"It Is Illegal To Catch Lobsters With Your Bare Hands In Maine..."

They are related to spiders. Like spiders they have eight legs. And multi-faceted eyes that enable them to see in the dark, just like spiders. Bright light would probably blind them.

The word lobster is derived from two foreign words. The first comes from the Latin word for locust, Locasta. This was combined with the Anglo-Saxon word for spider or Loppe, a variant of Lobbe.

They are members of the phylum Arthropoda that includes crabs, spiders, insects, centipedes, and millipedes.

Lobsters belongs to the Subphylum, Crestacea. Members of this Subphylum include lobsters, crabs, crayfish, shrimp, copepods, barnacles, and several other groups of organisms.

At one time the lobster was considered a junk food fit only for the class of indentured servants who had to work in servile jobs for seven years to work off their contract. So they had to eat insects for seven years.

Normally, lobsters hate each other, both male and female will eat their own kind and they have a real kinky sex life.

The biggest male goes around the neighborhood looking for a fight every night and beats up on any lobster that gets in his way. The female lobsters realize that this is one tough dude and they begin to hang out near his den.

The female lobster can only mate after she sheds her shell. When she gets rid of the shell (molts), she enters the master's den and the big dude assumes the missionary position, belly to belly and the fun begins. He deposits his semen in a sac between her forth and fifth legs. This takes just eight seconds. Wham, bam, thank you mam. She scampers out of the den and hides until her shell hardens - wishing the next hen good luck with the cock dude.

The female lobster may wait as long as 15 months before releasing eggs from her oviducts. They flow past the seminal receptacle where they are fertilized by the stored sperm. Then they are cemented to the swimmerets, where they remain for 10 to 11 months before the larvae hatch. A female carrying eggs is said to be "in berry," and indeed the eggs covering her abdomen do resemble the segments of a raspberry.

Most of the young lobster die before reaching their first molt even though a female lobster can release 100,000 eggs at a crack.

It is against the law to keep "berried" lobsters. They must be released.

Lobsters are the libido loosener. Just think of the scene in Tom Jones where Tom and Mrs. Waters voluptuously slurped down oysters and sucked sensually on lobster claws and slowly worked themselves into a voracious sexual frenzy ending in a footrace to the bedroom. The only thing missing was lobster bisque.

This clawed lovefish, the lobster, is the God of the Cresteceans.

William Windham, the King Pimp of London's Streetwalkers, plied his girls with two pound lobsters along with semeny oysters as a prelude to nights of love.

Lobsters and eggs - for more sexual vigor - a viral lobster omelet.

More lobsters were consumed by the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving than Turkey. In colonial days, lobsters were so plentiful that they sold for a penny. You could pick them up by hand on the beaches after a storm.

By the middle of the 19th century, lobtsermen began to trap them and by 1880 a Maine lobsterman could make 1.9 cents a pound for his daily catch.

And the more popular lobsters became, the higher the price until now its not unsual for them to cost around ten dollars a pound. Lobsters are challenging steak as the most popular food from Bangkok to Bangor.

Lobsters are graded by weight.

Chicken Lobsters weigh in at 3/4 to 1 lb.Quarters at 1 1/2 lbs.Large 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 lbs.Jumbos over 2 1/2 lbs.

Be careful of the European Prawn. If you ae allergic to shellfish, the black poisonous filaments in its back must be removed before eating.

Lobsters can come in various colors, including the rare blue lobster. A blond lobster has been caught. Do they have more fun?