My wife tells me I ought to feature a fish that’s actually called the Sarcastic Fringehead on the blog — it’s a natural. I wonder if she was being sarcastic, but she looked so innocent when she told me.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Well, it is quite colorful.
Roll for initiative.
–
Just gotta eat it before it eats me…
She can’t possibly be thinking it is like you. I suspect your head lost its fringe some time ago.
That’s one seriously ugly fish. If I caught that thing, it might make me want to give up fishing.
Consider the fact that this is the last thing a lot of little fishes are going to see and then try to tell me there is no god.
Survival of the hungriest.
What a mouth!
What a mouth!
What a north and south
blimey what a mouth he’s got
Tommy Steele, 1960
A rainbow has never been so terrifying.
Obligatory Sci-ence!
quirkeegurl
Clearly you’re not a member of the Phelps clan.
Actually this is what I look loke after reading a Scott Stephens article. This one has him opening up on Dawkins because of his recent Tweet. http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/04/23/3743221.htm
Have at it people.
It’s like the Predator at a Pride parade.
It’s got a rainbow coloured mouth! That is so fucking cool! Why can’t I have one of those? :(
Yeah… *that’s* the most amazing fish ever.
I prefer a world with a fair number or sarcastic fringeheads in the mix, as should everybody.
Totally. Fucking. Awesome!
Cage match between that and an angler-fish? No? Nevermind.
I’m waiting for the Poopyheaded Kraken…
i thought we were banning all the men’s rights assholes from the site…
Cross-breed with lungfish, then release in the southern swamps*. It will balance the population boom related to non-existent sex education. Also, please tell “snake handlers” they must try to juggle a fish like this at the next church meeting.
(*Yes, I am holding a grudge against the South. .However the fish is a threat people not plastered on hooch should be able to avoid.)
An angler-fish? Techically, angler fish are a pair, even if you only notice one of them…
Nonononono. Put legs on them, train them to rush en masse and open-mouthed, and rent their services to anyone Westboro is threatening to picket.
–
Oh, they’re not all monogamous. Polyandry is a thing, you know.
here, “sarcastic” takes its original sense of ‘tearing flesh’.
Chas,
So by analogy, a modern usage of “sarcophagus” might be “eating people’s feelings”? We could use that as a new word for psychologists.
And I think the relatives of that fish worked as extras in the film “Blade 2”
On NPR this morning I heard Michael Pollan recommend these excellent sarcastics.
That might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.
@Chas
Whenever I start a sentence (which is probably too often) with “When I was listening to NPR this morning…” I think I get a grey hair. Especially when the thing I heard on NPR was 1) A song that was topping the charts where I live & 2) A piece of technology in my new phone. The phone store guy was kind of impressed though, so there is that.
Longtime household favorite, that fellow. We both sort-of ~identify~ with it.