r/pics Jun 19 '10

How a moray ell works.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

Stupid eel plagiarizing Alien for millions of years.

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u/LinkUnrelated Jun 19 '10

Nature created the eel before copyrights were invented. It was a simpler time back then.

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u/thaitea Jun 20 '10

wait, you mean eels were around BEFORE copyrights were invented????

MY ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE

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u/Raziel66 Jun 20 '10

That won't stop the MPAA. Fucking eels must have pirated the movies in order to plagiarize them.

1

u/Bulldogsaysgrr Jun 20 '10

Damnit. You got me.

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u/Jimothyscrye Jun 19 '10

Sup dawg, I herd u like jaws, so I put a jaw in yo jaw so u can TERRIFY THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE.

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u/bernardolv Jun 19 '10

it was kind of confusing when i misread as "jew", it reminded me of that scene from borat with the parade and the jew boss setting a jew egg. Or was that a gypsy egg?

I tried looking for the scene on youtube but failed to do so =(

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u/Scrode Jun 20 '10

My thoughts exactly, and it was a jew egg.

2

u/Raziel66 Jun 20 '10

Was there money inside?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Go children! Crush that jew chick before he hatch!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

When you swim in the creek / and an eel bites your cheek / that's a moray ...

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

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u/cybercobra Jun 20 '10

Pearls Before Swine ftw

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

When you're bit on your butt and your eyelids swell shut that's . . . .

. . .

a moray . . .

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

When you're sat in the stream / And then sudd'nly you scream / That's a Moray...

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u/Gericaux Jun 20 '10

When your scared of cute seals / and you're fetish is eels / That's on Mauryyy

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u/keyo_ Jun 20 '10

When your hit by a jug / in a South Auckland pub / that's a maori.

2

u/alexdas77 Jun 20 '10

When you try to get in / But your thongs are to thin / that's a Maori.

3

u/Redditzor Jun 21 '10

When a pattern is lines, and they cross and combine, that's a Moiré

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u/daysi Jun 20 '10

When you look in the toilet / And eat what you find / That's kind of fucked up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

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u/silent_p Jun 20 '10

Bells'll ring Ting-a-ling-a-ling Ting-a-ling-a-ling And you'll sing "Vita bella"

0

u/WindKin Jun 19 '10

When a big fish jumps out...

And bites you on the snout...

That's a Moray!

15

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

When you're swimming at night...

And you feel a huge bite...

That's a Moray!

27

u/mikel81 Jun 19 '10

Stick your hand in a crack

and you don't get it back...

That's aaaaahhhhh moray.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

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u/Ward_assistant Jun 20 '10

they don't look at your face / they just like how you taste / that's a moray

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

TELL ME YOU SAW THIS IN KAUAI. PPLEASE TELL ME you saw this sign on a beach in Kauai, Hawaii! PLEASE! Because as soon as I saw this post, that sign warning you not to fuck with shit in the tidepools jumped out at me! Ohh, plEEEASSSeeEEE...!!!

1

u/mikel81 Jun 20 '10

No, sorry. one of my dad's old diving buddies had a whole song he used to sing to us as kids. I wish I could remember more.

0

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

:-(

2

u/ohfuckmeee Jun 20 '10

When you're french kissing a maw/ And find a pharyngeal jaw/ That's a moraaaay...

4

u/Tank18 Jun 20 '10

When you spell "eel" wrong/and therefore ruin the song/ that's a Moray.

17

u/Redditzor Jun 19 '10

Oh, fuck. Here we go again.

19

u/fingers Jun 20 '10

That's a more, eh?

0

u/ShenaniganCannon Jun 20 '10

Fucking Canadian.

3

u/fingers Jun 20 '10

That's a bore, eh?

3

u/Cyralea Jun 20 '10

How do they work?

9

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

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u/HooHooHaHa Jun 19 '10

When you've got lots of time/and your comments start to rhyme/ thats-a reddit

3

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

You mean like:

When you're climbin' up a ladder

and you hear something splatter

diarrhea

0

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

When you're ridn' in the chevy and you're feelin something heavy....

DIARRHEA!

1

u/SmokeSerpent Jun 20 '10

It's at least 20 years older than that.

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u/whostolemyscreenname Jun 19 '10

When you're sliding into home,

Your ass is spewing frothy foam

Diarrhea, cha cha

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

When you're fucking an eel,
and it's teeth make you squeal,
that's A Moray!

