Comments on: Una Menos Fantasma Este AÃ±o

By: coffee fiend

coffee fiend — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:03:15 +0000

out of all the mythical, blood sucking creatures out there, the Chupacabra is almost certainly the sneakiest

By: bustasqwer

bustasqwer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:09:46 +0000

Chupacabra video
http://www.goingon.com/permalink/post/28631

beware :Chupacabra scary

By: Great (?) Moments in Losanjealous Halloween History

Great (?) Moments in Losanjealous Halloween History — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:53:59 +0000

[...] Jeannette discovers el chupacabra, stuffed and mounted inside a skid row-adjacent ranchero [...]

By: Part 4: Brixton

Part 4: Brixton — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:21:46 +0000

[...] Palpable. Heat rises. Surrounded by Arsenal jerseys here. Drizzle outside. Room gets warmer. I go for a beer. They have Red Stripe™ on tap here. Tap! ThatÂ´s a rarity. There are some seriously skeevy places to watch a match in the South London. IÂ´d somehow picked the one with the Stripe on tap. Natch. Holes likeThe GrAsshopper and Bar Costena have a tendency to condition one for all manner of sleaze. As such, I was for the most part in my element. [...]

By: EL CHAVO!

EL CHAVO! — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:06:48 +0000

All these people showing off their spanish lessons yet not one catches that the title should be “un fantasma menos”, as fantasma is masculine. Get it righter, people! :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:35:40 +0000

It’s actually ‘Ay, dios mio’…not ‘Ai’…get it right, people

By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:35:28 +0000

AI DIOS MIO is right!
Thank you for the correction, but you all will have to alert Wikipedia, Occultipedia, The manufacturers of Chupacabra tequila, The band Chupacabra, the various taco stands in Baja, radio personalities and the world’s cryptozoologists to let them know that they are spelling and saying the word incorrectly. I am too busy! (jajaja)

And speaking of cryptozoologists… I wrote to the world’s foremost expert on mythical creatures and unidentifiable ghouls to get to the bottom of why those mean ole folks at Bar CosteÃ±a would kill this beast. He said this:

Hi Jeannette!
Thanks for your email and interesting picture. The creature in it is what is generally termed a devil fish – I have a very similar exhibit in my study here. It is not a genuine creature, but is in fact a skilfully manufactured fake and is commonly seen for sale at seaside resorts, antique fairs, secondhand shops, etc. What it actually is is a marine skate or ray, whose wide pectoral fins and tail fin have been carefully sliced to produce wing-like or leg-like structures, after which the now-much-modified fish is dried and sometimes varnished, and thereafter nicknamed a devil fish. Sometimes, a skate or ray will be even more extensively modified, to yield a four-legged dragon-like monster, which is usually known as a Jenny Haniver. They are popular tourist novelties because of their strange and puzzling appearance, and one in Mexico was even passed off by its crafty seller as a grounded extraterrestrial alien corpse! Yours is a particularly nice specimen to have, as great care has been taken in sculpting the wings. I notice from your photo that you have a porcupine fish too – again, I have one of these, another popular (but this time totally real) exhibit. Thanks for your email once again, and for showing me your fine specimen of a devil fish. All the best,
Dr Karl P.N. Shuker

There! Are you happy? Now you have to tell the kids to lock up the goat again. …or goats. Happy Halloweens

By: henri cervantes

henri cervantes — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:09:34 +0000

it’s dishes-washer, not dish-water, ay-dios-mio,
and it’s goat-sucker, not goats-sucker just like o-nevermind
mi ingles no-so-spiffy

By: cathy

cathy — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:26:57 +0000

this post is comprised of everything that used to scare me silly back in the day. thanks for bringing up the great memories…i kid, i kid.

By: alana

alana — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:45:39 +0000

No, grindar, grammatically speaking it is “chupacabras.” That’s because it means “sucker of goats” more or less, not “sucker of goat.” Like “abrelatas,” which means “opener of cans.” And redteam gave the good example of “dishwasher,” which would be a defined single object. Not “dishwater,” which you say would be the ambiguous quantity. Although in Spanish, even items with ambiguous quantity would not necessarily be pluralized: water is not “aguas” but “agua.” It does appear that the majority of Spanish language websites refer to it as “chupacabras,” but both seem to be used.