Take it easy there, cowboy.

Post #203,639 by bionerd 4/17/05 12:41:49 PM Reply	Take it easy there, cowboy. Go chop up some meat and cook something. You'll feel better.
Post #203,641 by Andrew Grygus 4/17/05 12:57:06 PM Reply	Yesss . . . I'll chop up some cabbages! I love to hear them scream. Very relaxing it is. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #203,642 by ben_tilly 4/17/05 12:59:51 PM Reply	If you want screams... boil some live lobsters! Nobody cares about crustaceans! Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #203,643 by Another Scott 4/17/05 1:17:33 PM Reply	Counterpoint. [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61501-2005Mar23.html\|Sympathetic Customers Save Giant Lobsters From the Pot]: What he got from the seafood distributor was a gargantuan lobster and an outpouring of sentiment from customers who felt sorry for the 15-pound animal crammed into a tank alongside an assortment of its two- and three-pound cousins. After Grolig spent days kibitzing over the ethics of his trade, the oversized crustacean, estimated to be between 35 and 40 years old, yesterday began a 400-mile journey back to its home waters off the coast of Massachusetts. One of the lobster's admirers purchased it for $150 -- about $30 more than Grolig paid the wholesaler -- and he agreed to coordinate the animal's liberation with help from his friends. "I've never had a lobster that big at this store before, and I won't have one that big again," said Grolig, owner of River Falls Seafood Co. and a 21-year veteran of the seafood trade. "About 30 percent of the people who saw him in the tank expressed concern. A few customers were really unhappy. . . . I'm really torn about the whole idea of these big lobsters. Does it really make sense to sell them?" Cheers, Scott.
Post #203,645 by Andrew Grygus 4/17/05 1:34:26 PM Reply	Once this would have been considered a small lobster. In the early 1700s and much of the 1800s lobster was considered food for the poor because it could be gathered on the beach after storms. Fifty pound lobsters were common because lobster fishing wasn't at all intensive. The well-to-do had no interest in lobster until the invention of refrigerated rail cars by which they could be carted inland where they were exotic and expensive. Once the demand was built in places like Chicago and the price was driven up New Englanders took notice and demanded lobster for themselves. Unregulated fisheries quickly depleted the supply of large lobsters. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #203,685 by ben_tilly 4/17/05 11:47:29 PM Reply	The motivations are unclear These are people who are customers of a seafood store. What were they there to buy? I'm reminded of a human interest story when I was in NH. A Red Lobster had an albino lobster and released it at the request of the patrons. They were not lobster rights activists by any means - they just thought that the albino lobster was cool and should be saved. (And then went to enjoy their own lobster dinner.) Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #203,650 by Nightowl 4/17/05 1:55:59 PM Reply	Auuuugh! I love lobsters, and I don't mean to eat, either! I even have a giant 4 foot long stuffed one! Brenda "The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
Post #204,558 by lincoln 4/24/05 4:13:27 PM Reply	You'd probably like "Carrot Juice Is Murder" by The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy team. A very funny song. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #204,559 by lincoln 4/24/05 4:16:06 PM Reply	You'd probably like "Carrot Juice Is Murder" by The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy team. A very funny song. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]

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