Comments on: Giant squid found off Florida coast http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 07:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150976 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150976 All they need is one PR guy and they can solve this. Giant Squid. Huge Squid. Enormous Squid. Really Enormous Squid. Gigantic Squid. Colossal Squid. Huge Squid. I did not already say Huge Squid. Well then there are two Huge Squids now, OK, it's not a big deal. Giant Ten-Legged Seabeast. The Kraken. Giant Kraken. Your Mother. All they need is one PR guy and they can solve this.

Giant Squid.
Huge Squid.
Enormous Squid.
Really Enormous Squid.
Gigantic Squid.
Colossal Squid.
Huge Squid.
I did not already say Huge Squid.
Well then there are two Huge Squids now, OK, it’s not a big deal.
Giant Ten-Legged Seabeast.
The Kraken.
Giant Kraken.
Your Mother.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1157163 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1157163 It's amazing that this guy felt that he had to bring this squid in because no one would believe that he saw it. What happened to this squid? I hope they ate every last piece of it. It’s amazing that this guy felt that he had to bring this squid in because no one would believe that he saw it. What happened to this squid? I hope they ate every last piece of it.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1151040 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1151040 Big-ass Squid. Big-ass Squid.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150291 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150291 Wake me up when one is pulled from the depths clutching an awesome steampunk submarine. Wake me up when one is pulled from the depths clutching an awesome steampunk submarine.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150297 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150297 Yet, still, some will say that the frequency of finding large squid is becoming more common. Which is a bit disconcerting, since it wasn't until quite recently that the first documented "giant squid" was reported to have been caught. Hundreds of years with barely a footnote and suddenly a glut of these once cryptozoological specimen. Climatologically speaking, I believe we may be boned. Yet, still, some will say that the frequency of finding large squid is becoming more common. Which is a bit disconcerting, since it wasn’t until quite recently that the first documented “giant squid” was reported to have been caught. Hundreds of years with barely a footnote and suddenly a glut of these once cryptozoological specimen. Climatologically speaking, I believe we may be boned.

]]> By: Talia http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150299 Talia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150299 And others dream of epic calamari feasts. And others dream of epic calamari feasts.

]]> By: boo http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150305 boo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150305 Just before everyone posts all the Kraken alerts, and before we stuff and/or grill the specimen, I sigh and ask "Do we know which species?!" Just before everyone posts all the Kraken alerts, and before we stuff and/or grill the specimen, I sigh and ask “Do we know which species?!”

]]> By: hapa http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150308 hapa Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150308 yet others will wonder if there were signs of epic combat with a mysterious piratical submarine. yet others will wonder if there were signs of epic combat with a mysterious piratical submarine.

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150343 Ipo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150343 Atlantic Giant Squid Scientific Name: Architeuthis Dux Total length: 23-25 feet Total weight 200 pounds Eats: Fish and other squid species Giant squid exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism. Sounds dirty. Atlantic Giant Squid

Scientific Name: Architeuthis Dux

Total length: 23-25 feet

Total weight 200 pounds

Eats: Fish and other squid species

Giant squid exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism.

Sounds dirty.

]]> By: Flashman http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150860 Flashman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150860 Hey, here's a baby giant whale that we came across a couple of weeks ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54433808@N00/sets/72157626947464485/ It's probably still there, at the western tip of Brier Island, Nova Scotia, if anybody wants to take a look! Hey, here’s a baby giant whale that we came across a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54433808@N00/sets/72157626947464485/

It’s probably still there, at the western tip of Brier Island, Nova Scotia, if anybody wants to take a look!

]]> By: Rich Keller http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150352 Rich Keller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150352 There's ammonium chloride in the tissue of some Architeuthis species that makes them inedible to humans. Laura Miller in a New York Times review of Richard Ellis's "Search for the Giant Squid" says that it would taste "like a mouth full of household cleaner." But then, this link says colossal squids are edible: http://board.thelongwinters.com/viewtopic.php?t=1119&start=60 They ate some to see if it was ammoniated. Why wait for lab results when you can just take a bite? That's some empiricism for you right there. There’s ammonium chloride in the tissue of some Architeuthis species that makes them inedible to humans. Laura Miller in a New York Times review of Richard Ellis’s “Search for the Giant Squid” says that it would taste “like a mouth full of household cleaner.” But then, this link says colossal squids are edible:

http://board.thelongwinters.com/viewtopic.php?t=1119&start=60

They ate some to see if it was ammoniated. Why wait for lab results when you can just take a bite? That’s some empiricism for you right there.

]]> By: jimh http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150362 jimh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150362 Some will wonder if the fishermen will be paid for their find, or if it will be squid pro bono. Some will wonder if the fishermen will be paid for their find, or if it will be squid pro bono.

]]> By: Joe The Wizard http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150380 Joe The Wizard Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150380 A 23 foot long squid! That's a fucking load of squid! A 23 foot long squid! That’s a fucking load of squid!

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1151166 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1151166 But the best of us will say IA! IA! Cthulhu Fthagn! But the best of us will say IA! IA! Cthulhu Fthagn!

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150405 Brainspore Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150405 Giant squid are OK, I guess... until you've seen the <em>Colossal</em> Squid. Giant squid are OK, I guess… until you’ve seen the Colossal Squid.

]]> By: sami http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1154246 sami Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1154246 that's bigger than-OMG!-my little sami! that’s bigger than-OMG!-my little sami!

]]> By: teapot http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150923 teapot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150923 @Maggie: Include me in the small subest of readers who complain that something as awesome as a giant squid deserves a post pic. Perhaps even <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alisonjfb/1387973812/">this CC flickr image</a> proclaiming that "Giant squid has a posse"? (though the claim is impossible to verify) @Rich: Thankyou for making me re-imagine my mouth as a portable lab that travels wherever I do. @Maggie: Include me in the small subest of readers who complain that something as awesome as a giant squid deserves a post pic. Perhaps even this CC flickr image proclaiming that “Giant squid has a posse”? (though the claim is impossible to verify)

@Rich: Thankyou for making me re-imagine my mouth as a portable lab that travels wherever I do.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1154507 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1154507 95% of our oceans are unknown..forget the outer space nonsense and discover our world..... 95% of our oceans are unknown..forget the outer space nonsense and discover our world…..

]]> By: Palomino http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150453 Palomino Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150453 A baby Giant Squid is still a Giant Squid. A giant squid is a giant squid. "Giant Squid" is a name/noun, a "giant squid" is an adjective/noun. So yes, they may have found a giant squid, but is it a giant Giant Squid? A baby Giant Squid is still a Giant Squid. A giant squid is a giant squid. “Giant Squid” is a name/noun, a “giant squid” is an adjective/noun. So yes, they may have found a giant squid, but is it a giant Giant Squid?

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/06/28/giant-squid-found-of-1.html#comment-1150711 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1150711 Shark and skate can have a strong ammonia taste, too, if they're not handled properly when caught. Shark and skate can have a strong ammonia taste, too, if they’re not handled properly when caught.

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