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What Is It?

07/29/2016 5:42 PM

The exploration vessel Nautilus encountered this "Purple Blob" while exploring in the Pacific near the Channel Islands. I'm thinking Extraterrestrial or we've pissed offed upset Mother Nature.


Read more here: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/nation-world/world/article92557052.html#storylink=cpy

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07/29/2016 7:33 PM

It looks like the bloom of an underwater cactus....sorta

Maybe a sea urchin having a bad hair day....

Probably some sort of coral, there are so many.....

I'm going to guess it's an egg sack nest of some sea creature....because of the lack of symmetry....

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07/29/2016 9:20 PM

Better watch out--that's an egg for a flying purple people eater.

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07/29/2016 10:47 PM

Couldn't figure out what a 1 eyed flying purple eater was!! Then, after removing the cobwebs, somewhere in the back of my hard drive, I remembered it!

Man, I hate telling my age!

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07/29/2016 11:51 PM

In that case, contemplate an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini!

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07/30/2016 12:02 AM

I heard about that song... from my grandparents!

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07/30/2016 12:05 AM

OMG!! That's a wet dream in the making

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08/07/2016 11:15 PM

Common beachwear nowadays, regardless of the wearer's age or build.

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07/30/2016 12:31 AM

One eyed one horn flying purple people eater...

The Witch Doctor say to me...

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07/30/2016 1:35 AM

Walla Walla (WA, USA) is about 60 miles from me. It is a fairly small college town, with an up-and-coming wine region around it. I once worked on an onion controlled-atmosphere storage project there.

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07/30/2016 2:41 PM

I spent a few years on the coast of Washington many years ago, in a little resort town, where I started a collection of Japanese glass floats and shot pool with the best....I managed a commercial laundry and lived right on the golf course where I would be awakened by golf balls striking the side of the house....You see I was not more than 20' from the edge of the 3rd hole green, and right in the line of fire....

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08/01/2016 6:50 PM

There may be no need to worry, because I distinctly recall that the (original?) flying-purple-people-eater (fppe) just wanted ''to get a job in a rock and roll band'' while ''playing rock and roll music through the horn in his head''...

He may have come from a planet with an atmosphere rich in helium...

His horn, by the way, sounded a lot like a saxophone...

Hmmmm... could music be an intergalactic language?...

Looks like we'll just have to wait and see...

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08/01/2016 8:19 PM

Tho this guy isn't purple, he does have a purple background and he seems to be getting close to horn image Click →here← if you haven't heard of him before. Kinda creepy, if you ask me

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08/01/2016 6:58 PM

I (consulted) with that Witch Doctor too, once, a loooooooong time ago. He came highly recommended, but his (advice) doesn't seem to have translated into English very well, and after all these years, I still don't understand why not...

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08/01/2016 7:02 PM

By the way, can anyone help me find ''that gypsy with a gold capped tooth'' named ''Marie La Veau''? I need another bottle...

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08/08/2016 4:33 AM

Love potion #9:

Https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+searchers+love+potion+no.9&filters=ufn%3a%22the+searchers+love+potion+no.9%22+sid%3a%221034ceb8-7dad-0074-9f03-be5ea77c4d9a%22&FORM=SNAPST

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08/08/2016 4:57 AM

Love potion #9:

Https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+searchers+love+potion+no.9&filters=ufn%3a%22the+searchers+love+potion+no.9%22+sid%3a%221034ceb8-7dad-0074-9f03-be5ea77c4d9a%22&FORM=SNAPST

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08/08/2016 8:01 PM

Just for the record, I did once have a girl friend, but she just had to try to get into show business. (I think she said she was going to have her stage name be little Egypt.) Last I heard, she ran off with some cowboy from Phoenix, Arizona, back in 1949...

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07/30/2016 8:25 AM

Cnidaria....or maybe ctenophore... certainly extraterrestrial, I mean it is no where near dry land.

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08/01/2016 5:38 AM

Once you see it on the same scale as that crab: it doesn't seem quite so unusual:-

I have to admit I was a bit taken aback by your original post statement "exploring in the Pacific near the Channel Islands."

The Channel Islands to us are Jersey Guernsey Alderney and Sark (and Herm); in the English Channel.

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08/01/2016 6:32 PM

Hi Randall,

I think they meant these:

https://www.nps.gov/chis/index.htm

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08/08/2016 8:16 PM

I hope that's not a tiny little (face-hugger) in there?...

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