# Freaky-ass mutant lobster caught in Maine. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182 "2006-08-18T02:28:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/1 "2006-08-18T02:28:51Z")
Check out the [wierd two-toned lobster](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13898487/) a guy in Maine caught. I wonder if it flips a coin when making decisions? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/2 "2006-08-18T02:51:07Z")
[QUOTE=Diceman] I wonder if it flips a coin when making decisions? [/QUOTE] Let’s hope it doesnt’ run into an [octopus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=383958). ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/3 "2006-08-18T03:02:17Z")
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. :\ ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/4 "2006-08-18T04:41:58Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/5 "2006-08-18T04:49:57Z")
[QUOTE=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. [/QUOTE] Come, now! That lobster looks NOTHING like Frank Gorshin… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/6 "2006-08-18T05:04:42Z")
[QUOTE=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. [/QUOTE] Wow. Three replies and somebody beat me to it. I love this board. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/7 "2006-08-18T09:46:17Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] Let’s hope it doesnt’ run into an [octopus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=383958). [/QUOTE] [Or a bear.](http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1154470209933&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/8 "2006-08-18T11:56:49Z")
[QUOTE=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. [/QUOTE] This sounds familiar, but I’m getting nothing. What’s the reference? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/9 "2006-08-18T12:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] This sounds familiar, but I’m getting nothing. What’s the reference? [/QUOTE] 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](http://www.homevideos.com/startreks/st26.htm). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/10 "2006-08-18T12:26:08Z")
Thanks for cluing me in **jayjay**. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/11 "2006-08-18T13:59:15Z")
They should name it “Harvey Dent”. ☹🙂 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/12 "2006-08-18T14:15:29Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Come, now! That lobster looks NOTHING like Frank Gorshin… [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/13 "2006-08-18T14:25:09Z")
That lobster looks half-cooked. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/14 "2006-08-18T14:57:00Z")
Was that a half-baked joke? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/15 "2006-08-18T16:15:20Z")
I recall seeing a similar lobster at the Boston Aquarium quite some time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/16 "2006-08-18T23:31:08Z")
[“half chirp”](http://grandpacliff.com/Animals/Img-Animals/Img-Albinos/albino-cardinal-b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/17 "2006-08-19T16:12:09Z")
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. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/18 "2006-08-19T17:49:45Z")
Have any Humans been born with coloration like this? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/19 "2006-08-19T18:18:26Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Have any Humans been born with coloration like this? [/QUOTE] 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182/20 "2006-08-19T18:25:04Z")
[QUOTE=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.) [/QUOTE] 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-ass-mutant-lobster-caught-in-maine/369182.md?page=2)