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"...the train operators buried the eel at sea..."
Was there an official ceremony?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 29, 2014 at 10:02 AM
Apparently not the inspiration for this Three Dog Night song: Eel-Eye's Coming.
Posted by: funny man | January 29, 2014 at 10:15 AM
I saw the Bizarre Eel Incidents open for the Sexual Cannibal Spiders at Burning Man a couple years ago. Heckuva show.
Posted by: wiredog | January 29, 2014 at 10:19 AM
They sowed him up in his hammock, with a twelve-pound shot at the foot. The Captain read the familiar, moving words as the pathetic remains of ... Wow. Sorry. Patrick O'Brian flashback. Time for coffee.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | January 29, 2014 at 10:28 AM
Cruelty to eels is off the scales.
Posted by: Ralph | January 29, 2014 at 10:32 AM
Cruelty to any animal is unacceptable.
Politicians may be the exception to this rule, but only cruelty in return to the extent that they have given.
Posted by: Steve | January 29, 2014 at 10:59 AM
Anyone remember who was supposed to have died of a surfeit of eels?
Posted by: max | January 29, 2014 at 04:07 PM
It was an eeluva train ride.
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | January 29, 2014 at 06:26 PM
max: Supposedly it was
King Henry I (1068-1135) of England, but I doubt it. He didn't have a hovercraft.
Posted by: Ralph | January 29, 2014 at 06:45 PM
" The Third World Chef " recommends this method for tenderizing eels. There are better ways to tenderize hovercraft.
Posted by: Clankazoid | January 29, 2014 at 08:36 PM
No politicians should be stripped naked [and laughed at] on random thursdays to discourage the grifters [we have] from becoming poilitrixcians, and then slipping like snakes back into the corporate snake hive they came from.
Posted by: #billb | January 29, 2014 at 10:43 PM
It thought it was John Lackland, but I'm easily confused WRT those eel-squeezing Sassenach.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | January 30, 2014 at 08:56 AM