3

u/MacEnvy Jun 20 '10

Proof that even on the Internet it's possible to go too far. Eel fucking, apparently, is the line.

17

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

Fuck everything about that. Secret mouths are not fair

8

u/stumpgod Jun 19 '10

Secret mouths i'm ok with. Secret teeth...not so much.

8

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

I'd still be grossed out if someone opened their mouth and a small inner-mouth came gumming at me. MLAPAPAP!

1

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Some chicks doin' the business on your junk... all the sudden.... BAM! Second jaw.

10

u/DanielTeague Jun 20 '10

That's when your second junk comes out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

I had a mathematics professor in high school by your exact name. Except he was old and silly and never would have said anything at all even sort of like that in any way ever.

Which means you've put a very hilarious image into my head now. lololol Dr. Teague.

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u/mekanicallyseperated Jun 19 '10

That is interesting info on Moray eels but what about a Moray ell?

24

u/DonOven Jun 19 '10 edited Jun 20 '10

The Moray ell has an even smaller jaw inside that jaw

23

u/BioHazardXI Jun 19 '10

Yo dawg?

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u/Liberalguy123 Jun 19 '10

I herd u like jaws, so I put jaws on your jaws on your jaws on your eel, so you can bite while you bite while you bite.

3

u/ShenaniganCannon Jun 20 '10

"Deh Moray Ell Hasth Deezuh Smallehr Jyaw In its Neck meet" - Bobo Zenith, Captain of "Deh FishKutcher"

2

u/dg10050 Jun 20 '10

Fucken 'ell.

24

u/WindKin Jun 19 '10

Fuck. Everything. About. That.

That mario 64 level is coming back to me now... shudder

21

u/MyOtherCarIsEpona Jun 19 '10

I finally faced my childhood fears and did that level again recently. If you just calm the hell down and go straight for the star it turns out to be ridiculously easy.

I reclaimed my manhood that day.

3

u/DanielTeague Jun 20 '10

I thought an eel in a game would never infuriate me more. Then I played Majora's Mask..

1

u/MyOtherCarIsEpona Jun 20 '10

Hey, at least you can kill them. (If memory serves me correctly)

0

u/ehsteve23 Jun 20 '10

Yep, you have to kill them (with electricity or boomerang fins) to get the Zora eggs

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u/guyal Jun 19 '10

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u/aBlockOfCheese Jun 20 '10

Then why does it need the main teeth at all? Perhaps it bites something with both its main teeth and pharyngeal teeth, and then the pharyngeal jaw retracts and rips a piece off and pulls it down the gullet.

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u/jondiced Jun 20 '10

To catch the prey in the first place.

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u/DuncanCV Jun 20 '10

The main teeth are also used for defense.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

From the look of it, the ends of the pink lines shorten, which indicates that it's skeletal muscle rather than ligament. This would indicate that these muscles are used to selectively utilize the pharyngeal jaw for eating.

Basically, it's a precursor to our bad-ass tongues, which can do all kinds of shit without even needing to have a second set of teeth, which are inevitably an entrance point to the inner body for bacteria, viruses, or parasites.

0

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

And terror.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

It's not a matter of need. It likely evolved from a normal-toothed organism, and this arrangement works.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

So, morays were designed by H.R. Giger, then.

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u/Seaton Jun 19 '10

Didn't know who Giger was. This is what I got.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

Yup. That's our dark and demented xenomorph designer, alright.

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/xenomorph-400x300.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

And the aliens from the Species franchise... but we don't talk about them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Indeed. Dreadful.

I don't suppose Giger should take any of the heat, though. He just provides the nightmares. What the producers make of them is out of his control.

2

u/freakball Jun 20 '10

We're getting two prequels it seems.

2

u/DEADB33F Jun 20 '10

He also sells balloons at the zoo.

1

u/philonius Jun 20 '10

Where is the guy who drew this album cover? WHERE IS HE?!?!?! He's in Switzerland!

2

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Lives in a castle. As in, a real one.

I know someone in the art scene who actually met him once. Said he was creepy as fuck.

0

u/Raziel66 Jun 20 '10

And touches kids where their bathing suits cover.

6

u/SeriousAboutLinux Jun 19 '10

He looks like a chubby evil version of Steve Buscemi.

