3 sightings this time:

1. On a tag for a toy Welsh dragon I bought back in 1995 the company name is Octopus Supplies.

2. The April issue of the Fortean Times, page 7, is an article "Giant squid attack" - trimaran crew menaced by tentacles monster from the deep, dealing with the french yatchsman who alleges his boat was attacked by a giant squid in January.

3. In Terry Practhett's book "The Wee Free Men", which I just got a review copy of (although I haven't reviewed books for about 6 years now..) on page 295 is this exchange...

"a few sharks were involved, that kind of thing," said Not-as-big-as- Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock.

"Oh, aye, a few sharkies," said Rob Anybody, shrugging, "and one 'o them octopussies -"

"It was a giant squid," said William the gonnagle.

"Aye, well, it was a kebab pretty quickly," said Daft Wullie.

Obviously Mr Prattchett doesn't realise that giant squid taste awful!

Cheers, KRin

2. The April issue of the Fortean Times, page 7, is an article "Giant squid attack" - trimaran crew menaced by tentacles monster from the deep, dealing with the french yatchsman who alleges his boat was attacked by a giant squid in January.

Ahh, sadly that turns out to have been a hoax. The Fortean Times is still a fine publication, however. Where else can one read about marauding badgers, lake monsters and superconductor technology, all beneath one cover?

Watch out for the Giant Cessnock Monitor.

:goofysca:

Clem

I was attacked by a giant squid once in my yacht off the coast of france...boy, were Drew Barrymore and Jenny Lopez upset! No, no...it really happened! Really!
Too bad I dropped the camera.
Greg

im not sure which is more revolting, the NE coast of France or Drew Barrymore.... :)

On a clear day I can see the NE coast of France; it's only 22 miles away across The English Channel. There's a massive chemical plant at Calais and it really is most unpicturesque.

Must admit, I'd rather look at Drew Barrymore.

I've found another TV ceph for you.

I watched an old episode of 'Dr Who' the other day (did you have that in the USA?) which was called the 'The Power of Kroll' and was one of Tom Bakers stories from about 1978, I think. It was terrible but strangely hypnotic.

There was this enormous Cthulhu-esque ceph/god creature that appeared out the water on an alien planet with a clear blue screen matt line dividing it and the horizon. It menaced a plastic model drilling rig for some reason causing the extras to wrap rubber tentacles around themselves whilst screaming.

In the last episode Tom Baker stuck a wand into it and the creature disappeared in a crackle of BBC special effects to appear as a lump of crystal on his wand, part of the enigmatic 'Key to Time' he was searching for for some bearded ex-RSC ham in white. The creature, Kroll, broke up into thousands of giant squids at the same time, all observed off screen. Just before entering the TARDIS, the Doctor spotted a model giant squid lying in the mud. "It's quite ordinary", or something, he observed. Not really surprising, the model was about a foot long.

I loved it as a kid too........

I loved that Dr. Who episode! That was actually the first one I ever saw...I must have been about 8 or 9 at the time. From then on, I was hooked on Dr. Who until Public Television here in the states stopped airing them. Man, I haven't thought about Kroll in ages. Thanks for that trip down amnesia lane...

:P

There's a massive chemical plant at Calais and it really is most unpicturesque.

Aesthetically, you may be slightly correct, but both are quite noxious :)

You can find it every so often on SciFi and maybe PBS i think....

:cthulhu: :heart: :beer:

No probs, Matt. Dr Who is one of those weird programmes that brings so many nostalgic memories. Even though the budget was so low and it was never convincing, they are still good fun to watch even now. "Why was I scared at that?", is what one usually thinks!

Actually, thinking of cephs in Doctor, the Nestenes in the Jon Pertwee's two Auton stories (the one with the plastic shop window dummies wrecking havoc and shooting policemen in a puff of orange smoke from their hands) were very ceph like.

Although we did not see a Nestene manifest itself fully. one appeared above a radio telescope in a crackling electric form and looked like an enormous octopus. (Don't get too excited, we are talking BBC 1973 budget and effects). The Doctor and The Master teamed up to defeat it, though I can't remember exactly how. Doubtless it involved a small box with a lever and wires that 'reversed the polarity' or something.

