Thousands of "Penis Fish" wash up in Point Reyes
December 12, 2019 1:48 PM Subscribe
Also known as "fat innkeeper worms," this burrowing creature is found from southern Oregon to Baja but mostly around Monterey. This time, they landed on Drake's Beach.
The ocean probably shouldn’t have hit send on this one. LOL
posted by MtDewd at 2:10 PM on December 12, 2019 [15 favorites]
posted by MtDewd at 2:10 PM on December 12, 2019 [15 favorites]
Season 2 of Watchmen is shaping up to be straight up weird.
posted by jquinby at 2:13 PM on December 12, 2019 [8 favorites]
posted by jquinby at 2:13 PM on December 12, 2019 [8 favorites]
In truth, these are living denizens of our beaches rudely, yet also mercifully, mostly called “fat innkeeper worms.”
Will also accept "mugwump hair."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:19 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
Will also accept "mugwump hair."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:19 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
But the fat innkeeper is perfectly shaped for a life spent underground ... When the tide is in, the worm slides up to the chimney of its burrow
So, what you're saying is: They started from the bottom now they're here?
posted by gwint at 2:20 PM on December 12, 2019 [9 favorites]
So, what you're saying is: They started from the bottom now they're here?
posted by gwint at 2:20 PM on December 12, 2019 [9 favorites]
Seeing that first picture reminded me a lot of this science fiction short story originally posted on Something Awful. It's not super relevant, but I hope few things are. NSFW, probably.
posted by Wobbuffet at 2:31 PM on December 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by Wobbuffet at 2:31 PM on December 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
So this is going the other direction from that ocean depth post last week, right? I hope they hurry up and move up to the ants and armadillos already.
posted by rhizome at 2:38 PM on December 12, 2019
posted by rhizome at 2:38 PM on December 12, 2019
Moses: Uh, YOU ARE WHO ARE, the Egyptians still won't negotiate. You sure that you don't have any plagues just sort of laying around up there?
G-d: Actually, yeah, yeah I do. But maybe you leave this one out of your book, nu?
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:43 PM on December 12, 2019 [15 favorites]
G-d: Actually, yeah, yeah I do. But maybe you leave this one out of your book, nu?
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:43 PM on December 12, 2019 [15 favorites]
"I'll just call them 'frogs'."
posted by rhizome at 2:50 PM on December 12, 2019 [15 favorites]
posted by rhizome at 2:50 PM on December 12, 2019 [15 favorites]
“This is what happens when Californians don't rake their forests.”
posted by lothar at 3:23 PM on December 12, 2019 [9 favorites]
posted by lothar at 3:23 PM on December 12, 2019 [9 favorites]
Wikipedia says they're edible… I like Japanese-style uni which is raw sea urchin gonads but I balk at plump sea earthworms.
posted by polymodus at 3:25 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by polymodus at 3:25 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
Thousands of "Penis Fish" wash up in Point Reyes
just as long as people don't start naming their kids after them. I knew a Penis Fish growing up and things just did not go well for him in the schoolyard.
posted by philip-random at 3:26 PM on December 12, 2019 [4 favorites]
just as long as people don't start naming their kids after them. I knew a Penis Fish growing up and things just did not go well for him in the schoolyard.
posted by philip-random at 3:26 PM on December 12, 2019 [4 favorites]
What happens now that they're exposed? Are they just left to die and rot in the open? Or will the tides pull them back into the ocean to be decomposed and eaten -- by what?
posted by Borborygmus at 3:26 PM on December 12, 2019
posted by Borborygmus at 3:26 PM on December 12, 2019
I'm thinking of a certain painting by H. R. Giger.
posted by sjswitzer at 3:33 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by sjswitzer at 3:33 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
Came here to reference Giger. Not sure if I’m annoyed to be beaten to the punch or pleased I’m not the only one whose mind went there.
posted by jzb at 3:37 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by jzb at 3:37 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
And the Lord said: "My child, during your times of suffering, when you could see only thousands of penis fish on the beach, it was then that I was just fuckin with you."
posted by Floydd at 3:42 PM on December 12, 2019 [21 favorites]
posted by Floydd at 3:42 PM on December 12, 2019 [21 favorites]
Those don't look so much like . . . oh.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 3:51 PM on December 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 3:51 PM on December 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
My wife is going to be really confused when I tell her the Innkeeper is open for business...
posted by Chuffy at 4:34 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Chuffy at 4:34 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
When the tide is in, the worm slides up to the chimney of its burrow and exudes a sticky mucous net from a ring of glands.
You don't say.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:06 PM on December 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
You don't say.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:06 PM on December 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
The look on my face watching the embedded video D:
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:10 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:10 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
The look on my face watching the embedded video D:
pulsing... pulsing... waiting for you... pulsing...
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 5:19 PM on December 12, 2019
pulsing... pulsing... waiting for you... pulsing...
