• Aeao@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Back in my day you used to be able to buy twelve horseshoe crabs for a nickel… Of course that was before the war… Back then id swear at least two and a half teenth of my crew where horse shew crab but who you going to tell ? Tattling wouldn’t be invented for another 2 score years up in Kentucky you had to wait another 6!

        But it’s was easier and I miss those days. If you could dodge the knowledge toads you were already 12 up on these Irish but we can’t say that anymore can we? No sir…now we got to give everything to the freckled folk and act like that’s the way it’s meant to be but it’s not. It wasn’t a thing until the battle of leaky hill… But we lost and I had to accept that to get tomatoes down at the Paul’s service at a decent price. Don’t even get me started about the tomatoes. You never damn believe it.

        Sorry I’m going to be a grandfather soon so I’m practicing

      • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        In defence of plants, it takes a highly evolved form of life to be able to do nothing all day and get away with it.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        Those fuckers have like nine different types of eyes. Even that tail is one big photoreceptor! Primitive, my ass - you try surviving crawling around in the mud for 400 million fucking years.

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          11 days ago

          We call their evolution lazy just cause we’re jealous they finished their homework when it was assigned, and we waited until the day it was due. I was evolved to be a primate but now I have back issues because we’re bipedal. Smfh

          • lemonaz@lemmy.world
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            10 days ago

            We’re taking the scenic route, but eventually we will all be crab. So it is written.

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        11 days ago

        From Wikipedia:

        Horseshoe crabs have been described as “living fossils”, having changed little since they first appeared in the Triassic.

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      12 days ago

      I would cut the shapes of prehistoric sharks in cardboard in my childhood. Have a pouch of those somewhere.

      They were really beautiful.