La de de dah, lah de de dah, whoooo---ooo--oooo!

La de de dah, lah de de dah, whoooo---ooo--oooo!

Oooohh, the "Dr. Who" theme. Scourge of my early childhood. I'm still cranky for having missed the conclusion of the "Silurians" story-arc.

Colin's new job reminded me that there was an episode of "Baywatch" with a killer ceph. It hangs out in a cave, and likes to fondle the lifeguards. One of them shouts "Squid!" as a menacing octopus tentacle rises above the surface. An underwater wrestling match ensues.

Just another day at Strathclyde Country Park.

Clem

I remember watching the tail end of many Dr. Who episodes as I waited for the Uncle Floyd show to get on the air (not only is that not heard of in the UK, but probably nowhere outside of the tri-state NJ/NY/CT area).

Oogie

quote" The April issue of the Fortean Times, page 7, is an article "Giant squid attack" - trimaran crew menaced by tentacles monster from the deep, dealing with the french yatchsman who alleges his boat was attacked by a giant squid in January.[/quote]

Ahh, sadly that turns out to have been a hoax. The Fortean Times is still a fine publication, however. Where else can one read about marauding badgers, lake monsters and superconductor technology, all beneath one cover?"

Well, you know how we Australians view the French government after they dropped bombs near us in the Pacific. My late husband used to quote from who-know-where "They live in the sewers you know..." (Ian was a cartoonist and his head was full of the most amazing bits of info!)

I knew the squid attack was a hoax from the Tonmo website - knowledge is power.

The only magazine I now buy is the Fortean Times - my late husband started me reading it. It costs a fortune here and the newagent always looks at me oddly when I buy it. OKay, so lots of people look at me oddly but lets not go there.

You will have to excuse me, I have been catologuing medical thesises all morning...

KRiin :bugout:

Watch out for the Giant Cessnock Monitor.

:goofysca:

Clem[/quote]

krin,

I suspect the on-line version of Fortean Times would be much more affordable. The printed version is pricey here in the States, too.

From rathergood.com comes "Tales of the Blode: Part 3," in which a squid is the bearer of grim tidings: http://www.rathergood.com/blode3/

Giant marmots lay siege to Buckingham Palace, a musk-ox gets a bath, and then Britney Spears shows up. Insane, even by my standards.

:goofysca:

Clem

Ahoy there, mateys....

In an unrelated netsearch (see "Place Names" thread), I came across the following "blog" -- what does that word mean, anyway? -- with references and links re Messie, Haliphron, Steve-O', and Kat! Go to URL and scroll down to April 5th entry:

(PG-13 ADVISORY: SOME STRONG LANGUAGE ON SITE)

http://homepage.mac.com/jholbo/homepage/pages/blog/blog09.html

:squid:
La Bela Loligeto

I suspect the on-line version of Fortean Times would be much more affordable. The printed version is pricey here in the States, too.

The online version of the Fortean Times id of no use if I want to freak people out on the train while reading it!

KRin :heee:

The online version of the Fortean Times is of no use if I want to freak people out on the train while reading it!

Yes, but pretending to read it off an imaginary computer monitor, clicking an imaginary mouse and cursing the imaginary modem's slow speed would really freak them out.

:heee:

Clem

Speaking of Fortean Times, a magazine to which I am a regular subscriber, this months copy plopped through my letter box yesterday morning. Steve and Kat have a full page to themselves with an article written by Karl Shuker (Cryptozoologist and Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? winner) about the manner in which the media pounced on all the sensational aspects of the Mesonychoteuthis story and exaggerated all the reported facts about the creature.

Somehow, I think all of us who saw the news breaking here could see events unfold in this manner. Tabloids are not particularly interested in facts, merely in sensationalism, it seems. Dr Shuker's article was interesting and well balanced, in my opinion. :grad:

However, one element did slightly grate with me, that Dr Shuker claimed that the reports of Messie being only half-grown were seemingly untrue and that the recovered specimen had potentially reached its maximum size. This was based on alleged discussions on the ceph-list that during latter stages of squid development energy tends to be channelled into sperm and egg production instead of further growth. I do not recall Steve or Kat ever claiming that it was half-grown, but that it had not reached maturity. Indeed, we know from Steves interesting post yesterday that Mesonychoteuthis presumably does grow larger based on the size of the beak in comparison to others recovered from whale stomachs. In fairness though, Dr Shukers comments were written without the benefit of yesterdays post!

