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majroj
Wow! I'm glad it wasn't your blood, and also glad that all I ever collected from Downunder was a t-shirt.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 25, 2007 at 7:45 PM
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McNabb, you got me!
Stared at the water, as I turned red all over.
Garden variety jellyfish feels sort of like brushing against nettles. Portugese Man-o-War (Physalia sp) bigger and hurts more. Box jellies down under where littlemspickles lives are lethal.
posted by
majroj
on October 25, 2007 at 10:07 AM
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majroj
Aww! That's a shame, majroj - you might at least have given the tourists a thrill. I've never been in contact with a jellyfish, and didn't know they could draw blood - especially enough to turn the surf blood red.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 24, 2007 at 8:21 PM
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Whacky
I'm always laughing, Whacky - it's either that or cry my eyes out.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 24, 2007 at 8:16 PM
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Didn't scrub. Just lay on my belly and stared at the surf turning red
all over.
posted by
majroj
on October 24, 2007 at 10:28 AM
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Hope you are laughing now too!
Two roses
From me and
two more from Bo ^..^ the wonder dog!!!
posted by
Whacky
on October 23, 2007 at 8:17 PM
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majroj
Ouch! I don't know whether to wince or laugh at that comment, majroj. I take it that it was before the advent of camera phones, otherwise I'd have seen it somewhere on the net. I notice that I'm grinning so I think I've decided to laugh.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 22, 2007 at 6:27 AM
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Mac, I was a body surfer in my day.
1. The cure for jellyfish stings was to immedidately scrub it off with wet sand.
2. I got a strip of it down the front of my cutoffs one fine August afternoon at Manhatten Beach...
3. I just lay there suffering for an hour or two.
posted by
majroj
on October 21, 2007 at 6:59 PM
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TAPS
I'm laughing at your distress now, TAPS, so I'm not qualified to answer that question. Perhaps it's because we are so relieved that it didn't happen to us?
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 21, 2007 at 12:39 PM
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Johnmacnab
I'll never forget the time a high-dive ripped off the top half of my two-piece swimming suit and I was swimming around in 15 feet deep water in just the skimpy bottom part trying to retrieve the top. Then when I finally did get it, I found that the force of the dive ripped off the hook that held it in place and I couldn't fasten it. Why do people laugh when one is in distress?
posted by
TAPS.
on October 21, 2007 at 12:05 PM
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Soul_Builder101
Correct, SB - bare butts to the fore, I say.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 19, 2007 at 8:40 PM
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Pat_B
You know what, Pat! You're right; I was too busy being embarrassed to go into a blue funk.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 19, 2007 at 8:38 PM
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White_Elephant
I'm glad you liked it, White_Elephant.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 19, 2007 at 8:37 PM
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strat
I hope this 'full moon' doesn't happen again tis weekend. I've been told by Ell that the eason my trunks escaped is exactly the same reason that your father's did. The trunks were bought when I was a lot heavier.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 19, 2007 at 8:35 PM
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majroj
Of course, majroj. I hadn't considered that point.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 19, 2007 at 8:33 PM
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spinner
Everybody else thought it was funny as well, spinner.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 19, 2007 at 8:31 PM
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Johnmac.....
It is just one of those things! Bare buns and all!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 19, 2007 at 6:15 PM
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Oh, that would have been a great video for YouTube....
(suppressing a snicker.)... The good thing is, you didn't drown. And you probably didn't even feel afraid...
posted by
Pat_B
on October 19, 2007 at 12:08 PM
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ROFL!
heeheehee .....OMG and you have the guts to return???!!!!
posted by
White_Elephant
on October 19, 2007 at 8:22 AM
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Hilarious!
Never fear; my father was trying to get into our sailboat at the beach. He was timing his climb aboard with the swells of the ocean. But he forgot he was trunks he bought before he lost 25 pounds.
Needless to say, the entire beach, thousands of tourists, saw a full moon at noon.
posted by
strat
on October 19, 2007 at 8:20 AM
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Greater bravery to return than retreat.
Now we know why pre-elastic bathing shorts had suspenders.
posted by
majroj
on October 19, 2007 at 8:15 AM
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all four checks a thats funny / spinner
posted by
spinner
on October 19, 2007 at 6:00 AM
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