Überlobster
Burroughs Guy
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/02/bubba.lobster.ap/
I predict that Bubba will soon star in stories about radiation leaks,
genetic experiments, extraterrestrials, and all that.
I suspect that lobsters this size were less remarkable in the 19th
Century, but nowadays it's nearly impossible for a lobster to dodge
the lobster pots for 50 to 100 years.
--
Burroughs "Bubba is AWOL from the lobster corps" Guy
Vaguer memories available upon request
Ralph Jones
<BurroughsG...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
>22-pound (10 kg) lobster found off Massachusetts:
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/02/bubba.lobster.ap/
>
>I predict that Bubba will soon star in stories about radiation leaks,
>genetic experiments, extraterrestrials, and all that.
>
>I suspect that lobsters this size were less remarkable in the 19th
>Century, but nowadays it's nearly impossible for a lobster to dodge
>the lobster pots for 50 to 100 years.
There was a story in the media circa 1975 about a 75-pound lobster
found off the New England coast by divers. A university studied him in
the wild, then left him alone, refusing to give his whereabouts...an
age figure of 250 years was bandied about.
These "Save The Big Lobster" campaigns are fairly common, and there's
a ULish twist to one I remember from the 1980s. A Denver restaurateur
named Bob Villafranca was opening a seafood place and announced that
he had a <bignum>-pound lobster who would provide the opening-day
feast. Then there was an outcry, and he announced that he would free
the critter in return for contributions to a certain charity.
The charity got the money, and Villafranca was photographed tossing
the lobster off a California pier -- with rubber bands still attached
to its claws.
Not long ago, this story was reported by several afuisti as having
happened in different places, with different personalities named. They
all seemed quite sure of their facts, but I'm equally sure of mine --
I had had personal dealings with Villafranca, remembered him as an
astonishingly clueless man, and had this impression hilariously
reinforced on seeing the newspaper photo.
rj
Nick Spalding
<YmFydGljdXM=.4d190854d644b376...@1109778164.nulluser.com>:
> 22-pound (10 kg) lobster found off Massachusetts:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/02/bubba.lobster.ap/
>
> I predict that Bubba will soon star in stories about radiation leaks,
> genetic experiments, extraterrestrials, and all that.
>
> I suspect that lobsters this size were less remarkable in the 19th
> Century, but nowadays it's nearly impossible for a lobster to dodge
> the lobster pots for 50 to 100 years.
We used to have a claw about a foot long off a really big lobster at home, I
wonder what happened to that. It was given to my Pa by a Norwegian trawler
skipper during the war. I wish that report had given its size as well as its
weight; judging by the second picture its claws must have about the same size
as ours.
--
Nick Spalding
Donna Richoux
> 22-pound (10 kg) lobster found off Massachusetts:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/02/bubba.lobster.ap/
>
> I predict that Bubba will soon star in stories about radiation leaks,
> genetic experiments, extraterrestrials, and all that.
>
> I suspect that lobsters this size were less remarkable in the 19th
> Century, but nowadays it's nearly impossible for a lobster to dodge
> the lobster pots for 50 to 100 years.
Which reminds me of the (possibly true) stories that lobsters used to be
so common they were fed to the pigs, and so on.
I see that was discussed here in 1998, with these references given:
http://www.es.umb.edu/edg/bhms/bh2ms.htm
"William Wood in "New England's Prospect," published in 1634,
described the productivity of Boston and Plymouth Harbors in
colonial times. Both harbors had abundant shellfish and lobster.
Wood recorded that a single man, with one hour's labor, could
collect enough lobster to feed forty men for two days."
"Carolyn Travers, a Plimouth Plantation Historian (pers. comm),
discounts the tale that the Pilgrims used lobster mainly to feed
their pigs. Another tale relates that Massachusetts law forbade
serving indentured servants lobster more than three times per week.
Travers, whose dissertation was on indentured servants in the
colonies, found only one historical record for this story. In the
19th century, a family being housed in the Plymouth Poor House
complained when fed lobster three times in a week. Travers noted
that the family was probably fed large lobster, which have a much
stronger flavor than the one to two pound lobsters that we eat
today"
--
Donna "lobster back" Richoux
Ralph Jones
wrote:
[snip]
>
>Which reminds me of the (possibly true) stories that lobsters used to be
>so common they were fed to the pigs, and so on.
