Bubba The LOBSTER died

[Ivote]

I'm sorry guys

it's on big ed now

[WoodrowFan]

1. I just heard that.

darn.

[progmom]

2. were you intentionally being vague in your last post?

That was somewhat infuriating.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. relax...

it's not that big of a deal...

[rman]

11. not a big deal? then why post it?

please don't clog up GE with trivialities.

[Blue_Tires]

13. "please don't clog up GE with trivialities."

my nomination for post of the week:crazy:

[Kire]

23. "we bring good things to life"

how about Bubba?

or this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3206665

[Blue-Jay]

14. Yes. Because this forum is never clogged up with trivialities.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

78. UM...i didn't post it

someone else did and you freaked out...who is clogging up what?

theProdigal

[paineinthearse]

24. I agree

This is not "cute". My first thought was President Clinton had died.

This post is not DU worthy. Perhaps you should have posted it in freepville.

[Stop_the_War]

3. What is Bubba the Lobster?

And what is "big ed"?

[Padraig18]

4. that 20-something pound monster in Pittsburgh?

:)

[RPM]

72. easy - you dont want this to become a sex thread

oh - you mean that other 20 pound lobster in pittsburgh...

I'll zip up now....:evilgrin:

[Hugin]

5. Link to the big boy...

Wow! 22lbs...

Pass the butter, please.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/02/bubba.lobster.ap/index.html

[sniffa]

8. pinchy wouLda wanted it this way

[northzax]

32. arrgh, I run a small academy for wayward lobsters

we stress tough love, chores and the like.

[sniffa]

6. omg! you shouLd be banned

this thread Locked, and you doubLe banned!!

[Goldmund]

9. Bubba Jr. or Sr??????????

PLEASE SAY IT'S JUNIOR!!!

I'm depressed enough without you scaring me.

;)

[joanski01]

57. Thanks for making fun of me. You are

truly a compassionate conservative. I will always remember you for your compassion and understanding. This thread really does belong in the Lounge.

[Goldmund]

58. LOL, sorry, sorry

I'm not making fun of you. I just wish people would relax.

[Demit]

10. One thing you can say about Bubba: he lived large.

What are the, ah, arrangements, does anyone know?

[Padraig18]

12. Boiling at 7:00 sharp, drawn butter at 7:05.

:P

[Hugin]

15. Anybody got a 55gal drum...

Gonna need it for the steaming...

Yum!

Ahhh, Bubba my old "market priced" friend.

[Demit]

When I saw the pic this am, all I could think was, whatta piece of tail :)

[Maine-ah]

31. ick. you don't want to eat a lobster that large. it would be like chewing

on a truck tire. :puke: Now, give me a nice 1.5lb - 2lb lobster, and that is perfect!

[Hugin]

40. Send me one... I'd like to find out for myself. ;) n/t

[jeanarrett]

54. HeeeHeeeHeeeee, Giggle, giggle, . . urp.

[Bluebear]

16. Crying here. I just bought my funeral outfit

A new plastic bib. Gauche?

[Padraig18]

48. It complements the knife and fork beautifully.

Very fetching, actually--- wouldn't change a thing.

:P

[CornField]

17. That's actually very sad

Here's an animal that lived for more than 100 years... until man got ahold of it. Sad.

[Blue-Jay]

18. Sad indeed.

Also very tasty, I'll wager.

[CatBoreal]

19. Not anymore...

Lobsters have to be cooked live, otherwise their meat is inedible.

What a waste. Gods humans can be idiots sometimes.

[Hugin]

25. I cooked dead lobsters last weekend!

OMG! I'm gonna DIE!

How long does it take? What are the symptoms?
Is there a treatment?

Eeeeek!

[CatBoreal]

33. Did I say it was fatal?

No, but you are risking food poisoning.

Go ahead, cook a dead lobster, just don't puke on my keyboard.

[Hugin]

38. All I can get at the local market are frozen dead lobstertails...

I cook them and eat them now and then...