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 5:19 PM on December 12, 2019
katestark_nope.gif
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:23 PM on December 12, 2019
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:23 PM on December 12, 2019
The residual bits don’t go to waste. These leftovers are taken by a cast of freeloaders who live in the innkeeper’s burrow: a clam (Cryptomya californica); a “sequined” scale-worm (Hesperonoe adventor); a pea crab (Scleroplax granulata or Pinnixa franciscana); a hooded shrimp (Betaeus longidactylus); and even a fish, the arrow goby (Clevelandia ios). The first three are residents in the U-shaped Hotel California, whereas the shrimp and goby come and go, the latter mooching off other industrious invertebrates. The goby may even bring food to the crab, who minces it into smaller pieces, which the goby steals. In turn, these tenants give the fat innkeeper its preferred name
I'm ready for this cute & quirky circa 2005 webcomic.
posted by bleep at 5:25 PM on December 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
I'm ready for this cute & quirky circa 2005 webcomic.
posted by bleep at 5:25 PM on December 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
"No no you cannot leave! I am ze inkeeperr"
posted by bleep at 5:32 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by bleep at 5:32 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
SWEET JESUS. That managed to be both better and worse than I thought it would be.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 5:34 PM on December 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 5:34 PM on December 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
You know, The Bay Area, yeah. You just have to find the right pasta for the dish. It's coming from inside The Inn. Waking up from their nap at the beach...I have heard the mermaids singing each to each, I do not think that they will sing to me, well no, Thomas...
posted by Oyéah at 7:26 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Oyéah at 7:26 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
When the tide is in, the worm slides up to the chimney of its burrow and exudes a sticky mucous net from a ring of glands.
That's what she said.
Oh come on, don't tell me you weren't thinking that!
posted by e-man at 7:29 PM on December 12, 2019
That's what she said.
Oh come on, don't tell me you weren't thinking that!
posted by e-man at 7:29 PM on December 12, 2019
Yes, but what wine do you serve with grilled penis fish?
posted by Thorzdad at 7:37 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 7:37 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
Irish Country Cream.
posted by Doleful Creature at 8:05 PM on December 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by Doleful Creature at 8:05 PM on December 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
I'm calling it now, this thread is going to devolve in to a contentious argument about circumcision.
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 8:20 PM on December 12, 2019
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 8:20 PM on December 12, 2019
The clickable link on The Grauniad's homepage reads "Johnson landslide".
posted by St. Oops at 9:00 PM on December 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by St. Oops at 9:00 PM on December 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
Oh great now this is what I visualize when I hear the phrase “sausage party”
posted by kinnakeet at 9:10 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by kinnakeet at 9:10 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
Someone at The Grauniad is taking solace in this news story. Now the link says "Left exposed".
posted by St. Oops at 9:44 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by St. Oops at 9:44 PM on December 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
Can I keep a penis fish in my penis beaker?
posted by Hairy Lobster at 11:48 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Hairy Lobster at 11:48 PM on December 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
Today I watched three videos of how to prepare them as sashimi
They said it is the crunchiest textured seafood of all seafood
posted by polymodus at 1:02 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
They said it is the crunchiest textured seafood of all seafood
posted by polymodus at 1:02 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
They said it is the crunchiest textured seafood of all seafood
that is a superlative without being in any way a recommendation
posted by murphy slaw at 7:39 AM on December 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
that is a superlative without being in any way a recommendation
posted by murphy slaw at 7:39 AM on December 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
Also known as "fat innkeeper worms,"
Since they look like penises, I propose we compromise by calling them Dicks Loudon. Thank you.
posted by non canadian guy at 9:34 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
Since they look like penises, I propose we compromise by calling them Dicks Loudon. Thank you.
posted by non canadian guy at 9:34 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
They said it is the crunchiest textured seafood of all seafood
Did they now.
posted by rhizome at 12:17 PM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
Did they now.
posted by rhizome at 12:17 PM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
I...wow. I can't decide if I want to send this to everyone I know, or never speak of it again.
posted by desuetude at 3:15 PM on December 13, 2019
posted by desuetude at 3:15 PM on December 13, 2019
Can I keep a penis fish in my penis beaker?
You can put it there; whether it stays is up to the tides.
posted by aspersioncast at 1:12 PM on December 15, 2019
You can put it there; whether it stays is up to the tides.
posted by aspersioncast at 1:12 PM on December 15, 2019
Also known as "fat innkeeper worms,"
Jack Torrance:
You were the inkeeper here, Mr. Grady.
Delbert Grady:
I'm sorry to differ with you, sir. You are the inkeeper. You've always been the inkeeper. I should know, sir. I've always been here.
Jack Torrance:
These fish really do look like penises.
Delbert Grady:
Quite so, sir. Shall I fetch more towels?
Jack Torrance:
Yeah. We're going to need them.
Delbery Grady:
Quite so, sir.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:58 PM on December 16, 2019
Jack Torrance:
You were the inkeeper here, Mr. Grady.
Delbert Grady:
I'm sorry to differ with you, sir. You are the inkeeper. You've always been the inkeeper. I should know, sir. I've always been here.
Jack Torrance:
These fish really do look like penises.
Delbert Grady:
Quite so, sir. Shall I fetch more towels?
Jack Torrance:
Yeah. We're going to need them.
Delbery Grady:
Quite so, sir.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:58 PM on December 16, 2019
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