>
Classic line in the film "Tom Horn"...Steve McQueen is invited to a
rich cattlemen's cookout where a barrel of live lobsters has been
hauled in by the railroad. The host sees him staring at a lobster and
asks if anything's wrong. McQueen replies "No...it's just that I ain't
never et a bug that BIG before."
rj
TBD
"Burroughs Guy" <BurroughsG...@aol.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:YmFydGljdXM=.4d190854d644b376...@1109778164.nulluser.com..
.
> 22-pound (10 kg) lobster found off Massachusetts:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/02/bubba.lobster.ap/
>
> I predict that Bubba will soon star in stories about radiation leaks,
> genetic experiments, extraterrestrials, and all that.
>
Unfortunately not. He didn't make it. Picked off the wire earlier today:
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- He dodged lobster pots for decades, endured a trip from
the coast of Massachusetts to Pittsburgh and survived about a week in a fish
market. But a trip to the zoo proved to be too much for a 22-pound lobster
named Bubba.
The leviathan of a lobster died Wednesday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo &
PPG Aquarium about a day after he was moved from Wholey's Market, said zoo
spokeswoman Rachel Capp and Bob Wholey, owner of the fish market.
Ma
Jesse F. Hughes
I miss Pittsburgh. Wholey's is the only fish market I know that
employs an accordionist on weekends. A regular AFU place, I tell you
what.
The Post-Gazette has a nice write-up at
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05062/465527.stm>.
--
Jesse F. Hughes
"He was still there, shiny and blue green and full of sin."
-- Philip Marlowe stalks a bluebottle fly in
Raymond Chandler's /The Little Sister/
Ad absurdum per aspera
> 75-pound lobster found off the New England coast
> by divers.
I've heard of a FORTY-five-pounder from that area and era
(http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/faq/fishfaq3.html). The biggest lobster
acknowledged by the Guinness Book was a bit smaller than that and from
a bit north of there:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/gwr5/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=51451
An interesting insight onto the factors affecting lobster size and age:
http://www.state.me.us/dmr/pamphlets/analysis/analysiscommercialcatch.htm
("...at least 86% of the legal-sized lobsters are caught each year out
of all the available legal-sized lobsters along the coast. This means
that only one of ten lobsters recruited into the fishery will not be
harvested the first year. Of every ten lobsters carried over the first
year, nine will be caught the second year. So a lobster's chances of
surviving Maine's intensive nearshore fishery is 1 out of 10 the first
year, 1 out of 100 the next year, and so on.")
National Geographic has covered the lobster beat often over the years
(including a major story in that mid-70s timeframe... hmm, one of these
days I'm going to have to get off the dime about that complete NatGeo
CD-ROM set that you sometimes see in the stores...) Meanwhile here's a
recent example with a cite of a new book, which may constitute saving
the best for last from a signal standpoint:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0824_040824_lobster.html
--Joe
Andrew Warinner
"Jesse F. Hughes" <je...@phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> I miss Pittsburgh. Wholey's is the only fish market I know that
> employs an accordionist on weekends. A regular AFU place, I tell you
> what.
Welcome to AFU. Here's your lobster.
Andrew Warinner
wari...@xnet.com
http://home.xnet.com/~warinner
Burroughs Guy
> > I predict that Bubba will soon star in stories about radiation leaks,
> > genetic experiments, extraterrestrials, and all that.
> Unfortunately not. He didn't make it.
Clearly this was a hit. Bubba was AWOL from the Sekrit Lobster Corps,
and the Men In Black killed him before he talked.
--
Burroughs Guy
Lon
I hope that PETL is looking into the menus at that zoo with the proper
amount of suspicion at this extremely unlikely coincidence--and
particularly if any episodes of Iron Chef are about to be filmed at
that zoo.
John Francis
I always have to smile when I see seafood on the menu in the restaurant
at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Tim McDaniel
>> Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium about a day after he was moved from
>> Wholey's Market, said zoo spokeswoman Rachel Capp and Bob Wholey,
>> owner of the fish market.
>
> I hope that PETL is looking into the menus at that zoo with the
> proper amount of suspicion at this extremely unlikely
> coincidence--and particularly if any episodes of Iron Chef are
> about to be filmed at that zoo.
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From: zymur...@comcast.net
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Lab testing for Bubba the lobster
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:30:01 PST
Keywords: originalsmirk
Bubbs, the 22 pound lobster, recently died at the Pittsburgh Zoo and
PPG Aquarium. Some of his flesh is being sent to labs to determine why
he died.
Right now, personnel at those labs are trying to figure out how to
list butter, lemon and beer as "lab reagents."
