[HN Gopher] When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp,...
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When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That's a Moray
Author : aranchelk
Score : 111 points
Date : 2021-06-22 14:30 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| corobo wrote:
| The author waiting for you to laugh at their title is also a
| Moray
|
| https://cdn.imgy.org/1zVQ.jpg
| valarauko wrote:
| > _... climb the ramp for the uniformly measured 1.1-inch pieces
| of squid that all of the other trained eels received._
|
| Why 1.1 inches? I assumed that this was a whole number in
| centimetres, but its 2.794 cm. My guess is that its 3 cm, which
| works out to 1.1811 inches - and the NYTimes rounded down to 1.1.
| FredPret wrote:
| It's almost like when you read an article that says point A is
| "about" 16 km from point B
| jjk166 wrote:
| ~15.3 millifathoms
|
| ~93 light-picoseconds
|
| ~139 microfurlongs
|
| ~0.9 attoparsecs
|
| ~16.4 millismoots
| Armisael16 wrote:
| Maybe it's a certain mass of meat?
|
| I also don't see any reason the food chunk needs to be an
| integer number of whatever unit it's measured in.
| valarauko wrote:
| Something like 10g of meat would make sense in this context
| too. The fact that the article specifies that the strips are
| measured out in length suggests weight isn't the criteria.
|
| It doesn't _have_ to be an integer value (or a reasonable in-
| between value like 1.5 or 2.5) of whatever unit they used,
| but its the most parsimonious approach for the graduate
| student who actually does the work - unless there is a good
| reason not to.
|
| EDIT: from the paper:-
|
| > _Individuals were offered squid pieces that were 3 mm by 30
| mm. These prey dimensions were ideal for this study because
| they were small enough that feeding on a single prey item
| would not result in satiation, which could influence feeding
| kinematics (Sass and Motta, 2002). Also, offering prey of a
| rectangular shape rather than a square shape provided length
| that elicited head movements, which enabled us to observe
| multiple protraction and retraction cycles during transport._
| mnw21cam wrote:
| Inspired by https://xkcd.com/1814/ perchance?
| nwellnhof wrote:
| I think XKCD was inspired by the "moray" pun which is even
| older.
| iamben wrote:
| What an absolutely incredible (and completely relevant!)
| headline.
| hetspookjee wrote:
| I see the first rhyme (Ramp / Clamp), but perhaps I'm missing
| another level of ingenuity in the title?
|
| Regardless, the article was very well written, "Muscled
| bucatini of a body" is just hilarious.
| whoisburbansky wrote:
| The rest of the image captions follow through on the rhyme!
| witherk wrote:
| https://youtu.be/69O4PXzAQ5Y?t=24
| jrd259 wrote:
| A parody of the song "That's Amore" by Allen Sherman has
| lyrics like "When you're diving at night And your feet feel a
| bite That's a moray!" and "When you see a big eel with its
| jaws made of steel that's a moray".
| hluska wrote:
| There's kind of a neat back story to Allan Sherman. The guy
| largely paved the way for entertainers like Weird Al
| Yankovic by introducing parody as an actual form of musical
| appreciation. Over the course of his life, he offended
| almost all the biggest names in music and got sued so often
| that I suspect he was on a first name basis with judges.
|
| John F. Kennedy was apparently caught singing this song:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzLcFBv5zA
|
| It's interesting to think what music and comedy would be
| like today without Allan Sherman. He was one hell of an
| innovator.
|
| Edit - "How's your nephew Seymour? Seymour joined the peace
| corps. He's nice too." I love this stuff...:)
| asfarley wrote:
| In the the introductory issue of Spawn, Violator (in his
| clown form) sings this song.
| hetspookjee wrote:
| Thanks for the explanation, now I get the remarks better.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| That explanation is wrong. That Alan Sherman song is a
| parody of the Dean Martin song, just like the article:
| https://youtu.be/69O4PXzAQ5Y
| tyleo wrote:
| One day some may believe that the song is based on this
| article.