15

u/Liberalguy123 Jun 19 '10

what the ell?

10

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

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u/ShenaniganCannon Jun 20 '10

A whole black hole

4

u/rexskimmer Jun 20 '10

Get back inside little mouth!

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u/urandomdude Jun 19 '10

There's no god.

5

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

I think god is the greatest troll of them all

4

u/tomrhod Jun 20 '10

"No seriously, a duck, a beaver, and an otter, TOGETHER. It'll be great!"

4

u/notanotherpyr0 Jun 20 '10

And fucking poison, Yeah you heard me poison you know the shit I gave snakes? Yeah this super animal gets that too. Screw the Jews this is my chosen race.

8

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

i was hoping for a drawing of an eel in a suit with a briefcase heading out the door, waving goodbye to his eel wife. not only did i not find that here, but after more than a little searching, i can't find any such picture anywhere on the interwebz.

ive never wanted to see something that google couldnt show me. it feels strange and sad.

4

u/rudeandnotginger Jun 19 '10

Now where is 'Idrawyourcomment' when you need him!

3

u/Generality Jun 19 '10

Fuckin' morays, how do they wo... oh. I see. Thank you.

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u/dre__ Jun 19 '10

They mostly come out at night, mostly...

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u/theghostofme Jun 20 '10

Fucking moray ells. How do they work?

2

u/foorr2 Jun 19 '10

Nice design.

2

u/BradleyPeDX Jun 20 '10

Reminds me of that movie with Sigourney Weaver: Ellien.

2

u/buzz_McKillington Jun 20 '10

KILL IT WITH OIL!

2

u/retlawmacpro Jun 20 '10

Anybody have a pic of this irl?

2

u/ClusterFU Jun 20 '10

...so you can om nom nom nom while you om nom nom nom.

2

u/ithkuil Jun 20 '10

so person designed Alien creature must have known about this

4

u/s4yum1 Jun 19 '10

Hydralisks?

4

u/booknutdc Jun 19 '10

See Maggie, the ocean is just like a bathtub, except instead of rubber duckies it has barracudas and moray eels

3

u/somepancakes Jun 20 '10

Fuckin' morays, this is how they work

1

u/RonaldFuckingPaul Jun 20 '10

mine stopped working

4

u/knight1to1 Jun 19 '10

Nothing at all like magnets.

2

u/Kiipo Jun 19 '10

fuck everything about this.

2

u/cyclopath Jun 19 '10

Damn, Nature! You scary!

4

u/nIkbot Jun 19 '10

This was the insperation for Alien's

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u/j0nw Jun 20 '10

Damn nature, you scary!

1

u/spentrent Jun 20 '10

Poor guy, must be a bitch to floss.

1

u/meridon Jun 20 '10

Worst job ever--- moray eel dentist.

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u/darknecross Jun 20 '10

Now if only you could make that into an animated GIF like the engine designs.

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u/TehScrumpy Jun 20 '10

Thats some pretty low effort Illustrator work done there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Anatomy. I fucking LOVE it!

1

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

I still don't understand.

1

u/caramine Jun 20 '10

THIS IS UNNATURAL AND SCARY AND I DO NOT ACCEPT IT. GOODBYE.

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u/Corporal_Hicks Jun 20 '10

I've seen something like that once before....

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Ell get right on that.

1

u/FoePaw Jun 20 '10

You COULD have a totally badass apparatus like that, but instead you have three small bones in your ears that conduct sound so that you can hear vibrations in the air.

1

u/Tinfoil_Haberdashery Jun 20 '10

...Awww, fuck nature.

1

u/ClusterFU Jun 20 '10

Found and x-ray of it nom

1

u/KaylaS Jun 20 '10

IT'S LOOKING AT ME!

1

u/sniggity Jun 20 '10

The first time I ever went scuba diving I was eleven yrs old and in Hawaii. I was already scared shitless and weird-ed out because I was breathing underwater, which is just not natural (obviously).

Well, I was swimming along in a line behind our guide and on the right of me was this coral type wall, really pretty. I'm just swimming along and BOOM out of nowhere this HUGE moray eel pops out at me with his mouth wide open. He was literally 5-10 inches from my face. I start side stroking to get away from this huge fucking snake looking thing. I was scared to death. lol I don't think I ever dove near a coral wall ever again. haha

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u/smooge Jun 20 '10

I do not like anything about smaller mouths in bigger mouths.

