Whale sharks, harmless giants beloved by divers, are in trouble.
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), both of which may weigh several tons, are harmless giants that subsist on plankton strained from the sea through modified gill rakers.
Instead of focusing on what the new OS can do, however, the 30-second spot showed what it can't do: trigger spontaneous combustion, make users disappear in a puff of colorful smoke and then magically reappear out of manholes, or turn out-of-control tanker trucks into a giant, harmless pile of rubber ducks.
Maybe history is one giant but harmless game of telephone, a dozen or so giddy kids at a party amped on sugar and sitting cross-legged in a circle, each beautifully and uniquely demented mind distorting a single original sentence somewhere in the vast and complicated void between ear and mouth.
The bulk of the snakes numbers were made up with giant but harmless legless lizards known as Scheltopusiks (Pseudopus apodus) which occur from the Balkan Peninsula of southeastern Europe to Central Asia.
As they stood arm in arm, Mitt Romney finished the transition of turning a harmless Venus flytrap into a giant man-eating monster.
They've woken a sleeping giant, not a harmless frog.
In person, the 22-year-old comes across as an endearing, full time joker who alternates explicit lyrics with harmless songs about drinking from giant cups, all on the verge of the nonsense.
Reputation: Giant pandas are cute and harmless, with an amusing habit of sneezing.
"City of Ember" tosses in an unscary monster that suggests a giant, riled-up rooster on speed, as well as harmless, oversize creatures resembling beetles and cockroaches.
