Oh my.... O_o
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Perhaps if you enlighten him as to the mating habits of the argonaut or anglerfish, he might think twice about tangling with a sea critter.
"The males use a modified arm, the hectocotylus, to transfer sperm to the female. For fertilization, the arm is inserted into the female's pallial cavity, then is detached from the male."
"When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level.The male then slowly atrophies, first losing his digestive organs, then his brain, heart, and eyes, and ends as nothing more than a pair of gonads..."
Erk... Maybe I didn't want to know that either...
LOL! You could always tell him about parthenogenesis, instead.
"Zebedee may have never met a male of her species, but that hasn't stopped the nine-year-old female zebra shark from reproducing on a recurring basis."
Sounds better, though I'm sure my bf doesn't like that idea :P
i told him to keep his idea in his dreams, I'm not going to change my tail
When I had a Twitter just for sea related stuff, I got the best notification. It said, "Hectocotylus would like to follow you." Seems there is a user named Hectocotylus. What an image that conjured up.
ha! I'm sea nerd enough to have chuckled from it. And then of course get the song Detachable Penis by King Missile stuck in my head. (http://youtu.be/mIUk08iYZKE)
And because it's 12:24am here, that is the oddest thing I've written today.
Oh- the awkward moment your mom is regaling you with all the interesting new mermaid people out there that were on the news, "It's a whole club!", and you realize she doesn't realize how far your mer love goes.
that awkward moment when I try to explain to guests why there is my little pony and mermaid things all over our house...... I don't know which confuses them more, my obsession with being a mermaid or my son being a brony.......I won't lie..... the glow in the dark Pinkie Pie is mine. Haters gonna hate. Love and tolerate.
I've seen a couple of awkward Facebook related things on here, but not this one which has happened to me lately:
*That awkward moment when the "People You May Know" sidebar on Facebook has magically turned from high school people you never wanted to speak to again anyway to all merpeople*
Nope, I take that back...not awkward, but awesome!!
That awkward moment when two kids you babysit see you swimming in your tail, then try to throw water at you next time you babysit them.
Haha! That's hilarous, bellaskonieczny.
That awkward moment when you have a "photo-bomber"
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The awkward moment when you're talking to your guy-friend and he says, "So you really like mermaids, don't you?" and you just go, "Yeeeeaaaahh....." and you start rambling on and on about tails and you're really surprised when he actually knows what latex is xD
That awkward moment when your best mer-friends won't swim with their tails in public. -__-
That awkward moment when you like to many mermaid related things on Facebook and you say something to a person you know
"Hey did you see that thing on facebook..."
and they try to finish for you by saying
"With all the mermaids??" -_-
That really awkward moment when your on your regular (non-mermaid) facebook page, and you like something mermaid-related, only to remember your on the other profile, and most of your friends don't know about your (lifelong interests) with mermaids (yet)...
Haha! It seems like a lot of awkward moments are created by facebook!
That awkward moment when you just start talking about mer-related things with your mother and it takes her a moment to realize what you are talking about SO she's designated a hand signal for you to use before talking about mermaid stuff XD
The awkward moment when you tell someone wearing "Don't move, I'll be right back."