Squid and Octopus spotting

[chrono_war01]

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"

 

[krin]

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

 

[chrono_war01]

Ha

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 . 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

 

[krin]

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

 

[chrono_war01]

aw...

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

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

 

[WhiteKiboko]

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...

 

[chrono_war01]

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

 

[WhiteKiboko]

Today's (22 Jan) Top Yahoo Searches:

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

 

[Snafflehound]

cephs in the pulps

Or should this be Poulpe Fiction?

 

[erich orser]

 

[Clem]

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.

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

 

[WhiteKiboko]

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

 

[WhiteKiboko]

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....



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

 

[um...]

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

 

[WhiteKiboko]

opening page of

Angry Alien Productions: 30-Second Bunnies Theatre and other cartoons.

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