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airehead
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 Posted: 12/07/05 - 16:47 Post subject: Talking smack...
A group of jellyfish is known as a smack. I have no desire to run into a smack o' these. 
| Quote: | How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi
By Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo
THEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction.
They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country’s food supply. As soon as one is killed more appear to take its place.
Finally, the quarrelsome governments of the region are banding together to unite against the enemy.
Echizen kurage is not an extraterrestrial invader, but a giant jellyfish that is devastating the livelihoods of fishermen in the Sea of Japan. Nomura’s jellyfish, as it is known in English, is the biggest creature of its kind off Japan and for reasons that remain mysterious its numbers have surged in the past few months.
The problem has become so serious that fishery officials from Japan, China and South Korea are to meet this month for a “jellyfish summit” to discuss strategies for dealing with the invasion. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has formed a jellyfish countermeasures committee and fishermen are at work on technology to keep the marauders out of their nets. |
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1910322,00.html
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 16:55 Post subject:
6 feet wide? O M G 
WOW!!! i've never heard of these before. ya think large vats of peanut butter might scare them?
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 16:57 Post subject:
guess we know the next season's "secret ingredient" for Iron Chef will be
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airehead
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 16:59 Post subject:
| HYPERASHEL wrote: | | guess we know the next season's "secret ingredient" for Iron Chef will be |
Or fear factor.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 17:01 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | HYPERASHEL wrote: | | guess we know the next season's "secret ingredient" for Iron Chef will be |
Or fear factor. |
i'd walk away if i had to swim with them, eat them is another thing.
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 17:18 Post subject:
They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country’s food supply. As soon as one is killed more appear to take its place.
Okay, that sounds more like a trailer for a movie. Come on, now.
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 17:30 Post subject:
| runswithscissors wrote: | They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country’s food supply. As soon as one is killed more appear to take its place.
Okay, that sounds more like a trailer for a movie. Come on, now. |
It has to be real. I read it on the internet.
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