Jellyzilla

January 20, 2006 12:39 AM

I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords.
posted by mr.marx (35 comments total)

Oh ffs, this should be the second link.
posted by mr.marx at 12:51 AM on January 20, 2006

O JLY?
posted by nightchrome at 1:02 AM on January 20, 2006

Yeah, I should definitely go to hell for that.
posted by nightchrome at 1:03 AM on January 20, 2006

Help us Architeuthis. You're our only hope.
posted by hal9k at 1:05 AM on January 20, 2006

How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi
posted by hortense at 1:05 AM on January 20, 2006

Oh god I've never had such a strong urge to poke the shit out of something in my whole life.
posted by GooseOnTheLoose at 1:22 AM on January 20, 2006

nightchrome, I don't get it. 'Splain?
I'm going to kick myself, aren't I?
posted by wilberforce at 1:58 AM on January 20, 2006

wilberforce: nightcrome was riffing on O RLY? A little searching on google reveals O RLY? is a silly internet meme. Cute and campy, but not as funny as buttsecks?
posted by tweak at 2:06 AM on January 20, 2006

tweak, I tried. I really tried very hard to come up with something funny involving "buttsecks?" and "jelly" but it was just too obvious for humor.
posted by nightchrome at 2:13 AM on January 20, 2006

What do they want?
posted by TwelveTwo at 2:18 AM on January 20, 2006

buttsecks
posted by mr.marx at 2:23 AM on January 20, 2006

Oh my.
posted by TwelveTwo at 2:30 AM on January 20, 2006

And they won't use vaseline!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 2:34 AM on January 20, 2006

It is all an elaborate plot to make us pee on ourselves.
posted by scarabic at 2:52 AM on January 20, 2006

Now we just need giant peanut butter fish and some bread, and it's good eats for everyone. Notice, though, how you never see a grape jellyfish in the wild? They're always just "slime" flavored. Weird.
posted by JWright at 2:58 AM on January 20, 2006

is this Kosher?
posted by matteo at 3:28 AM on January 20, 2006

I mean, literally: can you eat jellyfish if you're Jewish?
posted by matteo at 3:29 AM on January 20, 2006

GooseOnTheLoose: Oh god I've never had such a strong urge to poke the shit out of something in my whole life.

So, you've never been constipated?
posted by Chunder at 3:49 AM on January 20, 2006

matteo: google sez no. Oddly, whale is not kosher either. Lev. 11:9; Deut. 14:9
posted by Heywood Mogroot at 3:59 AM on January 20, 2006

Thanks!

I googled O JLY, but the misspelling suggestion they gave was O HOLY, and I thought that was a bit of a stretch.

I don't think I've hung out on boards long enough to have O RLY sink in. Or at least, the fora I lurk in tend to have proper spelling.
posted by wilberforce at 4:06 AM on January 20, 2006

My god, it's full of slime.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 4:10 AM on January 20, 2006

O RLY?

No, Aurelia.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 4:14 AM on January 20, 2006

From the first article: And although reports of serious human injury are rare, there are records of people dying from the creature's noxious sting.

From the second (CNN) article: Despite their size, the invertebrates aren't toxic enough to cause serious harm to humans, but fishermen often wear goggles and protective clothing to avoid stings when dealing with them.

I'm getting a mixed message here...
posted by clevershark at 4:31 AM on January 20, 2006

I will do my part to combat this menace.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:51 AM on January 20, 2006

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{o,o}
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O RLY?

posted by Plutor at 5:07 AM on January 20, 2006

Mod note: fixed mr marx's second link
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:20 AM on January 20, 2006

As someone who gets more than a little creeped out by jellyfish I did not appreciate that picture. Thanks!
posted by Decani at 5:21 AM on January 20, 2006

The pictures were awesome. I have no idea why one would get into the water with something like that.
posted by OmieWise at 5:33 AM on January 20, 2006

To give you a full appreciation of the breadth of ocean decline this year, we hereby announce our Rotten Jellyfish Awards for the ten worst ocean decline stories of the year.

Actresses Jennifer Coolidge ("American Pie," "Best in Show," "Legally Blond") and Daniele Gaither (MAD TV) announce the awards at a Hollywood press conference.
posted by squink at 5:33 AM on January 20, 2006

Who wants my jellyfish? I'm not sellyfish!

- Ogden Nash
posted by zsazsa at 5:38 AM on January 20, 2006

(why am I doing this? Oh yeah, insanity.)

  \_/
 {o,o}
 (___)
 -"-"-
YA RLY!

posted by eriko at 5:59 AM on January 20, 2006

Does anyone have a desktop-sized image of one of these creatures?
posted by sindark at 6:01 AM on January 20, 2006

Box jellies are cooler. They have eyes, and hunt.
posted by meehawl at 6:59 AM on January 20, 2006

>©)
/ NO WAI!!!
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:50 AM on January 20, 2006

Jellyfish tastes good. Serve with a little rice wine vinegar, mmmm, crunchy.
posted by fixedgear at 1:03 PM on January 20, 2006