Comments on: Giant scale worm http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Nicole Lee http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1494181 Nicole Lee Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1494181 range is antarctic, not arctic. great post otherwise! range is antarctic, not arctic. great post otherwise!

]]> By: Quiche de Resistance http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1493376 Quiche de Resistance Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1493376 This one just looks like a kindly old man. "where are my glasses?" This one just looks like a kindly old man.

“where are my glasses?”

]]> By: Christopher Mah http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1492867 Christopher Mah Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1492867 Here's my original post about weird critters from the Antarctic  http://www.echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/10-of-weirdest-antarctic-invertebrates.html Here’s my original post about weird critters from the Antarctic  http://www.echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/10-of-weirdest-antarctic-invertebrates.html

]]> By: Christopher Mah http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1492860 Christopher Mah Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1492860 Love it! thanks for the plug but Eulagisca is Antarctic. Not Arctic! Love it! thanks for the plug but Eulagisca is Antarctic. Not Arctic!

]]> By: jere7my http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1492397 jere7my Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1492397 Wow! Is that...to scale? Wow! Is that…to scale?

]]> By: chaopoiesis http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491923 chaopoiesis Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491923 <i>A vittata and its starfish host will seek each other out—mutually—through mazes. </i> If people weren't being so damned speciesist, they'd realize the very same thing would happen with Xeni and a kitten. Wormday, please! A vittata and its starfish host will seek each other out—mutually—through mazes. 

If people weren’t being so damned speciesist, they’d realize the very same thing would happen with Xeni and a kitten.

Wormday, please!

]]> By: snagglepuss http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491861 snagglepuss Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491861 So it's blind, brainless and bites. I've dated worse. So it’s blind, brainless and bites.

I’ve dated worse.

]]> By: professor http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491838 professor Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491838 Why do I get the feeling that the scientist talks to it in her best Miss Piggie voice... "Wormeeeeeeee!" Why do I get the feeling that the scientist talks to it in her best Miss Piggie voice… “Wormeeeeeeee!”

]]> By: Blake St. John http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491673 Blake St. John Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491673 Well have you ever considered how lonely starfish must be? It's like letting a jerk roommate share your apartment because at least you don't have to talk to the ficus. Well have you ever considered how lonely starfish must be? It’s like letting a jerk roommate share your apartment because at least you don’t have to talk to the ficus.

]]> By: fredh http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491613 fredh Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491613 Maybe Linnaeus was thinking of Aphrodite's origins? She was born fully formed from sea foam. She's the one standing on the oyster shell in that Bottecelli painting. So....ocean=Aphrodite? Maybe? I don't know. I give up. Maybe Linnaeus was thinking of Aphrodite’s origins? She was born fully formed from sea foam. She’s the one standing on the oyster shell in that Bottecelli painting. So….ocean=Aphrodite? Maybe? I don’t know. I give up.

]]> By: Florian Bösch http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491547 Florian Bösch Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491547 Nope Nope

]]> By: malindrome http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491538 malindrome Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491538 "This IS Ceti Alpha V!!" “This IS Ceti Alpha V!!”

]]> By: chenille http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491429 chenille Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491429 That person was Linnaeus, and yes, it seems he was being more than a little <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/08/books/books-of-the-times-a-little-noticed-world-of-wonders.html" rel="nofollow">strange</a>. This <i>definitely</i> isn't the first thing I think of when I see a worm of any shape. That person was Linnaeus, and yes, it seems he was being more than a little strange. This definitely isn’t the first thing I think of when I see a worm of any shape.

]]> By: chenille http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491418 chenille Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491418 Well, it's not the first thing I think of when I see a worm. Sure, I could imagine these latching onto someone...but I can imagine the same with monkeys, and it certainly wouldn't be less frightening. Well, it’s not the first thing I think of when I see a worm. Sure, I could imagine these latching onto someone…but I can imagine the same with monkeys, and it certainly wouldn’t be less frightening.

