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Recently I enjoyed the corvina in garlic butter. I liked it so much
I went back to get it again, but the waiter said there was no corvina,
only tilapia. I told him I did not want tilapia, and he went back into
the kitchen (or pretended to) in order to check if there might
be just one more corvina. He emerged triumphant, I ordered the
precious fish, and 10 minutes later I was served tilapia in garlic
butter.

I called the waiter over and showed him with my fork that the fish
had a spongy quality, like tilapia or catfish, not like the flakey quality
of corvina. He laughed and said that he personally saw the corvina
in the kitchen.

I'd had a day of great debauchery, and I was hungry enough to eat
tilapia without further argument. Actually it was not bad if you can
keep from thinking about the stinkingly polluted Chinese ponds where
they raise tilapia.

Just as I finished my dinner, I saw a mouse gamboling under a table
on the other side of the room. The mouse actually made a rush
toward me, but I stamped my foot. As the waiter picked up the
payment, he claimed that the mouse is the restaurant's pet.

That's my withdrawal of last year's recommendation to eat at this
place. Maybe the quality of service has declined because of the
apparent improvement in business: I have never seen so many diners
there.

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Same river, new water

Good to know the Del Mar mascot is still running the dining room floor cleaning up crumbs Lee and I were entertained watching him during dinner back in '06, surprised he's not a full grown rat by now.

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Living well is the best revenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwUtj_YnNoY

He's the great, great, great, great grandson of the rodent you saw back in 06. You are such a moron. These things breed like flies!

Berk.....

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FRUITCAKE... and you thought it was something you eat! Not on CRT!

What is the life span of the Costa Rican urban field mouse Mr. Know-it-all?

According to Wikipedia.....

Female house mice have an estrous cycle that is 4-6 days long, with estrus itself lasting less than a day. If several females are held together under crowded conditions, they will often not have an estrus at all; if they are then exposed to male urine, they will become estrous after 72 hours.

Male house mice court females by emitting characteristic ultrasonic calls in the 30kHz - 110kHz range. The calls are most frequent during courtship when the male is sniffing and following the female. However, the calls continue after mating has begun at which time the calls are coincident with mounting behaviour. Males can be induced to emit these calls by female pheromones. The vocalizations appear to be different in different individuals and have been compared to birdsongs because of their complexity. (Holy 2005) While females have the capability to produce ultrasonic calls, they typically do not do so during mating behaviour.

Following copulation, female mice will normally develop a vaginal plug which prevents further copulation. This plug stays in place for some 24 hours. The gestation period is about 19-21 days, and they give birth to a litter of 3-14 young (average 6-8). One female can have some 5-10 litters per year, so their population can increase very quickly. Breeding occurs throughout the year (however, animals living in the wild don't reproduce in the colder months, even though they don't hibernate). The newborn are blind and furless. Fur starts to grow some three days after birth and the eyes open one to two weeks after birth. Females reach sexual maturity at about 6 weeks and males at about 8 weeks, but both can breed as early as five weeks.

House mice usually live under a year in the wild, because of a high level of predation and exposure to harsh environments. In protected environments, however, they often live two to three years. The Methuselah Mouse Prize is a competition to breed or engineer extremely long-lived laboratory mice. As of 2005, the record holder was a genetically engineered mouse that lived for 1819 days, nearly 5 years. Another record holder that was kept in a stimulating environment but did not receive any genetic, pharmacological or dietary treatment lived for 1551 days, over 4 years. [/b]

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FRUITCAKE... and you thought it was something you eat! Not on CRT!

So it COULD be the same mouse, especially considering the Del Mar is a relatively protected environment: No natural predators (like the resident cat at El Mariscar) and the fact that employees don't give a crap about a rodent running around in the dining room. So put a cork in it mister.

mice don't grow up to be rats

I know, was just trying to be funny. Between ID, Berk and that damn wikipedia a guy can't get away with ANYTHING around here anymore!

I always eat a few meals at this place. They have great steaks and burgers. I am not a foodie type and do not know the difference between the two fish, but Del Mar works for me.