# Giant Mystery Eyeball Discovered on South Florida Beach **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504 "2012-10-12T12:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/21 "2012-10-12T14:17:20Z")
I’ve been looking for that. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/22 "2012-10-12T14:52:11Z")
Somewhere, there are 3 Fates who are Very Pissed right about now… “Sure…lets go to Disney, ya said. We’ll all have Fun, ya said. Fat lot of fun we’re having now, ain’t we?” “Shaddup & sieve more sand. It couldn’t have gone far…” ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/23 "2012-10-12T15:03:36Z")
Really big [blueberry](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=592547)? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/24 "2012-10-12T15:38:54Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Really big [blueberry](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=592547)? Ha! My first thought as well. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/25 "2012-10-12T15:42:27Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Somewhere, there are 3 Fates who are Very Pissed right about now… > > “Sure…lets go to Disney, ya said. We’ll all have Fun, ya said. Fat lot of fun we’re having now, ain’t we?” > “Shaddup & sieve more sand. It couldn’t have gone far…” Well, actually, it’s the Graiae, AKA the Phorkydes, who passed a single eyeball from one vto another. If you think it’s the Fates, you’re vgetting your mythology from Disney’s Hercules. If you think it’s the Styggian Witches, you’re getting it from _Clash of the Titans_ (either version). > **[Graeae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeae)** > > In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ˈɡriːiː/; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. 'old women', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides ('daughters of Phorcys'), were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them. They were the daughters of the primordial sea gods Phorcys and Ceto and, among others, sisters of the Gorgons and the Hesperides. Their names were Deino (Δεινώ), Enyo (Ἐνυώ), and Pemphredo (Πεμφρηδώ The word... And I’m only annoyed because I didn’t think of that. I spent most of a chapter on this topic! You’d think I’d remember. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/26 "2012-10-12T15:45:05Z")
No one knows what it’s like, To find a big blue eyeball… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/27 "2012-10-12T15:48:07Z")
I got a bad feeling this is one of them palantir things. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/28 "2012-10-12T15:57:57Z")
I have been reliably and repeatedly informed by my favorite five-year-old that giant squid eyes are _the size of a human head!_ So obviously, this is not large enough for that. 😛 I think the guy in the story may have it - [bigeye thresher shark](https://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1680&bih=915&q=bigeye+thresher+shark&oq=bigeye+thre&gs_l=img.3.0.0j0i24.5615.8381.0.10126.13.9.1.3.4.0.81.480.9.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.fur4dtKE4Hs). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/29 "2012-10-12T16:02:27Z")
Actually, you’re all wrong. The eye is normal size. It’s the rest of the world that’s _shrunk_. I mean, think about it. If someone stole all of the things in your room and replaced them with exact duplicates, would you notice? It’s like that, but with a slight scaling error. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/30 "2012-10-12T16:04:08Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > A squid’s eye in a polythene bag is fast and bulbous. I can’t quite remember which Beatles song this is from… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/31 "2012-10-12T16:15:18Z")
It came from a hospital. From the ICU. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/32 "2012-10-12T16:23:52Z")
> [@nonacetone](#): > > Cyclops. > Well, now a _blind_ cyclops. Unless it was a bicyclops. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/33 "2012-10-12T16:29:00Z")
For those like me who can’t see the original link: [http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht\_blue\_eyeball\_ll\_121012\_wg.jpg](http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_blue_eyeball_ll_121012_wg.jpg) And. . . EWWW!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/34 "2012-10-12T16:29:29Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I’ve been looking for that. And it’s been looking back. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/35 "2012-10-12T17:23:34Z")
A beholder. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/36 "2012-10-12T17:29:28Z")
The bookseller from Top Secret! [Image link](http://www.flickr.com/photos/30976576@N07/6399892617/) ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/37 "2012-10-12T20:36:27Z")
It offended me, so I did the obvious thing ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/38 "2012-10-12T20:48:48Z")
When Cthulhu wakes up he’s going to be ticked. That one was his favorite. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/39 "2012-10-12T20:56:25Z")
Poor Leela! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-mystery-eyeball-discovered-on-south-florida-beach/637504/40 "2012-10-12T21:09:22Z")
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