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Sunday, March 04, 2007

Big Fish Extravaganza


"QUANTUM SHOT" #128


Fishing can be DANGEROUS

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(art credit: Monica Langlois)

But seriously, some people catch really big fish, and spread even bigger tales about it.

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Source China Daily

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Source: CrazyPages

King Carp

Dieter Markus Stein from Germany caught world-record carp in 2007
(with the help of the "Visible Pop Ups" dipped into the "Carptrack Amino Monster DIP") His muscles were aching for a long time afterwards....

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Source: CarpSport


Big AND Ugly

Lurking in the depths: Giant Isopod:
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Picture sources:Wiki, Coda via UglyOverload


Ancient Shark

This frilled shark was caught recently in Japan. Nobody knows what caused this rare creature to come up from the depths of 600 meters where it lives, but it did not last long in the contaminated waters and sadly perished.

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Photos courtesy: Reuters & Yahoo

More sea beauties:
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source


What do you do when you catch (supposedly) an alien monster?
Eat it, of course


Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided to film the monster with the help of a cell phone camera.

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However, scientists & UFO investigators were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said it did not appear threatening, so they decided to fry it for dinner. One of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten.

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Well, the mysterious monster did not remain a mystery for very long. Kudos for discovering the truth probably go to UglyOverload:
It's a "guitar fish"

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Photo from: Florida Museum of Natural History

Yeti Crab - the Ultimate Psychedelic Catch

Finally, here is truly cool and unexpected creature, fished out of the depths:
the Yeti Crab:

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"Its silky white looks may make it seem more at home in the Himalaya, but this unique creature was recently discovered in the deep darkness of the South Pacific. The creature is so unusual that a whole new family of animal had to be created to classify it. Its official name is Kiwa hirsuta, and even after a year of study scientists say there's still much about it they don't understand."

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Scientists admit that we explored less than 1% of world's ocean depths, and who knows what gleefully lurks out there, mocking our feeble attempts at exploration.
(we need more public interest and expedition financing, hint, hint)


Art for the Devoted Fishermen

Check out Maggie Taylor at
Susan Spiritus Gallery for these additions to your fishing trophy room.





"Walk softly and carry a big fish"

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5 Comments:

Anonymous Tangle said...

That isopod looks like a giant dust mite... but with more legs. It reminds me of an anime movie I saw where giant insects and fungi were taking over the world.

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Blogger Chris Bassoo said...

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Congrats on being blogger of note, great blog and great information....warmest of regards from Christopher Bassoo

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The russians catch an alien, and eat him. Nice xD.

And that isopod looks so cool :P

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

You first picture is "Go Fish"
by Monica Langlois. It is featured artwork from World of Warcraft on the Blizzard site. http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/fanart/images/screens/ss449.jpg

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Thank you, credit added, original was unknown for some time

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  • Other then the photo'd stuff, I'd be surprised if many of those actually were accomplished... still, it would be really cool!
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  • I got two forks to balance on on the edge of a glass with a toothpick (I couldn't keep the forks together with a quarter).
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    Big Mick
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    I looks like the book is now available under the title "Secrets of 123 Classic Science Tricks and Experiments" (still listing Lanners as the editor).

    http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Classic-Science-Tricks-Experiments/dp/0830628215/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-0018437-3658563
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  • Ahmet, there are some videos in part 2 of this post...
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  • Just when you think you've seen 'em all...
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  • Video about Goliath tank

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIL34mpLi4o

    Fantastic blog ¡
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  • Unreal Landscapes... any one of them seems more at home in some imagined sf/f world than the other side of the planet from where I'm sitting.
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  • The post very much on time for me so I am glad I checked the net. I just finished watching The Last Emperor. Photography in the movie is ok but very limited - to the Forbidden City, the prison and some other grey stuff. Very nice pictures and show a different face of China.
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  • Wonderful images. I'd be inclined to visit your site again or on a more regular basis if you would please cite your sources. Some, you have. Great! Clicking on a link that takes me to a static flickr page does not allow me to investigate. Informational-wise, it's like clicking on a thumbnail of a picture and not getting a larger picture. Frustrating experience. Finding more citation information, like a good newspaper, would make for a more rewarding experience and something that I turn to places like reddit and flickr for.
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  • thank you for this comment. Most of the sources are listed in the body of the post, or at the end of it. I also duplicate the source info on the flickr pages. Some photos lead to the larger versions, if such are available. I would like to find out more about the locations photographed here; if you have such info, please send it in.
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  • first photo:
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  • To say thats China is a bit too generalized. All of the photos are just from one area!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin
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  • These score are wonderfully strange. I've linked to this blog from mine, which is called http://smpl.se
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  • Odd ... trackback.
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  • yeah that is some crazy music.. i want a full version as well
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    cool collection buddy ! thanks to that flickr guy busyman

    a cool collection for you !
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  • Thank you, Johnathan!
    Pic is posted
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  • http://flickr.com/photos/jahfish/190281287/

    shortest one i've ever seen!!!!
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  • Amazing photos, and note the one from 1945 with the Nazi banners and everyone giving the Hitler salute. Yup, the VW came right out of Nazi Germany and onto our roads. Few Americans bought them in the 1940's, but by the time I came of age in the 1960's, everyone had one and they were a blast to drive. Ironic that the preferred mode of transportation for the peace and love generation came from wartime Germany, but our response to this conundrum was to turn the AM radio up louder and light up another joint. Peace, brother.
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  • Here's another one - the Fremont Troll
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  • thanks for the amazing photos
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  • I really love the 20's/30's design Beetles in the pics.
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  • This is such a cool collection of VW Beetles. Thanks Avi for collecting and sharing these with everyone. My favorite is the turtle one!
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  • I, for one, welcome our tiny reptilian overlords.
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  • THESE are amazing, or at least wonderful pictures :) good job findin' em!
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  • I love the little toughguy baby meerkat on that page.
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  • I wouldn't have thought that a baby turtle could be cute, but you've changed my mind.
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  • Awesome animals photos!

