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lzb3 · Post by **lzb3** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 7:13 pm

How about "I see you!"

Kinda scarry isn't it!

But way cool!

Elizabeth

SaltnLime · Post by **SaltnLime** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 8:30 pm

You aughta know....prom night and this thing pops up on my nose.......you think he will notice?

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 8:41 pm

I didn't see a fish when I looked at it.. I thouhgt it was just a piece of live rock.

lzb3 · Post by **lzb3** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 9:03 pm

SHawn that is disgusting...how bout "My kid's ass when she doesn't wipe good enough".

EEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Elizabeth

reeferpuffer · Post by **reeferpuffer** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 9:01 pm

Have any toilet paper?

Amyjoe · Post by **Amyjoe** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:45 pm

Okay I am going there... how about, WTF is it?

reeferpuffer · Post by **reeferpuffer** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 11:10 pm

its a fish....

SaltnLime · Post by **SaltnLime** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 12:57 am

reeferpuffer wrote:its a fish....

With a "pimple" lure!

Amyjoe · Post by **Amyjoe** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:19 am

yeah I know its a fish... I was just being a smart butt.

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:40 am

Not only do they look really odd.. seems like they have a pretty weird sex life (not unlike some people you might meet in downtown mobile late at night)

Because angler fish are so sparsely populated throughout the vast millions of cubic miles of ocean, chance mating encounters between males and females would be unlikely. In fact, when deep-sea anglers were first brought up in trawls they puzzled scientists because they were all females. Then someone noticed small "growths" on the female that turned out to be males. When a tiny male meets a female he bits into her flesh and literally fuses with her body. Like the linking together of web sites on the Internet, the two blood supplies also fuse together so that the male obtains nutrients and oxygen from the female. Without any need for most of his organ systems, such as eyes and digestive organs, the male's body degenerates into essentially a pair of sperm-producing testicles. Thus the female essentially becomes a hermaphrodite with up to six or more of these tiny male parasites attached to various parts of her body. Although functionally bisexual, the eggs and sperm come from genetically distinct parents, thus providing vital genetic variability through meiosis and genetic recombination. As a functional hermaphrodite she can have sex any time or place, without worrying about meeting a male in the dark abyss of the ocean. Clinging to her body like minute, blood-sucking parasites, the males have little interaction with the female, except to fertilize her eggs with sperm.

Post by **snoopdog** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:56 am

I looked at the picture 4 times and decided not to post. Everytime i saw it i thought it was a piece of live rock with something poking out of it.