Squid and Octopus spotting

[WhiteKiboko]

flipping channels SUnday and breifly stopped on the animal channel... they were doing some countodown of animals with monsterous reputations.... 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....

 

[joel_ang]

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

 

[Cephkid]

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

 

[Clem]

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.

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.

 

[Clem]

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.

 

[Phil]

And a spot of Battrouble....

 

[WhiteKiboko]

Holy Blekksprut Batman!

 

[WhiteKiboko]

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

 

[krin]

Creature Comforts

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

 

[WhiteKiboko]

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

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


whole list: Jottings.com might be for sale. Request the price today.

 

[WhiteKiboko]

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....

 

[WhiteKiboko]

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)

 

[erich orser]

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

 

[Toren]

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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.

 

[krin]

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