They call it the Bobbitt worm, and for good reason
I wonder if Mrs. Steve Phillips has heard of this?
“A giant worm that eats penises and feeds them to its offspring has been found at a public aquarium in the UK.
Staff at The Deep in Hull recently discovered a 1m/39″ specimen while moving rocks in one of the aquarium’s exhibits.
The species, Eunice aphroditois, is a large predatory polychaete worm that can reach up to 3m/10′ in length, though most are around a meter long. It typically feeds on live fish.
Known as the Bobbit worm, after the infamous Lorena Bobbit who chopped off her husband’s penis in a domestic dispute, females of the species bite off the penis of their male partner and feed it to their young.”
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stands for decibels
October 23rd, 2009
7:52 am
I never liked Steve Phillips.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 23rd, 2009
7:55 am
and I complained about cream of wheat for breakfast…..
Peadawg
October 23rd, 2009
7:56 am
The mistress was ugly compared to his wife. Why’d he downgrade?
Peadawg
October 23rd, 2009
7:57 am
Jay, you may want to watch the filter more closely in this blog…you may have opened up a can of worms(no pun intended)
Finn McCool
October 23rd, 2009
7:57 am
Can we change the subject, pahlease?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4caLZUrFw&feature=player_embedded
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
7:58 am
eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww …
(although, for some reason, all I can think of are the baby fishes saying “penises AGAIN???”)
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 23rd, 2009
7:58 am
Wait until you see what the liberals do to Obozo, mmm, mmmm, mmmmm, after the public option crashes and burns.
Bobbitting will seem mild in comparison.
stands for decibels
October 23rd, 2009
8:00 am
Like clockwork, it’s virtually always the first concern of an online conservative:
The mistress was ugly compared to his wife.
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:00 am
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh … don’t anyone tell whiner:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102202820.html?hpid=topnews
(it’s a secret)
Gale
October 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
ditto. eeeewwwwwww!
Peadawg
October 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
LOL sfd.
I don’t condone cheating by any means….but the cardinal rule is your mistress must be better looking than your wife.
SOUTHERN ATL
October 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
Jay,
I am off topic/subject on this one but….
Sometimes I wonder why the people of this state re-elected Saxby Chambliss??? What has he done for Georgia lately? Is he for or against a better Georgia?
35 GOP Senators Vote Against Defense Bill With Hate-Crimes Amendment
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/35-gop-senators-vote-agai_n_330376.html
It’s not easy to get 35 Republican senators to vote against defense spending — unless hate crimes legislation is involved.
The Senate narrowly invoked cloture on Thursday, 64 to 35, on the defense authorization package with the bill named for Matthew Shepard attached. The bill, named for a gay Wyoming teenager who was kidnapped and beaten to death in 1998, makes it a federal crime to assault someone on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Senate Republicans conceded that the Shepard bill swung their votes against the defense package. “The bill includes hate crimes legislation, which I firmly believe is unnecessary, irresponsible, and certainly not germane to this bill,” Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said. “There is little evidence that indicates that violent crimes motivated by hate go unpunished in the United States. Every single state has come from laws that prohibit the behavior addressed by hate crimes legislation, including laws against rape, assault and battery.”
Those are states’ rights issues, said Chambliss. “I do not believe the federal government should interfere with the criminal laws already on the books in our states,” he said.
Gale
October 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
For some reason, it makes the female praying mantis look sexy.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
Would Bill Donahue consider this an acceptable method of birth control?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 23rd, 2009
8:04 am
Well, I hope Bookman is proud of hisself. And on a fambly blog too. We don’t like to talk about such things in polite company.
Most times, women can do the same thing as that worm without doing any real cutting. At some point they all learn how to make a man feel about three inches tall just by saying a couple words.
Anyhow, I ain’t going to say anything else. I figure sooner or later some filthy blogger will bust out and get real dirty this a.m. All I got to say is I ain’t going to be visiting a zoo anytime soon. You could wind up singing soprano is a boys choir.
