tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17048852.post114481315937313005..comments2023-05-01T06:02:23.394-07:00Comments on Other People's Kids: Why I Am What I AmDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12565391786475786128noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17048852.post-1144867700014382512006-04-12T11:48:00.000-07:002006-04-12T11:48:00.000-07:00Bullheads:http://www.landbigfish.com/fish/fish.cfm...Bullheads:<BR/><BR/>http://www.landbigfish.com/fish/fish.cfm?ID=20<BR/><BR/>To the uninitiated, the whiskers around the mouth are unnerving, but they're not dangerous...the dorsal and lateral fins have little stickers in them that HURTREALLYBAD if they get you. Some people around here, especially in the back country, have lots of recipes for bullhead, including soup, stew, and so on. It's not too bad when properly prepared, either...but usually you don't catch them big enough to make them worth cleaning and they're sort of hard to clean when they're big enough, as you have to basically rip them out of their skin with a pliers and your foot.<BR/><BR/>Minnesota has about 3,294,789,298,837,389,310,112,392 of these in our lakes.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12565391786475786128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17048852.post-1144817201789424772006-04-11T21:46:00.000-07:002006-04-11T21:46:00.000-07:00Sleestack! Yes, I remember those, and they defini...Sleestack! Yes, I remember those, and they definitely were scary. That hissing sound...ewww...shudder! I'm glad I'm not eight anymore, because those critters were definitely the stuff nightmares were made of.<BR/><BR/>Volcanic eruptions were one of my big scary things. I can remember a nightmare I had when I was young about being trapped in a lava processing plant (kind of like a sewer plant, only it processed lava) and I still remember that dream and how bad it scared me...FosterAbbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431773317761777407noreply@blogger.com