Haven't had any problem.

[JVS]

70. Are you sure they're not pre-cooked when the lobster is living?

[jeanarrett]

55. Really? Shit, those frozen ones are pretty good.

[JVS]

69. Yeah, he should have been cooked immediately

;-)

[Hugin]

20. I agree. ;) n/t

[CatWoman]

35. well said, CF

Shit!!!!!!

[CatWoman]

36. well said, CF

Shit!!!!!!

[DeaconBlues]

21. He was live and pinching this morning

What happened to him?

[BigBearJohn]

22. I'll take the body. My friends and I will give it a proper burial.

smack!, smack!, smack!

[Hugin]

27. *sniff*...

I know you will...

Set Bubba free in a sea of melted butter.
He would've wanted it that way...

[BigBearJohn]

49. All this talk about lobster is making me hungry. Off to lunch.

[Hugin]

51. Whatever you get...

Make sure it's either some how "market price" or "fest".

Bubba would've wanted it that way.

[Bluebear]

26. So do we send him off with a Celebrity Roast? Or a Boil?

RIP old man.

[Ivote]

28. Don't Know Whether to Boil or not

The commercial that came on right after was for a lobster fest at "Red Lobster"
Talk about timing

[Hugin]

30. LOL...

Ain't synchronisity a wondrous thing.

;)

[bicentennial_baby]

29. I'm glad y'all find this so fucking funny

Personally, I think it was a most unnecessary death, and cannot imagine why they felt the need to take this animal from his natural environment. I'm no fan of zoos to begin with, and now even less so. Humans...never can resist getting their mitts on some of nature's wonders, purely for the sake of entertainment and personal satisfaction. -rant over-

[Hugin]

34. I watched a show a couple of weeks ago...

Which explained the reason there's any lobsters left
is because we're so darn bad at catching them.

Who's to say the reason Bubba was caught now was
because he(?) was already on his way out.

[northzax]

37. well, if it makes you feel better

he/she was originally taken from his/her natural habitat for the purpose of consumption, not entertainment.

[CatWoman]

39. thank you, BB!!!!!

[shance]

62. Because even at DU there are crude, gluttonous, belching,

selfish individuals, who thinks its pretty funny to observe other 'lessers' cruelty when its not their own, even here at DU.

Okay, Im not a total oaf here. Some of the threads are funny. However, take the time to read some of the glorious posts about PETA and how they hate the kindness and courage extended by PETA people and try to distort it as radical.

The only voices Animals have to speak for them is us. Im not trying to be a pollyanna, but have some respect and if you can, try and recognize the Amurikun exploitation of everything as being for SALE and something to create an opportunity out of.

The issue lies with selling everything and making a buck off everything and holding nothing as sacred. Even good ole Bubba. The name Bubba says so much right there. I grew up in the South so to speak, and if that is not a name that demeans this crustacean into a cartoon character I don't know what does. Hes a creature guys. We can put the lobster bib on and get ready for supper and make this some kind of lobster fest, but we just fall into that American trap of CONSUMPTION and it all belongs to US. Cuz were Amurikunz.

Of course its not funny when anything is treated with a lack of respect and is tortured, maimed, beaten, assaulted, or even boiled in any way. Ive had lobster and shell fish, but I don't have lobster any more. Im not blaming others that do, Im just saying, not EVERYTHING is to be eaten, consumed, snorted, inhaled, injected whatever. God almighty.

[Hugin]

63. Hmm... I read through *all* of the posts... Only word about PETA..

is yours.

[shance]

64. Forgive me Prag. I meant past threads regarding PETA.

My apologies.

[Hugin]

65. No problem...

Come to think of it... I've never said a discouraging
word about PETA.

:)

[Blue-Jay]

68. Who told you that I was belching?

[shance]

74. Blue Jay honey you're among other feathered and non feathered friends.

And, for the most part when we aren't boiling lobsters, we're actually a pretty laid back crew.

