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Panamah
01-20-2005, 06:22 PM
Ack! Run for cover, hundreds of giant squids are attacking the shores of Newport Beach, CA. Ok, so they're dead... wait... undead giant squids attacking Newport Beach! I like that headlines better.

http://www.10news.com/news/4110829/detail.html

guluvasea
01-21-2005, 11:47 AM
and the necros rejoiced!

new unded mobs.... it's been a long time baby....

Panamah
01-21-2005, 01:17 PM
I'm a little disappointed, I always thought giant squids ate submarines. These seem so tiny!

Arienne
01-21-2005, 02:48 PM
...I always thought giant squids ate submarines. These seem so tiny!As is true for all massive real estate destroyed in Japanese monster movies... the submarines came from the Toys for Tots program.

Panamah
01-21-2005, 03:18 PM
I'm just disappointed is all. :(

Fenmarel the Banisher
01-21-2005, 08:55 PM
Kthulu is upset again that he has lost yet another Election and, is reaching out his slimey tentacles from the deep. This is truly an attack of mindless terror from the unspeakable horror that live on the edge of space and time. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Aidon
01-22-2005, 04:03 AM
Those were Humboldt's which washed up ashore. Dosidicus gigas

The squid most people think of when they hear "Giant Squid" is Architeuthis dux

Arienne
01-22-2005, 08:58 AM
Does Aidon scare anyone else? Or is it just me? :D

Jinjre
01-22-2005, 10:49 AM
He doesn't scare me, but then in another thread, I gave the genus/species of the plague bacterium. Maybe I'm scarey too.

Panamah
01-22-2005, 02:10 PM
Maybe Aidon is a budding Squidologist.

Horray! There are bigger squid out there! http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/IMAGES/squid_plum_island_beach.gif

Now that's a plate of calamari!

Fyyr Lu'Storm
01-22-2005, 02:49 PM
He doesn't scare me, but then in another thread, I gave the genus/species of the plague bacterium. Maybe I'm scarey too.

Hehe.

Na. I am sure there were a couple of us who knew the name.



We had a guild by the name on BB way back when. May be still there, who knows.


Test? Game? Name the Genus and Species that causes without looking up. Add your own.

Tetanus or Lockjaw
Botulism
Boils, common
Stomach Ulcers
Acne, common
Valley Fever
What bacteria is used to make human insulin
Salmonella poisoning
Endocarditis, and most common bacteria and most common route(extra credit)
Cholera, extra credit for the cheap/easy way to treat
Anthrax
Scarlet Fever
Impetigo
Listeriosis
Lyme Disease
Syphilis
TB

Arienne
01-22-2005, 11:26 PM
OMIGOD! You're ALL wierd! :D

Aidon
01-23-2005, 01:25 AM
Nerds of the World, Unite!

Tinuvieyl Gilthoniel
01-23-2005, 06:25 PM
If i remember right, salmonella is caused by Salmonella enteritiditis and acne is caused by Bacillus subtilis. Not completely sure. It's been awhile since I took micro

Fyyr Lu'Storm
01-23-2005, 11:52 PM
A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay
floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from
its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas,
as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.
No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token
of either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows,
an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.

B_Delacroix
01-24-2005, 08:44 AM
Nerds of the World, Unite!

Sadly, I was rejected from that club.

Panamah
01-24-2005, 09:43 AM
Wasn't it a giant pond squid that outside the dwarf place that nearly ate Frodo?

Aidon
01-24-2005, 10:39 AM
That was a "I ain't going there" squid, or Fuggiticus Abouticatus

Panamah
01-24-2005, 10:51 AM
Wait, wasn't it a "You ain't going there, you is lunch" squid?

Teaenea
01-24-2005, 01:04 PM
What scares me about this is:

In the meantime, beachgoers were advised not to eat or even touch them. "They probably have bacteria on them at this point," Bauer said.

Hello captain obvious! or were there masses of beachgoers dreaming of calimari armed with jars of tartar sauce?

/shiver

Tinuvieyl Gilthoniel
01-24-2005, 01:08 PM
Well, you know, they HAD to say it, because you know someone out there would have tried to eat them. Same reason certain products say "Do not eat" when it's blatantly obvious that you shouldn't. It's because someone has obviously tried it.

Vindler
01-24-2005, 01:16 PM
Here is a link at Nat Geo about the Humboldt Squid:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0718_030718_jumbosquid.html

Panamah
01-24-2005, 02:33 PM
Scientists believe the Humboldt squid, like most predators, focus their diet on the most easily captured prey, in their case lantern fish and sardines. In turn, the squid is preyed upon by large fish such as marlin and swordfish, and it's a main staple of sperm whales.

They forgot that giant squid also feed upon Submarines. Which makes perfect sense since only submarines can go deep enough to get to the really big ones.

Teaenea
01-24-2005, 03:10 PM
Well, you know, they HAD to say it, because you know someone out there would have tried to eat them. Same reason certain products say "Do not eat" when it's blatantly obvious that you shouldn't. It's because someone has obviously tried it.

But, but, but... Thats natures way of adding chlorine to the gene pool!

Tinuvieyl Gilthoniel
01-24-2005, 06:56 PM
Hmmm. . . you make a good point, Tea.

Jinjre
01-24-2005, 11:29 PM
But I like my calamari well aged.

(*gags*)

B_Delacroix
01-25-2005, 08:24 AM
I was going to include a link to Kimchi, but everywhere I went failed to mention the "aging" process. They called it "fermenting" which just doesn't carry across the smell of the stuff.

Teaenea
01-25-2005, 08:53 AM
Any recipe that involves burrying cabbage in a clay pot scares me.

Actually, I've had kimchi. There are actually many varieties. Really, it's just a form of pickled cabbage.

Stormhaven
01-25-2005, 08:59 AM
Kimchi is one of my favorite way to suffer vegetables (dangit, that's another word I can never spell... vegetables...). However, I will agree that the stuff stinks to high heaven if you make it in house. My mom used to make her own, and dear lord that stuff stunk up the house for days. I avoided eating it for most of my childhood because of that fact. It wasn't until I moved out and found it at a Korean restaurant as a side dish that I figured out that I loved the stuff (but yes, only a certain variety, not all).

As for the squidies, I thought Discovery Channel had one of those BS shows about the giant squids (I'm starting to dislike the Discovery Channel "specials" because they're all talk and hype, no real facts). I thought I recalled seeing a picture of a scientist with a dead squid on a lab table and the caption said it was like 30ft long...

Aidon
01-25-2005, 01:43 PM
Kimchi is awesome, if it is of sufficient spiciness and tartness.

And, while samples of the Architeuthis Dux are quite rare, the mantle size is averaged to be roughly 6 meters, with the overall length including the tentacles being over 20 meters, if I recall.

Panamah
01-25-2005, 02:12 PM
My Mom once made sour kraut which involved ... not exactly sure what, but I think the cabbage sat for quite a long while until it fermented. It was fantastic! Much better than store bought sour kraut, quite different. What the hell does kimchi and sour kraut have to do with squid though, is beyond me!

Oh yeah, another time she tried to make it and it rotted instead of fermented. Not a good smell.

Jinjre
01-25-2005, 07:14 PM
I think the link between the two was:

1. the smell of rotting (anything) and
2. the 'aging' process