Flood

[buttfacemakani]

I don't really watch TV or the news unless I'm at my family's places in Houston, so I was taken by surprise when I got an email from my parents with pics of a ginourmous flood!!! :O

Comments

[iamsupernova]

What is a crawdad? Sounds like something I wouldn't want to encounter whilst wading, though.

[buttfacemakani]

crawdad, crawfish, crayfish.. basically freshwater mini lobsters

[pac]

alton brown told me yesterday that they're closely related to cockroaches 8B

[kyburg]

And absolutely DELISH. YAY WATERBUGS!

Alton Brown's pants should have spontaneously combusted.

[sinick]

Divergence all the way up at the subphylum level is hardly 'closely related'

Crayfish = subphylum Crustacea
Cockroach = subphylum Mandibulata

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[buttfacemakani]

Seriously? Well they're still like.. bugs :I

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[sinick]

YUMMY BUGS!

OMNOMNOMNOM!!!1

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[pac]

i guess the point he was trying to make was crayfish and lobsters are more closely related to cockroaches than to, say, chickens or rabbits... and thus ok to toss into boiling water alive.

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[sinick]

Since crustaceans feel pain, I'd have to disagree with him.

(BTW, I'm not from PETA, I'm not even vegetarian. I just think, if you're going to kill something, you should do it as quickly and painlessly as possible. The thought of boiling things alive squicks me the hell out.)

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[cerulicante]

Now that I know this, I will take even more joy in boiling them alive.

TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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[sinick]

Ah, the mating call of the Lesser Troll. And so early in the season, too.

[odontomachus]

He's a goddamn liar.

[buttfacemakani]

No actually, roaches and lobsters are quite closely related.

[odontomachus]

Cockroaches are insects. Lobsters are crustaceans. They're completely different kinds of critter. How the...?

[buttfacemakani]

Yep, lobsters, roaches of the sea

[teaberryblue]

Crawdads are like a cross between a tiny lobster and a giant shrimp!