 Mar 04 - 02:03 PM (#1145017)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Peace

Did that just for the halibut.


24 Mar 04 - 02:09 PM (#1145024)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee

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.


24 Mar 04 - 02:10 PM (#1145025)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee

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


24 Mar 04 - 02:11 PM (#1145026)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: GUEST

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


24 Mar 04 - 02:47 PM (#1145061)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Art Thieme

Amos,

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

Art


24 Mar 04 - 02:48 PM (#1145063)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos

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

A


24 Mar 04 - 03:30 PM (#1145105)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Charley Noble

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


24 Mar 04 - 03:53 PM (#1145121)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: open mike

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


24 Mar 04 - 05:11 PM (#1145188)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: freda underhill

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


24 Mar 04 - 06:42 PM (#1145266)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: GUEST,Loooooooooooooooong John Sliver

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.


24 Mar 04 - 07:19 PM (#1145294)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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

Bruce


24 Mar 04 - 07:22 PM (#1145297)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Liz the Squeak

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

That would put you all in your plaice.

LTS


25 Mar 04 - 01:07 PM (#1145965)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee

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


25 Mar 04 - 01:16 PM (#1145974)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Amos

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

A


25 Mar 04 - 01:54 PM (#1146009)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee

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


26 Mar 04 - 04:27 AM (#1146471)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Shanghaiceltic

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.


26 Mar 04 - 09:58 AM (#1146676)
Subject: RE: BS: Invasion of the Giant Squid!
From: Rapparee

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