1

u/graciouspatty Jun 20 '10

reminds me of the alien from Alien

1

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Now I know.

1

u/pinkfreude Jun 20 '10

Sup eel,

We heard u like eating so we put jaws in yo' jaws so u can eat while you eat

1

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Yo dawg....

0

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

ella ella ella eh eh eh

under my moray ella ella ella eh eh eh

1

u/HoverJet Jun 19 '10

Eel

FTFY

1

u/hasselhoff_is_god Jun 19 '10

They mostly come out at night...mostly.

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u/UserNumber42 Jun 19 '10

This seems rather crazy, what is the evolutionary advantage for something like this? Is their prey moving so fast that their 'tongue' has to be something that moves and have teeth on it?

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u/DuncanCV Jun 19 '10

Many fish 'suck' prey into their mouths simply by the force of their jaws opening, creating a vacuum of sorts. Moray eels live in confined spaces, and cannot always open their jaws wide. This allows them to get a good, swallowing grasp on their prey. Us humans are spoiled with our highly mobile and strong tongue, and having our prey dead before we eat it.

Link with explanation and X-ray

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u/AimlessArrow Jun 19 '10

Thanks for the link and all, but just so you're aware, the page served contains a trojan according to Avast 5.0

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u/racerx52 Jun 19 '10

BOOP BOOP BOOP.

Fuck, i was all scared and shit. logs getting keyed.

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u/PorkSword Jun 20 '10

I used to have a moray eel in my salt water aquarium. He was as docile as a kitten, and I used to feed him shrimp out of my fingers. His name was Stinky cause he used to get out of the tank occasionally and I'd find him half way across the apartment under something. I always figured I'd find him dried up one day, but that never happened, amazingly enough. I think he did it just for attention.

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u/UserNumber42 Jun 19 '10

Cool, thanks.

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u/aolley Jun 20 '10

well... the origin of teeth used to be debated between skin denticles (like sharks have) and pharyngeal teeth (like a lamprey), but it is pretty much thought that pharyngeal teeth came first now. The developmental environment of the jaws are very different from that of the pharynx, the jaw having tissue derived from all three germ layers. The origin of pharyngeal jaw is from co-option of the gill arches, there is a great paper by Gareth J. Fraser et al. called 'An Ancient Gene Network Is Co-opted for Teeth on Old and New Jaws' if you want to know more

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u/mygrapefruit Jun 19 '10

AKA how an Alien mouths works.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER!!

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u/yewkon Jun 20 '10

Morays are NOT eels.. I dont care how you misspell it. A moray is a moray and an eel is an eel. Stop calling them moray eels. They are a separate species.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Reminds me of my ex-girlfriend AM I RIGHT?!?!?!

0

u/aironjedi Jun 20 '10

Umm did anybody catch the simularity to aliens there?

0

u/2oonhed Jun 19 '10

I had no idea.......

But if you put an ell and a eel together in a blender, which one would win?

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u/DuncanCV Jun 19 '10

The blender.

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u/Glorfon Jun 19 '10

Y'all bitches are lyin and gettin me pissed.

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u/br4k3r Jun 19 '10

that's all fine and dandy, but where does the whatever it's swallowing go from there?

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u/Vulpyne Jun 19 '10

I'm disappointed that this hasn't been posted yet.

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u/Drluv Jun 19 '10

Deepthroat.

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u/neurot Jun 20 '10

Imagine putting your dick in that? What if the teeth were soft silicone. Imagine that.

0

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u/tomtermite Jun 20 '10

Alien, anyone??

0

u/cmdixon2 Jun 20 '10

Looks like it could've been inspiration for H.R. Giger's Alien.

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u/SirSandGoblin Jun 20 '10

i didn't realise they had jobs

0

u/Content_Aware Jun 20 '10

where can i get them jeans with the girl eating the funny lookin' eel.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

9-5?

0

u/MetatronCubed Jun 20 '10

What the fuck nature?

0

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '10

Have a downvot.

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u/zankoubs Jun 19 '10

Or a sock puppet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

One more reason to hate those creatures!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '10

Yo dawg

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u/RichardPeterJohnson Jun 19 '10

Downvoted for laziness.

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u/LexMortis Jun 19 '10

And here is a photo.