Where the fuck does this go?

[Ugly Dougly]

Wrong fish?

[catinthefunnyhat]

Wrong fish?

That is the wrong fishy. It belongs on the wall of wrong fishy, along with that fishy picture of kids giving roses to Stalin.
Since this is not the wall of wrong fishy but simply the wall of wrong, it is the wrong wall for the wrong fishy.

Nothing makes sense anymore....arghhhh!
PONTYPOOL PONTYPOOL PONTYPOOL!

EDIT: Oh, shit. Apparently this is not the wall of wrong. Nevertheless, it is the wrong wall.

[Ugly Dougly]

Wrongness is where you find it. Isn't it grand?

[theCryptofishist]

That's not a fish. That's a pinneped, the seal-o-canth.

[catinthefunnyhat]

Not having read or watched any of the Twilight series, I had to Google seal-o-canth.
Then I laughed.

[gyre]

Can you explain that?

I've always known what a Coelacanth is, but what's the twilight thing?

[theCryptofishist]

Hm. I've never read any of the twilight books either. I'm just drawing on my reading of natural history as a child.

[catinthefunnyhat]

This link was the first hit when I Googled seal-o-canth. Google claims the link is to something called the Twilight Heroes Wiki, which I assumed was related to that twilight. Actually, now that I look at it more closely, it seems to be a game involving superheroes. The Seal-o-Canth seems to be an item in this game.

seal o' canth
Plural: seals o' canth
This is a little metal disc, imprinted with a relief of a fish. Also etched into the metal is the word "canth," whatever that means. No point in fussing about it, though: if you canth beat em', join 'em.

[theCryptofishist]

Here, more than you wanted to know about the Coelocanthe...

[gyre]

Coolest fish ever.

[mgb327]

Here's my favorite, the Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish. Lives on jellyfish. I have seen two out in the South Pacific. Very cool fish.

[gyre]

There are a few interesting ones.

One of these cuties was caught by someone from here.
Hung off both ends of a semi-trailer.

Destroyed two ships while being caught.

[ygmir]

hhmmmm

[Ugly Dougly]

Now here's a fine fish.


What a beauty!

[theCryptofishist]

When Muppets go bad...

[theCryptofishist]

Oh, I want to use this to start a thread in Projects, but I wont...

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Shambala]

[Bob]

Here's my favorite, the Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish. Lives on jellyfish. I have seen two out in the South Pacific. Very cool fish.

I've seen a few washed up on Point Reyes beaches.

Flatfish are weirder.

[Ugly Dougly]

[knowmad]

Stephen Pinker phrases it like this: "With a few thousand nouns that can fill the subject slot and a few thousand verbs that can fill the predicate slot, one already has several million ways to open a sentence. The possible combinations quickly multiply out to unimaginably large numbers. Indeed, the repertoire of sentences is theoretically infinite, because the rules of language use a trick called recursion. A recursive rule allows a phrase to contain an example of itself, as in She thinks that he thinks that they think that he knows and so on, ad infinitum. And if the number of sentences is infinite, the number of possible thoughts and intentions is infinite too, because virtually every sentence expresses a different thought or intention."

prolly could talk about that for a while...

Actually, this is why math nerds should not copulate with word nerds.

[Ugly Dougly]

That warning came too late! But it was fun anyway.

[catinthefunnyhat]

[Oldguy]

If I remember correctly, the ratio of coke to coal is 1:1. A little kerosene will start a nice long lasting heat.

[catinthefunnyhat]

Stephen Pinker phrases it like this: "With a few thousand nouns that can fill the subject slot and a few thousand verbs that can fill the predicate slot, one already has several million ways to open a sentence. The possible combinations quickly multiply out to unimaginably large numbers. Indeed, the repertoire of sentences is theoretically infinite, because the rules of language use a trick called recursion. A recursive rule allows a phrase to contain an example of itself, as in She thinks that he thinks that they think that he knows and so on, ad infinitum. And if the number of sentences is infinite, the number of possible thoughts and intentions is infinite too, because virtually every sentence expresses a different thought or intention."

prolly could talk about that for a while...

Actually, this is why math nerds should not copulate with word nerds.

Ah, language...

The one issue I would take with the Pinker quote is that he seems to treat the infinity of possible sentences as the reason for (or, perhaps, evidence of) the infinity of thought and intention. Perhaps language evolved as it did into an infinitely recombinable system because humans needed to be able to express an infinite number of thoughts and intentions. We need language so we can say to one another, "What if..?" and "Do you remember...?" and "I love it when..." with all the possible endings those sentences can have. And even if one begat the other, there is a mismatch between the infinity of possible sentences and the infinity of thoughts and intentions. There are thoughts, feelings, experiences, and intentions which cannot be explained or described in words.

Perhaps a mathematician or a philosopher can explain how it is that two infinities do not entirely overlap.

[catinthefunnyhat]

If I remember correctly, the ratio of coke to coal is 1:1. A little kerosene will start a nice long lasting heat.

Oh, so that's what it's about. I had no idea.

[theCryptofishist]

Glam Rock Front Man or U.S. President Between Jackson and Lincoln?

BY Christopher Flores
- - - -1. Martin Van Buren
2. Edward Van Halen
3. Robert John Arthur Halford
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Steven Tyler
6. John Tyler
7. Zachary Taylor
8. James K. Polk
9. W. Axl Rose
10. David Daniel Snider
11. Millard Fillmore
12. Samuel Roy Hagar
13. Franklin Pierce
14. Stephen Pearcy
15. James Buchanan
16. Donald Maynard Dokken
17. Charles Frederick Kip Winger

You follow a link from CatintheFunnyHat and you find all sorts of things...

[FIGJAM]

Colonel Saunders nightmare!!!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

[gyre]

Incredible carvings from WWI

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18689794

There's a video of this story too.