Shark swims and lands on beach in New Jersey

Last edited by Starbreaker on Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Moggy wrote:Lol for the first time in this thread I was being serious. I was always led to believe that sharks were a type of fish.

In that case, I refer you to this post.

Caliban wrote:
Scotticus Erroticus wrote:Mammals came out from the sea, in fact all life did. Perhaps this shark is just showing a bit of the behaviour that eventually led to all sea-life moving from the water to the land? It's a perfectly point to make.

First off, I'd like to take the scientific high road and point out that land-based vertebrae are descended from the class Actinopterygii, whose evolved forms encompass all tetrapods, whereas sharks are Selachimorpha from the Elasmobranchi class. Which encompasses none.

Actinopterygii = lobe-finned, ("traditional") fish.
Sarcoptyrigii (Elasmobranchs) = ray-finned (Sharks, rays etc)

Two completely different evolutionary chains. They share many characteristics, but that's the same as us being like dogs.

Skarjo wrote:You're suggesting that this shark coming up onto land is evidence of evolutionary spirit and 'against instinct' thinking that could, over time, build up into evolutionary biological change. However, that's not how our or any other previously sea-dwelling organisms transition to land proceeded, is also not how evolution works at a base level and that this is nothing more than evidence of a really ******* stupid shark who was undoubtedly ridiculed by all his shark friends in the shark pub drinking shark beer that night.

Why? He's now an internet celebrity. All his shark friends will be in awe of appearance on the bbc website and would have been flocking (if sharks do indeed flock, maybe swarming) to buy him shark beer. Bet he's got a hell of a hangover this morning.

S'matter Scotty? Why'd you delete that post?

Wasn't necessary, was it?

I know that bumping old threads is frowned on but I was thinking of this thread earlier, searched it out and thought I would share the genius of it with anybody that missed it the first time. One of my favourite threads ever. :lol:

Good to see so many of the old faces from 2010 are actually still around in some respect. Less active, maybe, but very few have totally disappeared.

I miss JK. He logs in every day, even after not posting in 4 years.

Karl wrote:I miss JK. He logs in every day, even after not posting in 4 years.

It's because he is following his instincts and is evolving in order to be able to post only with his mind.

Fatal Exception wrote:Am I the only one wondering where the strawberry float it bought the new jersey from?

How did this not get any appreciation the first time around? :lol:

Having not been here the first time around, I thoroughly enjoyed this bump. A++ would read again.

Very good read. Scott on top form

Somebody said something retarded on GRcade, and it wasn't me?

That's novel.

It seems I bump this thread every 5 years. Genuinely makes me laugh every time.

But now it's bittersweet because Scotty's no longer with us. :cry:

But we all owe him an apology.

twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1283476428214939651

Scotty

Corazon de Leon

I do miss Starbreaker and JK, and to some extent Elbo as well. I have absolutely no doubt that he’s probably posting under an alt on here somewhere though.

Is JK the one that posted about how his girlfriend was getting fat then she saw his post and he never posted again? Or was that someone else?

twitter.com/nypost/status/1283487573168529410

More evolution. :dread:

twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1205308697502720000

Mafro wrote:Is JK the one that posted about how his girlfriend was getting fat then she saw his post and he never posted again? Or was that someone else?

That’s the fella. Genuinely think he either a) got murdered by her, or b) couldn’t post ever again due to the pure shame.

Buffalo wrote:
Mafro wrote:Is JK the one that posted about how his girlfriend was getting fat then she saw his post and he never posted again? Or was that someone else?

That’s the fella. Genuinely think he either a) got murdered by her, or b) couldn’t post ever again due to the pure shame.

iirc he was still logging in and reading the forum for a while after that but wasn't posting :lol:

Whipped af

It was funny, but the JiggerJay incident was way funnier imho

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