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Caption Contest: Explain This!

Jonathon Marshall — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:20:07 +0000

This picture defies explanation, so by all means please explain it to me! How does an african eagle meet a trout in an ice cube anyway? There’s probably some bizarre dating site I’d imagine.

Ok the photo has a perfectly good explanation, and here it is right from the photographer’s mouth.

“It was simply an idea that the CEO of the Hawk Conservancy Trust had, to try to promote the trust during a hot spell. The weirdness of an African Fish Eagle, sat on a Trout contained in an ice cube, in an English flower meadow in full…”

Photo credit: John Stuart-Clarke

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Volkswagen Dogfish Commercial

Clive Mathias — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:03:44 +0000

It took me a while to figure out what this commercial was for, but I like it anyway. The folks in the VW marketing department are some interesting characters.

BBQ’d Tongue Eating Fish Parasite!

Clive Mathias — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:52:53 +0000

MMMM! Delicious! I love a good BBQ, but I can say with absolute certainty that BBQing a cymothoa exigua isn’t going to make it taste any better. That being said, these parasites do no real damage to fish they inhabit. And according to reliable sources, eating fish containing the parasite is perfectly safe.

Personally I’d be a little put off if something this gnarly looking crawled out of the face of my dinner, and so was David…

I purchased a 6kg pack of sea bass, cleaned and gutted four and popped two of them on my barbecue.

After about 10 minutes I turned them over, and after a further 5 minutes went to check on them. It must have become too hot in there for the parasite, which became visible half out of the fish’s mouth.

I didn’t realize what it was, so didn’t check to see if the fish still had a tongue. I’m not even sure if the parasite crawled out, or was pushed out as a result of the fish cooking.

We are not intending to eat sea bass for a while!!

Regards,
David

Thanks David!

Keep Fly Fishing Weird

Clive Mathias — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:23:26 +0000

I don’t even know what to say about this one…

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