For the second time in a week, the rare, serpentine oarfish has surfaced on a Southern Cali beach

[trumad]

What the hell is going on with the Cali beaches?

For the second time in a week, the rare, serpentine oarfish has surfaced on a Southern California beach.
Beach goers at Oceanside Harbor crossed paths Friday afternoon with the deep-sea monster when its carcass washed ashore, Oceanside Police Officer Mark Bussey said. The fish measured 13 ½ feet long.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/19/21041529-second-rare-oarfish-washes-up-in-southern-california?lite

[Warren Stupidity]

1. You crack me up.

[Mz Pip]

2. That is one freaky fish.

There are things in the ocean we still haven't discovered. It's got so many interesting critters.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. You know what this means...

Mermaids exist!!!

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/mermaids/videos/mermaids.htm


(also my son was so bummed out when I enlightened him)

[SidDithers]

4. Maybe it was the earthquake...

that was 600 miles away.

Sid

[dorkzilla]

5. I see what you did (again) there...

[NYC_SKP]

6. Cali, Columbia? Cali, Punta de Nekkidores?

Where is this place you call "Cali"?

[trumad]

8. Near Frisco

[NYC_SKP]

9. OH NO! I know a girl named Brandy, lives in Frisco...

I drift into Frisco, like every weekend.

[In_The_Wind]

10. I should have gone all of the way west.

[NYC_SKP]

11. Don't worry. I live here and still never met her.

"Brandy" lives wherever you live.

Just gotta find her/him!

[In_The_Wind]

12. Indeed

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Shannyn Moore swears that Brandy was a barmaid at the Salty Dawg Saloon

in Homer, Alaska.

[NYC_SKP]

16. Huh! Well who can argue with that?!

I'm going to concede!

I was sure it would have been at least an East Bay joint!

[madinmaryland]

19. I just lost my lunch thinking about a nekkidcboy near Frisco.

[petronius]

7. Very cool - I'd love to see one swimming

I wonder if they're dying deep and then floating up, or swimming into the coastal shallows before dying. And I had no idea they could reach 50' in length...

[Capt.Rocky300]

13. I believe the story is about......

a fish washing up in Southern California. Cali is an inland city in Columbia. A country in South America.

[Cleita]

14. I hope they check it for radiation. n/t

[alfredo]

17. You can see where it was bitten by the cookie cutter fish.

[Flying Squirrel]

18. I have heard stories of this place.

Parts of it are very dry, particularly Southern Cali where it never rains.

[yuiyoshida]

22. Who said it never rains in southern california? IT POURS!

[MyNameGoesHere]

20. Which Cali?

Oh I see it is SoCal.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. Earthquake a coming!

I'm kind of not kidding -- heard about this "omen" on the news this morning -

Oarfish omen spells earthquake disaster for Japan


"...In recent weeks, 10 specimens have been found either washed ashore or in fishing nets off Ishikawa Prefecture, half-a-dozen have been caught in nets off Toyama Prefecture and others have been reported in Kyoto, Shimane and Nagasaki prefectures, all on the northern coast.

According to traditional Japanese lore, the fish rise to the surface and beach themselves to warn of an impending earthquake - and there are scientific theories that bottom-dwelling fish may very well be susceptible to movements in seismic fault lines and act in uncharacteristic ways in advance of an earthquake - but experts here are placing more faith in their constant high-tech monitoring of the tectonic plates beneath the surface.

"In ancient times Japanese people believed that fish warned of coming earthquakes, particularly catfish," Hiroshi Tajihi, deputy director of the Kobe Earthquake Centre, told the Daily Telegraph."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/7365076/Oarfish-omen-spells-earthquake-disaster-for-Japan.html

[silverweb]

23. Anyone bring a geiger counter?

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Just a thought.

[Rex]

24. Is that a native of Cali?

Does Cali coast have deep waters?

[bluedeathray]

25. As well as a rare Saber Toothed Whale from the Bering Sea area.

http://now.msn.com/saber-toothed-whale-washes-ashore-on-california-beach?ocid=ansnow11

[pinboy3niner]

26. Probably expired while enroute to visit relatives at the La Brea Tar Pits

[darkangel218]

27. Fukushima radiation.

Jumbo fishes!!

[KansDem]

28. I thought we weren't suppose to use "Cali" in reference to California

Am I missing something?

I'm confused...

[trumad]

29. Who ever listened to Hall Monitors?

[Berlum]

30. They flee the wave of death coming toward Cali from Fukushima

Many more beings will come, like the masses of Starfish now turning to gelatinous mush...Fukushima has been slammed, and is is about to get slammed again. It's far away, but it's also near. The fish in the sea -- now intent upon Seppuku -- do not have a RepubliBagger, Inc. (R) barrage of corporate media telling them they need to forget about the Exploiters, Inc. (R) and how f*cked up they have rendered Planet Earth with their ongoing greed & plunder, and instead they should worry themselves sick about Affordable Health Care.

THE OCEAN IS BROKEN - Oct. 18, 2013
Sailor: “After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023886917

T
oxic flush: Typhoon causes radioactive leaks at Fukushima
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-typhoon-radioactive-water-310/

[pinboy3niner]

31. Is that short for Califoarniafish?

[magical thyme]

33. I thought Cali is a DUer from Vermont, not a place out west