Funny story, kind of.

[jerome1232]

Today I took my two sons to Riverwalk park, it's a park we have here that has two lakes separated by a river. Due to the drought it's more like two slowly drying puddles separated by a dip in the land. We got into the slowly drying puddle and were splashing around, when suddenly a small... what looked to me a lobster, came up to my son Tyler, raised it's claws in the air and used it's little tail to flip dirt into the water partly obscuring it.

We watched it walk around for awhile, it would do that thing if we ever got too close to it, had a lot of fun haha.

When I got home curiosity got me so I looked it up, apparently it's a crayfish, I never knew what they were! So now I know, if you see a lobster roaming around a lake threatening to pinch people, it's a crayfish.

 

Edited September 11, 2014 by jerome1232

[Backroads]

Now the next time I hear someone telling a similar story, I want to rudely interrupt them with a snooty phrasing of "It's actually a crayfish."

[Str8Shooter]

Today I took my two sons to Riverwalk park, it's a park we have here that has two lakes separated by a river. Due to the drought it's more like two slowly drying puddles separated by a dip in the land. We got into the slowly drying puddle and were splashing around, when suddenly a small... what looked to me a lobster, came up to my son Tyler, raised it's claws in the air and used it's little tail to flip dirt into the water partly obscuring it.

We watched it walk around for awhile, it would do that thing if we ever got too close to it, had a lot of fun haha.

When I got home curiosity got me so I looked it up, apparently it's a crayfish, I never knew what they were! So now I know, if you see a lobster roaming around a lake threatening to pinch people, it's a crayfish.

And let me tell you those little buggers are delicious! If you get them from good water they taste just like lobster.

[Guest]

Actually, they're called crawdads.

[mirkwood]

lol...I was going to say that.

[jerome1232]

In Utah and the South maybe, but the real name is crayfish (using my snooty voice of course)

My friend just told me they go for hotdogs tied to a string, maybe I should try it :)

Edited September 11, 2014 by jerome1232

[Str8Shooter]

This link locates the crayfish/crawfish/crawdad dialects:

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/06/r-and-language.html

[PolarVortex]

Why does this absurd creature have three English words, when some very useful concepts have no English words at all? 

 

In chess, there is a situation in which one player must move, but any move the player makes will be disadvantageous, whereas no disadvantage would appear if a move were not required.  No word for this exists in English, but I am told that German-speaking persons call this a Zugzwang. 

 

I've had many dating relationships that were rich in Zugzwangs.

[jerome1232]

Well English is already a hodgepodge of languages, so Zugzwangs it is, in English.

[pam]

I tried them for the first time within the last month.  I took one bite and spit it out.  I couldn't get past the texture.  Nasty nasty.  Just ask Classylady...she was with me when I tried it.  :)

[Dr T]

Why aren't they called crawmoms?