I once bought cookies from a Kodiak Brownie.
Overcooked I expect. Too much exposure to the light, easily done
roger, you forced me to go in search of photo of a jellyfish skeleton!
The variety of jellyfish is the Velella velella
And its skeleton looks like this:
Thank you for making me learn something new today!
Jellyfish have skeletons?
Well duh.
Did you think I was making up the jellyfish skeleton thing?
I'm not that clever.
Actually it is described as a "chitinous sail mechanism" and not really a skeleton.
Thank you for making me learn something new today!
An interesting thing about them, jellyfish have no brain. They are simply a neural network.
Anywho, I think I know the answer.
They were waiting for the band to show up.
Have a friend who was in a band, who at their peak, opened for "A Flock of Seagulls" at an outdoor venue in front of a few thousand fans.
A few years later, he got a call asking if they could do it again. So, he and his band show up at some small club near San Francisco - tiny dump, but sure enough, there was the FOS tour bus. So, they played their opening set, and were going to leave, then the realized the only people in the place were their own friends who'd come to see them. So, they stayed for a private FOS show.
Shows how fast you can fall in show biz. He quit the band and went back to school because of if.
I didn't know that about a jellyfish's neural network but I kinda did know that about A Flock of Seagulls!
That band stunk even when they were popular.
Hate to admit it, but I kinda liked "I ran", but oh man, that video....
There s a ton of seagulls here in Michigan too. I was driving to the big lake the other day and here was a field full of them - no idea what they were doing there. It was at least 20 miles from the shore.
Maybe they gather to choose mates this time of the year.
I was at Trinidad (CA) yesterday and got a bunch of seagull feast photos... but the pics are still in my camera where they'll nest for a while. Here's some other people's photos of the rather dramatic setting for a working pier.
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I was thinking about that dreary goth band too ... thousands of them, now that would be scary
wait a minit. There was a band called Flock of Seagulls?
Wow, and I always thought that "Fugs" was the stupidest name Ive ever heard.
Fugs sounds like St Martin-in-the Fields now.
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Good news and bad news on the Fundy ATlantic terns.
We counted over 60 pairs of nesting terns on "Bird **** rock" this year , however , not a ternlet fledged. The sardine masses were not there at the right time. They came late and that left the little terns SOOL.
Sorry to bring this bad news to such an uplifting thread
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Osso, those were boats in your pictures not gulls
Lawzee, Mz Boomerang. You called my bluff and I have to fold. I also learned something new from this.
farmerman wrote:wait a minit. There was a band called Flock of Seagulls?
A Flock of Seagulls, Farmer,
A Flock of Seagulls
And thats not by far the most stupid name Ive heard... eg, The Snivelling Shits comes to mind
Has the reason been found as to the flocking? Has anyone mentioned snad fleas? Do gulls eat sand fleas? Did anyone mention that there is no such bird as a 'seagull'? (They are 'gulls' sans 'sea').
The gulls are assembling to dispose of the next irreverent swarm of locusts.
Boat sized fat and sassy gulls there, farmer..
The gulls in my pics are still camera embedded after eating all that fish..
