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Six foot langer found on Lahinch beach!

  • 25-09-2013 5:57am
    #1
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭


    No, it wasn't one of the locals -


    http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/barnacles-co-clare-dubbed-lahinch-2298015

    This two-metre-long phallic object has been dubbed the 'Lahinch Langer' after being discovered in heavy sand on a beach.

    Tickled Locals in Clare christened it after it was found on Sunday morning.

    The object, covered with a mixture of shells and tentacles, has been baffling them ever since.

    The 'langer' was found not far from the 12th teebox at Lahinch Golf Club in North Clare.

    The shells and tentacles have been examined by Dr Eamon Doyle of the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark.

    After studying it he revealed they were a massive colony of thousands of small crustaceans known as goose barnacles.

    Unlike other shellfish such as crabs and lobsters, goose barnacles do not crawl along the seabed but instead attach themselves using tentacles to floating material in the sea and filter food from the water.

    Thousands latched onto a phallic-shaped structure – which cannot be identified because of the sheer number of goose barnacles.


Comments

  • #2
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    In Dublin we call them, "worms".
    You see them after you throw washing up water onto the grass.


  • #3
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Six foot eh?

    My friend Billy had one of them.

    He was very proud of it and used to love displaying it.

    That was all fine until the fateful afternoon when he showed it to the girl next door.


  • #4
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Slow news day in tabloid land.


  • #5
    Savoir.Faire
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    What a load of bollocks.


  • #6
    aisr1ofk43dpy5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭aisr1ofk43dpy5


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Six foot eh?

    My friend Billy had one of them.

    He was very proud of it and used to love displaying it.

    That was all fine until the fateful afternoon when he showed it to the girl next door.

    Don't tell me 'she thought it was a snake hit it with a rake now its only one foot four' poor billy :-(


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  • #7
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Six foot purple faced monkey.



    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple-faced_langur


  • #8
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    Moby's Dick?


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