Your favorite shark

[brentspeak]

Great White:



Great Hammerhead:



Tiger:



Shortfin Mako:



Bull shark:



Cookie Cutter shark:



Jabberjaw:

[Shell Beau]

1. All of those who vote against Jabberjaw will be punished

somehow some way!!! :o



:P

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

18. Amen to that!

I knew there was a reason I loved you Shelley! :toast: :loveya: :D

[Shell Beau]

19. Hehe!!

:) :toast: :loveya:

[Ryano42]

2. Mako...

The Joe Pesci (in Goodfellas) of sharks...small and a mean killer...

Known to singlefin'edly sink oil tankers and aircraft carriers.

(I did a book report in gradeschool to get over my fear of Jaws)

:dunce:

[Shell Beau]

3. How did they do that? Take bites out of them?

[Ryano42]

7. Usually...

The offending Mako would dress as a crewmember and take over the bridge...

and run the ship aground. That's why you rarely hear about it; the crew is very embarrassed and don't file reports.

Still not known why they do it... :silly:

[Shell Beau]

8. LOL!!

:P

[Squatch]

5. And they're very tasty, too.

[Ryano42]

4. Wasn't Joe Pesci the voice of Jabberjaw?

:freak:

[ForrestGump]

6. Silvertip

Still the most beautiful shark I've ever seen.

Had a spiritual experience, of sorts, during a dive blessed by the presence of several large silvertips. Beautiful in form and function.

[maveric]

9. Frank Zappa's "Mud Shark"

THE MUD SHARK DANCING LESSON!

Mud Sh-sh-shark
We're gonna do a little dancing,
A little dancing thing called the Mud Shark
Now, this dance started up in Seattle

Lemme tell you 'bout the Mud Shark...
The origins of the Mud Shark are as follows: There's a motel in Seattle, Washington called the Edgewater Inn. The Edgewater Inn's built on a pier.. so that means that when you look out your window you don't see any dirt -- it's got a bay or something out in your backyard,,, And to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned motel there's a bait and tackle shop where the residents can go down whenever they want to, and rent a fishing pole and some preserved minnows and schlep back up to their rooms, open the window, stick their little pole outside and within a few minutes actually catch a fish of some sort that they can bring into their motel room and do whatever they want with it... you know what I mean? Now in this bay there's quite a variety of ah... fish! Not only do they have mud sharks up there, they got little octopusses that you can catch. And all these denizens of the deep can come in real handy... Let's say you were a travelling Rock and Roll band called the Vanilla Fudge. Let's say one night you checked into the Edgewater Inn Motel with a 8mm movie camera, enough money to rent a pole, and just to make it more interesting -- a succulent young lady (Mnaaaah!) with a taste for the bizarre... My mind drifts back to a meeting, a chance meeting in the Chicago O'Hare Airport where the members of the Vanilla Fudge told Don Preston about a home movie they made at the Edgewater Inn with a Mud Shark. I'm gonna tell you, this dance, the Mud Shark, is sweeping the ocean!...

Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark. baby ... etc

[ET Awful]

13. That's right, you heard right, the secret word for tonight is

Mud shark.

And with the mud shark secret word comes the mud shark arpeggio. A lovely little arpeggio. :P

[kwassa]

10. Land Shark

[sui generis]

11. Jabberjaw gots no respect

None!

Personally, I like nurse sharks for some weird reason. I thank they're purdy. :evilgrin:

[Ryano42]

12. YES!

the penultimate shark

[ET Awful]

14. Candygram!

:P

[FuzzySlippers]

15. Cow shark

http://www.wearefla.com/All%20Buyers%20and%20Sellers%20Realty%20of%20Florida-Ocala%20Real%20Estate%20presents%20a%20manatee!.jpg

[pokerfan]

16. Land Shark

Jaws II

Woman #1.....Gilda Radner
Land Shark.....Chevy Chase
Matt Hooper.....John Belushi
Sheriff.....Dan Aykroyd
Woman #2.....Laraine Newman
Woman #3.....Jane Curtin
Woman #4.....Candice Bergen
Jehovah's Witness.....Garrett Morris

< Music: "Jaws Theme" >

< open on interior, apartment >

< doorbell sounds >

Woman #1: < moves to chain-locked door > Who is it?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Mrs. Ramilarghh??

Woman #1: Who is it?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Plumber..

Woman #1: Plumber? I didn't ask for a plumber. Who is it?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Telegram.

Woman #1: Oh. Telegram. Just a moment.

< unlocks door, and opens it. The head of the shark appears, grabbing her arm and pulling her into the hallway as she screams. >

< SUPER: "Jaws II" >

< dissolve to Sheriff's Office, Sheriff and Matt Hooper looking over a three-foot long metal tub covered with a white cloth >

Matt Hooper: < looks under cloth and winces > Oh, my God!

Sheriff: What was it?

Matt Hooper: Land shark. The cleverest species of them all.

Sheriff:

< dissolve to Woman #2 in her apartment >

< Music: "Jaws Theme >

< a knock at the door >

Woman #2: < appoaches the door > Yes?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Mrs. Arlsbergerhh??

