Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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7 thoughts on “Question: What On Earth Is THIS???”
It’s just as well they didn’t bring it to the surface; the difference in water/air pressure would have killed it immediately.
Jimmy, have you seen the “Blue Planet – Oceans of Life” series from the BBC? They’re fantastic looks at undersea life , and available on DVD. One is called “The Deep” and has plenty of information about new discoveries – animal and vegetable – made several thousand feet below.
Obviously it is an evolutionary ancestor to the @ sign.
My personal guess — a kielbasa fell overboard from a passing Polish freighter and sank to the bottom.
I think its an aquatic form of goa’uld. Better off left down there. 😉
What a *great* bunch of responses, folks!
Okay, here are a couple:
1) It’s what happens when Plastic Man gets his nose caught in a fan.
2) It’s a pig snout vacuum cleaner attachment–to get those hard to reach places on the sea floor.
to me it looks like those worthless things you light, it smokes up, and supposedly keeps mosquitoes away
It’s just as well they didn’t bring it to the surface; the difference in water/air pressure would have killed it immediately.
Jimmy, have you seen the “Blue Planet – Oceans of Life” series from the BBC? They’re fantastic looks at undersea life , and available on DVD. One is called “The Deep” and has plenty of information about new discoveries – animal and vegetable – made several thousand feet below.
Obviously it is an evolutionary ancestor to the @ sign.
My personal guess — a kielbasa fell overboard from a passing Polish freighter and sank to the bottom.
I think its an aquatic form of goa’uld. Better off left down there. 😉
What a *great* bunch of responses, folks!
Okay, here are a couple:
1) It’s what happens when Plastic Man gets his nose caught in a fan.
2) It’s a pig snout vacuum cleaner attachment–to get those hard to reach places on the sea floor.
to me it looks like those worthless things you light, it smokes up, and supposedly keeps mosquitoes away