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Why not visit your local fish store and pick up a pet lobster?
I am sure they would live fairly comfortably in standard
aquariums.
Lobsters eat fish, have cool claws and can live up to 20 years.
people have pet cockroaches, lizards and snakes so why not
lobsters?
Finger heating gloves.
http://www.halfbake..._20heating_20gloves
Contains many lobster references (bizarre!). [DrBob, Jul 11 2002, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Octopus glove
Octopus glove
Contains discussion of the pros and cons of keeping an Octopus as a pet. Not to mention a quote by Gerard de Nerval on the logic of having a pet lobster. [zen_tom, Aug 01 2006]
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Cut Resarf into chunks and feed it to the lobsters. I'll buy the lobsters - who wants to cut Resarf up? |
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Although it's an entertaining thought, it's not an original one.
It was baked by French poet Gerard de Nerval, who used to put a lead on his lobster and take it for walks around Paris. |
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thumbwax: I am disgusted at you. How can you advocate such cruelty to inncoent lobsters ? Most of Mr. Resarf's postings indicate that if he is not actually full of sh1t, the relative proportion that substance to his total body mass is remarkably high. You will have the Society for the Protection of Marine Crustaceans after us, with a vengeance.
I suggest that dogfood is an entirely acceptable alternative.
As to the "cutting-into-chunks" proposal, this seems satisfactory, but I see no merit in proceeding beyond that point. |
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How... how... callous of me to have suggested such a thing.
The lobsters must be relieved knowing they will not be suffering from indigestion.
<All Hail>7/8</All Hail> |
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was bugsy bordering on the whimsical there? |
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thumbwax: You are forgiven. We all have lapses from time to time. I sympathise with your motives, however. |
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po: who's bugsy ? Me by any chance ? Why bugsy ? |
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<useless fact>Lobsters have blue blood</useless fact> at least when oxygen hits it. |
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pet lobsters don't sound very fun... you can't pet them,
they don't have fur. |
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Pet lobsters sound like fun... you can pet them and you don't have to clean up the fur afterwards. |
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blissmiss, I think our blood is blue and turns red when it hits the air. Doesn't yours do the sa.. Crap, maybe I landed on the wrong planet again.... |
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Resarf is lobster food. Rest In Pieces |
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Dag, you may be confusing the lobster with the Horseshoe Crab, which has a copper based oxygen carrier rather than iron, like us. Incidentally, the horseshoe crab is closer to a spider than a common crab. Being able to go a year without food probably got it to last a few hundred milion years longer than most of its contemporaries, but being useful to medical testing will probably finish it off.
A friend has pet yabbies in a bath in his yard (crawfish to youall). |
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This is so baked you deserve to have a lobster in your underpants for bringing it up.
Crayfish and lobsters are biologically the same thing. Now go to the pet store, buy a crayfish, and drop it in your tighty whities.
Cheers! |
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Shouldn't this be in home:pet:crustaceans ? |
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I think I'd prefer a pet octopus to a pet lobster, despite it being just a big old snail with arms. At least you can cuddle an octopus. |
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If octopi were to colonise the earth (there are reports I believe of land-going cephalopods) they might, after millennia, develop a light covering of fur over their bodies, which, I believe, would make them even more adorable. |
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Then, you could suspend them from your ceiling via strings of elastic and give them a little tug now and again and watch them bounce up and down. |
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I was imagining one come in through the 'puss flap, positioning itself over a saucer of milk and having a drink before leaping up onto my lap to be petted. Then, purring in contentment, it drifts off to sleep. |
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No elastic required! (Though admittedly, it would add to the experience) |
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//I think I'd prefer a pet octopus to a
pet lobster, despite it being just a big
old snail with arms// - Your octopus
lives in a shell? |
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As a rule, snails are cuter than slugs, for sure. But yes, I meant to allude to molluscs in general, without getting embroiled in any carapace related controversy. |
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Having said that, I'm a fan of cuttlefish and nautili too. (and squids) |
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The whole food/pet dichotomy
fascinates me. I'll invite you round for a
barbecue when the dog pops his clogs. |
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//a barbecue when the dog pops his clogs// |
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Your pet dog cooks his *shoes* !? |
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[wags] I'm not sure about the pet/food dichotomy - the way I see it, I'd prefer not to eat something I(or anyone else for that matter) have already made friends with. Anything else, from a logical viewpoint anyway, has to be on the menu whether it woofs, miaows, chirrups, wails or engages in discourse on the nature of vegetarianism. |
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Of course, I don't think I'd want to eat another person (albeit someone I'd not already made friends with) but will cop out on grounds of taste (people tend to taste a bit yucky - apparently - except, ironically that is, for vegetarians) |
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[zen_tom], can you back that up with some personal experience or a link? |
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Well, he does have that 'apparently' disclaimer. Personally, I try to avoid eating anything more intelligent than the person serving it to me, hence I don't eat squid, or anything from McDonald's. |
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Octopi have beaks. Cuddling up to one might be risky. |
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//Octopi have beaks// - WHAAAT? |
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//[zen_tom], can you back that up with some personal experience or a link?//
[norm] (un?)fortunately not - I can however, describe the logic through which I have made my deduction. |
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All 'good eating' animals tend to eat a diet of either leaves, grass, vegetables, or seed. Fish and shellfish also seem to follow the same trend, only with aquatic equivalents(ish). |
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The blandness, and (i presume) relative simplicity of the diet imparts no special flavour taint to the taste of the parts of the animal enjoying that diet. Feeding a cow on flaked herring would, no doubt, impart a fishy taste into the cow. Likewise, feeding a chicken on chopped garlic, might impart a garlic taint to the chicken's meaty areas (which might not be such a bad thing perhaps). |
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However, I for example, am just finishing off my first cup of coffee of the day, and am reminding myself of the lamb vindaloo, chicken club sandwich (with extra jalapenos), scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and chives, the countless pints of beer, lager, wine, tea and coffee, not to mention more than a couple of cigarettes, all of which are (not so) highlighted excepts from my consumption over the last two weeks. |
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All of that is bound to impart some 'complex' flavours upon my person. In other words, I believe I would taste pretty rank. |
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Were I to alter my lifestyle radically, and limit myself to a more humble diet of fragrant rice and green tea, I believe, over time, I might become a great deal more palatable. |
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I've read that the palms of a human are quite tasty but then I've just cleared up after the cat in disinfectant... |
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<quickly bins recipie for "Zen_tom à la Greque with braised fennel"> |
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//It was baked by French poet Gerard de Nerval// |
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I thought you boiled lobsters ? ;-) |
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