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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tiger Fish

Tiger Fish

Recently, a biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade publish catching goliath tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath) weighing 80 pounds on the River Congo in Africa through his video clips. The video can be seen on the show "River Monster" on Animal Planet TV.

Perhaps the Piranha is a killer in the world's most famous river, as most horror films tells of fierce killers this river such as "Piranha" (1978), "Piranha Mega" (2010), and "Piranha 3-D" (circulated in August). Most of us have seen this killer recordings with sharp triangular teeth rip and ferocious meat efficiently.

Although piranhas have a fearsome reputation and dangerous, but very rarely do piranha attacks on humans. Piranha only scratch the animal was seriously injured, although there are some reports that confirmed if there are people who were killed by them. Though dogs and bees kill more people than the piranha.

In addition there are other types of piranhas are Megapiranha which has a length of 3 feet (1 meter) or four times the size of the piranha in general. Scientists are not sure why this megapiranha fish has 7 teeth zig-zag, while piranhas usually only has 6 teeth. Fortunately megapiranha creature is not much of a threat, after the death of several million years ago.

Although it is not so dangerous to humans, the two most deadly creature in Africa often lurk unseen in the continent's murky river is crocodile and hippopotamus. Jaws of a deadly and terrifying teeth responsible for hundreds of deaths each year.

Supernatural story about a monster entity on the river almost every culture. For example, North American Indian legend says many spirits and entities that live in rivers and lakes. Tibetan Buddhists believe the Cobra is a snake that lived in rivers. Unfortunately, strong evidence of the truth of the monster of the river are still difficult to comprehend.

Maybe someday scientists will be able to make a living Megapiranha (a la "Jurassic Park with genetic engineering"), but until then a monster river more Hollywood fantasy than fact. Goliath tigerfish nasih even considered a fantasy before the widely publicized.

Big Tiger Fish

Appearance Tiger Fish

Big Capture

Wacth Tiger Fish In Congo RIver

Champs Elysee

I decided to dress like a hip lumberjack today, because looking comfortably decent is the only way I'm going to make it through exams at this rate. Blech! The buffalo plaid shirt is thrifted, worn with American Apparel riding pants and suede ankle boots. It would be nice if the boots didn't look like black garbage bags encircling my feet in this picture, because they're really quite sleek and Margiela-esque in real life. By Margiela-esque, I mean they look like these:

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

4.6 song of the day

because apologizing forever doesn't mean anyone's sorry

Guest Post: Ring Ring

Today's guest is the woman I have no shame in admitting my blog crush about. She's been revamping her blog and working on another {secret} project and I missed her so much, I asked her to guest post. Please welcome Erika from The Girl Next Door Grows Up back to The Scoop on Poop!! Also note that today is Jellybean's 11th birthday and I will be slammed with sleepover details for you next week. Happy Birthday, Jellybean!!!

Hi! Some of you know me, others do not. My name is Erika and I write the blog, The Girl Next Door Grows Up. My friend Stephanie has been ever so nice in asking me to do a guest post for her and I must say that I jumped at the chance. I have not been writing for a few weeks since I am in the middle of redesigning my blog and (ahem) 2 other new projects that are sort of a secret.

And no, I won’t say what they are, but they are cool.

It is an honor to be here especially on Jellybean’s Birthday.

Thank you Stephanie so much. It is quite a treat to be here. Now here is my take on 800 numbers…

*Ring-Ring*

My husband Kevin has a thing about me not answering the phone when either a number I don’t know calls us, or if it is an 800 number.

He hates it in fact.

Now, we do have a number similar to a car wash so we get many calls asking for our Hours of Operation and in one old edition of the phone book, our number is actually listed as The Car Wash so when I do see a name and number that I don’t know, I just keep right on walking by.

I figure they will get the hint when the answering machine clicks on.

Sometimes, I do stop and pick up the phone and give the caller the correct number.

As for the 800 numbers…

I have been asked to be on the Do Not Call list.

I have spoken to credit card, bank card, and charity organizations and politely asked to be removed from the list.

It never works.

Even though I donated clothes last week, they keep calling and calling and calling every week to see if I have more.

How much more can I have? I am all tapped out.

Then there are the charity calls. Now, I have my list of organizations that we donate money to. I do not randomly donate money over the phone because I am certain it is a scam.

Unfortunately, we get lots of calls asking for money.

Mostly I walk by the ringing phone, but sometimes I don’t and I answer.

I tell them that, “No I can’t donate at this time.” and then they ask for money again.

“Can I donate $50?”

No. I can’t donate anything at this time.

“How about $25?”

No I can’t donate ANY MONEY.

“Maybe $10?”

And this is my breaking point.

I have been polite. I have already stated I couldn’t donate anything so what do I do?

I lie.

I tell the person on the other end of the phone that we have lost our jobs and have no money.

I know. That is probably a bad thing to do, but I have a hard time just hanging up the phone on them. I figure they are supposed to do their script no matter what I say, but there is nothing in their script when I tell them that we are broke.

Oh, and being broke gets you off of their call list faster than you can say “Buh-Bye.”

Please tell me, what do you do in these situations?