I don’t mind eels
Except as meals
And the way they feels
–Ogden Nash
This video shows the favored result of an encounter between an octopus and a moray eel. There are other videos out there that show a different result; you can find those yourself. We are cephalopod people here.
Looks mighty tasty to me.
Eel heaven, eel heaven, eel heaven…
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Trebuchet
November 11, 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
When an eel’s in the sand,
And it bites off your hand,
That’s a moray….
RealityBasedSteve
November 11, 2011 at 11:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
no doubt about it, the eel drew first.
Steve
Sometimes you get the cephalopod,
and sometimes the cephalopod gets you.
Ragutis
November 11, 2011 at 2:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
[Kim Deal]
♪ This moray’s gone to heaven ♪
[/Kim Deal]
Aaron
November 11, 2011 at 4:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I had to watch this probably five times before I realized that that bright blue thing under the octopus was, in fact, the eel, and not another tentacle.
Thinker
November 11, 2011 at 4:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If you’re an eel
The true ideal
Is spending life just soaked
The eight-armed feel
You’re quite a deal
But first you should be choked
I share their zeal
But as a meal
I do prefer you smoked.
November time is eel time in these parts of the world (southern Scandinavia), and smoked eel is just one of the many different ways it is prepared (actually, there are several ways of smoking eel as well!).
In contrast with meals on mermaid, there is no fatwa on eating eel, and if there is, we would ignore it anyway. Also, choosing the right libation for eel is much easier: it’s beer and Artemisia-flavored vodka. Thus, in death as in life, the eel will be appropriately soaked, along with its final host…
Paula Helm Murray
November 11, 2011 at 5:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If a fish bites your face
and it looks like a snake
it’s a mor-ay.
F
November 11, 2011 at 9:22 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
lol, Ragutis.
had3
November 12, 2011 at 11:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Blessed be the Cephalopod God for creating the ocean perfectly tuned for anago.
Bruce
November 13, 2011 at 4:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
When an eel bites your thigh
and the pain makes you cry
That’s a moray!
I think I saw that in one of Spider Robinson’s books.
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November 11, 2011 at 2:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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