with the pornstache and earring is a terrific storyteller, has probably dined out on that anecdote ever since. Awesome Anchorman hair on the remote reporter, too. My brother was once married to a girl from Portsmouth, RI; she had the exact same accent as that lady, poor soul, by which I mean both of them.
When I was growing up on the South Coast, our mysterious marine menace was the Portuguese man o' war, a fantastical, literal gasbag of a creature that looks like it just beamed in from Planet Clare, with its 30-foot-long, kid's-birthday-party-streamer-colored tentacles that produced a godawfully painful sting and giant red welts if you were unwary enough to tread on one stranded on the beach, even a dead one.
And yes, the specious folk medicine of the time counseled pissing on a fresh sting as an effective counteragent. I don't hear about them at all anymore, but in my salad days, every kid got a Boogeyman-style parental lecture about them on the way to Horseneck or Jones Park Beach.
I got close to one once, noticed some oddly pretty seaweed-looking things gently waving around my ten-year-old-feet as I was standing in about six inches of water. Looked up, saw that weird big soap-bubble with the Spanish lady's fan on top bobbing 20 feet away, jumped probably three feet in the air when it dawned on me what I was looking at – no damage beyond nearly soiling myself from adrenaline. A rare micro-moment of absolute terror burned into my young brain, still vivid decades later.
Nature, man. Such a bizarre organism, not so much an individual creature as a collective of cooperative bits, drifting with the currents, no real means of locomotion, just depending on unlucky fish to stumble into its extravagant, particolored, venom-laced tail. In other words: "Ohmygawd, Jerry, it's a fahkin' AAALIEN jellyfish, Jerry! Get that stick, Jerry, poke it!"
The Link LonkSeptember 18, 2020 at 09:43AM
https://www.universalhub.com/2020/we-almost-forgot-today-baby-wheel-day
We almost forgot: Today is Baby Wheel Day! - Universal Hub
https://news.google.com/search?q=Wheel&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
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