# Lobsters and rubber bands **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 21, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320 "2006-10-21T02:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/21 "2006-10-24T07:15:25Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Sheep have testicles?? :dubious: :dubious: [/QUOTE] I can’t believe that I’m the first to introduce you to [the Mighty Lonk!](http://www.sheep101.info/Images/Breeds/Lonk.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/22 "2006-10-24T08:14:19Z")
[QUOTE=Thalion] I can’t believe that I’m the first to introduce you to [the Mighty Lonk!](http://www.sheep101.info/Images/Breeds/Lonk.jpg) [/QUOTE] Holy batshit, those are some goolies!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/23 "2006-10-24T09:11:53Z")
[QUOTE=copperwindow] And the lobster is complacent and isn’t moving it’s claws all around? [/QUOTE] Lobsters are quite nimble when submerged, but when they are out of the water, their own weight makes movement difficult for them. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/24 "2006-10-24T09:14:22Z")
[QUOTE=Thalion] I can’t believe that I’m the first to introduce you to [the Mighty Lonk!](http://www.sheep101.info/Images/Breeds/Lonk.jpg) [/QUOTE] Your Lonk link didn’t work for me; here’s another: [Lonk](http://www.tiho-hannover.de/einricht/zucht/eaap/descript/692.htm) ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/25 "2006-10-24T14:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=Thalion] I can’t believe that I’m the first to introduce you to [the Mighty Lonk!](http://www.sheep101.info/Images/Breeds/Lonk.jpg) [/QUOTE] :eek: Damn, I thought _I_ had a size problem. I feel so humbled. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/26 "2006-10-24T19:46:13Z")
So how big are lobster testicles? ---
**Author:** ![hopesperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e95f7d/32.png) [@hopesperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hopesperson)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/27 "2006-10-24T20:27:35Z")
[QUOTE=motomoon] LOBSTER BANDING TOOL NYLON 118241! [/QUOTE] Bander name! Tee hee hee… ---
**Author:** ![Teddy\_Salad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teddy\_Salad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddy_Salad)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/28 "2006-10-24T21:15:22Z")
[QUOTE=MelCthefirst] So how big are lobster testicles? [/QUOTE] I was once in a band called Lobster Testicles. Or maybe it was a lobster called Banded Testicles, I forget. TS ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/29 "2006-10-25T01:37:06Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Holy batshit, those are some goolies!!! :eek: [/QUOTE] Okay, now I have the _Groovy Ghoulies_ theme song going through my head. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/30 "2006-10-25T06:59:30Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Okay, now I have the _Groovy Ghoulies_ theme song going through my head. [/QUOTE] Groovy Gonads sounds much better, got a sorta ring about it…get it _ring_ as in rubber band. Oh never mind ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/31 "2006-10-25T14:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Hit submit to soon, meant to say only ewes. [/QUOTE] Only ewes can prevent sheep testicles! ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/32 "2006-10-25T19:59:11Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Holy batshit, those are some goolies!!! :eek: [/QUOTE] Wonder if you could scramble them up with some eggs for breakfast? (Well, we DO eat cows brains. At least some people do) They could be called ewe-balls. 😉 EWE! ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320/33 "2006-10-25T23:55:12Z")
[QUOTE=Jake] (Well, we DO eat cows brains. At least some people do) [/QUOTE] I sincerely hope not in this age of BSE. On Alton Brown’s _Feasting on Asphalt_, he had a brain sandwich, and he said that pig brains had replaced cow brains. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lobsters-and-rubber-bands/377320.md?page=1)