i was told they were used to stir up the lobster
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i have never heard that so i dont think it is true
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they got a cheesenip from the click five
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when I was in grade school we would use them as ammo in our pea-shooters during class. One kid was surprised by the teacher as he prepared to fire and sucked it in his mouth and started choking. They must be bitter. Blech.
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so one nice sunny day in may i decided to eat a cucumber so i put it on a nice beautiful plate and i peeled off the outside portion of the cucumber and then i realized that it is in the shape of a cylinder so i took a knife and i cut a big hole in it and then i strung some stringy things from my teeth that got there when i was eating a mango and then i put them on some things and then i went tring tring and voila it was a ukelele.\n\numm its a big of a run-on sentence. i think it's pretty good.
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Come over in the summer.  We got lots of them here.  My kids will have a jar, I'll have another beer.\n\nMy cousins used to rip their bottoms off and put them on their fingers like rings.  I couldn't bear to do that.  I just caught them, put them in a jar for a while, and released them.
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A friend of mine used one.  He seemed to think they were helpful.
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It was not me. It sounds like the work of some foul, would-be evil-doer. Perhaps a master criminal. But their vile plot has been foiled by your quick thinking, old chum. Would you be so kind as to pass the salt and pepper?
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I have used a can of vegetables in each hand to practise lifting, really, I know it sounds silly but it helps.
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Other answers are literal, I think the slang is translated as "How have they given it to you?" Or, "Can you take what they're dishing out?"
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It sounds like an urban myth that someone made up as an analogy for how human females treat each other.  I'm assuming by "pot" you mean "trap" - a lobster won't try to escape from the pot of boiling water on a stovetop, as it's killed pretty much instantaneously.\n\nAll lobster traps are required to have an escape vent so that sub-legal (small) lobsters can easily leave a trap.  If it's true that legal-sized female lobsters don't try to escape from a trap, it may be because they "know" (maybe from experience, or lobster lore passed down through the generations?) that females will be released back into the wild if they are carrying eggs (which they do nine to eleven months of the year) or they have been caught with eggs previously (lobstermen carefully notch the tails of breeding females to identify them) so they know they're safe from the boiling pot.\n\nAs for male lobsters being so helpful to one another, one of the reasons their claws are rubber-banded is because they can be fairly cannibalistic - given a chance they'll eat each other.  A study of the stomach contents of lobsters determined that a good portion of a lobster's diet is other lobsters.\n\nIn any case, I can't find any reliable source that says that lobsters ever "help" each other out of a trap - male or female.
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Lobster fishermen band the pincers, known technically as the chelapeds, of their catch for preventive reasons: lobsters are feisty crustaceans and tend to fight for territory, especially when in close quarters such as in the hold of a fishing vessel. There's a specific tool they use, one is even branded with the clever name of the 'Lobster Bandit', which looks like a big pair of pliers, and some company actually manufactures special rubber bands built just for lobsters!\n\nBelieve it or not, there's even a 'celebrity' lobster-banding contest held in Pictou, in Canada every year as part of their Lobster Carnival, where noted figures (well, okay, a parliamentary member and the local tourist advisor) vied for the coveted title of fastest lobster bander in town.
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They brought me up.  Good or bad, they deserve me.
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I can't believe they understood you with that grammar. BTW, you can tell when it's spam when it is pink mystery meat with jelly on it.
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IT WAS THE BOOZE I TELL YA
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quarterton, your email isn't set up in here so here is your crayfish answer\n\nhttp://lobsterpond.com/order.htm\n\nthere is a book on this page for sale, check it out\n\nhttp://atlaspub.20m.com/redclpg.htm\n\nand another book in here\n\nLarry
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I heard lemon juice helps.
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I hear it was from a bite.