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neptune
Feb 26, '04, 1:55pm
Is this creature a hoax? :bugout:
Scouse
Feb 26, '04, 1:57pm
ha ha, ive often wondered this?!?!?! people have mentioned it so many times in jest an half seriousness i was afraid to ask!!! :lol:
neptune
Feb 26, '04, 2:01pm
I have seen a few sites portraying them, and don't get me wrong they look lovely, and in need of protection, but I don't want to be concerned about "bigfoot or nessie"
Is this creature a hoax? :bugout:
Neptune,
The Pacific tree octopus is a myth. However, on the basis of your avatar, I think we can confirm the existence of the Floridian reef bunny.
:goofysca:
Clem
neptune
Feb 26, '04, 5:37pm
Clem,
Thanks, appreciate the reply. Have seen some websites and photos, but looked way to nilly willy.
However, on the basis of your avatar, I think we can confirm the existence of the Floridian reef bunny.
:roflmao: kind of reminds me of a seabadger
sideways
Feb 27, '04, 11:50am
Now all Ochi needs is a basket full of Cadbury Cream Eggs.
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=2064
neptune
Feb 27, '04, 12:51pm
John,
:lol: :lol: :lol: , I believe my friend you may have lost it! If not you must be the cadbury rep for NC. Who else has those things this early before Easter? :lol:
That was 8) John, thanks for the laugh!!!
sideways
Feb 27, '04, 4:03pm
Whoa I never realized how far away we are from Easter. You know how Walmart is...the day after Valentines day, they're selling for Easter...and the day after Easter, they're selling for Halloween. :lol:
sideways
Feb 28, '04, 10:39pm
NEWS ALERT...There's been another sighting of the Floridian Reef Bunny.
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=2079
NEWS ALERT...There's been another sighting of the Floridian Reef Bunny.
Sideways,
At first glance I wasn't sure the photo was legitimate, but it has a date stamp, so it must be real.
Have the bunnies infested your billiards table? They eat slate, you know.
:wink:
Clem
neptune
Feb 28, '04, 11:20pm
:alarm:
"Great news Captain, Ochi has been contained."
"Skipper did you see that thing eatting that huge egg. What was in that huge egg????"
This was only a test...
sideways
Feb 29, '04, 8:34pm
That's not a billiards table. It's my bed. :lol:
joel_ang
Mar 01, '04, 7:27am
I think its a hoax, how could the octopus stay alive away from saltwater and looking so...normal. Also, the picture on the website shows the octo putting an orange colour, this would make it very vunerable to predators such as birds of prey. What could they eat? crabs in bromeliads? Highly unlikely.
We've found quite alot of new creatures, sea bunnies, badgers...what next?
who said they dont belive in nessie??? :x
neptune
Mar 01, '04, 2:57pm
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
just a link to what I have seen. my wife swears she saw a documentary on US TV about these guys! I have searched everywhere and can not find the schedule info. I will keep looking tough! :)
who said they don't believe in nessie???
:lol: Colin, my friend, I said I didn't want to be concerned! Nessie has a lot of water to hide in, so much in fact that they cant find her. Bigfoot same problems lots of woods. However, this octo is indigenous to only a small part of forest that are getting cut down way to fast. Would hate to know they USED to exist!
This is no way an endorsement of my beliefs LOL
Brings to mind the sad tale of the greater American unicorn, which is thought to have become extinct in 1907 after the last trees of Minnesota's Enchanted Forest were felled.
Habitat destruction sucks. For real.
the lesser american unicorn being a horse? LOL
Much lesser american unicorn.
