June 30, 2005

Biggest Catfish EVAR - Fish catching blokes in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish evar - a 646-pound (293-kg) monster as big as a small boat. Then they ate it. Hush puppies.
  • Damn. That's a big fucking fish. Some background on the search here.
  • That ain't no catfish. That's Moby Dick in Groucho glasses.
  • They call 'im the General Sherman, ayup.
  • They say he's five hundred six hundred 'n forty six pounds of bottom-dwelling fury, don't you know. No one knows how old he is, but if you ask me (and most people do), he's hundred years if he's a day.
  • They say he's five hundred six hundred 'n forty six pounds of bottom-dwelling fury, don't you know. No one knows how old he is, but if you ask me (and most people do), he's hundred years if he's a day.
  • Dangit. Sorry for the double burp.
  • It's the server farting. Perhaps it is a sign? An omen.
  • * 12th paragraph would seem to indicate deterninging the largest catfish may be open to question. Have read account of these European catfish elsewhere, but how accurate measurements may have been whenever this catch was reported Linder unfortunately does not say. And of coures another difficulty could be the issue of fishermen's veracity (or lack thereof) in reporting such matters.
  • Hmmm, but there are no authenticated measurements or weights of the Wels.
  • Nearly three hundred kilos of endangered fish steaks. Check out the fourth photo in the gallery. It's the size of a halibut.
  • The chicken sacrifice was what did the trick. I'll have to try that on my next fishing expedition.
  • Wow. That's a lot of fritters.
  • Holy shit. I just went looking for a link so I could make a joke about noodling, which for the uninitiated is a dangerous method of fishing for cat with your bare hands. Sometimes also called grabbling. I found this. I have absolutely no words.
  • Many Thai are quite fond of eating the eyeballs of fish. Just imagine the massive juicy treats this fish offered! Those things must have been the size of pomelos!
  • "Girls Gone Grabbin'." Classic. Still in all, they're pretty hot.
  • Still in all, they're pretty hot Holy .. why ... um.. wha... GEEZ! Put down the keyboard, and slowly back away. Get some sun too!
  • In northern Thailand, fish eats you! Seriously folks, that thing looks like like it could swallow a child whole
  • (peers strangely at mct) That was doing the rounds at my office the other day, mct. I think the lame-o country tune does it for me. Or maybe the horny, animated catfish.
  • SYNCHRONICITY!