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January 06, 2012

CAN WE GET THIS THING ON 'JERSEY SHORE'?

The BBC has filmed the moment when a venomous cone snail engulfs its prey, spears it with a harpoon-like barb, paralyses it and eats it.

(Thanks to Jeffrey Brown)

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... um ... mebbe better than ... um ... nope ... it isn't ...

Well, THAT went great with my morning coffee...

it's all ready there, dave

'Twilight @ the Jersey Shore':
a brain-dead cast & a sluggish script

I saw Venomous Cone Snail open for Iron Maiden

"Mr Peters adds that it is important to protect the the snails in order to avoid an imbalance in the food chain."
I KNEW it. If it weren't for those of us who are great fans of a good steak, we'd be up to our ancestors in cows.

I thought Coneheads were a lame Saturday Night Live creation, great when fresh but rather dated and unappealing now.

I read somewhere that in the olden days, they would sometimes find a shell collector dead on the beach. Eventually they figured out one of their shells offfffed them.

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