I watched an old episode of 'Dr Who' the other day (did you have that in the USA?) which was called the 'The Power of Kroll' and was one of Tom Bakers stories from about 1978, I think. It was terrible but strangely hypnotic.

There was this enormous Cthulhu-esque ceph/god creature that appeared out the water on an alien planet with a clear blue screen matt line dividing it and the horizon. It menaced a plastic model drilling rig for some reason causing the extras to wrap rubber tentacles around themselves whilst screaming.


The beast itself....I was convinced by it!

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Kroll.JPG

(Dr Who is back next year after being off the screen since 1987. Wonder who will be cast?)

I think Dr. Steve would be perfect ! Kat can be his Emma-Peel-like sidekick (tight leather, etc) and they can fight cardboard robots and foam space squids to save all of humanity from the dolldrums of another season of Survivor and the Sharon Osbourne show !
Greg
p.s. Um, calm down...you don't need to have a heart attack.

Great idea! Tight... leather...

My heart can't be attacked (again), Greg, until Kat gives it back.

Great idea! Tight... leather...

... creaks WAY too much to be a sufficiently stealthy uniform for a defender of the universe. Sorry.

Cellophane, then? Hm, probably still a little too noisy. How about a tracksuit? :twisted: would be just as alluring in a tracksuit, and waaaay more comfortable.

i heard this guy named milligan once said cellophane could be fun.... why dont you pursue it um? :roll:

sorry to cause trouble ttf but, if leather is out what about pleather?

i heard this guy named milligan once said cellophane could be fun.... why dont you pursue it um?

Will do. Photoshop time, as soon as I get home. :heee: Alas, I cannot post work of that nature here any longer. :( I was going to do a nice little Katwoman thing with the leather, too.

i was watching 'good eats'... when alton was discussing the maillard reaction, he said that you want the meat "brown, not black... black is for coffee, (something i cant recall) and squid ink"

if you dont know what the maillard reactions are, watch more deep fried live....

there was a bio on donald trump..... :roll: comments on him aside.... his head bodyguard is matt calamari.... nicknamed 'matty the squid'

when enlisting help for a mission to cut his hair and trim his eyebrows, i guess ill have to find some real hardchargers.....

caught an episode of "Emeril Live" (a cooking show by a subtlety challenged chef)... he was focusing on molluscs... had an octo sitting on the counter as well as a nautilus shell.... didnt use the octo, but he did put squid into a stew....

I remember watching the tail end of many Dr. Who episodes as I waited for the Uncle Floyd show to get on the air (not only is that not heard of in the UK, but probably nowhere outside of the tri-state NJ/NY/CT area).

Oogie

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I was a huge fan, when I lived in Jersey. Grew up with Uncle Floyd. Even had one of my drawings on his wall in one of the episodes! Last year, my brother met him and had him autograph a photo for me. Ahhhh ... cheap Hoboken television!

Richard

its plaster cast of some shelled animal, but in the beginning of star trek: first contact, picard has something on a desk behind him when he's talking to the admiral.... the shell looks rather circular, an ancient ceph perhaps? ill keep watching and see if they offer a better look...

its plaster cast of some shelled animal, but in the beginning of star trek: first contact, picard has something on a desk behind him when he's talking to the admiral.... the shell looks rather circular, an ancient ceph perhaps? ill keep watching and see if they offer a better look...

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Picard_003.jpg

Here we see Captain Jean-Luc Picard in his ‘Ready Room’ onboard the USS Enterprise ‘E’ taken from a Starfleet webcam during the second Borg incursion into Federation Space in 2373, documented in a file known as ‘First Contact’. We can clearly see the ammonite behind Picards’ shoulder.

The ammonite appears to be a fine example of the Upper Jurassic (Portlandian) species Titanites giganteus, and clearly meant a lot to Picard filling valuable space in a cramped environment. Picards’ interest in archaeology has been extensively documented. According to Starfleet records Picard was born at LaBarre in France in 2305, LaBarre being a small village with vineyards presumably located near Lac LaBarre in the Pyrennes, close to the town of Foix.

