Kraken-ology
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- mugicha
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» mugicha - surfing article
i don't know who this guy is but he really sounds like he knows what he's talking about. i would be stoked to have him as a bro. in fact, i think i would like to break out a drum circle with this cat.as far as the surfing is concerned, i really can't say, not being a surfer myself. i would seriously like to learn though. i tried to go surfing this summer down in san diego, but all i ended up with was an almost broken nose - and some good times with an old friend. learning how to surf is on my "things to do in the future" list, next to running a marathon, learning some kind of martial arts, learning how to play the india tabla drums, camping in yosemite...etc.
does anyone have any musings to add to kraken-ology?
sayonara - j
-- posted by mugicha
» fogblender - Kraken-ology
Kraken-ology, the study of the Kraken, dates back to the olden times, when the seas were racked by only one storm, a storm that lasted all the days. Tales of the kraken emerging from the bubbling brew of tears rage from the upper Icelandic regions to the eastern Filipino breakfast nooks. Tentacally tentacles were known to have teared boats to rippy little swatches, floating on the brew like so cheerios in a bowl. Her pointy pointy, pointy teeth could chomp and chew through steel, or rocks, or even other teeth. The source of the kraken's power can be traced to the silly goat, the billy goat, and the wee kitty goat. But that, is another story.-- posted by fogblender
» kidcreole - pondering over brekkie
You know I was sitting in my favorite Filipino breakfast nook the other morning and I was wondering if it was the Kraken that was responsible for the infamous 50 year storm that created the mother of all swells and the giant wave that Patrick Swayze rode in Point Break.What do you guys think?
I've been looking to get into Krakenology but haven't found anyone else out there who feels my pain until now. It's good to know you're out there Mugicha and Fogblender. If you guys are ever out in the islands, brekkie is on me.
-- posted by kidcreole
» fairyland - you just stick your boobs out
The only pre-surfing instruction I can recall was my loved one's mate telling me I only had to "stick my boobs out" and I would be riding the waves like a banshee. After 4 hours of yogic postures whilst balancing on a board, aiming my 10B bust to the heavens, I realised my lover's friend's instruction was merely a display of the never-appealling side of every Australian man's persona - the 'bloke'. Unfortunately this realisation came too late to save my vertebrae from being ground to the texture of cocaine. That 'bloke' recently spent his summer driving his '99 Swanky Automobile to his job, getting the lift to the 10th floor of a grey city office building and working for the advertising 'man'....while I went north to Byron to stick my boobs out.....you work it out.-- posted by fairyland
» beergut - the terrible, terribleness
first i just want to say that i'm really pleased to finally see some scholarly discussion on this kraken issue getting out on the net. i've been working on it myself for years, doing research from key largo to iceland and all the way down to some of those cozy little nooks in the phillipines that my friend mentioned earlier - by the way buddy, next time brekkies on me, huh - but this is the first time i've come across this kind of shared je-de-kraken shall we say. i would like to point out however, that although karanga and the sheer havoc she has caused the hapless goat populations of montego and the botswana islands is indisputable, there are no officially recorded incidents of her fierce and terrible teeth gnashing and mawing their way through OTHER teeth, as has been suggested elsewhere by kraken scholars whose names i shall not mention. however, i wholly endorse the theory that she is in fact, quite capable of chewing her way through rocks and metal. i hope that these few feeble remarks will spark renewed interest in this most ancient and fearsome of beasts, who has been causing simple seafaring men like ourselves trouble for centuries uncountable.-- posted by beergut
» beardedlady - the conspiracy
A fresh wind blows the directions academia when I find that others out there have risen above the tyranical supression of Krakenology. We all know the horrible stories of the Cambodian Reign of Terror brought on by the Khmer Rouge. One unknows story is that in 1976 the National Endowment of Field Research sent two young Poles and a Peruvian Child to the Cambodian/Vietnam border to research reports of Kraken scrolls unearthen in a mortar bombing. The two young Poles dispatched one short telegram to the service: "Kraken found stop unbelieable origins stop peruvian boy stepped on mine stop". That was all that was reported. Soon after the Poles were delimbed by the pugnatious Khmer Rouge mercenaries and the fabled scrolls either burned, eaten or hidden for safe keeping. The Kraken source is out there. Icelandic traders were traveling to the Orient a hundred years before Marco Polo. Just find the Kraken.-- posted by beardedlady
» fogblender - hot flashes
Did anyone see the recent news. The Daily Harbinger out of Iceland writes "The S.S.Mistaken dissappeared late last night under the veil of fog, and has not been seen since dissappearing. Coast Guard officials today denied that this could be the work of Karanga, the mightiest kraken of them all, but old salty sea captian Bud Armstrong was quoted saying "Aye, thar she blows" today outside the Salty Salt pub in Greensborough, which could mean that the kraken has changed feeding grounds and is migrating north for the warmer summer climes. Speculation as to whether the captian was drinking heavily ahve been confirmed and reconfirmed, but the question remains, Without the kitty goat deep in it's firey belly hole, is Karanga still the mighty ship swallowing kraken of yesterday, or is the kraken of tomorrow a fog swallowing sea turtle coward, afraid to eat any ships in plain sight for the tourist and whale watching boats of now struggling Iceland tourism board of directors. Aye for one am going to stay on the shore with Mr. Cow and wait for the whole thing to blow itself over.Always vigilante, Foggy
-- posted by fogblender
» teddanson - get kraken
as a former cast member of the hit tv series 'cheers' i've had a lot of experience with the kraken. without going into the long stories of my many many lost goatses, stories we all as seafaring salty salts do so horrificably share, i want to express my deepfelt goodness about this discussion. it is so good to come to a website where we all share common goals in putting an end to this horrible kraken, and can express our pain, our common losses. it's good to go where everybody knows your name.as far as i know, the last kraken sighting was in new southsunderland at the mighty rocky crag. a fishy crunchy sound was heard by nearby locals, (whose lore by the way includes enormous rock painting comic strips of the kraken: the kraken at the market, the kraken hunting buffalo, etc.)a sound those of us with krakensperience know well.
the sound turned out to be the fate of a local bamboo shoot fishing canoe. none of this is actually documented, so officials will verify nothing. but it stinks like pure kraken to me. has anyone else heard this story?
-- posted by teddanson
» beardedlady - once kraken, twice shy
I often in my seafaring days had my mind play tricks on me gully and I seen the kraken with mine own eyes I did. I did I swear it and those bastards down at the station can;t tell me no different.-- posted by beardedlady
» beardedlady - kraken and mr. sharkie
Mr. Sharkie thought he was the mightiest of the seas. The greats fish beast to ever swim the seas. Swim he did and feared he was. Aaiy the sharkie. The sharkie prowls like tomcat look for a good screw or some gutter trash he can rub his nose into. Mr. Sharkie think... but not to much.One day the Kraken thought some good thoughts of himself too and went up to the higher regions of the waters to meet himself the sharkie. But the meeting was ill fated. Sharkie seeing the Kraken thinks that he's got either some humpin os some eatin to be doing. Sharkie moved his little wiggle fins to Kraken and that we the end of him. With the tenticles to long and strong the Kraken grabbed Sharkie for a big hug. But it wasn't no warm, friendly good-to-see-ya hug if you know what I mean. It was a cold hearted, ocean justice hug that left Mr. Sharkie a humbler fish. A DEAD fish if you get where I'm going.
-- posted by beardedlady
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