Scylla and Charybdis: The wha-who?

I did my daily check into Woot.com today to see what they had on the docket. (HD TV adapters for analog TV’s. You know, the “As of February, 2009, your analog tv with just an antenna will cease to work” warnings you’ve been hearing about for a year now. This thing fixes that apparently. I’m on DirecTV, so I’m set anyway). Anyway, they typically have some goofy product description or exchange preceding the tech specs of the product.
In the midst of this one I see this sentence:

“…Between the Scylla of digital conversion and the Charybdis of the Pinnacle 880e PCTV Ultimate Stick, the good ship That Old TV is about to crash on the rocks of redundancy.”

Between the what and the who?

So I turn to my old friend Google Search Bar, who in turn shoves me over to Wikipedia:

Scylla and Charybdis are two sea monsters of Greek mythology who were situated on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria, in Italy. They were located in close enough proximity to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too closely to Scylla and vice versa.

Interesting:

But what other Sea Monsters top the list? Here are the top 5 in my book:

· The Giant Octopus Thingy: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea/Pirates of the Carribean/etc.
· The Loch Ness Monster – Ahhhh Inverness - technically not in the sea, but it's a water dweller
· The Kraken – Clash of the Titans (Part Octopus/Part Crab
· Godzilla – While he spent most of his time on land, He came from the water
· Giant Sea Serpent – On every map before 1500.

Want to find some more mythical creatures? Check this out. Found it looking for a description of the Kraken:

The Mythical Creatures and Beasts Wiki

Lots of stuff I didn’t know there… probably gonna keep it that way.