March 02, 2005

• release the lobster back into the waters off Nantucket! Some shark is going hungry because of those Ripley's bastards . . .
• I just heard Big Ed (Schultz) interviewing the original "owner" on the radio and the guy said the lobster has just died today (?)... shame.
• I understand that a different PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) offered approximately $350 for it (seriously).
• http://kdka.com/local/local_story_061165137.html
• Zoo officials aren't saying how he died. Do keepers at the zoo like eating lobster, too? Lovely lobster, your life is done. Goodbye, Bubba, goodbye! -- for a lobster's tale is close to spun once he's hauled high and dry.
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• He's dead, Jim
• Great poem, Beeswacky! Brought a tear to my eye. Now pass the butter!
• Banjo.
• There once was a man from nantuck...suffice it to say there was butter involved.
• That other PETA's homepage.
• A filthy old man from Nantucket Said. shelling clams into a bucket, "A hundred year beast Would make a nice feast But I'd rather be eating Jim Guckert." Alright, it doesn't rhyme. So sue me.
• the smaller ones are sweeter
• Life imitates The Simpsons! ("Ohh, Mister Pinchy! No more pain for you, boy.")
• Here is a very nice article describing the current situation. Note that the third step (virus mutating -though contact with a human already sick with another virus) has not yet taken place, as far as we know. It is this step that makes human-to-human transmission easy and starts the pandemic. Vaccines produced now cannot fully protect one from whatever that mutated strain will be, but they should help in mitigating the symptoms and hopefully preventing death. Only after the mutation takes place, and the mutated virus is isolated can a vaccine for that strain be formulated. It could be a long time before there is enough of that to go around. In other news, 21,000 chickens have died of avian flu in West Java over the last two months. H5N1 is now considered endemic to SE Asia.
• Whoa. Sorry 'bout that. Brain fart
• You appear to have shed your exoskeleton in our thread, mecurious.
• Lobsterian Trivia Tidbit: On even the smaller ones, those big front pincers are easily strong enough to take your pinkie finger clean off.
• Or your naughty bits. Skinny dip, anyone?
• Bad news... the lobster died after reaching the zoo.
• Damn, did they make it walk all the way there?
• They should test him with some garlic butter. Eh what? Take the pinkie right off? Too bad hes dead, coulda had some work for him.
• My temples throb, my pulses boil, I'm sick of Song, and Ode, and Ballad -- So, Thyrsis, take the Midnight Oil And pour it on a Lobster Salad. --Thomas Hood
• A "more humane" device for snuffing lobsters developed.
• NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! NEVER trust any human being who purports to what a lobster feels or what it's sufferings may be! I don't see this as any improvement over flinging the wretched creature into a vat of boiling water.
• Agreed! There's only the one way to be sure you aren't causing them pain.
• Leave them be? ; ) Thirdeded. Boil 'em up or let 'em go home.
• Leave 'em be is wot I meant.
• ah, lobster captive in the tank they try to say your mind's a blank that cannot feel the pain or fear because you're primitive, my dear they do not know they do not care how lobsters with a fearful stare will seek to hide themselves below a ledge or rock with great gusto if lobsters didn't know they could be slain they wouldn't hide with all their might and main they'd just stand still and let themselves be eaten if - IF - indeed they felt no pain
• They should evolve not to taste so damn good.
• We, with our iron-based blood, find those with copper-based blood very tasty. This is why Vulcans have never conquored humanity.
• I'd quite like to eat T'pol, I can tell you.
• Can't place any credence in the more recent ST series, all of which I believe were made by Klingons.