:)

Most of my friends think it's funny... But even the ones who think it's funny I've caught correcting people on the plural of the word octopus and giving up eating cephalopods. :)

Family members and most friends are amazed and want one.

Work people :bonk: think I'm insane. Can't figure out why I'm sooo obscessed with these creatures!!!!!

They don't know what they're missing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

giving up eating cephalopods. :)

No!!!!!!!
That's just not right, they're tasty (that is if you know how to cook them)

Mom thinks I'm gross, she thinks that cephlaopods are slugs with suckers, ew....

All of my friends love the critters...one of their favourite things to do is go out at low tide and look for them...when I have a tank set up, it gets more positive attention than anything else in the whole house!

greg

Ok, Most of them just laugh at me. I'm like beyond just interested, if you get me talking about octopus and squid I get so excited and start talking like 10000 words a second. (slight exageration) I did that in science class one day, apparently it was funny, but my friends then started asking questions about squid and octopus, that got me even more excited.!!!!

Most think I'm weird but are happy to pander to that weirdness.......they think it's a harmless obsession..... little do they know the truth :twisted:


J

Most of my friends point me to news and websites about octos. Two or three will even come to TONMOcon. But last week I mentioned TONMO to a colleague and friend. She looked at me like I had tentacles! She had no idea I was interested in octos at all. :bonk: Who knew that there are so many other things - work, music, boys - to talk about?

Melissa

My friends and family are a patient, loving lot, so they're used to it. Most seem to find it mildly endearing when I excitedly tell them about the latest amazing discoveries. I do enjoy telling people about the big teuthids, as quite a few people think that giant squids are fignewtons of Jules Verne's imagination. To a man/woman, they all find the colossal squid particularly disturbing.

Clem

i can say its best to wait until a second or a third date to go off on a ceph tangent....

:neutral:

I can usually get away with mentioning it and not getting the 'what planet are you from?' look as long as I don't mention TONMO and the squid PhD in the same sentence. :wink:

When Rebecca first met me, she overheard me at a party talking to somebody about how my ideal home would be a disused offshore oil rig or hollowed-out volcano where I could live like a Bond villain - feeding interlopers to my pet giant squid. When she heard that last part she immediately had to follow my voice and see just exactly who I was.

A few months later, I invited her to come watch an octopus video with me and we made the leap from "just friends" to seriously involved the same night. Less than a year later we were husband and wife. Cupid is a cephalopod!

ya I do tell alot of people but most just say cool and forget about it I wish there was someone I new personaly who was Into octopus or even fish atlease to the marine level. what ever I have tonmo !!! thats good enough for me.

Actually, as an update, I rant about it alot so some of my friends have actually started to get interested in my marine obsession. And I go on tonmo at school, so they often ask what kind of a wacko site I'm on. (I will convert them all into ceph entheusist one way or another whahahaha) Ya, but I've found that eventually your friends will accept your strangeness and move on, or ask questions!

EVeryone always has the same question.
Are you gonna eat him?
people are strange

Lol, i get the same question alot too!

My friends think its pretty neat though they're not exactly inspired, girls seem to think cuttles are really cute ( those that have seen them anyway) :grin:

my girlfriend thinks its silly, but everyone else i know thinks it's the coolest pet in the world

Some think its a bit weird
others think its cool
some think its weird an cool
all cant wait to see it
all expect the unexpected anyway :lol:

My 'friends' at school think that TONMO.com is a online animal 'dating' site where humans go on a 'date' cephs.

You mean it's not? Next thing you're gonna tell me is that a cuddle-fish isn't, well, nevermind.

When I saw the question my first thought was: friends? Then I remembered that I still have a few and they think this whole ceph fascination is a little wierd, especially the Lovecraft stories I've been telling them about. They also think it's funny, in a laughing "at" me sort of way. But that's okay. Maybe I'll get one of them blue ring octo's and encourage them to come over and play with it... :twisted:

That's the spirit! :cthulhu:

My ceph obsession has rubbed-off on others over the years, most notably artists and musicians, although some turned-out to be already extremely interested in the inky ones anyway. Rebecca already liked tentacled beasties before we met - she had cartoon examples to show me, which left me very impressed to say the least. How can anybody not love them?

Most people just laugh at me then offer me some Tako Poke!

my interest in cephs is masked by my undying obsession with Nirvana (the band, im not buddist). But my friends do wonder how i can be so obsessed with a suicidal heroin addict, and after that forget about my "separate but equal" love for cephs.
:band:

How can they wonder that? Nirvana RAWKED!!!

My friends think it's funny too. Whenever someone sees some ceph item out there, it always manages to come back down to me. You know like, 'My friend Mary found this glass octopus! So she gave it to her roommate, who gave it to her pilates instructor, who gave it to her gardener who gave it to his nephew who gave it to me and now I'm giving it to you!' So I get articles and toys and books... All sorts of cephy things passed down from one person to another!

Treasure each and every one of them. Our house-sitter while we were at Tonmocon remarked later, "It's like the White Rabbit's house, except that instead of everything being shaped like a rabbit, everywhere you look - EVERYwhere - there's something squid or octopus related, or bats, or giant eyeballs!"

What are these friends of which you speak?

What are these friends of which you speak?

From Merriam-Webster OnLine

Main Entry: 1friend
Pronunciation: 'frend
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English frend, from Old English frEond; akin to Old High German friunt friend, Old English frEon to love, frEo free
1 a : one attached to another by affection or esteem b : ACQUAINTANCE
2 a : one that is not hostile b : one that is of the same nation, party, or group
3 : one that favors or promotes something (as a charity)
4 : a favored companion
5 capitalized : a member of a Christian sect that stresses Inner Light, rejects sacraments and an ordained ministry, and opposes war -- called also Quaker
- friend·less /'fren(d)-l&s/ adjective
- friend·less·ness noun
- be friends with : to have a friendship or friendly relationship with
- make friends with : to establish a friendship or friendly relations with

:lol: I like the part about a "Friend" being a Quaker, I never knew that.

Officially known as the Society of Friends - hard to imagine they spawned Richard Nixon... but man, I DO love their oatmeal!