Squid and Octopus spotting

[cuttlegirl]

I wonder are there any octo cookie cutters lying around?

Ask and ye shall receive Eric...
http://kitchengifts.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/octopus.gif

 

[bigGdelta]

just watched a futurama episode on adult swim where Fry talked about the the story of the grasshopper and the octopus.

 

[Tintenfisch]

Was watching the Series 2 M*A*S*H episode 'Carry On, Hawkeye' a few days ago, where the whole unit gets the flu, and a harried Hawkeye quips, 'What I wouldn't give for an intelligent octopus!' ... had he only known...

 

[cuttlegirl]

I visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History today. I haven't been there for years (I am not going to say how many...). Anyway, they still have the under-sea dioramas that I remember as a child.. Now I know why I always thought fossil cephalopods looked like this.

 

[Phil]

Those are absolutely fantastic images of the display at the Carnegie, Cuttlegirl. Thank you for posting them, they are by the far the best images of the dioramas there I've seen.

A very interesting depiction of an ammonoid with 24 nautiloid-like arms (!), and I love the blotchy paint job on the nautiloid. Most excellent. Would anyone happen to know which precise faunas are depicted here?

 

[cuttlegirl]

Great, now I am going to have to go back to the museum and actually read the signs... I went to the museum with my 8 year old and three year old, it was pretty much full speed through the exhibits. Next time I will go by myself!

 

[bigGdelta]

found this valentine


(warning some other strips may be offensive)


diesel sweeties

 

[krin]

There was an octopus on "Dora the Explorer" selling ice cream from a van.

also

The Birds Eye add here has an octopus giving out plates of crumbed fish bits in an animation.

Cheers, KRin

 

[chrono_war01]

I see a octo on krin's avatar

 

[main_board]

On a Simpson's episode a few days ago Homer was explaining to Bart and Lisa about his past in The Be Sharps. There's a brief clip where the Cap'n and a giant pink squid are in a fist fight on the deck of his boat. The radio is on, and suddenly a Be Sharps song comes on and they stop fighting and reconcile. It was a cute.

Cheers!

 

[cuttlegirl]

I found this song from Newfoundland called "Squidjigging Ground."

http://www.k12.nf.ca/discovery/Commmunities/acdrom/nfldmidi2/squidjig.mid

I found the lyrics too... By Roger McGuinn
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10653/10653-m/10653-m-001.mp3
The Squid-Jigging Ground
(Traditional)

Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather,
With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down;
All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers,
They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.

Some are workin' their jiggers while others are yarnin',
There's some standin' up and there's more lyin' down;
While all kinds of fun, jokes, and tricks are begun
As they wait for the squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

There's men from Bar Harbour and men from the Tickle,
In all kinds of motorboats, green, grey and brown;
There's a red headed Tory out here in a dory
Running down Squires on the squid-jiggin' ground.

The man with the whiskers is old Jacob Steele;
He's gettin well up but he's still pretty sound.
While Uncle Bob Hawkins wears three pair o' stockin's
Whenever he's out on the squid-jiggin' ground.

God bless my sou'wester, there's Skipper John Cheeby,
He's the best hand at squid-jiggin' here, I'll be bound
Hello! What's the row? He's jiggin' one now,
The very first squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

Holy smoke! What a bustle! All hands are excited.
It's a wonder to me that nobody is drowned.
There's a bustle, confusion, a wonderful hustle,
They're all jiggin' squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

There's poor Uncle Billy, his whiskers are spattered
With spots of the squid juice that's flying around;
One poor little boy got it right in the eye,
But they don't give a hang on the squid-jiggin' ground.

Says Bobby, "The squid are on top of the water,
I just got me jigger 'bout one fathom down"--
When a squid in the boat squited right down his throat,
And he's swearin' like mad on the squid-jiggin' ground.

If you ever feel inclined to go squiddin',
Leave your white shirts and collars behind in the town.
And if you get cranky without your silk hanky
You'd better steer clear of the squid-jiggin' ground.

Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather,
With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down;
All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers,
They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.

 

[bigGdelta]

By traditional the music is public domain right? I may see if I can do something with that. Maybe a les paul through a marshall and my delta blues.........


Just found this
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/01/ninja_squid.php

 

[sorseress]

I just found this on a site for Mata Ortiz pottery.
http://www.solmarimports.com/cgi/shop/detail.cgi?id=195p

 

[Shadow Mantis]

Yesterday on a show called X-Play, there were some good Cthulhu references. They had the First Annual H.P. Lovecraft Spelling Bee. It was great!

 

[monty]

I.M. Weasel

I just flipped to Cartoon Network waiting for the Daily Show to come on, and they had an episode of I.M. Weasel and I.R. Baboon (or whatever the title of the show with those characters is)-- I tuned in late, but they were "piloting" a whale around, and their whale is attacked by a giant squid. After the squid inks weasel in his diving suit, it becomes clear that the whale and squid are in love, and they have a wedding...