Have a good day everybody. And Bookman, get that smirk off of your face.
stands for decibels
October 23rd, 2009
8:04 am
don’t anyone tell whiner:
Perhaps we could get schoolchildren to sing it to him?
Normal
October 23rd, 2009
8:05 am
Mom to babies: “You want buns with that penis?”
Turd Ferguson
October 23rd, 2009
8:06 am
I dont like the sound of this at all! Must be strictly a female species…or…maybe not.
Taxpayer
October 23rd, 2009
8:08 am
Well, such a little bugger could effectively put an end to that old saying, “He just couldn’t keep it in his pants.”
Turd Ferguson
October 23rd, 2009
8:09 am
SOUTHERN ATL
October 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
Nice and thanks Saxby. There are plenty of laws on the books to enforce everything from chinese hair color to proper toilet repair. Hate crimes legislation is nothing more than a witch hunt and extremely subjective.
jt
October 23rd, 2009
8:10 am
As usual, the wanton mistress takes no blame.
Huff and Puff all you want, but if a woman wants to seduce you, and she is pleasing to the eye,she can.
A man can claim that he could resist, but he is lying or has just not been chased.
All a good man can do to fight the evil temptations of a seductress, is to remove himself from the situation. Post haste. Run. That is what I have had to do on many occasions.
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:13 am
TF –
hoooray!! I was waiting for you to get here … I’ve been giving a lot of thought to your car conundrum – I thought you should see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hovbx6rvBaA
it’s a little over 9 minutes, but worth every second …
enjoy!!!
(and, yes, you can tell me you love me later)
stands for decibels
October 23rd, 2009
8:14 am
All a good man can do to fight the evil temptations of a seductress, is to remove himself from the situation. Post haste. Run. That is what I have had to do on many occasions.
I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:14 am
“if a woman wants to seduce you, and she is pleasing to the eye,she can”
(ahem) “cuz I’m only a weak and spineless man … I can’t control this monster i my pants … if a woman but bats her eyes at me, my knees buckle and I am unable to withstand her womanly wiles”
Doggone/GA
October 23rd, 2009
8:15 am
“All a good man can do to fight the evil temptations of a seductress, is to remove himself from the situation. Post haste. Run. That is what I have had to do on many occasions”
Hon…have you EVER read what you post? Here’s how it works out: IF a man can “run” away…then the “seductress” CAN’T seduce him…because he’s NOT THERE.
Goldie
October 23rd, 2009
8:19 am
Ewwww!
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:20 am
Doggone –
“Hon…have you EVER read what you post?”
cut him some slack … he’s busy hiding under his bed from the people who are going to haul him away to the gulags …
(cuz, you know they’re building them as. we. speak.)
Mrs. Godzilla
October 23rd, 2009
8:21 am
What is the cost and availability?
This could make so many magical holiday moments.
Joey
October 23rd, 2009
8:21 am
More than you want to know.
About 15 years ago one of my brothers and I bought 3 pregnant pigs. They delivered us 23 piglets, 15 of which were male. He and I castrated the males one afternoon. It was not the first time that I neutered a farm animal, but it was the last. I had spontaneous sympathy pains, yes there, for weeks afterward.
Pogo
October 23rd, 2009
8:22 am
I think this happened to Phil Donahue many years ago!
Mrs. Godzilla
October 23rd, 2009
8:22 am
Bobbitt worms for the gulags!
Doggone/GA
October 23rd, 2009
8:22 am
“cut him some slack … he’s busy hiding under his bed from the people who are going to haul him away to the gulags”
Shoot! That’s right, I forgot about that.
PinkoNeoConLibertarian
October 23rd, 2009
8:23 am
Or golly gee, I don’t know…maybe have some integrity and morals to honor the vows you have taken and the love you profess?
