To think about all the time and effort we wasted arguing politics when in fact our doom was sealed by a German aquatic horticultural concern and some careless French Icthyologists.
I should have known.
Yeah, it is. That’s what I said, a tarp and chlorine. That works when they find and catch it early, but you can hardly put a tarp over the Meditaraneum and smother all of Europe to death with chlorine…
Hey, wait a minute!
Meh. They said the same thing about the africanized honeybees. “Killer bees! Killer bees are coming!!” So, where are they now? Huh?
Nah, it was George Bush. I’m sure the libs will wind up blaming him for this, too.
Nuthin’ to say, ‘ceptin’ I haven’t eaten all day due to insanity at work (ceptin’ a couple sodas and a couple mini-hershey-bite bars) and I am now struck with a right powerful hankerin’ for some nori. You know, the kind that looks like green wet confetti, and comes with sesame seeds on top. drool
Unfortunately, turning this plant stuff into sushi fixin’s won’t work, I see… le sigh
(yes, I get odd when I haven’t eaten. Odder, anyway.)
They just called on their cell phone. They got off the Interstate to gas up, and to buy a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos and a Mountain Dew. They’ll be along presently.
They must have used expedia.com. Stupid bees.
And that’s what became of the threat. They all choked to death on Doritos because, being bees, they couldn’t read the warning on the package.
Killer Kudzu of the Deep? A chance to bash the French makes environmentalists of us all, unless the environmental issue is deforestation or global warming or CFC emissions or factory fishing or acid rain or strip mining or mercury pollution or oil exploration or high-level nuclear waste or phosphates or midnight dumping of hazardous waste or even the sheer volume of garbage we generate.
I’m confused by this:
From part VI
Do people buy special salt water from different parts of the world for their aquariums? Are people bringing their fish with them on intercontinental moves?
Also,
Am I supposed to call the Cook County Sheriff’s office?
That does suck about the ocean dying and everything.
No, you misunderstand. This particular strain of C. taxifolia is, or at least was, sold as a decorative plant for saltwater aqariums. Presumably when cleaning the aquariums, some people would discharge the water, containing bits and pieces of C. taxilfolia, into the oceans since it was apparently convenient for them.
D’oh! When I read **Scylla’s ** recap, I figured “aquarium community” meant big museums, not people looking for for their clown fish to hide in. That’ll teach me to skip to the end of huge scholarly works.
Don’t worry! Lloyd Bridges will save us!
he’s what? … okay, we’re screwed
I thought it was zebra mussels that were the future scourge of the world? Is there a distribution list I can get on to keep up?
Have you ever seen a zebra mussel and this killer weed stuff in the same room?
Kind of a funny way to describe a zoo. I mean, not for nothing is it called the Wilhelmina Zoo. Wilhelmina (named after some long-dead princess of Wuertemberg) is the name of the park where the zoo is. Then again, Stuttgart is the home of Daimler-Benz (now part of Daimler-Chrysler). Maybe they have some kind of secret deal with ELF-Aquitaine (thus the connection to France) to use Caulerpa Taxifolia as an energy source once the oil has run out?
Maybe they’ve already come to an understanding. Whose sphere do you want to be in?
Do they have any moistened bints on the payroll?
Isn’t that episode of NOVA like two or three years old already?
My goodness, but we are certainly stretching for new things to blame hate and fear the French for. (Are you sure it wasn’t Clinton in that aquarium store?)
Good thing the majority of Francophobes don’t watch PBS because if they did there would be a guillotine in Texas.
When there is no more room in Monaco…the Caulerpa will walk the Oceans. :eek:
Ranchoth
(Great…the one time we need Aquaman, the lousy bastard doesn’t exist.)
Hey, that reminds me, the Christmas dinner of the French company I work for is tonight. I’ll be sure to stand up at some point and loudly remind everyone that buying us a nice meal is the least they can do, seeing as how Jacques Cousteau is killing the oceans and all. That should liven things up a bit. Thanks!