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    You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    man, they should have stuck a webcam on him so we could all see what he's up to down there.


    that restaurant seems to know a thing or two about promotion, also. awesome!

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    Image of MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治 MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    George, I will find you and eat you. For reals.
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    Image of The Harlot Queen Likes The Word Strumpet The Harlot Queen Likes The Word Strumpet
    01/10/09

    @MeganGlass: Let him go. At that age he probably tastes like old boot leather...and anyways, the closest living land relative of the lobster is the cockroach. Whenever you dig into some delicious lobster, you are really digging into delicious sea roach.
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    Image of MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治 MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治
    01/11/09

    @Athaliah: Or perhaps they get better with age much like a fine wine. There's just some kind of primal "must eat that huge, yummy looking lobster" urge kicking in. At his size, finding a pot to cook him in is going to be a little hard, but I'm sure it's doable. It's always kind of creeped me out that the crustaceans I love so much to eat are just ocean bugs with coppery blood. Oh well, tasty's tasty, I guess.
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    Image of Leigh81387 Leigh81387
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    aw give that lobster some love. in fact, i think we should start a little crew of people who go around to all the different supermarkets and fish stores and restaurants and set all the little lobsters free. we could be called the LLF.


    The Lobster Liberation Front.

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    01/11/09

    @Leigh81387: When I was little, I harbored fantasies of doing just that. Busting open the tanks and letting the lobsters skitter down the cereal aisle. Alas.
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    Image of Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon. Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    Holy god, 20 pounds? He's bigger than my cat.
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    Image of nadarine nadarine
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    Dammit, now I have to reconfigure tonight's dinner party menu. And all the guests were looking forward to the Eating Things Older Than Dick Clark theme, too!
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    01/10/09

    @nadarine: Well that solves the "what wine with 140 year old lobster?" conundrum.
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    Image of water baby water baby
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    I recently decided to go vegetarian and this story is ADORABLE. Totally validates my choice for me, even though I'm doing it more for health reasons.
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    Image of ceejeemcbeegee is not here ceejeemcbeegee is not here
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    Good. He would have been tough to chew anyway.


    I wonder how he got that big, 'cause lobsters only grow as big as their tanks.

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    Image of chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
    01/10/09

    @ceejeemcbeegee:


    He was a recent catch, only having been in their tank for ten days.

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    Image of BlondeGrlz BlondeGrlz
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    When I was a kid in Massachusetts, my dad worked right next to a seafood wholesaler. He used to bring home live lobsters for us, and we would play with them, name them, and make up little stories about how they loved having parties. In the hot tub. Because then we ate them for dinner.


    Now I want to a)call my parents and ask them WTF is wrong with them and b)eat George the lobster.

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    Image of katie.scarlett.o'hara katie.scarlett.o'hara
    01/10/09

    @BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!: My dad would do that too! We'd bring the poor little lobster home in it's little cardboard box from the grocery store, and then he chase me around the house with it, and then, into the pot!
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    Image of musicpup musicpup
    01/10/09

    @BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!: I burst out laughing at this. It's terrible, yet hilarious. There's a German movie called "Das Wunder von Bern" where this little boy has this favorite rabbit he loves and adores and then his father cooks the rabbit for dinner.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    Lobster, PETA? Don't you mean "sea grandpa"?
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    Image of YourScreenplaySucks YourScreenplaySucks
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    Some of these crustaceans are pretty feisty and that mad glint in George's eyes, as well as the fact that he's survived so long, tells me City Crab & Seafood just saved themselves a whole lot of trouble.


    Photobucket

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    Image of whatsername whatsername
    01/10/09

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: Who brings a knife to a...oh, nevermind.
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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    Old man George plans to spend the rest of his days lying on the bottom of the sea and yelling at sea kittens to get off his damn lawn.


    I am totally LOLing out loud!!

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    Image of Brigit Brigit
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    I read the whole thing thinking it was a 140lbs lobster and that's why it was considered old. But a 140 lbs lobster would be

    *terrifying

    *delicious

    *full of heavy metals
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    01/10/09

    @Brigit: He's bound to be full of heavy metals from being 140 years old, too. Ew.
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    01/10/09

    @musicpup is worth twenty camels: Giving death by lobster a completely new meaning.
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    01/10/09

    @musicpup is worth twenty camels:And now I have Britney's Toxic song in my head. Stupid brain.
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    01/10/09

    @Brigit: I prefer having this stuck in my head:
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    01/10/09

    @musicpup is worth twenty camels: I'm laughing so hard!! That is the best musical palate cleanser ever!
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    01/10/09

    @Brigit: Isn't it just? Beaker makes me ridiculously happy. And the Swedish Chef, too.
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    01/10/09

    @musicpup is worth twenty camels: OH MY GOD. THIS IS AMAZING.
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    01/10/09

    @musicpup is worth twenty camels: This is still one of my all-time favorites:
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    Image of musicpup musicpup
    01/10/09

    @bitchytexan (hellodarling!): I hope you still take the time to click this thread again:
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    01/10/09

    @musicpup is worth twenty camels: Haaaaaaaa! I love the gravelly voice!
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    01/10/09

    @bitchytexan (hellodarling!): His EYES do me in. THEY MOVE.
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    And next season he'll be guest-starring on SpongeBob Squarepants as '''Ol Man George ''. I wonder who he'll sign with?

    Reminds me of this episode of '' The Mighty Boosh'' featuring esteemed actor, ''Sammy the Crab''...
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    01/10/09

    @Calraigh:


    The ~Acting Workshop~ in the woods cracks me the fuck up every time.

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    Image of aspiringexpatriate aspiringexpatriate
    01/10/09

    @Calraigh: Why...

    is this a youtube video of a youtube video....

    I'm so confused and yet fascinated...
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    01/10/09

    @aspiringexpatriate: I know. I don't know. I can't actually find an uploaded clip of the episode and this is the only one. I kind of think it's cool in a frame within a frame within a frame ad infinitum way. Except really it's just a shit quality clip.
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    01/10/09

    @ZioZio: '' JOHN SIMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!''
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    This story made this vegetarian happy.


    Also Hortense: sea kitten & "get off my lawn" = hilarious. Love you!

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    Image of squirrelcop squirrelcop
    01/10/09

    In reply to You Won't Be Eating 140-Year-Old Lobster For Dinner Tonight
    I'm really glad he's 140 years old as opposed to the 140 pounds I first misread. I don't recall City Crab being spacious enough for a tank that big.
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