Sensible Signs (Part 2)

"Invoking strange Deities may cause Flash Flooding"

A Bad Rap.

Hey- like all of you (with no missing limbs) I guess. I have always been somewheat afraid of sharks. But in my research, I was really surprised to find this picture of a friendly shark. He is even giving the nice man a ride on his back.

No more will I be constrained by the hype of the media and their whole "they have sharp teeth and eat people" crap.

Sharks are your buddies.

Sensible signs

"Beware of Giant Octopi lurking just below water level-ready to pull you down to your watery doom."

Good advice.

"If your shoes are mouldier than your cheese, you should really throw them out."

Yeah Kate!

How to get over those ammonia stew blues.

Huzzah!
While sitting here wondering what to eat, (now that GIANT SQUID STEW is off the menu) searching for new and exciting EXTREME CRAFT ideas......I found this! A gadet to make sausages look like Octopi! Genius! It just may be the greatest invention of our time! For all the vegetarians, I am sure it will work with soy sausages too. Hell, I bet it will even work with bananas!

Be hungry no more!

My favourite facts about the giant squid.

Ok, due to the insane amount of messages and panicked phone calls that I have recieved in the last week, I know that everyone is insanely excited about, and following the news about those crazy scientists who caught a LIVE giant squid on camera! Which you can find out about here, and here.

So how about that eh? To summarise and paraphrase (for those who can't be assed to go to the links) Scientists found the giant squid by following Sperm Whale migration patterns to a ledge near some islands south of Japan, and using baits dropped them some 1000m (not Km!!!) into the ocean, and lured the giant squid into an intense battle to escape the lure. Thus catching an 8.5metre beauty on camera. (which as large as it seems is still quite small for a giant squid, which can grow up to 25 metres.) This desperate battle lasted for about four-hours, and culminated in this monster losing a tentacled limb. (which clung to the desks-like a crazy suckered thing).


It has got me thinking, that perhaps this is the point at which due to public interest being raised-I should start to share my favourite facts about giant squid with you. (This may have to have a couple of episodes. )

1. Giant sqid have eyes as large as dinner-plates. (How hot is that!)

2. Giant Squid OFTEN wash up along the Temperate coasts, and are often found washed up dead off the shores of Tasmania and NZ.

3. It is one of the great ironies of life that even though the calamari from a giant squid is as large as tractor tyres- YOU CAN'T EAT THEM! As instead of having air-filled sacks as flotation devices, they have ammonia filled cells. So despite the insane quantity that you would be able to make, your squid stew would taste like cat-piss.

4. Giant squid can grow up to 25 metres. (To put this into perspective, I am way less than 2 metres tall)

5. Giant squid and Sperm-Whales are natural enemies, and Sperm Whales are often found with huge sucker marks (over 40cm in diameter) left on them from their undersea battles.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Hotness!