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When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That’s a Moray
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoKudos to the title writer.
- recursive 5y agoCheck all the image captions too.
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- corobo 5y agoThe author waiting for you to laugh at their title is also a Moray https://cdn.imgy.org/1zVQ.jpg https://cdn.imgy.org/1zVQ.jpg
- iamben 5y agoWhat an absolutely incredible (and completely relevant!) headline.
- hetspookjee 5y agoI see the first rhyme (Ramp / Clamp), but perhaps I'm missing another level of ingenuity in the title? Regardless, the article was very well written, "Muscled bucatini of a body" is just hilarious.
- witherk 5y agohttps://youtu.be/69O4PXzAQ5Y?t=24 https://youtu.be/69O4PXzAQ5Y?t=24
- whoisburbansky 5y agoThe rest of the image captions follow through on the rhyme!
- jrd259 5y agoA parody of the song "That's Amore" by Allen Sherman has lyrics like "When you're diving at night And your feet feel a bite That's a moray!" and "When you see a big eel with its jaws made of steel that's a moray".
- hetspookjee 5y agoThanks for the explanation, now I get the remarks better.
- lisper 5y agoWhen you see lots of teeth in the waters beneath...
- hluska 5y agoThere's kind of a neat back story to Allan Sherman. The guy largely paved the way for entertainers like Weird Al Yankovic by introducing parody as an actual form of musical appreciation. Over the course of his life, he offended almost all the biggest names in music and got sued so often that I suspect he was on a first name basis with judges. John F. Kennedy was apparently caught singing this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzLcFBv5zA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzLcFBv5zA It's interesting to think what music and comedy would be like today without Allan Sherman. He was one hell of an innovator. Edit - "How's your nephew Seymour? Seymour joined the peace corps. He's nice too." I love this stuff...:)
- asfarley 5y ago
- happytoexplain 5y agoCool, I've never seen the action of the inner jaws displayed so prominently (the way the squid is pulled into its mouth).
- rkapsoro 5y agoWhen the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie That's amore
- at_a_remove 5y agoWhen the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's ... a moray?
- jacurtis 5y agoIt also sounds like the beginning of a horror movie
- at_a_remove 5y agoI am not sure when the titular Alien reveals its additional set of moray-like jaws but that certainly comes to mind.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoViper sharks too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viper_dogfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viper_dogfish
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- addicted 5y agoThere’s more of these sprinkled in the image captions.
- valarauko 5y ago> ... climb the ramp for the uniformly measured 1.1-inch pieces of squid that all of the other trained eels received. Why 1.1 inches? I assumed that this was a whole number in centimetres, but its 2.794 cm. My guess is that its 3 cm, which works out to 1.1811 inches - and the NYTimes rounded down to 1.1.
- FredPret 5y agoIt’s almost like when you read an article that says point A is “about” 16 km from point B
- Armisael16 5y agoMaybe it’s a certain mass of meat? I also don’t see any reason the food chunk needs to be an integer number of whatever unit it’s measured in.
- valarauko 5y agoSomething like 10g of meat would make sense in this context too. The fact that the article specifies that the strips are measured out in length suggests weight isn't the criteria. It doesn't have to be an integer value (or a reasonable in-between value like 1.5 or 2.5) of whatever unit they used, but its the most parsimonious approach for the graduate student who actually does the work - unless there is a good reason not to. EDIT: from the paper:- > Individuals were offered squid pieces that were 3 mm by 30 mm. These prey dimensions were ideal for this study because they were small enough that feeding on a single prey item would not result in satiation, which could influence feeding kinematics (Sass and Motta, 2002). Also, offering prey of a rectangular shape rather than a square shape provided length that elicited head movements, which enabled us to observe multiple protraction and retraction cycles during transport.
- jjk166 5y ago~15.3 millifathoms ~93 light-picoseconds ~139 microfurlongs ~0.9 attoparsecs ~16.4 millismoots
- doctorhandshake 5y agoReminds me of the classic Paul Ford tweet, “ When the moon hits your knees / And you mispronounce trees / Sycamore” https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/968474426336514049?s=21 https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/968474426336514049?s=21
- jcims 5y agoWhen you're in Saskatchewan / and the dragliners yawn / that's some ore, eh?
- rdiddly 5y agoWhen your cultural norms take on certain broad forms, that's a more.
- mbg721 5y agoFor fans of the Dick van Dyke Show, "He tells jokes, he's a ham, his last name's Amsterdam, that's-a Morey".
- hluska 5y agoI'm from Saskatchewan and while I've never heard that before, I'm going to start using it. That's really good - thanks for sharing! :) We can even change the lyrics to: When you're in Saskatchewan, and cheap oil's at the end, that's Scott Moe, eh?
- lisper 5y agoI wonder if this was the inspiration for the xenomorph: https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Inner_jaw https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Inner_jaw
- s_dev 5y agoActually I think it was a Goblin Shark.
- jamesgeck0 5y agoAccording to the artist, they didn't research any animals for the Xenomorph's double jaw. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/science/11eel.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/science/11eel.html
- rossdavidh 5y agoSomewhere a NYTimes headline writer is pumping their fist in the air...
- jmkb 5y agoEveryone's still trying to top "Headless Body In Topless Bar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Style
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoI was going to suggest "Foot Heads Arms Body", but that one is apparently a myth. Despite considerable interest in the headline and a widespread belief that it actually ran, mentions of it seem to be universally vague about the particular appointment (which would at least tell us that there was an actual event about which to run an article) and nobody has produced the article itself.
- edzillion 5y agoMy favourite has always been 'Ike beats Tina to death'
- reaperducer 5y agoWriting headlines was one of the joys of my time in the journalism industry. I especially liked alliteration. When I moved to television, the opportunities came and went with the talent (anchors). Some loved it, some hated it. On morning shows you could get away with a lot of things. I would occasionally write entire stories in iambic pentameter, or as poems, because when you're pounding out copy at 1am, that's what you do to keep your brain engaged. One of my favorite memories was the day I aired a live feed of something happening in New Zealand. The chyron I wrote was "Aukland, New Zealand/Tomorrow."
- ectopod 5y agoI thought a chyron would be some poetic form I'd never heard of. It's actually the text and graphics at the bottom of the screen on a news program. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chyron https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chyron
- rdiddly 5y agoAlternate headline: Results Are In for the Times Employee "That's A Moray" Headline Contest
- mnw21cam 5y agoInspired by https://xkcd.com/1814/ https://xkcd.com/1814/ perchance?
- nwellnhof 5y agoI think XKCD was inspired by the "moray" pun which is even older.
- doodlebugging 5y agoWhen the sun's in your eye and you can't see to drive, that's annoying! Great article. I learned that eels have two sets of jaws and watched them in action while enjoying the clever captions. Nice.
- rcarmo 5y agoBest title I’ve seen in weeks, and I just passed it on to some Italian-Americans who had a good laugh singing it…
- perihelions 5y agoThat is an eel-advised pun.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoThe squid should've called Domino's. 30 minutes or it's free. At least it should've seen the eel coming with all that moon hitting its eye.