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The dread penisaurus returns!
Posted by: Hammond Rye | January 24, 2007 at 02:50 PM
I think it is a shark from the future.
Posted by: Lance | January 24, 2007 at 02:51 PM
5 feet long! I thought John Holmes was dead.
Posted by: Queen Med | January 24, 2007 at 02:52 PM
Wow.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 24, 2007 at 02:53 PM
"As rare as this shark was, they should of left the shark in its natural habitat and kept observing it with the equipment they found this shark with."
Silly bloggers, I didn't read anything about this sharks "equipment"
Posted by: Gadfy | January 24, 2007 at 02:56 PM
lmao, Hammie! looked liked that to me too!
yikes!!!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 02:56 PM
"Do you want that fried or broiled?"
Posted by: Lance | January 24, 2007 at 02:56 PM
*knock knock*
Candy-gram.
Posted by: The Dread Penisaurus | January 24, 2007 at 03:00 PM
But can you make shark-fin soup from it?
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | January 24, 2007 at 03:04 PM
That Romanian doctor is going to open the first Benihana in his country.
Posted by: Lairbo | January 24, 2007 at 03:10 PM
More here:
• The curious incident of the fox in the shoe shop
Can I get a fox in my shoe shop, please? And then can we have a curious incident together?
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | January 24, 2007 at 03:12 PM
seeing that thing face to face would make me scream like a little girl and run away.
Posted by: wickedwitch | January 24, 2007 at 03:15 PM
fins up!
Posted by: crossgirl | January 24, 2007 at 03:22 PM
Jeebus Cripes, that thing really IS scary. Fascinating...Mother Nature can still chill us to the bone.
RE the quoted comment, somebody didn't read the friggin' article. The 'equipment' the shark was spotted with, was the fisherman's naked eye, dumb@ss!
Posted by: CandyT | January 24, 2007 at 03:25 PM
what was the shark doing with the fisherman's eye?
Posted by: crossgirl | January 24, 2007 at 03:26 PM
CG, why do I suspect that there is a grass skirt in your closet?
Posted by: Hammond Rye | January 24, 2007 at 03:26 PM
The picture is what my comment was referring to.
Posted by: Queen Med | January 24, 2007 at 03:30 PM
Perhaps my tiara is gouging into my brain. No, it is not a virtual tiara. Swarovsky crystal and pearls help me write when I am blocked.
*wonders what dave
wearsdoes when he has writers block*Posted by: Queen Med | January 24, 2007 at 03:32 PM
DPC - Yes, you can make shark-fin soup, but when mixed with beer and chili, it can cause flatulence.
Posted by: Queen Med | January 24, 2007 at 03:34 PM
SNORK SNORK SNORK SNORK SNORK!!!!!
That is all, carry on please.
Posted by: casey | January 24, 2007 at 03:40 PM
Near Hendersonville, N.C., there is an entire forest full of albino squirrels. There are even postcards of them. England has been invaded!!
Posted by: Phil | January 24, 2007 at 03:47 PM
Phil, are you serious? I was raised within 20 minutes of Hendersonville and I've never heard of em!
Posted by: casey | January 24, 2007 at 03:58 PM
Quick goooooooogle....you are correct Phil. Not only white squirrels, but a white squirrel festival in May. With squirrel derby races, etc., etc. Obviously, Hendersonvillites are not readers of the blog. Having been to Hendersonville aplenty, I'm betting most of them aren't readers of anything.
Posted by: casey | January 24, 2007 at 04:04 PM
It's findings like this that make me believe the Loch Ness monster DID exist at one point, but I suspect he or she died a long time ago....
This sucker looks like an underwater version of "Alien."
Posted by: Clark Kent | January 24, 2007 at 04:09 PM
Yikes doesn't even begin to cover that monstrosity! Imma gonna have nightmares tonight.
Posted by: Suzy Q | January 24, 2007 at 04:18 PM
I don't read frill shark lips, but I think she's saying, "Help me!"
Posted by: Dory | January 24, 2007 at 04:38 PM
*wonders what dave
wearsdoes when he has writers block*Most likely
nothing at allnothing at all...Posted by: tonymus | January 24, 2007 at 04:40 PM
I wonder if it knows the "Dork Fish" It loves corn dogs. They think the cholesterol poisoning was what caused its extinction.
Many thanks to Bill Engval.
Posted by: Juggler of Geese | January 24, 2007 at 04:41 PM
If you're interested, there's video of the shark here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16785254/
Posted by: Kat | January 24, 2007 at 04:41 PM
Kat's link
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 24, 2007 at 05:03 PM
Casey,
My mother is in Carolina Village. I see an albino squirrel just about every time I visit her.