:wink:
neptune
Mar 01, '04, 4:32pm
OK so far we have confirm the existance of the unicorn, florida reef bunny, nessie (highly sensitive subject), but no opinions hard felt on the tree octo? :bugout: :P
100% hoax... no doubt about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
forgot sea badgers :P
I was under the impression that the only arboreal classes of molluscs were Gastropoda and Bivalva. Fossil evidence exists for bush-dwelling scaphopods, which apparently flourished in the Early Cretaceous.
there is no way a cephalopod could live in a tree... oh wait.. there is a thread about squibbons is there not?
neptune
Mar 01, '04, 5:15pm
I don't believe we are quite there yet Colin! :P Just a few more centruies to go......... and 1,000,000,000,000 post on TONMO.....but by that time it will be the sea creatures who have moved on to land and taken over TONMO!!!!! :shock:
That's right..... Evidence is amounting for the existence of highly evolved trilobites. Apparently at the end of the Permian instead of going extinct the trilobites were amassing intelligence at such a rate, they not only became self-aware but attained the ability to control their metabolism to such an extent that they could convert themselves to other forms of matter. It is speculated that trilobites achieved uber-intelligence and converted themselves to cloud-form and regularly drift above us observing our day-to-day activities and plotting.
Next time you look up and see cirrostratus clouds, just remember you are being watched by our bug-eyed arthropodian forbearers......
:bonk:
Just back from the pub, Phil?
:heee:
You like fine, but you smell like a brewery.
My mom used to say that to me every Saturday/Sunday morning. Funny, though, because a brewery tends not to smell like that.
Melissa
Mar 02, '04, 10:19am
Phil should have a second career as a science fiction story writer. Now I'll giggle every time I look up. :lol:
Melissa
joel_ang
Mar 02, '04, 10:40am
Actually I'd like Nessie to be a real creature, won't that be such fun? And howabout banshees Colin?
Burstsovenergy24
Mar 02, '04, 10:47am
Nessie's real, even if just in our imagination.
neptune
Mar 02, '04, 10:54am
If thats the case, I would like to declare everything mentioned as an actual real fantasy! :P
Burstsovenergy24
Mar 02, '04, 11:00am
:evil:
I've a great book all about things unusual, but I cant quite find it now. :(
NickA5582
Mar 02, '04, 6:20pm
Nessie's real, even if just in our imagination.
I watched some show on Saturday saying Nessie, Champ, etc. etc. are Plesiosaurus that haven't died out yet. :roll:
Bigfoots more real than Nessie.
:nofeet:
joel_ang
Mar 03, '04, 3:11am
Honestly. I wouldn't like to see a real Bigfoot/sasquatch or wadever apeman they have.
sideways
Mar 03, '04, 1:27pm
What about Mokele Mbembe (sp?) from the Congo. The sauropod creature that all the tribes fear.
Snafflehound
Mar 03, '04, 7:11pm
I am trying to hunt down more tree octopus pictures than are on zapatopi... this creature has got to be documented elsewhere
An Oregon friend did send a picture of this roadside "octopus tree"http://www.lighthousefriends.com/meares1.jpg
Snafflehound
Mar 04, '04, 12:34am
Apparently (judging by this picture) the PTO is able to leap with some agility. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/510/357PTO.JPG
joel_ang
Mar 04, '04, 2:15am
Did you make the pic or was it actually on a site?
Snafflehound
Mar 04, '04, 1:57pm
I took it. Well, the shot of the gully anyways. Strangely enough I didn't notice the octopus at the time, but only later when checking my photos. These creatures are obviously masters of camouflage. :rainbow:
I still can't see 'im. :heee:
Have none of you heard of the New Zealand Rainforest Nautilus, then?
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/silly.JPG
neptune
Mar 04, '04, 3:16pm
:roflmao: :yinyang: :roflmao:
You guys have lost it!!! I guess I asked for it by starting this thread :bugout:
Burstsovenergy24
Mar 04, '04, 6:36pm
:lol:
Good one Phil!
NickA5582
Mar 04, '04, 6:41pm
PTOs are also able to withstand extreme cold....
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=4081
Various species of cmulhu may also be found in arid regions throughout the Old World. This one's from Africa.
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=2117
neptune
Mar 04, '04, 8:43pm
8) you guys,
um, you are going to make me break out my mac that is great!
Burstsovenergy24
Mar 04, '04, 8:47pm
That is nice Um... :D! 8)
joel_ang
Mar 05, '04, 3:01am
All those creatures and I never even knew about them. I wonder how PTO's can keep warm in that cold climate, could they be relatives of the artic octopus?