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Bob Ward
Francis) wrote:
>
>
>I always have to smile when I see seafood on the menu in the restaurant
>at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
>
Those are the slow learners.
Lon
Lon "HTH" Stowell
Bob Ward
wrote:
Doesn't help a bit - I said exactly what I meant. The performing
animals are supposed to exhibit learned "behaviors", not "tricks" - if
they can't teach an old dogfish new behaviors, he goes on the menu.
Ralph Jones
Francis) wrote:
As a matter of fact, the Landry's restaurant chain, which owns
Landry's Seafood and Joe's Crab Shack among others, recently made a
deal to absorb the bankrupt [1] Ocean Journey aquarium in Denver.
rj
[1] Let the record show I did not use the word fl**nd*r*ng.
David Winsemius
> These "Save The Big Lobster" campaigns are fairly common, and there's
> a ULish twist to one I remember from the 1980s. A Denver restaurateur
> named Bob Villafranca was opening a seafood place and announced that
> he had a <bignum>-pound lobster who would provide the opening-day
> feast. Then there was an outcry, and he announced that he would free
> the critter in return for contributions to a certain charity.
>
> The charity got the money, and Villafranca was photographed tossing
> the lobster off a California pier -- with rubber bands still attached
> to its claws.
>
And into a body of water where there were none of its kind.
--
D "go East old man" W
David Winsemius
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 08:07:20 -0800, Lon <lon.s...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Bob Ward proclaimed:
>>> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:59:35 +0000 (UTC), jo...@panix.com (John
>>> Francis) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I always have to smile when I see seafood on the menu in the
>>>>restaurant at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
>>>
>>> Those are the slow learners.
>> ^ ^ swimmers
> Doesn't help a bit - I said exactly what I meant. The performing
> animals are supposed to exhibit learned "behaviors", not "tricks" - if
> they can't teach an old dogfish new behaviors, he goes on the menu.
>
So, when were they acquired by SeaWorld?
--
D "leveraged buyout by a corporate octopus?" W
Leo G Simonetta
<ralp...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:59:35 +0000 (UTC), jo...@panix.com (John
> Francis) wrote:
>
> >In article <ls2dna8aW5g...@comcast.com>,
> >Lon <lon.s...@comcast.net> wrote:
SNIPPAGE
> >I always have to smile when I see seafood on the menu in the restaurant
> >at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
> >
> As a matter of fact, the Landry's restaurant chain, which owns
> Landry's Seafood and Joe's Crab Shack among others, recently made a
> deal to absorb the bankrupt [1] Ocean Journey aquarium in Denver.
>
> rj
>
> [1] Let the record show I did not use the word fl**nd*r*ng.
I, for one, will not carp about that.
--
Leo G. Simonetta
lsimo...@newsguy.com
The AFU FAQ is carefully hidden at http://www.tafkac.org
Andrew Warinner
Leo G Simonetta <lsimo...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:08:36 -0700, Ralph Jones
> <ralp...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:59:35 +0000 (UTC), jo...@panix.com (John
> > Francis) wrote:
> >
> > >In article <ls2dna8aW5g...@comcast.com>,
> > >Lon <lon.s...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> SNIPPAGE
>
> > >I always have to smile when I see seafood on the menu in the restaurant
> > >at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
> > >
> > As a matter of fact, the Landry's restaurant chain, which owns
> > Landry's Seafood and Joe's Crab Shack among others, recently made a
> > deal to absorb the bankrupt [1] Ocean Journey aquarium in Denver.
> >
> > rj
> >
> > [1] Let the record show I did not use the word fl**nd*r*ng.
>
> I, for one, will not carp about that.
I don't want to skate on thin ice but we all know that deep down in his
sole he really wanted to say fl**nd*r.
Richard Casady
<BurroughsG...@aol.com.invalid> wrote:
>I suspect that lobsters this size were less remarkable in the 19th
>Century, but nowadays it's nearly impossible for a lobster to dodge
>the lobster pots for 50 to 100 years.
One consequence of the disappearance of the cod is that they no longer
feed on lobsters.
Casady
slide
>
> One consequence of the disappearance of the cod is that they no longer
> feed on lobsters.
>
..unanticipated consequences....
May be just a rumor, but I've been told by several that the rhino
population is less endangered due to Viagra. The horns aren't nearly as
in demand as pre-Viagra.
Mac
Give it a few millenia, and this will morph to "Viagra was invented by
rhinos!"
Anthony "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along." McCafferty