One may assume that the young Jean-Luc collected this ammonite before enlisting in Starfleet near his home, hence he has retained it in his journeys into space for sentimental reasons. Here we have a problem as the rocks around the Eastern Midi-Pyrenees area of Southern France around his hometown are primarily volcanic in origin and clearly do not lend themselves to fossil preservation. May one assume that Picard journeyed further a field in his fossil hunting days? The correct period geology is exposed at Haut Marne near Chateauvillain near Troyes, 220 km SE of Paris. This would imply a major expedition by the young Picard as Chateauvillain is over 400km NE of Foix.

If anyone is interested, a monograph pertaining to Late Jurassic heteromorph ammonite suture analysis correlated to septal wall strength is available in Klingon on request.

:)


"Nurse, nurse, where are you? I need my pills!"

:notworth: (banging my head on my desk)

turned on the history channel and they were talking about the battle of salamis.... the greek fleet was described as an 'octopus emerging from it's rocky den'

pretty cool since the greeks won

Dear Gang,

I missed you all terribly.

Will catch up soon.

Meantime, here's something I found recently (cool merchant, BTW):

http://www.jbox.com/UPDATES/3/

[scroll down to Item SNK286]

Love,
Tani

:welcome: BACK! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

:welcome: BACK! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Thanks, Tony, you just gave me a much-needed smile! :D

Well, among other things, I have been taking breaks from Purgatory -- anyone wanna be completely bored, you can e-mail or PM me about that -- by hanging out in the amazing world of anime. In fact, within the past few months I have blossomed into a full-fledged otaku (in the American fandom sense, I know it's a derogatory term in Japan).

Of course I did have some familiarity with the genre before -- remember some of our earlier discussions -- but now I belong to a group called Metro NYC Anime which has regular screenings and other fun events. And the more I learn about it, the more connections I see with both Cephs and the Cthulhu Mythos.

I also received a wonderful letter from Dr. William Gilly over two months ago, and am almost fearful of writing now because of the long delay, but Bill, if you're reading this, please expect a lengthy and very appreciative reply from me within the next week, and a profound apology for dragging my tentacles about it :oops:

Will be surfacing again soon.... till then, many-armed hugs to the lot of ye!

Your benthic Brooklyn buddy,
Tani

We miss you Tani! Please come back more often!

:heart:

A Squid Plant

I saw this plant in the desert last weekend, and I think it looks just like a squid. Actually it is a Desert Trumpet, Eriogonum inflatum.

I was right

Hi all, whilst enjoying the 1st viewing of Spartacus junior's new Pingu video I swear that during the episode"Pingu & the many Packages" their was an ammonite on the outside wall of the shell shop.
I will confirm asap.

Phil, you may like to check out this episode to determine the species ? :grad:

i took a test the other day, and in the word knowledge section there was a question along the line of "the octopus wrapped its limber body around the rock.."

i was quite happy....

In yesterday's episode (well, yesterday here) Mike, Lu and Og go out to a piarte ship wreak and are attacked by a giant pink octopus.

Yes, I do watch a lot of animation...

KRin

We miss you Tani! Please come back more often!

:heart:

Awwwww, you guys are so wonderful! Will do, and I am still determined to make it to TONMOcon #1 this summer.

Which reminds me.... exactly when is TONMOcon scheduled for (and, for that matter, where?). I want to know ASAP so I can get the family a hotel room, and also to make sure I don't schedule anything in advance for that weekend. Info, please? I've been outta the loop so long, I don't even know which thread it's being discussed on.

Domo arigatou gozaimashita!

Love ya,
Tani

just bought a bottle of squid brand fish sauce at a local asian market i found... ill try to get a picture up....

it was odd... the big bottles were in english but the small ones werent.... the one i got has a date from last year on it, but i dunno if thats production or use by.. the big ones read use by 5/06 so i guess ill be fine.... even if it is bad it was only a buck... but then again how does one tell bad fish sauce from good? (spoilage good/bad not quality)

im not going to worry... soy sauce is pretty much indestructable, so im sure fish sauce is pretty close....

in spiderman 2, when theyre trying to come up with a nickname for doc ock, they mention something about squid....