Turd Ferguson
October 23rd, 2009
8:26 am
I love ya anyway USK!! ; )
Youtube wont load from work… : (
PinkoNeoConLibertarian
October 23rd, 2009
8:26 am
Mrs. G (pardon the unearned familiarity).
If this is what you are proposing as the caterer for the gulags I guess I need to bone up on my Little Red Book.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 23rd, 2009
8:26 am
here’s a snapshot
http://www.uwphotographyguide.com/bobbit-worm
Didn’t we see this in Dune?
Bud Wiser
October 23rd, 2009
8:26 am
I guess we now know why Obowo is so impotent about making a move on McCrystal’s recommendations……day 55 and counting, but the alleged ‘media’ outlets for some reason still do not give us daily/cumulative American servicemen body counts or even question why he hasn’t made a decision.
Apparently Obowo’s new pet Eunice aphroditois has an appetite for testicles as well, because it is becoming increasingly apparent Obowo has no balls.
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:28 am
TF –
then you have to PROMISE me that you’ll check it out when you get home … it’s from one of the best shows here called Top Gear. as the name implies, it’s all things cars. In this one, Jeremy Clarkson test drives a Lamborghini Guillardo Spider (convertible) – all I can say is … I drooled. (and I don’t drool over cars).
jt
October 23rd, 2009
8:28 am
Whatever-
If a seduction happens, the woman is to blame. Cut and dry. But the man takes the fall, as the woman instantly starts searching for the next victim. Single or unhappily-married women are a serious and dangerous threat to society.
You libs try to change a million years of development.
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:29 am
Mrs G -
“Didn’t we see this in Dune?”
one of my Top 3 movies that is so bad it’s brilliant … (in order: Roadhouse, The Thirteenth Warrior, Dune) … awesome in its awfullness
Mrs. Godzilla
October 23rd, 2009
8:30 am
if a seduction happens, the woman is to blame……there’s your sign!
Doggone/GA
October 23rd, 2009
8:30 am
“If a seduction happens, the woman is to blame.”
OK, you’ve used up all the “slack” I was asked to give you.
Doggone/GA
October 23rd, 2009
8:31 am
“You libs try to change a million years of development”
And all this time I thought the conned were taught that the earth was created 10,000 years ago.
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:33 am
“But the man takes the fall, as the woman instantly starts searching for the next victim.”
I think jt has been reading too many forum columns … (”I never thought I’d write a letter like this, but there I was, minding my own business, when the meter maid did something I wasn’t expecting …”)
stands for decibels
October 23rd, 2009
8:34 am
Godzie @ 8.01, on the brighter side, it would appear that Kevin Jennings’ White House gig is likely pretty safe.
Being that when one is reduced to having that Donohue loon as your head cheerleader, the game’s over.
Turd Ferguson
October 23rd, 2009
8:35 am
I will give it a shot. My home computer is basically a piece of crap…lol.
With this drooling thing you have I’d rather just watch it with you. Of course if anything happened it would be your fault as Im always the victim… d; p
USinUK
October 23rd, 2009
8:39 am
TF –
“Of course if anything happened it would be your fault as Im always the victim… d; p”
what can I say … when men come near me, they lose all self-control …
jt
October 23rd, 2009
8:45 am
In closing,
It is easier for the Henry Waxmans of the world to wax eloquent on the virtues of marraige fidelity than the few charmed Steve Phillips, Brad Pitts, and men like me. We have to be more realistic.
Don’t kid yourself, frustrated women are everywhere as the recent headlines attest.
Angry Black Man
October 23rd, 2009
8:47 am
My question would be, if the theory of evolution holds, what did this worm evolve from, and what will it evolve to? Hopefully it doesn’t have a taste for human flesh. That would be scary.
Gale
October 23rd, 2009
8:52 am
Yikes, Mrs G, That is one scarey worm. But USinUK, my best bad movie is Godzilla, the original in Japanese!