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The only known man-o-war jellyfish to float near the coast of the little seaside village where I used to spend my summers, stung my younger sister on her legs, side and her arm and hand where she tried to push it away. I got stung myself while picking the severed threads off her skin, so I know for a fact that jellyfish tentacles sting even when out of the water and not attached to the jellyfish any more. But the most hazardous thing came later, since I had to take my sister home and clean her skin with ammonia in order to neutralise the poison. Even today, my sister says those fumes were much much worse than the jellyfish sting! 
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Dear Marianna,
You must have a type of the Man-O-War jellyfish. Our N.H jellies have no floating ray bits.
Not to gross anyone out ... but in an emergency ... I have been told ... well, er .. um .. human urine relieves the sting.
How about it, Dr. Bill ?
In Hawaii many carried a small container of baking soda, which, when mixed with the water on the skin gives some relief until the sting can be medically treated.
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Jellyfish sting remedy
The Chesapeake Bay gets infested with jellyfish in summer. When we used to vacation in a cabin on the bay and get stung by them, the remedy was to sprinkle meat tenderizer powder on the stung area. Worked very well. The active principle in the tenderizer is an enzyme derived from papayin. Comments, Dr. Bill?
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Since many jellyfish are colonies, is one a collective noun?
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oh, jazzo, how disappointing to learn even intelligent young men still have stereotype ideas about women and girls!
Like Wow-- i played with Jelly fish-- the NY beaches would often have printed up info if the jellyfish were Man 'o war-- but usually NY was too cold. My favorite was "Popping" the air bladders on sea weed-- They wouldn't pop if the sea weed was wet, moist and soft-- and they lost the "pop" if the sea weed was too dry-- we would wander up and down the beach looking for sea weed just in the right state...I bet Wow did that too! but i have no idea what kind of sea weed it was-- Hello, bean..
how about horse shoe crabs-- do them come in herds, too? It seems it in summer when they come to lay their eggs..
and the dead one, who's insides had been eaten out by the gulls-- they made great helmets.. or sheilds for all the knights of your sand castle!
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oh, jazzo, how disappointing to learn even intelligent young men still have stereotype ideas about women and girls!In Jazz's defence, helen, he did say Most girls I know would stay as far away as possibly from it. That's not a stereotyped assumption, that's a statement of personal experience.
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The seaweed with the little bladders that make it float is named "fucus" (with a "y" sound before the first "u"!!!!!
I was told by a pharmacist that meat tenderizer would inactivate the toxin of jelly fish nematocysts, but never had any confirmation of this, though it sounds reasonable. I am refraining from ribald comment about urine remedy.
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Thanks Bill-- i recognize 3 or 4 different types of sea weed-- and even have been know to eat it-- but I only know two "names": Kelp and Carrigeen-- both of which i have eaten, but I don't know if i would recognize them at the sea shore!
I've eaten kelp chopped, and made into a vegetable pate-- quite good, and carrigeen as a "blache monge". a jellied, milk dessert.
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Dear of troy: Back in the depression kids with boats used to make a good bit of money harvesting the right kinds of seaweed. One they called dulce. It was purplish and had fairly fine somewhat flattened multiply branched strands.
It is interesting that the Japanese first made monosodium glutamate from sea weed. I do very much like Accent in soups. The scare about "Chinese restaurant syndrome" twenty years ago must have been caused by gross misuse of it.
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The collective noun for a group of Bankers is a Wunch!  (linking the recent spoonerism thread), though this appelation probably only works in UK english. Rod Ward
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