Freaky-ass mutant lobster caught in Maine.

[Diceman]

Check out the wierd two-toned lobster a guy in Maine caught.

I wonder if it flips a coin when making decisions?

[Lord Il Palazzo]

Originally Posted by Diceman

I wonder if it flips a coin when making decisions?

Let's hope it doesnt' run into an octopus.

[Clockwork And Candy]

This is from a few weeks back, isn't it? I think I remember reading about this before...

Eh, it's still cool either way. I could prob'ly find a vitiligo/Michael Jackson joke in here somewhere if I tried, but I just don't care enough. :\

[Seven]

I bet you anything another lobster shows up with the colours reversed, takes over this mans ship, and attempts to bring the first one back home to be punished.

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by Seven

I bet you anything another lobster shows up with the colours reversed, takes over this mans ship, and attempts to bring the first one back home to be punished.

Come, now! That lobster looks NOTHING like Frank Gorshin...

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by Seven

I bet you anything another lobster shows up with the colours reversed, takes over this mans ship, and attempts to bring the first one back home to be punished.

Wow. Three replies and somebody beat me to it. I love this board.

[Tuckerfan]

Originally Posted by Lord Il Palazzo

Let's hope it doesnt' run into an octopus.

Or a bear.

[Lord Il Palazzo]

Originally Posted by Seven

I bet you anything another lobster shows up with the colours reversed, takes over this mans ship, and attempts to bring the first one back home to be punished.

This sounds familiar, but I'm getting nothing. What's the reference?

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by Lord Il Palazzo

This sounds familiar, but I'm getting nothing. What's the reference?

A classic Star Trek episode, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". The Enterprise picks up a fugitive alien who is half-white and half-black. Eventually another alien of the same type, except the colors are reversed, comes chasing him to bring him back to his home planet. The left-side whites and the right-side whites are at war over the colors. It was possibly the most heavy-handed and anvil-like of any Star Trek episode, ever.

[Lord Il Palazzo]

Thanks for cluing me in jayjay.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

They should name it "Harvey Dent".

[Polycarp]

Originally Posted by jayjay

Come, now! That lobster looks NOTHING like Frank Gorshin...

Probably my only claim to "rub shoulders with fame" -- Frank was one of the first celebrities to buy a PC, and started up an account with America Online predecessor PC-Link back in 1989. He was an interesting person to chat with, on "People Connection" there -- more than a little bitter about his career having essentially tanked, a remarkable trivia collector, quite personable.

[CalMeacham]

That lobster looks half-cooked.

[Philster]

Was that a half-baked joke?

[Xema]

I recall seeing a similar lobster at the Boston Aquarium quite some time ago.

[Rysdad]

"half chirp"

[elfkin477]

So, has their been a nuclear melt down in Maine lately, and we've not been informed? First that mysterious beast is discovered after being hit by a car, now this... I think I can predict a new Stephen King plot

Aside, it's bad that when I read the words "Bar Harbor" I hear them like people say it, right? Bah Harbah.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Have any Humans been born with coloration like this?

[elfkin477]

Originally Posted by Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

Have any Humans been born with coloration like this?

Yes. There was a special on Discovery Health that showed a child who was much darker on one half of the body than the other. (I believe the poor tyke was also intersexed too.)

[Tuckerfan]

Originally Posted by elfkin477

Yes. There was a special on Discovery Health that showed a child who was much darker on one half of the body than the other. (I believe the poor tyke was also intersexed too.)

But the kid grew up to have one of the most successful albums of all time and was seen as a superstar until an incident at his ranch, even though he was cleared of all charges, a dark cloud of suspicion hung over him and he fled the US as soon as the trial was over.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Originally Posted by Tuckerfan

But the kid grew up to have one of the most successful albums of all time and was seen as a superstar until an incident at his ranch, even though he was cleared of all charges, a dark cloud of suspicion hung over him and he fled the US as soon as the trial was over.

<SLAPS Tuckerfan with a Wet Trout, deservedly>

[Broomstick]

Originally Posted by elfkin477

Yes. There was a special on Discovery Health that showed a child who was much darker on one half of the body than the other. (I believe the poor tyke was also intersexed too.)

If that's the same one who's picture appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine shortly after birth, yes, that's an intersexed child. A true hermaphrodite in fact, very rare. The kid is actually a fusion of two embryos, one male and one female and thus a chimera as well as everything else. Haven't seen the Discovery special myself, though now I'll be looking for it to repeat.

[CanvasShoes]

Isn't it a bit "interesting" that the color differentiation is a precise line down the center of the lobster? One would think that if it were a natural occurance that it would be more muted where the colors are different.

That is, a more gradual line of demarkation, instead of a stark exact line exactly in the middle. I'm a bit skeptical.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Originally Posted by CanvasShoes

Isn't it a bit "interesting" that the color differentiation is a precise line down the center of the lobster? One would think that if it were a natural occurance that it would be more muted where the colors are different.

That is, a more gradual line of demarkation, instead of a stark exact line exactly in the middle. I'm a bit skeptical.

Piffle.

Bilateral symmetry explains that away nicely.

[CanvasShoes]

Originally Posted by Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

Piffle.

Bilateral symmetry explains that away nicely.

Which is??........

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Originally Posted by CanvasShoes

Which is??........

Bilateral symmetry -- illustrated with a lobster, as it happens.

Here's a datum to think about: Every tortoiseshell or calico cat I've owned, and many of the others I've observed over the years, showed a more or less clear demarcation of the colors along at least part of their topline. For example, check out this photo.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Ah, for "topline" substitute "plane of demarcation."