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[sorseress]

That's a safe bet Nancy. I hope I don't disappoint!

Don't worry Steve, our standards aren't that high.

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Here's an interesting twist

 

[sorseress]

Wuss, huh? Did you read the comments? Your Wild Boyz appearance was cited. That is destined to stick with you forever. Aren't you glad?

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Oh dear. A syndicated story is out with so many errors in it. Time to run and hide, because I don't want anything with 49cm (READ 49 mm lower rostral length) beaks chasing me about!

 

[sorseress]

I notice you didn't post the story or the link. It must be really bad!

 

[Architeuthoceras]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hf6j0ho0AzZZsxjy0-vG9gdUjLqQ

"The New Zealand squid's lower beak measures around 40 centimetres across, while other beaks have been found -- usually in the stomach of predator sperm whales -- measuring up to 49 centimetres."

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Here's a relatively accurate story; finally!

 

[OB]

Yay! With the brooding blob theory once more committed to cyberspace

 

[Clem]

It does me proud to see the brooding blob theory rise again.

Clem

 

[Jean]

Here's a relatively accurate story; finally!

I could make a clever comment about this "relatively accurate" story being in the OTAGO daily times............but I won't

 

[esquid]

measuring up to 49 centimetres."

That would be over one and one half feet!

 

[sorseress]

Oh great! Got past being a giant gelatinous blob several hundred posts ago, and now will become one again in a hundred or so posts!

 

[Steve O'Shea]

And I'll be wearing flares and have sideburns just in time for the nth hundred post.

I'm not responsible for rehashing the same old ... the press is a funny beast.

 

[OB]

Oh great! Got past being a giant gelatinous blob several hundred posts ago, and now will become one again in a hundred or so posts!

No.... Not again.... Please... pleaheahease.... the darkness... the cold... I can't go back there..... Somebody DO something?!

 

[monty]

That would be over one and one half feet!

Well, MonsterQuest seemed to think Dale & Scott would find an octopus with a beak on that scale. But they didn't. Probably because it sneakily avoided their cameras, that stealthy Octopus Megalomaniac or whatever they called it...