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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 11:42 PM
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Poll question: Real or fake?

What say you?
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 11:45 PM
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1. So that's what they did with Anna Nichol Smith's first implant...
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 11:49 PM
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2. BWAHAhahaha!
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 11:53 PM
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3. I know there are jellyfish that get to be about 450lbs.
But I don't think there are any as big as the one in the photo.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:37 AM
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15. I think you're right...
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mduffy31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 11:58 PM
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4. It is a Nomura Jellyfish
They get this big.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomura_jellyfish
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:12 AM
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7. Even if this one exceeded 7 feet
and the diver was, say 5' tall; I think this pic is pushing it a bit...
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:04 AM
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5. .
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-1910322,00.html
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:14 AM
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8. That's more like it, methinks...
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:11 AM
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6. That is a large jellyfish. In fact, it's ginormous...
...:scared:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:18 AM
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10. ginormous is a good word for it...
I can imagine seeing something like it after drinking too much gin! :rofl:
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:15 AM
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9. The Jellyfish are coming! The Jellyfish are coming!
If it had the chance to eat you and everyone you care about...

I say we declare war on them now and get this over with.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:20 AM
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11. Hallelujah, brother!

I'm ready!
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:27 AM
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12. I'm kinda scared of the jelly fish that wash up on the shore...
and they are only the size of sandwich baggies...I think if I came in contact with that thing, I might have soiled myself! :scared:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:35 AM
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13. You have reason to be scared of some of those jellies

Like this one
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:39 AM
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16. yuck!
not only do they look gross...I'm willing to bet the venom from that one would probably kill me
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:46 AM
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18. It could...
but at the very least it'd hurt like the devil.
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mduffy31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 01:12 AM
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19. I've been stung by one of those
and it hurts like a motherfucker.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 08:35 AM
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21. Ouch!
How long did it take to recover?
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mduffy31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 10:54 AM
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23. Not that long
My leg swelled up and it was painful, but I was over it the next day.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:37 AM
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14. The photo could be fake but...
the jellyfish isn't. The largest however is the Lion's Mane Jellyfish, with a bell reaching about 8 feet or 2.5 meters.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:42 AM
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17. That's almost as high as our ceiling.
Big jelly!
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 03:48 AM
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20. If that were real, that would be like a 3 or 4 ton jellyfish
you'd be looking at.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 08:36 AM
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22. That's a ;ot of jelly!
Thanks for the perspective...
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:01 AM
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24. So where's the Skippy's peanut butter?
I want some Annette with my Funicello.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 01:14 PM
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26. Choosy muvvas choose Jif!
:rofl:
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riona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 01:09 PM
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25. A really large
cat gakked that up.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 01:14 PM
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27. !!!
That's EXACTLY what that looks like!
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 01:52 PM
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28. Looks like a fake to me...
...or at least a perspective problem in the pic...
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Iniquitous Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 01:23 AM
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29. I don't know.
But that thing is BIG!
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