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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!
Posted: April 12th, 2018 under animals.
Comments: 12
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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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