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“As if their deadly venom and spiny exteriors weren’t enough, scientists have discovered that stonefish have a hidden switchblade in their heads that they can flick out whenever they feel like they’re in danger.”

I was out late tonight (at a history lecture, thanks very much) so have a badass fish in lieu of effortpost. G’nght!

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Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: April 12, 2018, 9:17 pm

Does it come battered and with chips?


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: April 12, 2018, 11:43 pm

Ooh! That fish’s switchblade in the head is almost as good as Lotte Lenya‘s switchblade shoes.


Comment from dissent555
Time: April 13, 2018, 12:14 am

Sharks or Jets?


Comment from peacelovewoodstock
Time: April 13, 2018, 11:21 am

“Ever see a man that’s stepped on a stone-fish? His body bends backwards like a bow with the pain. Sometimes it’s so frightful his eyes literally fall out of their sockets.” – Fidele Barbey to James Bond in “The Hildebrand Rarity” (short story), 1960.


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: April 13, 2018, 12:19 pm

Evolution wise, it looks more like a hinderance than a help. What if it sticks a predator and it gets stuck on his switchblade and it is stuck there? What a mess!


Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: April 13, 2018, 1:24 pm

Khan will be demanding to know why these fish are carrying knives. There is never a good reason to carry a knife! said the guy who probably never did a lick of hard work in a blue color job in his life.
or was being molested by an eel.


Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: April 13, 2018, 2:36 pm

Okay, I am corrected, he was a day laborer in construction. And he never had or never saw anyone he worked with using a knife on the job?

Sorry, I seem to be fowling the spirit of the place
😉


Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: April 13, 2018, 2:54 pm

Comment from peacelovewoodstock
Time: April 13, 2018, 11:21 am
“Ever see a man that’s stepped on a stone-fish? His body bends backwards like a bow with the pain. Sometimes it’s so frightful his eyes literally fall out of their sockets.” – Fidele Barbey to James Bond in “The Hildebrand Rarity” (short story), 1960.

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That’s exactly what I was thinking of when I read the word “stonefish”!


Comment from peacelovewoodstock
Time: April 13, 2018, 6:16 pm

Replying to Wolfus …

Not to be confused with the scene from “Thunderball” when James sucks a poisonous sea urchin spine out of Claudine Auger’s (“Domino”) foot. Bond (obviously lying): “That’s the first time I’ve tasted women”


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: April 13, 2018, 6:24 pm

Everybody is obsessed with the spike, but look at the size of that fish’s jaw. Yuge!


Comment from William Alfieson
Time: April 16, 2018, 10:50 am

Why does this arouse me?


Comment from William Alfieson
Time: April 16, 2018, 10:52 am

Why does this post turn me on

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