– – The man is the picture loves fishing…I mean, really loves it! I will not speculate about what a human-Asian carp hybrid would look like. I’m afraid enough of the Asian carp…
These fish can exceed four feet in length, and 100 pounds in weight. They can eat 40% of their body weight each day. And of course being Asian, they excel at math…
…just kidding about that last attribute, of course! But these carp are crafty…they may have already penetrated an electronic barrier meant to keep them out of the Great Lakes, a barrier which cost nine million!
“We’re going to keep throwing everything we can at them to keep them out,” said the senior Great Lakes advisor to the EPA. This reminds me of a Godzilla-vintage Japanese horror movie…
…“We must stop Mega-carp!–We will throw everything that we have at it!” (footage shown of tanks shelling an enormous fish, all to no avail.) “Quickly!–Deploy the Super-X!”
…’scuse me, I lost my mind for a minute.–Anyhow, Asian carp escaped from southern fish farms into the Mississippi River during 1990’s flooding, and have been migrating northward since. They decimate species prized by anglers and commercial fishers, and are known to leap from the water at the sound of passing motors and sometimes collide with boaters! A worst-case scenario envisions them spreading “like a cancer cell.”
I dunno about you, but I’m sleeping with a light on, and an image of Mrs. Paul or maybe the Gordon fish guy in the room to protect me!
– – It’s not unusual for deer or cows to cross Oklahoma’s rural highways, but imagine driving home…from church, no less…and hitting an elephant!
– -Swimming is great exercise, and it was no Halloween prank when a deer in Gastonia, North Carolina got a workout after he jumped from a balcony through a glass roof and into the area surrounding an indoor pool at the Ashley Arms Historic Apartments on 
– -A bear walked into a beer department in Wisconsin…no, it really happened last Thursday! The 125-pound black bear wandered into a Hayward grocery store, went up and down the aisles, and then decided to check out the bruin, going into the beer cooler in the liquor department, and climbing twelve feet up onto a shelf! No other customers were in the store at the time, and the single store clerk just kind of blocked things off and summoned authorities.
— Is it an omen?– – A large arachnid appeared on Pope Benedict XVI’s white robes as he addressed politicians and diplomats in Prague on Saturday afternoon (see speck on shoulder)! The Pope didn’t seem to notice at first, but the not so itsy-bitsy spider made journalists flinch as the arachnid inched towards Benedict’s neck!
– -A crocodile could be the ultimate Mafia enforcer, a hit-reptile, if you will.- -Well, one Mafia crime boss appears to have employed such cold-blooded muscle in his operation! 
– – The History Channel has mounted a triple threat, featuring episodes of MonsterQuest, Nostradamus Effect, and MysteryQuest run back-to-back. The Bermuda Triangle offering on MysteryQuest was a first run episode, examining the legendary disappearances of boats, planes, and personnel in the 500,000 square mile area that extends between Miami, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. 
– –PETA was talking about taking over a former prison in Virginia and turning it into a Chicken Empathy Museum. – – I swear that I am not making this up! Visitors to the museum would be served faux chicken drumsticks and other vegetarian items, and among other things, could wear weighted 
— Sperm whales are pretty awesome; equipped with a massive “battering ram” type head, they can dive to 10,000 feet and remain submerged for over an hour! They also grow for 50 of their 80 year life cycle, and so must eat 
FOXSYLVANIA 
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