Sorry, had to.
More sea-critter news today; it must be some wetlands Walpurgis excitement causing them to bust out all over the raincoaster blog. Nonetheless, weird, eh?
“I was just sitting on the barge and this half a
mountain, half a car just floated right by,” Jackson says.
It is no mountain, or car. “Long head, knots all over. Thought it was an alligator or crocodile,” Peeples says. It’s the kind of thing you just have to see to believe… A manatee swimming in the fresh waters of the Wolf River Harbor on Mud Island. “I couldn’t do anything for about 15 minutes. (Reporter) Scary? (Jackson) Scary,” Jackson says.
The aberrant Mississippi Manatee could be nothing more than a slightly confused Global Warming victim in search of new sea grasses to munch and some soothing steel GIT-tar. On the other hand, it could be just the outrider for an invasion from Y’ha-nthlei.
We distort: you deride.
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I look forward to the rest of the series:
Ho! The mighty elephant and Eeek, the teeny, weeny hyrax!
STB
Naw, we’re pretty strictly seafood oriented here. Besides, I’m unaware of any Cthulhu Mythos tie-in with elephants or mice. Rats, though; plenty of Rats in the Mythos.
Okeydokey, here goes.
Quick crammer. Geddit. Lovecraft, Deep Ones (less limbs than octopi but what the hell?) and storylines reminiscent of dem good ol’ religions.
Leakey Institute and eponymous finder of dry bones is surrounded by elephants and hyrax which as eny ful noes are related to the dugong. The dugong’s related to the manatee. The manatee, as you so graphically illustrate, is related to the Deep Ones. The Deep Ones can survive out of water but only for a short time. Cue Leakey and the circle of life rekindles.
More? 8.5% of both elephants, hyrax and Deep Ones are Piscean!
Q.E.D
STB
Hyrax can swim? Live and learn.
Sadly, insufficiently! Live and let die.
STB
That was no manatee. Everyone knows you don’t get manatees in fresh water, nor that far north. That was Karl Rove out for a dip!
Well, Karl Rove would float, if what Cotton Mather has always told us is true.