What am I?
To what species does this exuvia belong?
Please submit guesses with progressively finer specificity (e.g., Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Rodentia, Muroidea, Muridae, Murinae, Rattus, norvegicus - Norway Rat); common names are permissible. I will, at my discretion, cast hints and answer questions regarding this species' general life history.
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7060/theclawsthatgrab3iy.jpg
Note the intricate pitting and bristle arrangement.
The Jovian Moons
07-11-2005, 00:59
It looks like a crab but that's too easy so it must be an alien from Area 51.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
07-11-2005, 01:00
Obviously that is my Great Uncle Cthulhu, though how you even managed to get a picture of that much of him is rather suprising. Last man to get that close to him went insane, gouged his own eyes out, had his feet rippped off, was turned into a cabbage, and then served to the Duchess of Glosberry.
It looks like a crab but that's too easy so it must be an alien from Area 51.
Yet is neither.
The Blaatschapen
07-11-2005, 01:21
But it is a crustacean, right? Or at least an Arthropod?
Osutoria-Hangarii
07-11-2005, 01:22
Eighteen-toed Sea Sloth
Trilateral Commission
07-11-2005, 01:23
Is it som type of scorpion?? Can you give us some hints.
Obviously that is my Great Uncle Cthulhu, though how you even managed to get a picture of that much of him is rather suprising. Last man to get that close to him went insane, gouged his own eyes out, had his feet rippped off, was turned into a cabbage, and then served to the Duchess of Glosberry.
Was Lovecraft's Cthulhu anything more than an incarnation of Shakespeare's Setebos, "the many-handed as a cuttle-fish?"
Or at least an Arthropod?
That it is.
Rotovia-
07-11-2005, 01:26
Obviously that is my Great Uncle Cthulhu, though how you even managed to get a picture of that much of him is rather suprising. Last man to get that close to him went insane, gouged his own eyes out, had his feet rippped off, was turned into a cabbage, and then served to the Duchess of Glosberry.
Thankfully I went on to be everyone's favourite Generalite...
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
07-11-2005, 01:27
Was Lovecraft's Cthulhu anything more than an incarnation of Shakespeare's Setebos, "the many-handed as a cuttle-fish?"
Well since I'm pretty sure that Shakespeare stole Setebos from someone, does it matter?
All writers steal from somebody, the good ones steal from enough obscure sources, and vary the result enough, that it is all but impossible to notice.
Rotovia-
07-11-2005, 01:28
Well since I'm pretty sure that Shakespeare stole Setebos from someone, does it matter?
All writers steal from somebody, the good ones steal from enough obscure sources, and vary the result enough, that it is all but impossible to notice.
Well considering he stole Hamlet from the French writer who wrote the much more twisted, funny, looooooong & blood-thirsty "The Saga of Hamlet", I wouldn't put it past him.
Is it som type of scorpion??
No.
This species' natural range encompasses portions of the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Malaya, Austronesia, and northern Australia.
The Blaatschapen
07-11-2005, 01:33
That it is.
Is it an insect then?
Rotovia-
07-11-2005, 01:33
No.
This species' natural range encompasses portions of the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Malaya, Austronesia, and Northern Australia.
Better not be one of those bug things. The only time I can stand them is when they're drenched in garlic butter and served on my plate...
Is it an insect then?
No.
Better not be one of those bug things. The only time I can stand them is when they're drenched in garlic butter and served on my plate...
It's funny that you mention this - they are indeed widely consumed within their native lands.
The Blaatschapen
07-11-2005, 01:40
Is it an Arachnid (aka spider)?
Is it Tobey Maguire? :D
Is it an Arachnid (aka spider)?
Is it Tobey Maguire? :D
No...and no.
What I do not deny cannot be assumed false.
Rotovia-
07-11-2005, 01:45
So it's a so-called "Moreton Bay Bug"...?
The Blaatschapen
07-11-2005, 01:46
No...and no.
What I do not deny cannot be assumed false.
So it *is* a crustacean? right?
So it's a so-called "Moreton Bay Bug"...?
No.
So it *is* a crustacean? right?
I'll say that it's aquatic (though other species of its genus have been found in trees) and leave you to determine the rest.
Many species of its genus are freshwater.
CthulhuFhtagn
07-11-2005, 02:14
Does it belong to the grouping Malacostraca?
Does it belong to the grouping Malacostraca?
Yes.
CthulhuFhtagn
07-11-2005, 02:20
Is it a Decapod?
The Jovian Moons
07-11-2005, 02:23
It's an alien-space-tree-water-bug-thing.
Rotovia-
07-11-2005, 02:25
Euidotea bakeri? Or so claims the Australian Institute of Zoology.
KataPlunk
07-11-2005, 02:29
Well, it's obviously a roach clip.
Is it a Decapod?
Yes.
Euidotea bakeri? Or so claims the Australian Institute of Zoology.
How many Euidotea spp. have been seen in trees?
CthulhuFhtagn
07-11-2005, 02:34
Does it belong to the suborder Pleocyemata?
Rotovia-
07-11-2005, 02:38
Yes.
How many Euidotea spp. have been seen in trees?
This one, evidently...? How the fuck should I know...:confused: