I am an unpopular
electric eel set in a pond of goldfish." DAME EDITH SITWELL
Electric fish, like the
electric eel, its cousin the electric catfish, the electric ray, and the elephant fish in Africa, are electrogenic: they emit charges from electric organs in their bodies.
Over a suitably long and liquid rock 'n' roll lunch at his East End local, Hay attempted to make sense of his bizarre transformation from simple Shropshire lad to madcap mentor of cult Osakan rockers
Electric Eel Shock, whose drummer uses four sticks and likes to play naked.
It was like a giant
electric eel, galvanizing 1500 people.
A Wonderworker explained: One syllable protects the firmament; one other syllable films the bubble of life with aspic--: a jelly left by an
electric eel of panic, ductile and terrible.
Electricity, it was said, could be felt from an
electric eel, it could be seen in the sky as lightning, and observed in biology as the force which moves muscles.
25- 26) boasts 24 acts so far, including Supergrass, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra and
Electric Eel Shock.
Some fish, like the South American
electric eel, can give a powerful shock.
For lights I'd use, if it agrees, The bright
Electric Eel; The Dolphin with its dorsal fin Would be the sailboat's keel.
8DA 3850 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTIONS WEE THINKER ACROSS: 7 Caustic 9 Rooks 10 Amend 11 Enclave 12 Pea 13 Muttered 16 Tess Daly 17 She 19 Scalpel 21 Beano 22 All-in 23 Natters DOWN: 1 Scrappy 2 Fuselage 3 Stud 4 Crockery 5 Iota 6 Isles 8 Crestfallen 13 Misspent 14 Ensnared 15 Heroism 18 Isaac 20 Able 21 Bath QUICKIE ACROSS: 1
Electric eel 8 Duo 9 Dad 11 Ironing 12 Alive 13 Rot 14 Tap 15 Daunted 17 Yap 19 Oath 21 Item 23 Step 25 Gone 27 Tot 29 Natural 31 Act 34 Was 36 Slash 37 Inflict 38 Sax 39 Die 40 Misdirected DOWN: 1 Euro 2 Loot 3 Climate 4 Regent 5 Crate 6 Edit 7 Lava 8 Dirty 10 Depth 16 Doe 18 Pin 20 Apt 22 Ten 24 Traffic 25 Glass 26 Junior 28 Taste 30 Ached 32 Clam 33 Taxi 34 Wide 35 Acid followed
Peaty surged through the water like an
electric eel, lighting sparks as he bolted towards the wall in 57 seconds dead.
Catania has tussled with eels using what he calls his
electric eel chew toy--an electrode-fitted dead fish on a stick--to measure current.