    Best Regards from Portugal
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    The flight attendant pics are great, so is that cyberpunk stuff!
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  • hey thanks! i linked to you in blogroll

    all the best,
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  • You made my month.

    therealdonquixote hearts actual attractive stewardesses, not "airline attendants".
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  • The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
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  • Thats where i saw it also - The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
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  • wow... those dames have some great gams.

    loving the go-go boots, but what on earth is up with the girl dressed like a bullfighter??
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  • Too damn funny. Those are great pics.

    This remind me of the book written by, and about a Stewardess in the 60's ... "Coffee, Tea or Me."

    It was, I guess, considered racy at the time but it reads like porn if it were sanitized by Disney.
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  • *chuckle* I'm old enough to remember the Braniff "bubbles"... ahh, the days when women were girls! Women have gained far, far more and we're all better for it - but there was also a unique spirit of fun in those days that we've lost . . . society gains, society looses . . .
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  • I guess the MEN enjoyed those days. It was like being "Miss America" to be an airplane stewardess then. I happened to know a girl who was one.
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  • Just go to Latin America. In the Bogota airport I saw some wonderful costumed stewardesses.
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  • Man, i remember those PSA uniforms with the weird little cleavage key-hole. Those made quite an impression on my pre-teen mind when we flew PSA from San Jose to Los Angels in the '60s.
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  • um, have you flown recently on an Asian airline.

    The staff look exactly like this, and they treat you like royalty.

    What happened to flight in America?

    Unions.
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  • The jet engines were better-engineered then, and could suck in up to three stewardesses without wiping blades.
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  • paul a'barge said...
    What happened to flight in America?

    Unions.


    Curse those unions for making it so that women over 35, those not blessed with model looks, and even some men can work as flight attendants!

    What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile while they were groped and otherwise sexually harassed by businessmen the age of their fathers who reeked of cigarette smoke?
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  • What! no fat bald gay men or 200+ lb women? Those girls were hot forty years ago...

    Too bad the same ones are still working today!
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  • I love the Asian airlines. The woman aren't ashamed to be women.
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  • The change in flight in American has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with the 1976 deregulation of the industry. And it's obvious from the average ticket prices since then, quality problems aside, that deregulation was (as it nearly always is) the right thing to do.
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  • "Groovy" doesn't even begin to cover it.
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  • there’s no uniform sexier than the one-piece mini-dress and off-kilter cap, especially when set off by go-go boots.
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  • How to Save the Airline Industry:
    I, for one, would fly a lot more if stewardesses still wore go-go boots
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  • I *LOVE* these stewardesses!! Awesome! :)
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  • Ah the good old days. When even college educated women were willing to be treated like servants and sex objects.
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  • I lived in southeast asia in the '60s. For in-flight entertainment the flight attendants on Thai Airways used to give a style show. Sometimes they wore bikinis.
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  • Yet another reason why I was obviously born in the wrong decade.
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  • friendly skies
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  • Oh, what memories! I was a flight attendant for Western Airlines back in the day. Our uniforms weren't designed by Pucci, oh, but the job was wonderful! It's not like that anymore.
    Janet T
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  • You should take a look around Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The rest of the world still realizes that, like models, stewardesses have a definite expiration date and don't let them hang around until their fifties like the bitchy old broads you see on Northwest.
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  • Too bad they're all OLD now.

    http://s1.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=31043
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  • Some of those chicks are serious hunnies, why are stewardesses wearing frocks and semi-gowns these days? Men are still men - BRING BACK THE STEWARDESS MINI'S! =D
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  • Whats with the matador uniform in the fifth picture, Air Spain?
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  • now I understand why they are called the good old days...
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  • "What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile "

    Yeah it's so much better nowadays now that we have fat ugly chicks with attitude as stewardesses. Thank god we don't have to deal with those thin cuties who smile anymore!
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  • Simply AWEFUL garbage photography... women fly planes, not dress up like Austin Powers fembots and serve duty free drinks on them. If you're not flying combat, you're not flying.
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  • Wow, by looking at these pictures, it appears that their goal was to sell you the flight attendant as the primary goal, and the flight itself as 2nd priority.

    It makes me wonder, as PC as we think we are today, how 40 years from now they will look at us.
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  • Believe it or not there was a glamour time in commercial aviation. Alas, today, it is all gone, reduced to the bottom line of corporate balance sheets, AND, the desire of the traveling public to get there cheap (but, they still want all the amenities of the old days).
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  • just wondering... if i wanted to do an old school flight attendant halloween costume, how do i make it obvious that i'm a flight attendant and not just, like, someone from the 60s or 70s?

    and i LOVE these photos.
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  • I love the special colors of these old photos.
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  • Congrats! I've nominated you for a Lemonade award, because I think you have a great pinup blog. :)

    Check it out at http://www.thepinupblog.com/files/036ed21e8968766be1e7b23471d540f2-180.html

    Tali
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  • Thank you for posting these. Those were the good old days.. I began working for the airlines in the 70's but not as a flight attendant. I worked in sales. I started flying with my family in the 60's and even through the 70's before deregulation... it was wonderful to fly. Now I hate it though I fly around the world for my work. I wish it were like it was.
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  • Thank you Tali - much appreciated.
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  • Ah...romanticizing objectification.
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