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1. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 11:53 am

   That is not dead which can eternal lie,
   And with strange aeons even death may die.

2. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 11:56 am

   Bayous scare me. A number of years ago an Amtrak train derailed and tumbled into a Louisiana bayou. In the middle of the night. For weeks after hearing of this, I imagined hideous scenarios involving scummy, murky water. And gators. And snakes. Plus crawdads. And slugs.

   And giant snapping turtles.

   In the middle of the night.

3. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 11:58 am

   And now Joel’s gone and scared me with his Necronomicon/Lovecraft/Iron Maiden schtick.

4. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:00 pm

   Also, I think I read a James Lee Burke novel in which a giant snapping turtle features. People come to bad ends. I was scared.

5. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 12:01 pm

   I wasn’t even aware of the Iron Maiden angle.

6. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:04 pm

   Wait. No. It was one of the Elvis Cole novels (by Robert Crais). Elvis Cole is in Louisiana. Voodoo River. I was scared.

   This is good. Temporary distraction from my life’s seemingly insoluble difficulties — which (so far, at least) do not involve giant snapping turtles.

7. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 12:05 pm

   So far

8. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:05 pm

   Sheesh, Joel, I took you for an Iron Maiden kind of a dude. Well, Lovecraft turns up all manner of places.

9. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:07 pm

   The turtle in Voodoo River also has a name. Luther.

10. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    I so wish that turtle would swing around and bite that guy’s dick off.

11. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    “So far.” Too true, Joel. So too true. I will not be surprised if a giant snapping turtle enters my life before this day comes to a close. But I will be scared.

12. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:10 pm

    (Cindy: Me, too. Even though the turtle scares me.)

13. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    Except I think that the guy is actually an okay dude — a participant in that Project Noah species reporting project that India posted about a while back.

14. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    Although I do kind of worry about “Slippery Pete was 115 pounds.”

15. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    He’s much larger now

16. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    Or much soupier.

17. Anonymous_says on April 13th, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    A statue very similar to this photo presents a wonderful curiosity of civic art.

18. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Anyone who says “Chuck and I” needs his peter bitten off, regardless of the relative safety of the turtle.

19. Luke Neff on April 13th, 2011 at 1:16 pm

    “It’s all about fresh fish, big hoop nets, and having an eye for ‘turtley’ spots” – from the comments on Project Noah

20. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 1:16 pm

    Dang, Anonymous_says. That Turtle Boy statue is awfully like a type of coin from the ancient Greek colony of Taras (Tarentum) in present-day Calabria, a coin I always think of as Boy Flogging His Dolphin.

21. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    Spam name: Peter Bittenov.

22. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    Worst porn star name ever

23. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    And yes, it’s all about the turtley spots. Thanks, Luke!

24. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    Slippery Peter.

25. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    It was a hard day for Slippery Peter, Chuck and I.

26. Amy Mabli on April 13th, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    Cindy, I’m happy that you pointed out the grammatical error of using “Chuck and I” in that sentence. I’ve noticed a lot of that “and I” lately when it should be “me” and it really, really pisses me off.

27. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 1:54 pm

    Thank you, Amy. I’m fixin to snip the peter off the next boy who gets it wrong.

28. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    I mean, really. How difficult is it to get this right? You wouldn’t say He gave I a scrap, now, would you?

    Mind your peckers, gentlemen.

29. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    Unless, gentlemen, you are Rastamen and reject the corrupt syntax of Babylon, in which case you may use “I” in those instances that customarily call for “me.”

    “I and I” is more complex, but I believe it can stand both for the conventional “we” and for “us.”

30. Amy Mabli on April 13th, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    I’d go so far as to say that when people on Facebook label their photos, “Chuck and I” that it’s wrong and those people should be peckerless.

31. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    I be jammin

32. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Look at what India done started. I and I ought to tell her.

33. Joel Bernstein on April 13th, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Thlipery Pete

34. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Amy and I be down with the scissors.

35. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    No woman no snip, say I.

36. India on April 13th, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    Cindy, I’m as wrath-of-goddy about pronouns as the next woman, but since this guy’s actually pretty cute, and he found us a prodigious turtle, I hereby request that you give him a pass.

    A one-time pass, of course. If he does it again, why, then, snip away.

37. India on April 13th, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    Then again, I may just have turtle goggles.

38. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    Anything for you, darling India. Just so you know he deserves it.

39. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    India with her fabulous nail polish. Wearing turtle goggles. The most beautiful-est.

40. India on April 13th, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Turtle goggles may or may not look like this.

41. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    That’s it. I gots to have ‘em. Turtle goggles. Prescription and non-prescription.

42. Cindy Scroggins on April 13th, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    exquisite condition

43. Phil Bebbington on April 13th, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    Boy, those are nice!

    I’m not gonna piss about with grammar though, I’m going to bed with it tucked away!

44. Sheila Ryan on April 13th, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Grammar can be slippery, Pete. Eh, Phil.

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