Dogs don't hold a candle to octopuses

[Nuwen]

I plan on going to RMSC's planetarium screening of "The Octopus Challenge" sometime this week.

http://www.rmsc.org/Calendar/

[Ythill]

"So, where was that octopus you were trying to show me? Was it behind the rock?" I replied, "No, that rock was the octopus."

When the octopus army invades, we won't stand a chance.

If their most potent combat skill is looking like rocks, I think we'll be fine. "Honey, either someone re-landscaped our yard last night or the octopus army is invading. We should turn off the sprinklers."

[Xylthixlm]

"So, where was that octopus you were trying to show me? Was it behind the rock?" I replied, "No, that rock was the octopus."

When the octopus army invades, we won't stand a chance.

If their most potent combat skill is looking like rocks, I think we'll be fine. "Honey, either someone re-landscaped our yard last night or the octopus army is invading. We should turn off the sprinklers."

Don't forget the part about them being made of pure muscle, or the venomous bite.

[Quagmire]

*logs onto mafiascum.net/forum*

*sees yet another stupid pointless DGB thread that fails to deliver anything funny, interesting, or entertaining*

*notices people have been marauding this stupid bullshit for 4 pages*

*sighs*

[Ythill]

"Honey, either someone re-landscaped our yard last night or the octopus army is invading. We should turn off the sprinklers. And don't go near them, they're made of pure muscle and have a venomous bite."

Fortunately, they're not bullet-proof.

[Alduskkel]

Yet.

[Xylthixlm]

Fortunately, they're not bullet-proof.

How do you know? Have you ever seen someone shoot one?

[ortolan]

I love eating baby octopi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iap6XiO- ... re=related

this is another awesome aquatic video, wowee

[DrippingGoofball]

That nudibranch was sooooooooooooo cute!!!

[Cybele]

Tremoctopus or a blanket octopus.

Elegant.
Beguiling.

I think I want to live in the ocean.

[mikeburnfire]

I would like to take this moment to insist that we abolish the terms "octopi", "cacti", etc in favor of octopuses and cactuses, for the sole reason that English is stupid enough and we should actively work to get rid of stupid rules.

[dramonic]

you should see french <<

[mikeburnfire]

Spanish is better than both. Too bad their sentence formation and command structures are inferior.

[Ythan]

I never figured out which end of an octopus is the front. Is the big sac the front, looking like a big nose? Or is it more the back of the head?

[Nobody Special]

Well, there's really no front or back.

Here's an illustration: http://universe-review.ca/I10-82-octopus.jpg

You're welcome.

[Note to self and others: NEVER, even under penalty of DEATH or TORTURE, do a Google image Search for 'octopus anus.' YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.]

[shaft.ed]

That thing is crazy:

The male blanket octopus spends his existence drifting along waiting to meet with a female. If the male meets a female, he fills one of his tentacles with sperm and tears it from his body. He gives this sperm-filled tentacle to the female which she then uses to fertilize her eggs. Afterwards, the female leaves the male, who floats away and dies.
...
Measuring only 2.4 cm long, the male blanket octopus is incongruously smaller than the female who can grow to over 2 m. This means that the female can be 100 times larger than her mate, and up to 40,000 times heavier.
...
blanket octopuses are immune to the poisonous Portuguese man o' war, whose tentacles the male and immature females rip off and use for defensive purposes

[Steam-Powered Shovel]

I would like to take this moment to insist that we abolish the terms "octopi", "cacti", etc in favor of octopuses and cactuses, for the sole reason that English is stupid enough and we should actively work to get rid of stupid rules.

You can use both, so I don't see the problem. Besides, the correct plural of octopus is octopodes.

[DrippingGoofball]

you should see french <<

I'm starting to think you might live across the street from me.

[dramonic]

Goofball, I live 30 minutes north-west of you, afaik

[DrippingGoofball]

OKA?

[dramonic]

deux-montagnes

Close enough

Here's an illustration: http://universe-review.ca/I10-82-octopus.jpg
And thus we learn octopus have bigger balls than hearts.

[Cybele]

It's brain is shaped like a little octopus!

[Cobalt]

It's brain is shaped like a little octopus!

[DeathRowKitty]

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