:cthulhu:

Paul allen's [microsoft mogul/nba owner] biggest yacht (he apparently has at least three) is the second biggest yacht in america at 414' and is named Octopus......

In the Zelda games, one of the monsters is an octopus. Octorock? Octorok? Oktorok? Something like that. Then theres also Ursula form the Little Mermaid. :lol: Those are the only times i remeber seeing an octopus or squid.

flipping channels SUnday and breifly stopped on the animal channel... they were doing some countodown of animals with monsterous reputations.... :meso: made #5.. it didnt see all of the blurb but it seemed like they were using giant and collosal interchangably...

an hour later on nat'l geo, i saw a clip of a gpo taking down a spiny dogfish... apparently the aquarium had been loosing dogfish and put cameras out..... he didnt really have a chance i think whole thing was probably only twice as long as the gpo's ML....

Was watching the music vid "cartoon heroes" by Aqua (Its 4 in the mornin' and i'm bored), they were battling a giant one eyed octopus

In a VERY messed up show called "Sealab2021" I saw a preview for, they were harpooning a giant squid.

I've lately joined the ranks of the ebay economy. As I went through my boxes of collected comic books, a few covers jumped out at me.

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=3617

Conan the Barbarian spent a lot of time fighting tentacled monsters. Sometimes, he would go adventuring with men named Sigurd, looking to recapture his youth, only to discover that where there be men named Sigurd, there be Kraken.

:goofysca:

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/download.php?id=3624

At other times, he'd swim off with a comely wench, thinking he'd have relations with her, only to discover she was a cephalopod who wanted to drink his blood. Let me tell you, that's a real wake-up call right there.

And a spot of Battrouble....

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/batsquid2.jpg

Holy Blekksprut Batman!

http://www.tonmo.com/gallery/displayimage.php?&pos=-305

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The second series of the excellent Aardman series started here last night and in the promo there is an octopus. It wasn't in the first three shows though...

KRin

from the list of 100 oldest currently registered .com names:

11/17/1986 OCTOPUS.COM (beating Apple.com by 2 months)


whole list: http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm

the bbc did a survey of 50 foods to try before you die....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/50eats_index.shtml

squid and octopus both made the list at 28 and 43 respectively....

found an old text file of notes i jotted down on a different computer while watching an episode of iron chef:

the iron chef was morimoto and the theme was cuttlefish...

the voice over guys said "cuttlefish, king of the squid"?!? maybe theres confusion in english translation or maybe literal interpretation of the name, but this still seems odd to me....

size looked ~ size of S. officialis, ML at least 1ft.... but from seas off Chiba...

use of squid ink (used in a soup): ink is used by the cephs to get anyway, maybe not only to obscure but possibly because it doesn't taste good? why would people want to eat it?

morimoto goes for using buccal mass, challenger went for gristle around eyes...

morimoto wins....yet another reason for me to take a trip towards philly (hopefully i can finally maek it that far next time)

Isn't the ink primarily composed of mucus? Does that make it "snot soup"? Echh! :yuck:

Has everyone seen The Life Aquatic yet? I loved it! I haven't laughed that hard in a while (lots of understated, subtle humour).

Plus there's lots of fake (and deliberately fake-looking) sea critters, including a cute little octopus.

In the episode of "Dave the Barbarian" I saw last night on cable, Candy's stuffed toys were brought to life and attached the village. Included in the toys was a blue octopus.

KRin

found an old text file of notes i jotted down on a different computer while watching an episode of iron chef:

the iron chef was morimoto and the theme was cuttlefish...

the voice over guys said "cuttlefish, king of the squid"?!? maybe theres confusion in english translation or maybe literal interpretation of the name, but this still seems odd to me....

size looked ~ size of S. officialis, ML at least 1ft.... but from seas off Chiba...

use of squid ink (used in a soup): ink is used by the cephs to get anyway, maybe not only to obscure but possibly because it doesn't taste good? why would people want to eat it?

morimoto goes for using buccal mass, challenger went for gristle around eyes...

morimoto wins....yet another reason for me to take a trip towards philly (hopefully i can finally maek it that far next time)



Bit odd there, but still ok, squid ink noddles does taste ok with herbs and fried clams and prawns, but I havn't tried ink soup before. Bit gross where a certain person said that ink was "snot"

On "Dave the Barbarian" epsiode shown last night, Phaphy (?) the baby dragon spits up a blue-purple squid onto Dave's face. It was definately a squid and not an octopus.

