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1/18/2009 6:45:38 PM
Ron
Posts 98
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
1/18/2009 6:57:16 PM
gdozois
Posts 3110
"The good news is, you're immortal. The bad news is, you're a jellyfish."
1/18/2009 8:56:18 PM
Jeffhaas
Jeffhaas
Posts 1939
Show some spine, will ya?

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1/18/2009 9:10:57 PM
rreugen
rreugen
Posts 231
Oh.

I'm going to read them my stories and achieve immortality as a writer.

It was that easy!

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1/19/2009 9:26:26 AM
Jeffhaas
Jeffhaas
Posts 1939
I'd rather be bored and immortal
Than give the gods reasons to chortle.

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1/19/2009 9:40:28 AM
gdozois
Posts 3110
Jellyfish don't get cable...
1/19/2009 10:25:49 AM
The Cthulhu Kid
The Cthulhu Kid
Posts 119
By now that first cold chill is creeping into your Medulla Oblongata and threatening to bloom into the rest of your brain. By now, you're attempting to stifle the instinctive urge to crawl into a hole and hide. By now your reaching for that razor blade, that full bottle of aspirin, that shotgun you though you'd only use for deer hunting. Or perhaps you're as insensetive as our jellyfish overlords who like puppetmasters are pulling the strings (tentacles?) behind every human government in a quest to transform the ocean into a vast jellyfish paradise, turn the land into one, too. Perhaps the truth that these immortal jellyfish have been controling us for at least the last 6 million years hasn't penetrated your skull even a little. If such as the case, then this post is not for you. Go back to watching the cable television graciously provided by our jellyfish overlords.

For those of you who are beginning to realize the truth, though, I urge you to put the razor blade down, drop the aspiring, place the shotgun back on the rack. Our oppresion will end. Some tentacles are greater than those of jellyfish. Cthulhu sleeps, and when his sleep ends, he shall save us from the jellyfish menace. Take cheer.
1/19/2009 10:32:54 AM
Jeffhaas
Jeffhaas
Posts 1939
So you don't ascribe to the theory that jellyfish are the minions of Chthulhu Himself? I was looking forward to being gummed to death.

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1/19/2009 10:50:33 AM
The Cthulhu Kid
The Cthulhu Kid
Posts 119
Jeffhaas wrote:
So you don't ascribe to the theory that jellyfish are the minions of Chthulhu Himself? I was looking forward to being gummed to death.


Most defenitely not. Jellyfish wish to mold us to their own ends which are not in our interests. Cthulhu, though, simply appreciates us for what we are: tasty bits of flesh and soul. Isn't that what we all really want out of existence, a little appreciation?
1/19/2009 12:08:06 PM
T. Kosmo
Posts 81
There can be only one.

*jellyfish raises sword*

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1/19/2009 3:53:48 PM
gdozois
Posts 3110
*with great difficulty, having to evolve arms first*
1/20/2009 2:30:26 PM
Bill Moonroe
Bill Moonroe
Posts 3308
If such a polyp developed a taste for human blood, would that make it an Immortal Beloved Jellyfish?

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1/20/2009 2:54:17 PM
gdozois
Posts 3110
No, it would just make it smart. Lots of humans around to snack on.
1/24/2009 7:59:22 AM
Marian
Posts 2178
Novels to be written on the topic:

Twilight by the Sea: A tender romance about a sensitive girl who discovers she prefers her True Love to be spineless.

Interview With A Jellyfish: A rich, sensuous story in which the centuries old jellyfish describes his life as a polyp and tells how he became immortal. This creates a yearning in the interviewer to become immortal and tentacled too.

The Polyp Snatchers -- A creepy horror tale in which polyps discover they are being replaced by pods.

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1/25/2009 1:10:10 PM
Jake
Posts 280
Oops! Thought this was a thread about Jimmy Carter.
1/25/2009 1:36:41 PM
Bill Moonroe
Bill Moonroe
Posts 3308
Jake wrote:
Oops! Thought this was a thread about Jimmy Carter.


No, that'd be the immortal peanut butterfish.

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1/25/2009 7:33:02 PM
Marian
Posts 2178
No, no. That would be a thread about Elvis. It's the marriage of the peanut butterfish and the banana slug.

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11/7/2009 12:00:11 AM
Marian
Posts 2178
Sex causes giant jellyfish to sink Japanese trawler http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2348220/giant_nomuras_jellyfish_capsize_japanese.html

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11/7/2009 9:14:31 AM
gdozois
Posts 3110
There's little worse than an attack by a sex-crazed jellyfish.

Here's a related story, clearly a Sign of something:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1817318/giant_jellyfish_crop_circle.html?cat=2
11/7/2009 2:20:24 PM
Bill Moonroe
Bill Moonroe
Posts 3308
It's a matter of time before we see this thread as a title of an actual tree-killer books. First there was "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", now "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Serpents" has been released. Can "Immortal, Beloved Jellyfish" be far behind?

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