# Dances With Wolves? No, Bathes With Eels. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327 "2003-01-08T16:50:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/1 "2003-01-08T16:50:05Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/07/offbeat.germany.eel.reut/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/07/offbeat.germany.eel.reut/index.html) “Splish-splah I was Takin’ a bath, Long about Saturday night…” Sounds like **jarbabyj** ’s idea of a good time. 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/2 "2003-01-08T17:04:31Z")
Bathing your children with an eel in the tub. Can I be the first to say Ewwwww!!!? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/3 "2003-01-08T17:11:09Z")
[IC] If memory serves me correctly, you should always bathe the eel with the children to get the best flavor. [/IC] ---
**Author:** ![Mamapotomus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mamapotomus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mamapotomus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/4 "2003-01-08T18:30:54Z")
> [@](#): > > His children fell in love with the eel, refusing to let him kill and cook it, There are so many things wrong here, I don’t where to start…:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/5 "2003-01-08T19:49:44Z")
Do they have a hovercraft and is it also filled with eels? ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/6 "2003-01-08T19:54:50Z")
[Ya know, this reminds me of a song…](http://www.angelfire.com/fl/floggingadeadhorse/frigging.html) “The captain had a daughter Was swimming in the water, Delighted squeals came as the eels Entered her sexual quarter.” And yes, there is somewhere a picture of me on a canoe, drunk off my ass wearing an eyepatch singing this song. With a liter bottle of captain mograns. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/7 "2003-01-09T04:38:18Z")
I love it! Bizarre, peculiar, and yet totally believable. One must wonder, however, exactly how old is that eel, and how old do eels live? ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/8 "2003-01-09T05:30:33Z")
Wow, that’s awesome if that story is for real. Man, I love eels, especially Morays. They are precious creatures, second in my mind in cuteness only to cats. I’m totally serious. I’ve downloaded so many cool pics of eels! I’d love to swim in my tub with a pet eel. I wanted so much to get an eel for myself, but when I researched it, it looked like way too much trouble to take care of the little guy. Eel maintenance can apparently be pretty tricky. Additionally, trying to cram a 100-gallon tank into my already crammed apartment would have left me little room to move around. Sigh… I was going to name him Benito… you know : “_Eel Duce_”? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/9 "2003-01-09T13:19:51Z")
Hmmmm…wonder why **jarbabyj** hasn’t lobbed a grenade into this thread yet… She sick? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/10 "2003-01-09T17:01:04Z")
Oh God, no, not eels. Eels, eels, eels, horrible black and grey eels. _shudder_ I even hate the way the word is spelled. Eels. With an upper case E then a lower case e. It’s horrid. _brrrrr_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/11 "2003-01-13T02:25:20Z")
What? Still no **jarbaby**? Steps must be taken! ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/12 "2003-01-13T15:13:36Z")
Leave it to german children to fall in love with one of the most heinous, hideous, satan spawned creatures on this planet, with their grotesque, pin point eyes and tiny, razor, gollum like teeth. “No papa…we LOOOOFFF the eelllll” When I become queen of the world, every eel will be gathered together and chopped into many thousands of pieces. Grrrrrrooooossss ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/13 "2003-01-13T15:20:47Z")
They are the scariest looking critters on the planet. But so, so tasty. When they are chopped into many thousands of pieces, will they be rolled on much sticky rice and dipped in much wasabi? An aquantance bought a live plant for his aquarium. Shortly thereafter, his fish began to disappear. Not die and float to the top, not lunge their little fish bodies over the side to oblivion, but disappear. One night he sat and watched his tank. A live baby eel had been hiding in his live plant. It was slithering out under cover of darkness and eating the fish. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dances-with-wolves-no-bathes-with-eels/147327/14 "2003-01-13T15:41:35Z")
Wow. Yuck. They have enough brains to train? It doesn’t try to attack the kids? And aren’t the kids grown up yet? It’s been 33 years! I don’t think eels are in any way cute. They are scary and malevolent-looking. Ugh.