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Thread ID: 115511	2011-01-21 08:07:00	Giant crayfish discovered	tut (12033)	PC World Chat

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1171443	2011-01-21 21:31:00	LITERALLY crawled out from under a rock? Well what else would it do, do a jumping jack out of the damn rock? Man I hate the way idiots misuse the language I worked my ass off to learn..... It's just another fill in word that's crept into popular usage. Designed to lend importance and credibility to a statement, to impress listeners / readers of the "literary" prowess of the author. Like this from a Police report just this morning: "The scene quite literally resembled a war zone, the back half of the Subaru came to rest in the southbound lane". And I hope you literally didn't work your ass off .... :lol:	WalOne (4202)
1171444	2011-01-21 22:35:00	5" was average when we caught them in creeks in the Catlins Call it a Koura then: curiouskai.blogspot.com North Island variety measures 70 millimetres in length and the South Island variety, 80 millimetres. Commercially farmed koura are much bigger, measuring anywhere from 120 to 150 millimetres in length. That's not a fish, it's an insect.......:D	pctek (84)
1171445	2011-01-21 23:49:00	Taste not bad to eat, had some years ago with a maori mate of mine at his marae near lake Rotoiti/Rotoma. They used bunches of fern type traps to catch them.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1171446	2011-01-22 01:51:00	The 5 inches was across the eye. ;)	B.M. (505)
1171447	2011-01-22 04:53:00	And I hope you literally didn't work your ass off .... :lol: Nope, my ass is still there doing what it's supposed to be doing! :p Would love to have a taste of those crayfish! Provided they are not endangered of course.....	qazwsxokmijn (102)
1171448	2011-01-23 02:12:00	The 5 inches was across the eye. ;) SWMBO in the know claims the 5 inches referred to was the distance, well, it was a boy crayfish. :horrified	WalOne (4202)
1171449	2011-01-23 02:25:00	(snip) Huh, 5" (12cm) Thats are real giant dont you reckon. Well, it is a tiddler compared with the marron that my son in law took me to catch in Western Australia. They grow bigger than 38cm (cf the 12 cm of this so-called giant!). See here: www.biosecurity.govt.nz See the attachment for one of them that we caught. Basically you only needed one each for a good feed, possibly two.	John H (8)
1171450	2011-01-23 17:15:00	Don't the Americans usually call it a "crawfish", i.e. freshwater animal. And what we call a crayfish they call a lobster. I think. I haven't had my coffee fix yet. :) We ate these all the time below the Mason-Dixon Line when we lived there. Rare? You don't say! Hmm. I guess we set inveterate biology back a bit by eating their lab specimens then. In The SOUTH (caps there, my lad!) they are called; 'Crawdads' or 'Mud Bugs', and in Louisiana, they are just called 'snack food'. This is the freshwater version. I have even caught lots of them in California when I go fishing by turning over a rock that's partially in the water, and in the right season, there'll be a few there. There are several ocean-running versions, and they have all sorts of names, but the Maine-New Hampshire version is called: A LOBSTER, but they will have 2-lb claws x2 and not much more than those two appendages and a HUGE tail that will feed a single person to overfull. Then there's 'longusta', or 'rock lobster, which in MY world is NOT a true lobster by much right. These are typically from more tropical waters like around Mexico, Jamaica, Bermuda and Cuba, where I've eaten 20-30 of them at a sitting. These have no claws of which to speak and the only edible part is the rather chewy and low-flavored tail piece. And if you come to MY house for a lobster fest, you BETTER NOT bring any mint jelly.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1171451	2011-01-23 17:26:00	Well, it is a tiddler compared with the marron that my son in law took me to catch in Western Australia . They grow bigger than 38cm (cf the 12 cm of this so-called giant!) . See here: . biosecurity . govt . nz/files/pests/marron/marron-divers-card . pdf" target="_blank">www . biosecurity . govt . nz See the attachment for one of them that we caught . Basically you only needed one each for a good feed, possibly two . That would be a US-Longusta, a snack food . There is a new marketing ploy calling these little guys: 'Lobsterini', but they are just really big Mud Bugs to people who've had full-growed Maine Lobster . I had a biology professor who called lobsters, 'ocean cockroaches' . Yummy .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1171452	2011-01-23 17:31:00	It's just another fill in word that's crept into popular usage . Designed to lend importance and credibility to a statement, to impress listeners / readers of the "literary" prowess of the author . Like this from a Police report just this morning: "The scene quite literally resembled a war zone, the back half of the Subaru came to rest in the southbound lane" . And I hope you literally didn't work your ass off . . . . :lol: Might be an improvement for some heifers* though . * US slang for a --- well: an 'aft-endowed' person of the female persuasion, although how anyone could be persuaded to be female I don't really understand . Do you have to check the appropriate box on some form somewhere?	SurferJoe46 (51)
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