Posted by: Phil | January 24, 2007 at 05:07 PM
Yeah, but did anybody jump it?
Posted by: blurk | January 24, 2007 at 05:28 PM
*snork* at blurk!
waiting for cj to weigh in with his professional opinion.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 24, 2007 at 05:32 PM
You have to see the video to appreciate how nasty this thing is. I saw it on the news last night and thought they were still showing footage of Cheney.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 24, 2007 at 05:32 PM
Geeez...EVOLVE already!!!!!!
Posted by: Punkin Poo | January 24, 2007 at 05:38 PM
As usual, blurk is lurking in the gutter.
Thanks for the link cat/ Ducky. This poor critter was in very bad shape. It's very difficult to bring critters up from that deep and keep them alive. They can be caught in a steel canister that is kept pressurized and then released into pressurized tanks. But, if you screw up, they kinda explode. All of their cells are used to terrific pressure and they tend to burst open when the pressure is relieved. *retires to Blog geek couch*
Posted by: CJrun | January 24, 2007 at 05:38 PM
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. never mind.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 24, 2007 at 05:42 PM
That looks like Gypsy on MST3K.
Posted by: xmnr | January 24, 2007 at 05:42 PM
CJ - that's exactly why I thought it was Cheney.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 24, 2007 at 05:45 PM
I thought the albino squirrel was scarier!
Posted by: ScooterRocky | January 24, 2007 at 05:50 PM
This reminds me of reading about a coelecanth that was caught alive off the coast of Africa; the species had been thought to be extinct for zillions of years.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 24, 2007 at 06:09 PM
jd - I was thinking the same thing - coelecanth. Really.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 24, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Annie, I remember looking at the picture of that thing and thinking it was already fossilized.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 24, 2007 at 06:16 PM
*exchanges 2nd "e" for "a" in name of fish, just to be accurate*
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 24, 2007 at 06:19 PM
I saw the video on the news - it was absolutely creepy.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 24, 2007 at 06:24 PM
*wonders what else lurks in the depths of the ocean*
*cue theme from Jaws*
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 24, 2007 at 06:28 PM
Coelocanths are being found in Indonesia as well, thought to be a remnant from when those continents were joined.
I was lucky enough to work on the cruddiest ship in the Japanese fleet that was assigned mostly empty, deep water. They didn't make much money, but they kept me entertained with weird critters to look at.
Posted by: CJrun | January 24, 2007 at 06:43 PM
Coelocanth
Coelocanth
Dance to the music...
Posted by: Stevie W | January 24, 2007 at 07:02 PM
...and to think they SHRINK in the water.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 24, 2007 at 07:11 PM
"The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth."
Well they found a frilly shark
In Japan's big marine park
Awashima
She's got needle-sharp white teeth
And she's normally a deep-
Water swimmer
Shizuoka
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Shizuoka
I'm talkin' about
Shizuoka
And she's swimmin' in brine.
Posted by: Stevie W | January 24, 2007 at 07:17 PM
You have to see the video to appreciate how nasty this thing is. I saw it on the news last night and thought they were still showing footage of Cheney.
Major SNORKAGE @ Annie. Excellent!!!!
Posted by: Guin | January 24, 2007 at 07:25 PM
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in Shizuoka.
Posted by: Stevie W | January 24, 2007 at 07:29 PM
*snork* @ stevie's pisco-disco!
Posted by: CJrun | January 24, 2007 at 07:40 PM
There once was a shark from Shizuoka
Who's overbite threatened to poke ya.
Some called it 'frilly'
Or '5-foot long Willy'
All I know is it's one ugly foka.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 24, 2007 at 07:41 PM
Many hearty *SNORKS* to stevie and Annie!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 11:07 PM
Ty, sxi Room for one more? (Apologies to the Rascals)
Awashima
So bad
I asked my ichthyologist what I had
I said a doctor, doctor
Mister cj
Can you tell me
What swims this way?
And he said a
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Hey big shot
Here's what you got--
Bloodsucker
(A gimme that blood, bloodsucker)
Bloodsucker
(All I need's a bloodsucker)
Bloodsucker
Blood, bloodsucker, baby
Posted by: Stevie W | January 25, 2007 at 02:14 AM
Good...lovin' it, stevie!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 25, 2007 at 07:39 AM
stevie - niiiice one. Spencer Davis would like it.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 25, 2007 at 07:34 PM
Ty, both. And gotcha, both.
Posted by: Stevie W | January 25, 2007 at 09:04 PM