KRin

In this very odd cartoon called "courage the cowardly dog' There's a pair of squid that lives in space and make stars by waving their tentacles :lol: . Then they have these egg sacks that make small baby "space" squid....Oh, yeh, there's also a space sperm whale which ate the male :lol:

In the Rugrats episode "Miss Manners" Angelica is teaching the babies to walk around with things in their heads - Lil has a purple toy octopus on her head.

KRin

I think I've seen that one....

( rumors say that Mr. Bush likes watching Rungrats.)
Bush: :oops:


:roll:

In a show called 'johnny zero' the protagonist excon has a job at a pirate themed pizza place... at one point he has to dress up like an octo... a gangster comes in to give him grief and says that he'll "bust a cap in you squid ---.." the title character points out that he's an octopus and puts a pizza in the guys face...

O..intersting..In Shark Takes, there's also a rather old octo, anyone remember?

Today's (22 Jan) Top Yahoo Searches:

#4 Giant Squid - One Day Move: +588.49%
#6 Squid - One Day Move: +525.59%

Or should this be Poulpe Fiction? :lol:

http://docsavage.org/ban/048.jpg

:lol:

Peter Benchley, I'm calling you out, man.

The fine illustration below is from "The Boy Scouts of the North; or, The Blue Pearl," an episodic novel published in 1919-1920, written by Samuel Scoville, Jr., illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. To read the ripping yarn and see the rest of the great illos, click here. The squid episode takes place towards the end. (http://www.merrycoz.org/annex/pearl/pearl.htm)

I'm calling Benchley out because the battle with the squid is amazingly like the climactic scene in Benchley's "Beast," down to the physical description of the squid (clawed suckers, musky odor, evil intent, etc.) and the showstopper: a well-timed appearance by a sperm whale, charging in just as the squid hoists its terrible head into the heroes' boat. It's all just too much. Being without a copy of "Beast," I'd be grateful if someone could compare the two texts to see if Benchley stole any of Scoville's language, as well.

Great artists steal, but stealing doesn't make a great artist.

Grrr.

Clem

In "Get Shorty," there's a big foam octo arm hanging on the wall in Gene Hackman's office....

there was an episode of 'newlyweds' where calamari is being discussed and ms. chicken? or fish? (jessica simpson) decides to inform everyone something to the effect that squid and octos are the same and an octopus could be a squid if it wanted....

:roll:

while i have littte doubt about her being smarter than people think, IQ of 160 my foot.....

Maybe it's 160 in metric? Or would that be bigger?

opening page of

http://www.angryalien.com/

features (as of this moment) a story from childhood (the creator - not mine) about an octopus....

from the corporate logo of a local company....

http://www.carolina.com/


with a squid in the 'O'.... while they dont have any on the website apparently they collect squid every year to preserve....

In an episode of "Yakkity Yak" one of the items to be collected in a treasure hunt was a giant squid. Several purple-pink squids were seen in the background.

For Science Week here in Australia on the ABC web site, there is a suggestion of three tentacles waving from the top of the page...

Cheers, KRin

an animated octopus plays a small part of the plot from the movie Serenity...

I just discovered that one of Rebecca's coworkers suffered on the TV miniseries "Beast" and helped build the squids used in the film (which evidently was as dreadful to work on as to watch). Every time they'd approach completion, the producers would come back with "add more spiky things - hooks, claws - gotta make the squid more scary." When they began, they were still trying to make it more like a real squid.

This would have been a much better story - and this for you too, Mr. Benchley - if the squid had to fight a giant gorilla at the end. As the editors at DC Comics figured-out about 60 years ago, if you stick a gorilla in any story, it'll sell a lot better. Why not in Beast? Hell, make Whip Darling a gorilla with his own boat! That woulda RAWKED!!

