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Dang, I've fallen behind as far as knowledge about creepy fish is concerned! I do know that lampreys and hagfish are creepy, though. I appreciate this conversation because I love to learn about animals. I need to watch more River Monsters. On a related note, have you ever watched Monsters Inside Me? ~shudders~ That's some more nightmare fuel there! For those of you who don't know, that's a show about parasites and infestations (sometimes of houses, but usually of human bodies. Yeah).

On the opposite end of the spectrum, there was an episode of Untold Stories of the E.R. in which a group of people came into the emergency room. Most of them, clearly drunk, were laughing while one poor guy was gasping and gagging. They explained that they had been imbibing at the office Christmas party, and they dared the guy to swallow "one little fishy" from the boss's fish tank. The guy now had a live fish stuck halfway down his throat. It turned out the "little fishy" was a catfish (The boss was from Louisiana, so having pet catfish was his way of staying in touch with his roots), and that posed a problem because catfish have barbs. Somehow they eventually extracted the catfish from this guy's throat.