In the first wave attack ordered by the Squid Overlords, deep-sea microbes will invade the air. As you already know the second wave attack will be flesh eating sponges. Image from Octopus Pulp
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Deep-Sea Organisms Are Invading
Category: Biodiversity
Posted on: December 19, 2006 10:03 AM, by CR McClain
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Just how many arms does that thing have? I for one salute our new duodecimopus overlords.
Posted by: Snail | December 21, 2006 4:32 AM
The octopus on his cermonial garb is the rare 12 armed octopus. Why have 8 when you can have 12? How humerous that the artist would make such a large mistake. This will probably anger the squid overloads immensely
Posted by: CR McClain | December 21, 2006 10:10 AM