:archi: :band: :thumbsup:

Oswald, the octopus - the animated series - is currently showing on Nick Junior here in Australia at 9pm. I strongly suspect that the writer of this series have taken too much of something toxic in the past! It is so weird. Oswald, being a blue octopus, has a dog called Weinie(sp?) and a friend who is a daisy. A snowman runs the ice cream parlour. A penquin lives downstairs from Oswald, who lives in an apartment block.

All in all, a nicely strange way to end the day....

KRin

People fish and eat giant squid all the time. At least the kind that were washing up on our California shores. The people that like calamari say it's great. They make big steaks out of it.

On NPR this morning there was a story about the winner of 2 awards (one for best screenplay, the other for best director) at the Sundance Film Festival. The Title of the fim was "The Squid and The Whale". The subject matter has to do with a family where a divorce is imminent, and apparently has nothing to do with either squids or whales...

on a website i found a rather image-laden descriptions of a hangover:

"Your face is green, your head feels like a dangerously over-inflated basketball being dribbled by a sadistic orangutan and your stomach feels like an octopus with rabies getting electrocuted."

I've searched the forums but I can't find anything about Kat and Dr Steve being interviewed in the excellent McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 11 about the Colossal Squid.

http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/1C92ED2D-A051-41CC-A22D-09EAB52148A9/McSweeneysIssue11.cfm

Has this been mentioned here?

In the Farscape pilot, the hawaiian shirt ben browder is wearing looks like it has at least one octopus on it...

An octopus design in the LSD blotter gallery,

www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/images/archive/lsd_blotter_octopus.gif

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_images_gallery3.shtml
at the top left of the list.

i just heard on CBC about what seems to be an educational play called "the secret life of the octopus". it's touring across schools in alberta, canada.

any other albertans out there?

I just chanced upon this web site that has a couple of ceph sightings. You'll have to scroll down to see them, I couldn't isolate the images.

OOOOPS ! I forgot the link!
http://www.oaxacanwoodcarving.com/gallbizrr.html

Found another link. Check it out!
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just in case anybody cares: in harry potter movie #4, the grindylows seemed to have octopus arms for legs.

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J

Just watched The Life Aquatic again, several cephs and the infamous jaguar shark

Thanks, msamaki, for mentioning the grindylows in the HP/GOBLET OF FIRE film!

Interesting.... in one of the opening scenes, Harry, Hermione, the Weasleys, and the Diggorys are walking on the campgrounds surrounding the Quidditch Cup stadium, and pass by a performer juggling a plethora of "tentacled" objects whose airborne formation almost exactly prefigures that of the grindylows when they attack Harry en masse in the underwater scene. Certainly, this no mere coincidence, but rather a wonderful (albeit extremely subtle) cinematic touch by the director.

Which leads me to a perplexing question: When will the lake-dwelling Hogwarts Giant Squid finally put in a film appearance? So far, he/she has been mentioned or alluded to at least once in every one of the books, and I'm sure JKR must have a reason for that. I and some of the other members of the Hogwarts Local NYC discussion group fully expect our cephy comrade to play some sort of significant role in the upcoming seventh book.... maybe consuming what's left of You-Know-Who after Harry does him in? (Think Hook and the Crocodile in PETER PAN :twisted: ) But so far, no onscreen Architeuthis.

Is it possible that the teuthiform design of the grindylows was an hommage to the Giant Squid? I'd like to think so, as I know that JKR has a great deal of say in the cinematic interpretation of her books. But I still hope that somewhere in the final book -- and the next three films -- there is enough squiddage to keep us TONMO Potterphiles happy.

Resurfacing after Lo These Myriad Aeons,
THE BIOLUMINESCENT ONE

On the episode in which Boots has his special day, there is an octopus playing with yo-yo's and s/he gives one each to Dora and Boots...I watch way too much children's TV for someone without children...

Cheers, KRin

Welcome back Tani, where ya been??

J

For all of you cooks out there...

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It was on flaxart.com - they call it a Nemo Whisk... http://flaxart.com/Creative-Living/Home-Decor/Kitchen/Nemo-Whisks