Breaking news: Did you know that that there are land living and possibly tree climbing sea-badgers? Well now you do!
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=2118
Do you think we are that stupid Joel!!!!????
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that LAND BADGER (LOL) live in holes in the ground, are nocturnal and have sharp claws used for digging up food!!!!
Land badgers indeed!
You are silly!
joel_ang
Mar 05, '04, 4:00am
:mrgreen: :notworth:
Did you know that that there are land living and possibly tree climbing sea-badgers?
:shock:
Somebody call the Discovery Channel. Quickly!
joel_ang
Mar 05, '04, 5:38am
Hmmm, what about Nat Geo, which should I call?
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that LAND BADGER (LOL) live in holes in the ground, are nocturnal and have sharp claws used for digging up food!!!!
Wow that was creepy.......are you phycic or something? Coz its really freakin' me out :goofysca:
neptune
Mar 05, '04, 10:09am
Is that a 2 headed badger, those we supposed to have dwindled away first!!! :shock:
NickA5582
Mar 05, '04, 7:35pm
A desert octopus and speckled burrowing squid competing for food...
Anyone know if it is possible to domesticate tree octos?
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=2122
joel_ang
Mar 05, '04, 7:52pm
I think the squid is going to win, just look at his size.
How about 'Ye Olde Krake' that stalked the Thames at the turn of the 18th century? I found this old woodcut that depicted 'A greate brute, siezing all manner of shipes and menfolke, with armes akin to treetrunks, vaste horrore and great Leviathon of Old Londone Towne'
I am unable to supply a reference for this.
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Londonpus.JPG
joel_ang
Mar 06, '04, 9:21am
If only 'Ye old Krake' existed, the world would be a much more exciting place :sink:
Then again, do they really exist :shock:?
:lol:
Burstsovenergy24
Mar 06, '04, 1:29pm
Yes. :wink:
Thats why Bush wants to go back to the moon and not explore the oceans.
:heee:
Thats why Bush wants to go back to the moon and not explore the oceans.
I would not bet on it, BOE. Have you not encountered references to the Lunar Octopus? Buzz Aldrin certainly met it, and I'm sure Bush is aware of the dangers!
I think it was strangely attracted to the Lunar Module.
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Aldrin.JPG
http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Apollopus11.jpg
WhiteKiboko
Mar 06, '04, 3:48pm
Actually, thats precisely why Collins stayed in orbit.... he has an irrational fear of cephs...
Great Work once again Phil....
OMG...
Pure genius, yet again. Here's a very redundant :notworth:.
:notworth:
NickA5582
Mar 06, '04, 8:10pm
:roflmao:
:notworth:
The problem with the NZ Rainforest Nautilis is that the introduced Bush Haggis finds them very tasty, so much so that their natural predator , the Taniwha, is going into a decline. Every Burns night there is a rush on freshly captured Haggis (to be taken with suitably large doses of medicinal whisky) but the rest of the year they are really not hunted much. They appear to eat the nautilus then use the shell as a sledge in the winter, when they leave the bush and can be seen sliding down snow covered hills making a distinctive wheeeeeeeeeing sound.
Oh dear......it's been a VERY long week :bugout: :bonk: :bugout:
J
Snafflehound
Mar 07, '04, 3:01am
How about 'Ye Olde Krake' that stalked the Thames at the turn of the 18th century?
revenge of the tree octo... man cuts down tree octopus home, makes boat out of it... giant octopus eats boat. 8)
Now maybe Lucky Jack Aubrey will take on the Kraken in the Master and Commander sequel :talker:
joel_ang
Mar 07, '04, 7:38am
To tell you the truth, Im a fan of Bush Haggis myself :D
Architeuthoceras
Mar 24, '04, 10:22pm
:roflmao: :roflmao:
Where was I the first week of March
:roflmao: :roflmao:
Steve O'Shea
Mar 25, '04, 3:48am
....... how did I miss this :roflmao:
(need 'wetting pants' emoticon)