Woman #2: Who?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Mrs. Johnannesburrrr??

Woman #2: Who is it?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Flowers.

Woman #2: Flowers? From whom?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Plumber, ma'am..

Woman #2: I don't need a plumber. You're that clever shark, aren't you?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Candygram.

Woman #2: Candygram, my foot! Get out of here before I call the proper authorities. You're the shark, and you know it.

Land Shark: < muffled voice > I'm only a dolphin, ma'am..

Woman #2: A dolphin? Well.. okay..

< she opens the door, as the shark pulls her screaming into the hallway >

< dissolve to Sheriff's Office, Matt Hooper lifts up cloth napkin covering plate, then winces and looks away >

Sheriff: What is it?

Matt Hooper: Egg salad again. < removes sandwich from under napkin, and takes a bite >

< dissolve to Woman #3 in her apartment, Woman #2 putting on make-up to go out >

< door buzzes >

Woman #3: Who is it?

Land Shark: < muffled voice > Land Shark.

Woman #3: < laughing > Oh, Walter!

< she opens door laughing, but is attacked and dragged into the hall by the Land Shark >

< dissolve to Sheriff's Office, Sheriff on phone looking horrified into another rtub covered with cloth >

Sheriff: < on phone > Hello, Walter. I have some good news, and I have some bad news. First, the good news. There's a party tonight at my house. Now, the bad news: you'll be coming stag. Goodbye, Walter..

< dissolve to Woman #4 in apartment, listening to the radio >

Radio: ...considered the cleverest of all sharks. Unlike the great white, which tends to inhabit the waters of harbors and recreational beach areas, the Land Shark may strike at any place, any time. It is capable of disguising its voice, and generally preys on young, single women. Experts at the University of Miami's Oceanographic Institute suggest that the best way to scare off the shark in the event of an attack is to hit or punch the predator in the Nose. Now for the weather..

Woman #4: < turns off radio, as the doorbell rings > Who is it?

Muffled Voice: Sorry to disturb you, ma'am. I'm from the Jehovah's Witnesses, and thought you might be interested in a copy of our journal, "The Watchtower".

Woman #4: < grabs a mallet and inches towards the door > Why, I'd be very interested..

Muffled Voice: Would you mind opening the door, ma'am?

Woman #4: Certainly.

< she unlocks the door a crack, and reaches out with the mallet to strike the Land Shark's head. Instead of the shark, a Jehovah's Witness stumbles into the apartment and drops onto the floor in front of her. >

< SUPER: "The End?" >

< fade >

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. I like hammerheads...

I want to know why they evolved to have such an odd head shape.

[pokerfan]

23. Evolution of hammerheads

Sharks have electroreceptive organs that allow them to detect the nervous systems of their prey. One theory of the hammerhead is that, since these sensors are spread out along the head, they can more accurately triangulate the direction of their prey.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Wow!

I thought they just responded to movement or the taste of blood.

[pokerfan]

27. They are very sensitive creatures - lolol

Quite remarkable, really:
http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~cole/electro.htm


Jaws was on cable last night which I suspect was the reason for this thread in the first place. Great movie that really gets going when Shaw, Dreyfus and Scheider head out on that boat.


"What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, ah, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks. And that's all." -- Mr. Hooper, Jaws


Martin: Wh--what do we do now? We quittin' right?
Quint: We've got one barrel on him. So we stay out here, till we find him
again.
Martin: Yeah but we can radio in and get a bigger boat...



Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Martin: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.


(By the way, they got the date wrong, perhaps intentionally)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

20. The kind you jump

[ksilvas]

21. Basking Shark

Now that is a wild shark.

[Ryano42]

22. He was really tired that day...

cut the poor feesh a break...

:)

[chknltl]

24. The Duchess of Doom and don't EVEN think about messing with her!

http://www.allisonfisher.com/
She is my favorite shark with no doubt!

[MalachiConstant]

26. i vote jabberjaw

sharks and alligators scare the cuh-rap out of me. and i've never even bothered to watch jaws.







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[Kellanved]

28. spiny dogfish; smoked

[Kali]

29. I voted for the Cookie Cutter Shark because that was a new one to me

Sharks pretty interesting - skates and rays too.

[Solon]

31. Interesting little fact about Cookie cutter sharks...

They sometimes attack nuclear subs like they do large whales, to take a bite out of them, so to speak. The funny thing is that the sonar domes on these subs actually get gouged by these sharks, sometimes forcing the vessels to come to port for repairs.

[suzbaby]

30. If I were thrashing around

helplessly in the water, I would rather have Jabber Jaw swimming around at my feet than any of the others pictured. He looks a lot friendlier than the others.
:scared:

[driver8]

32. What?? No Whale Shark???

That's my favorite.

[Solon]

33. Other: Megladon

A single tooth:


Bigassed mouth:


Oh yeah, this is a big muthafucker:


Sure it is (possibly) extinct, but what the hell, it kicks ass that there was a shark large enough to swallow a car whole, biggest shark their ever was.