the Sargasso Sea!!

in the olden days -- aka my youth -- people were excited and bothered by it, and believed that it was inhabited by tribes of pirate scavengers who walked around on stilts with big wooden "feet", preying on the ships that got tangled

Seaweed to the horizon or so I thought!

http://goldsteinmedia.ci.fsu.edu/lawson/SargassoSea_1600.jpg

It's where the eels go to spawn iirc, probably just a huge blob of eel gloop at certain times of the year.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KY1Ez0TsjN8/TUF7MUKbYII/AAAAAAAAMPs/0Oof7S9XAMg/s1600/94156229.jpg

crittenden is an interesting first name

sargasso babe (winter version)

definition of irony: "sargasso sea" GIS has been colonised by jean rhys book and dvd covers

http://strategicgamesbgs.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sargasso.png

^^^no stilts

http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/101/4c7e54757b9aa10d97000101/the-lost-continent-poster.jpg

^^^think this is probably the sargasso sea film i was thinking of on the other thread -- "worst directors", tho this no longer elevant

it's "the lost continent": apparently "ilse of lost ships" is a lost film, so i probably didn't even see it when young

http://circuitsurfersdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/sargasso-sea2.jpg?w=541&h=425

there was a bbc programme on WED about the EARTH'S CORE -- not the film an actual documentary with scientists -- which located the MAGNETIC ANOMALY right below the BERMUDA TRIANGLE (mentioned) and thus the sargasso (not mentioned :( :( :( ...)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_78GoKpS5zk0/TIJ9AY7yRUI/AAAAAAAAB7M/4Bh02myJqco/s1600/sargasso.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a-pIOIvFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

---:D

irving stone: "In 1956, a film version was made of Lust for Life, based on his 1934 novel, starring Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh. In 1965, a film was made of The Agony and the Ecstasy, starring Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II"

i heart andre norton so much, tho i never read that one

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VfEOTc6gYJ0/SBYGFCYCt3I/AAAAAAAAAFQ/Gb47HpkYKuk/s320/ds-sargassoogre.gif

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/1093/113492-18525-108851-1-wonder-woman_super.jpg

Doc "Disgusting" Savage

"52 big pages and 3 small ones"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6wG2Gjuti7s/TJO1m_kXCYI/AAAAAAAABGY/zrSa7DsFLsQ/s320/sargasso1.jpg

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/memberimages/99_copy6.jpg

^^^from "sargasso soul"

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/gfo/lowres/gfon482l.jpg

^^^apparently represents j.mccain

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5334/19591229.jpg

Dude I was just rockin in my mind about this spacey deal before - maybe I should re-name me instrumental band from The Saccharine Sea to the Mark S Sea

http://www.donaldbladet.com/aar1961_files/dd61-23-dd.gif

Sjøormen!

the man that can make a circle with a line through it in text can do anything

Jonny Quest in the Sargasso

http://mentalbiscuits.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/jonny-and-frogman.jpg

Have always mentally associated it with Rime of the Ancient Mariner, though I'm not sure if that's actually where Coleridge had in mind.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0pKhkSfNLrU/SiAb5w7P6jI/AAAAAAAABjQ/PYT-2p8Cxds/s400/indiana+jones+and+the+sargasso+pirates+002+-+00+fc-qpr.jpg

xp: (apparently not, Rime is more of a South Seas setting)

http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/sargasso(1).jpg

holly shit cap is not takin anymore shit

I'm mad me

Irnouically I am listening to a loureed song where he keeps sayin he smad

Probably fed up with waiting for his ding dong

""And slimy things with legs did crawl, upon the slimy sea"

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/pogany/30.jpg

spang!

If you pour Tang powder on sargasso it turns it blue

willy pogany ftw^^^

xxxp

"i looked upon the rotting sea"

http://www.all-art.org/world_literature/images/c/dore/17.jpg

doré^^^

"they tilted her rudders and dove to the abysm below" <-- important!

http://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Giant-Squid.jpeg

you have got a scary penny dreadful streak, mark s!

i prefer to think of it as a "touch of the sublime"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JOBOvJEOg&feature=player_embedded#!

How come when I was a kid in the 70's there was all this talk about the weirdness of the Bermuda Triangle and now it never ever gets mentioned anywhere at all? Did people quit flying over it or what?

sargasso > bermuda ∆
ftb
pictures > no pictures

pretty sure sargasso sea = bermuda triangle? allow me to consult the all knowing oracle of wiki.

http://www.unmuseum.org/trianglemap.jpg

v.

http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/assets/images/Sargasso.jpg

ok, i have learned that the bermuda triangle is the western subset of the sargasso sea.

but my theory would be that the sargasso and the bermuda ∆ legends are about the fear of sailing off the map into vanished nowhere: in the first you get becalmed/tangled in a zone beyond human ken and never make port, in the second you pass off the relevant radar and don't re-appear

radio and radar ensured the sargasso problem was minimised; all kinds of modern navigation devices, esp. GPS, make bermuda-type vanishing much less likely

luckily there are still FREAK WAVES and GIANT SQUIDS!!!!

xp yes the sargasso seems to vary quite a lot, the biggest versions are much larger than the BT: also plus the BT was def more about magnetic anomalies than scary seaweed, it engulfed aeroplanes!

http://web.mit.edu/chosetec/www/origami/kraken/kraken1.jpg

and origami krakens

steve s: what is it with ilx and giant squids/reptiles/leviathan/cthulhu...?

mark s: "we are your overlords~~~"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLelxlmkMrQ

love this album, lots of aquatic bloopy noises

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/ab9259d28f17d6a2c71148ce702a8d17/803.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9dysMP0tc

the wikipedia robot-lady reading this^^^ reminds me of the flying lizards lady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_iQZiVD_zA