| lisper wrote:
| When you see lots of teeth in the waters beneath...
| lupire wrote:
| Can you find a reference to that song by Sherman?
| doctorhandshake wrote:
| Reminds me of the classic Paul Ford tweet, " When the moon hits
| your knees / And you mispronounce trees / Sycamore"
| https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/968474426336514049?s=21
| jcims wrote:
| When you're in Saskatchewan / and the dragliners yawn / that's
| some ore, eh?
| rdiddly wrote:
| When your cultural norms take on certain broad forms, that's
| a more.
| hluska wrote:
| I'm from Saskatchewan and while I've never heard that before,
| I'm going to start using it. That's really good - thanks for
| sharing! :)
|
| We can even change the lyrics to:
|
| When you're in Saskatchewan, and cheap oil's at the end,
| that's Scott Moe, eh?
| mbg721 wrote:
| For fans of the Dick van Dyke Show, "He tells jokes, he's a
| ham, his last name's Amsterdam, that's-a Morey".
| at_a_remove wrote:
| When the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's ...
| a moray?
| jacurtis wrote:
| It also sounds like the beginning of a horror movie
| at_a_remove wrote:
| I am not sure when the titular _Alien_ reveals its additional
| set of moray-like jaws but that certainly comes to mind.
| rossdavidh wrote:
| Somewhere a NYTimes headline writer is pumping their fist in the
| air...
| reaperducer wrote:
| Writing headlines was one of the joys of my time in the
| journalism industry. I especially liked alliteration.
|
| When I moved to television, the opportunities came and went
| with the talent (anchors). Some loved it, some hated it.
|
| On morning shows you could get away with a lot of things. I
| would occasionally write entire stories in iambic pentameter,
| or as poems, because when you're pounding out copy at 1am,
| that's what you do to keep your brain engaged.
|
| One of my favorite memories was the day I aired a live feed of
| something happening in New Zealand. The chyron I wrote was
| "Aukland, New Zealand/Tomorrow."
| ectopod wrote:
| I thought a chyron would be some poetic form I'd never heard
| of. It's actually the text and graphics at the bottom of the
| screen on a news program.
|
| https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chyron
| jmkb wrote:
| Everyone's still trying to top "Headless Body In Topless Bar"
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Style
| edzillion wrote:
| My favourite has always been 'Ike beats Tina to death'
| 0xcde4c3db wrote:
| I was going to suggest "Foot Heads Arms Body", but that one
| is apparently a myth. Despite considerable interest in the
| headline and a widespread belief that it actually ran,
| mentions of it seem to be universally vague about the
| particular appointment (which would at least tell us that
| there was an actual event about which to run an article) and
| nobody has produced the article itself.
| happytoexplain wrote:
| Cool, I've never seen the action of the inner jaws displayed so
| prominently (the way the squid is pulled into its mouth).
| rdiddly wrote:
| Alternate headline: Results Are In for the Times Employee "That's
| A Moray" Headline Contest
| rkapsoro wrote:
| When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie
|
| That's amore
| bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
| Kudos to the title writer.
| recursive wrote:
| Check all the image captions too.
| addicted wrote:
| There's more of these sprinkled in the image captions.
| doodlebugging wrote:
| When the sun's in your eye and you can't see to drive, that's
| annoying!
|
| Great article.
|
| I learned that eels have two sets of jaws and watched them in
| action while enjoying the clever captions. Nice.
| lisper wrote:
| I wonder if this was the inspiration for the xenomorph:
|
| https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Inner_jaw
| s_dev wrote:
| Actually I think it was a Goblin Shark.
| jamesgeck0 wrote:
| According to the artist, they didn't research any animals for
| the Xenomorph's double jaw.
|
| https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/science/11eel.html
| rcarmo wrote:
| Best title I've seen in weeks, and I just passed it on to some
| Italian-Americans who had a good laugh singing it...
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