First you pound the fish flat with a mallet

[sovay]

Is it a bad sign if my first reaction to the discovery of a new crustacean is "Aww . . ."* and my second is "I wonder if it's edible?"

*So fuzzily Lovecraftian! Also, the fact that there's a Polynesian goddess of crustaceans simply rocks.

Comments

[erzebet.livejournal.com]

That is so funny. My first reaction was "Aww..." and my second was "People are gonna want to eat that."

LOL

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

"With a pink crustacean and a pickup truck..."

It looks like the misbegotten offspring of Marilyn Monroe and a bedbug. Maybe the next family should be Samsaida?

Nine

[knowing-carrion.livejournal.com]

That is about the most bad-ass creature as I have seen in years... I will harvest them into an army of unfathomable intimidation.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

... that was my thought, too. You just know somebody's gonna start a restaurant.

[signy1.livejournal.com]

Aww. It looks just like an alabaster Egyptian scarab. With big fuzzy pigtails.

[malamyn.livejournal.com]

If you want to see something really cool (that doesn't look very edible), in the Florida cave systems they have these albino crawfish with nearly translucent skin (err... or shell?) so you can see their hearts beating. Very creepy.

These things kindof remind me of orangutans. I don't know why. Maybe it's the long furry arms/claws/whatever. My mind works weird.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Nah, that's about right; and notice that although the article is much too scientific to suggest any such thing, the author is mentally measuring it up against a salad plate. Not to mention that their informant is called Segonzac, which is, as we know, in the heart of Cognac country.

The researchers said that while legions of new ocean species are discovered each year, it is quite rare to find one that merits a new family.

Aren't we lucky to live on a planet with so much water?

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

Given their habitat, many crustaceans probably give devotion to The Elder Gods. For thousands of years, humans have been eating The Elder Gods' followers. So it is only just that when The Elder Gods return they should exact their revenge: crustacean-eaters will be the last people consumed so that they will be forced to watch in horror the bloody extinction of their own species!