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Eye the Size of a Softball
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Eye the Size of a Softball
October 12, 2012 at 12:24 pm
http://io9.com/5951046/an-eye-the-size-o...in-florida

Quote:Holy heck, people. Now that is an eyeball. Beach-walker Gino Covacci encountered the monstrosity yesterday while ambling about the Florida coast, and while scientists have yet to identify the creature from whence it came, the consensus seems to be that whatever it was, it was big.
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RE: Eye the Size of a Softball
October 12, 2012 at 1:00 pm
(October 12, 2012 at 12:24 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:
Quote:the consensus seems to be that whatever it was, it was big.

I love that quote.
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October 12, 2012 at 1:05 pm
I've voting for a Lovecraftian horror, but I could be biased by the season.
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October 12, 2012 at 1:13 pm
I was thinking this guy:

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RE: Eye the Size of a Softball
October 12, 2012 at 1:20 pm
I was specifically thinking of this story, the echoes of which I still hear in my head sometimes when I crawl one path of Linville Falls, where I first heard it over a podcast.

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/hmb.asp
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RE: Eye the Size of a Softball
October 12, 2012 at 1:23 pm
I had to quickly grab my reading glass.

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October 12, 2012 at 6:39 pm
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October 15, 2012 at 7:29 pm
It was a swordfish eye.
Save a life. Adopt a greyhound.
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October 15, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Well, that's a let down.
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October 15, 2012 at 9:17 pm
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