Im really confused and slightly disturbed...

[lyquidphyre]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3660822036&category=22702

Are they shipping a LIVE puffer that looks like that one... or are they selling that taxidermic oddity with glued on google eyes? They have like 3 or 4

Is this disturbing to anyone else?

 

[grimlock3000]

its not live

 

[ferret]

Yeah, the eye is one of those plastic 'jiggle' eyes.

 

[smilla4]

I have a particular fondness for the "dried flat sea urchin" myself. Aparently it also serves as an 11" aquarium. Multifunctional objects are cool.

 

[tkos]

In this sellers other items they are actually listsed as non-living. At least the googly eyed trigger fish is.

That is some really bad taxidermy.

 

[cdawson]

what's worse is that those beautiful animals had to die for that guys "lame" art.

 

[TankGirl]

These things are all over, especially in Florida. They are a kind of ornament, with a fishing line loop at the top, so you can hang them up. I used to see them all of the time but they were small, maybe 3" across. Pity.

 

[QTOFFER]

Is it a REAL dried fish? It just looks so fake and plastic. The crowning touch is the goofy googly eyes!

 

[TankGirl]

Yep, a real dried fish, stuffed with fluff and coated in shellac. I guess they think of it like a starfish or something you would find on the beach and hang up on display, but I swear I don't know about those eyes!

 

[Sati]

That is so fugly, lol.

 

[lyquidphyre]

I have never seen or heard anything like that. I thought maybe these people are weird and are selling live puffers, but they used a taxidermic picture of one instead of a real one. I surely thought they weren't selling THAT as is *blech*

 

[PlatyLady]

I'm with ya, lyquid. Never seen anything like that, and wouldn't want one. Kind of bizarre...

 

[Local_42]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks these are very poorly taxidermied specimens. The googly eyes are also not my cup of tea. Then again I don't really like the idea of keeping taxidermied animals these days...

I have a taxidermied puffer somewhere in my collection of misc. junk. The taxidermy was of excellent quality and had no googly eyes, just a flap of skin where eyes once set. Oddly the fish is not stuffed, he is hollow. My mother figured this was a good way to illustrate how my temper was much like a puffer. Of course I puffed up at any excuse unlike a puffer. the joke was lost on me until I was much older and slightly more mature. hmmm....My mother must have a thing for the ocean. I recall a talk once about how my friends were like flotsam and jetsam.