# Stingray Offensive Moves into Next Phase **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077 "2006-10-19T12:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/1 "2006-10-19T12:49:20Z")
Okay, that’s enough! The gloves come off! Now it’s WAR. [Stingray leaps into boat and stabs man in chest](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19/stingray.reut/index.html). ☹ Sailboat [sub]PS: I’m kidding. Don’t harm any stingrays.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/2 "2006-10-19T13:18:31Z")
OMG, the Minions of Cthulu are on the move. The Dogs\* of War have been unleashed. What can save us? We best arm ourselves and prepare to hold off this invasion from the sea. We must now prepare to steel ourselves for a war like no other. We will fight them on the beach, we will fight them in our boats, we might have to fight them in the air. Be prepared. Be wary. Be ever vigilant. - I know, you probably thought that Sharks would be Cthulu’s Dogs of War, but no, it is the Rays. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/3 "2006-10-19T14:30:34Z")
I, for one, am NOT prepared to accept our new stingray overlords. ---
**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 19, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/4 "2006-10-19T14:31:25Z")
I live inland. Yay. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/5 "2006-10-19T14:43:19Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] I live inland. Yay. [/QUOTE] I’m out on the waters of south FL/the Keys mulitple times a week snorkeling, fishing, and just boating. Holy crap, what is going on? I think they’re angry because we take their relatives out of the water, trim their stingers, and put them in public aquariums for kids to pet. They’re showing that they’re still tough! Or maybe they are mad that after the Steve I incident everyone started saying “No, no, they’re SO gentle and sweet! That never happens!” Now a few rogue rays are out to prove their toughness to the world. Anyway, crazy man. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/6 "2006-10-19T15:06:36Z")
And all this time we’ve been paying attention to the dolphins. Add me to the [Cthulhu](http://www.cthulhu.org/) camp. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/7 "2006-10-19T16:28:18Z")
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/8 "2006-10-19T16:33:24Z")
[Mel Gibson] “Stingrays are responsible for all the wars in the world!” [/Mel Gibson] ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/9 "2006-10-19T16:40:09Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] [Mel Gibson] “Stingrays are responsible for all the wars in the world!” [/Mel Gibson] [/QUOTE] Are **YOU** a stingray? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/10 "2006-10-19T16:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Are **YOU** a stingray? [/QUOTE] What’re _you_ lookin’ at, stingray-tits?! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/11 "2006-10-19T16:47:44Z")
[QUOTE=BoBettie] Or maybe they are mad that after the Steve I incident everyone started saying “No, no, they’re SO gentle and sweet! That never happens!” [/QUOTE] Damn liberals! Apparently the stingrays have already won. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/12 "2006-10-19T16:52:45Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Damn liberals! Apparently the stingrays have already won. [/QUOTE] You don’t _look_ Stingrayish… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/13 "2006-10-19T16:54:48Z")
I once shot a stingray in my pajamas… ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/14 "2006-10-19T17:10:23Z")
I hate to say this, but the stingrays are only one cell of a [much larger operation](http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-10-19T064337Z_01_DHA200706_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BANGLADESH-ELEPHANTS.xml&rpc=92). My friends, the beast wars are upon us. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/15 "2006-10-19T17:15:03Z")
The only good Stingray is a dead Stingray. I take that back. The late sixties Corvettes are kinda cool. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/16 "2006-10-19T17:48:08Z")
Well, we already established this in many a Cafe Society thread: Q. Who would win? A. A [Batoid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoidea), if it’s prepared. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/17 "2006-10-19T17:53:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] I live inland. Yay. [/QUOTE] Beware of commando\* sawfish! From Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > Sawfishes can enter freshwater rivers and lakes. - Of course they’re commando! When was the last time you saw a sawfish wearing underwear? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/18 "2006-10-19T17:58:11Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I once shot a stingray in my pajamas… [/QUOTE] How did a stingray get into your Pajamas? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/19 "2006-10-19T18:08:46Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Are **YOU** a stingray? [/QUOTE] Some of my best friends are stingrays. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077/20 "2006-10-19T18:10:39Z")
[QUOTE=Gatopescado] The only good Stingray is a dead Stingray. [/QUOTE] Stingracist. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-offensive-moves-into-next-phase/377077.md?page=2)