However, when the game's on and the beer's flowing, well, we all just know there's the good ole blue jay belch again. Its kind of like the high school cheer here at DU.


;-)

[Baclava]

41. Alas, I can confirm his demise...

Bubba the huge lobster dies at Pittsburgh Zoo
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Bubba, the 23-pound-lobster that got front-page treatment today after a seafood store spared its life, died at about 3 p.m. today at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium.

The cause of death is not yet known, but the lobster did not eat since his transfer yesterday from Wholey's in the Strip District to the aquarium in Highland Park, the zoo announced.

A necropsy will be performed. Bubba, estimated by some to be as old as 100 and by others to be as young as 40, was caught Thursday in the Atlantic Ocean. An animal rights group had asked that the huge crustacean be taken back to the ocean.

edit - link:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05061/465332.stm

[Hugin]

42. "A necropsy will be performed."

*URP!*

[MissB]

75. LOLOL (nt)

[ohio_liberal]

43. What the heck...

is a necropsy? I actually feel pretty bad about the lobster, even though they are just big bugs. :(

[troubleinwinter]

44. They aren't bugs. They're crustaceans. Biggest ever was 44 lbs.

[Hugin]

47. Daaaang! n/t

[ohio_liberal]

50. Yeah I know

Homarus americanus. Cockroach of the sea. Indiscriminate scavengers. I think they taste like algae - or algae with butter. Now crab legs, those are a different story. :P

Poor Bubba, he deserved to live. Anything that makes it to 100 years (or 50, whatever the experts finally decide) deserves to live.

[Baclava]

45. all's I know...

We's gots pretty big shrimps in The Keys...

[Hugin]

46. necropsy = autopsy

To figure out (if possible) the cause of death.

[Radical Activist]

52. THANK YOU!

Finally someone posted what the heck this is about. This is a regional story. Not knowing what this thread meant was really irritating.

[Hugin]

53. See post #5 n/t

[Baclava]

56. Negative ghostrider....That link is about his capture...

I have the death link and thus I lay claim to any/all karma...

[Hugin]

60. You can have *ALL* the karma... What I want is a big "sample"...

... of Bubba for ahh, umm, err, "research" purposes.

[Baclava]

61. Just don't get shot....

Plantation Key Yacht Basin.....south side of the cove....swim out about 75 yds.....dive down about 30 feet.....6 lobster traps....no bouy's = free, no waiting.

[B Calm]

59. Bubba was estimated to be 100 years old. I never dreamed

they lived that long. I know catfish have a long life too. It makes me sick seeing an old redneck with an 100 pound catfish rotting on the bed of his pickup, while he drives around the country side, drinking beer and showing it off. The sad part about it, they very rarely catch them on pole and line, but usually poach them by hogging.

[malmapus]

66. I'm evil, but when I heard this my first thought was Homer sobbing..

over Pinchy

[ronnykmarshall]

67. "Lobstra" the giant lobster is going to attack now!

[ronnykmarshall]

71. In honor of Bubba ........

It's time for STRIP LOBSTER POKER!!

[ronnykmarshall]

73. Ahhhhh Pinchy!

[BornaDem]

76. My husband just told me he heard about Bubba on the local news...

He said Wholey's (the fish market) who had Bubba had taken him to the Pittsburgh zoo so it is no surprise that he's dead. When the zoo first opened their new marine section about 5 yrs. ago, they killed everything they had bought to stock it with, water too alkaline or something, someone screwed up and everything died, before the place ever opened to the public. Poor Bubba.

[sniffa]

77. this thread turned out great!

[DS1]

79. OMFG MY HEAD IS ON FIRE! BUBBA NO!!! You were my favorite Prez!!

I even MET you MAN! It was like.. YESTERDAY!

Goddamn, you people make me laugh

WAAAHH, a guy called William DIDN'T DIE, BUBBA DID!

:eyes:

[sniffa]

80. snicker

you shouLd see the originaL thread on this - DUers caLLing for the OP to be tombstoned, etc. :D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3206665