]]> By: Rich Keller http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491368 Rich Keller Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491368 From the article: "You know what's most obscene of all? These worms are in the family Polynoidae, which is in the superfamily Aphroditoidea, itself in the suborder Aphroditiformia. That's 2 mentions of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. I don't know who decided to use that name, but that person was a strange person." LOL! From the article:

“You know what’s most obscene of all? These worms are in the family Polynoidae, which is in the superfamily Aphroditoidea, itself in the suborder Aphroditiformia. That’s 2 mentions of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. I don’t know who decided to use that name, but that person was a strange person.”

LOL!

]]> By: bzishi http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491354 bzishi Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491354 It is scary because you can imagine smaller versions latching onto the back of the neck and taking over your mind (like the ending of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation). The larger versions probably just burst from the stomach of their victims. It is scary because you can imagine smaller versions latching onto the back of the neck and taking over your mind (like the ending of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation). The larger versions probably just burst from the stomach of their victims.

]]> By: Stephen Gordon http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491334 Stephen Gordon Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491334 What, no weird worm penis? This isn't the maggie I've come to expect! What, no weird worm penis? This isn’t the maggie I’ve come to expect!

]]> By: Sarah http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491336 Sarah Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491336 yikes yikes

]]> By: David Davion http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491313 David Davion Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491313 That awkward moment when you realize you just wrote an incomplete sentence. That awkward moment when you realize you just wrote an incomplete sentence.

]]> By: wooodster http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491289 wooodster Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491289 "There's a possibility that this commensal arrangement" what ? Aren't there a few words missing there ? (I'm not a native english speaker, so this might be just me, but I keep trying to make sense of this sentence and I just can't) “There’s a possibility that this commensal arrangement” what ? Aren’t there a few words missing there ? (I’m not a native english speaker, so this might be just me, but I keep trying to make sense of this sentence and I just can’t)

]]> By: cminus http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491280 cminus Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491280 Holy hell!  I'm never going anywhere near any vertebrates! ...I think this means I have to be a bank regulator now. Holy hell!  I’m never going anywhere near any vertebrates!

…I think this means I have to be a bank regulator now.

]]> By: bzishi http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491274 bzishi Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491274 Seconded! Seconded!

]]> By: GeekMan http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491271 GeekMan Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491271 Unicorns, please.  Unicorns, please. 

]]> By: chenille http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491272 chenille Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491272 ...none of that explained why this is scary. If it's just that the worm has jaws, ok, but then the things that should really scare you are vertebrates. Those get way bigger and the jaws usually have <i>rows of sharpened bones</i> that grow out through the flesh. …none of that explained why this is scary. If it’s just that the worm has jaws, ok, but then the things that should really scare you are vertebrates. Those get way bigger and the jaws usually have rows of sharpened bones that grow out through the flesh.

]]> By: cdh1971 http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491267 cdh1971 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491267 Coming soon to your local sushi bar.  Coming soon to your local sushi bar. 

]]> By: beemoh http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491261 beemoh Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491261 No thank you. No thank you.

]]> By: ldobe http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491249 ldobe Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491249  And here I was, just getting over the nightmares the hedgehog penis caused me.  I shudder to think of the fresh horrors BoingBoing will unmask next week :]  And here I was, just getting over the nightmares the hedgehog penis caused me.  I shudder to think of the fresh horrors BoingBoing will unmask next week :]

]]> By: RedShirt77 http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491243 RedShirt77 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491243 Crap, I could never drink anything out of that coffee mug ever again after it was that close to the giant worms. Crap, I could never drink anything out of that coffee mug ever again after it was that close to the giant worms.

]]> By: RKTR ♫soundcloud.com/rktr http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491240 RKTR ♫soundcloud.com/rktr Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491240 I love how the mouth is in focus on the last picture, it makes it look so evil and menacing! I love how the mouth is in focus on the last picture, it makes it look so evil and menacing!

]]> By: Teirhan http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/giant-scale-worm.html#comment-1491239 Teirhan Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=173585#comment-1491239 Eugh.  My nightmares about walrus eyes shall be expanded to include that mouth. Eugh.  My nightmares about walrus eyes shall be expanded to include that mouth.

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