I just have to share a truly awful press release headline with you:
Prawnography shows captive bred prawns lack lust
It’s all an attempt to find out why prawns bred in captivity did not go on to breed well. Researchers at Queensland University of Technology studied hours of tapes of prawns having sex, hence … prawnography. When I first read the word I assumed it was some new kind of imaging technique, but then the awful truth dawned as I read on.
It’s hard out there for a shrimp.
Nobody?
Nothing?
Really?
Bah. Screw you guys, I’m going home.
I see Christie has written more about this. I took the easy option of just providing a link but Christie has explained what it’s all about.
Cath – I did wonder whether that was a slightly risque (or should that be bisque?) joke, but I thought “no I’m sure that nice Cath Ennis wouldn’t be making a rude joke now”. Or have I got the wrong end of the shrimp?
It happens occasionally…
Bisque – LOL
Chill out, Cath. No need to get crabby.
Nah, just flexing my mussels
(Seen on an “English” restaurant menu in Bruges: “The chef’s own muscles”. Also, “Tepid lobster at the style of the grandfather”).
These jokes are warming the cockles of my heart.
@ Cath – LOL… Keep going, don’t clam up.
Oy! Ster-ing it up again, are you?
Mind like a razor, you have. I consider myself scalloped.
Whel, k-an you believe this torrent of “jokes”?
You might have to exercise the Nucula option.
These rotten seafood jokes are making me feel rather limp – et’s not a good start to the day. You’re all so shellfish. I actually had to go and buy some antacids. That’s almost eleven Canadian dollars – or sick squid.
Those fossil fish undertaking a certain activity, published in Nature, contributed significantly to the nature.com crash a week or so ago – so I was keeping quiet on this one! (I was going to write clammed but Cath used that already).
Had there been time at CISB09, Gees Minor and Minima and I could have crocheted an echinoderm with abundant sharp spines, perhaps made from fir or spruce needles.
It would have been a veritable Urchin of Menace.
@ Maxine – sigh. It probably says something about the human condition that a paper about sex, even in fishes that died out more than 300 million years ago, crashed the Nature site.
@ Kristi – not an Urchin of DOOM?