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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: danny_galaga on March 02, 2005, 09:47:50 am
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20050302/ap_on_fe_st/leviathan_lobster
i like this bit:
"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Wholey a letter asking him to work with the group to release Bubba back in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine.
Another group calling itself People For Eating Tasty Animals reportedly offered Wholey a hefty price for the lobster. At Tuesday's price of $14.98 a pound, Bubba would retail for about $350."
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I come from a long line of Nova Scotian lobstermen... and ---goshdarn---, that's a bigass lobster. I've seen some lobsters that are really, really big, but not quite that big.
The average lobster pot would never allow something that big in. If it did, all the regular lobsters would get out with ease. What the hell did they use to catch that?
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I'll write PETA and tell them I have my butter ready (,") I'll work to release him to my boiler.
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Why is D-amn autocensored by not Hell?
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Mmmmm.... Nova Scotia Lobster. :D
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Alas, I am allergic to it. Plus, I don't want to drown like most of my uncles and their uncles have done.
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I was in Halifax for a conference last year. I took a tour up the coast and saw monuments for lost fishermen. It was shocking to see how many names were on some of those, often fathers and sons side by side. Amazing how we can take something like a can of salmon for granted when you stop to think of the real cost of it.
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A lifetime of commercial fishing usually ends in either drowning or debilitating arthritis. Especially in Nova Scotia / Northern Maine. If you fall into the Bay of Fundy you are dead. There is no coming out, the tides are too violent. Besides, to be honest, most nothereastern fishermen can't swim.
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They can't swim but they can catch a hell of a tasty dish! Too bad you're allergic, it's one of my top 5 dishes in the world. (maybe top 3!) :)
(I never would have thought some of those guys can't swim!)
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(I never would have thought some of those guys can't swim!)
If you're 150 miles offshore, where the hell you gonna go?
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Yeah, I guess. Still, what would happen if you slipped off the dock at night or over the rail when no one was looking? It would be horrible to drown 10 feet from shore.
I took one of those coolio whale watching tours while I was there. Those boats do get you to the middle of bloody nowhere right quick. Once the coat disappears, where would you swim to?
Relatedly, I have heard that crab boats are the most lethal place to work. I guess if the lines are going down with the traps and you get tangled in the line, well, you're going down too. Damn.
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Guys do drown under the docks. Up in NS, though, even a strong swimmer can drown that close. The tide is that strong.
This is why true seamen don't hang around the water alone if they can avoid it. They go in pairs or more.
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You got me hungry Chad, check out the 'last meal' thread. :)
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I said seamen and he got hungry.
:-X
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Do you have any idea how cold that water is there? It's not like a wonderful swim in a pool. They have what, 30 seconds to hypothermia?
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No, it would take a lot longer than that. Even in the arctic you have 90 seconds or more, 3 minutes until it's too late.
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whoa, you cold get, what, 30 yards with all that gear?
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No, you would go down like an achor when it started to absorb water. Arctic sea gear doesn't absorb water, though, so you it would actually keep you afloat. Wouldn't matter, anyway, once you're in that water you're better of staying there. You've got 3 minutes in the water, 30 seconds out of it once you're wet and it's -50 degrees farenheit.
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Mmmm seamen.
Argh, er, wait, I'M NOT GAY!!!!! (In my best Mr. Garrison voice)
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Mmmm seamen.
Argh, er, wait, I'M NOT GAY!!!!! (In my best Mr. Garrison voice)
....said Big Gay Al ;D
How do they know how old it is? Did they cut it in half and count the rings?
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How do they know how old it is?
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sad story. i hate when this happens.
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No one has yet found a way to determine the exact age of a lobster.
Cutting them open and counting the rings doesn't work, then?
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No they molt the rings off! Sheesh pay attention, and stop salivating, you CAN'T EAT THIS ONE!
(I really should go to work so I can afford to buy some lobster for this evening)
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Well, you could eat him now, the lobster is dead.
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5 get you 10 he didn't die of natural causes.
We didn't see the body, now did we?
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I half suspect someone made them a nice fat offer, too.
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I like this quote from the news bite:
"In 1990, a 17 1/2-pound lobster named Mimi died just days after being flown to a restaurant in Detroit."
"So did the other 20 lobsters in the pot with Mimi"
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fredster, are you implying that there's hijinks afoot in the lobster industry?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Trees lose their bark, yet we still count the rings, all that lobster is doing is molting his "bark"
Let's cut him open and COUNT THE FRIGGEN RINGS!
I'm for determining a better way to identify the proper age of lobsters.
Count those rings
Count those rings
Count those rings
Count those rings
Everybody, now....Count those rings
Count tho......
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hmm hmm hmm, a little tough but indeed delicious. Did anyone else here had a piece of Mr.Lobster :P ?
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(I never would have thought some of those guys can't swim!)
If you're 150 miles offshore, where the hell you gonna go?
Watch "Open Water" to see where they are going to go...
PS, its one scary movie!!
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Dude, that lobster is awesome. I kind of what to like, fight it and stuff. Like, man to lobster, mono-e-crabo, may the best man/crusteanion win.
Those claws could cause massive damage, both to me in the ring, and Chad Towers digestive tract.
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Seriously. I could whup its ass but not eat it.
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BUBBA IS DEAD!!! [/b] :-[ [/size]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7077221/?GT1=6305
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BUBBA IS DEAD!!! [/b] :-[ [/size]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7077221/?GT1=6305
I'm salivating as we type.
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Uh, we've been talking about the fact that he's dead all day.
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And to think, he was fine where he was, except for those vicious money-grubbing lobstermen foisting their lobster-abusing practices on the poor innocent bottom-dwellers of the sea!
/shaking fist, old-man style (fredster style ;) )
damn you American lobster lovers!
damn you all to heeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
where hell is a nice restaurant with lobster bibs and large vats of melted butter aside your table
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its a conspiracy i tell ya!! "lobsters are finicky" my arse! how long do they sit around kitchens with rubber bands around their claws, waiting for their butts to be lopped off? you think they don't know what's happening? they are holding out for a last minute break! ready to make a spring for it. they don't just give up and die. they never give up...
you wait, 50 years from now the US government will be releasing top secret papers and THEN you'll see...