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Hello To PZ From London!

Topic Categories: London, England
Posted on: September 4, 2008 10:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"

Octopus at the Natural History Museum in London, England.

Image: GrrlScientist 3 September 2008 [larger view].

As soon as I saw this sculpture on a pillar at the Natural History Museum in London, I thought of one person. Guess who that person was? You have three guesses and the first two don't count.

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Comments

Captain Nemo.

Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | September 4, 2008 12:44 PM

Squiddly Diddly?

Posted by: Agersomnia | September 4, 2008 5:51 PM

Wow, that's a freaky coincidence, I took a picture of the same sculpture (well it might not be the very same - I think there's several of them around) when I went to the Natural History Museum last year,
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w272/HorwoodBeerMaster/MuseumCephalopod.jpg

I guess reading pharyngula raises one's cephalopod awareness.

Posted by: Horwood Beer-Master | September 5, 2008 5:05 AM

Geez, that could be any of FSM-knows-how-many hentai fans...

Posted by: Vidar | September 5, 2008 9:39 AM

Doc Ock

Posted by: Greg | September 5, 2008 9:41 AM

Rasta-pogo

Posted by: Ranxerox | September 5, 2008 9:42 AM

P. Squiddy

Someone should put that on a T-shirt...

Posted by: Boosterz | September 5, 2008 9:51 AM

Cthulu?

Posted by: Aaron | September 5, 2008 10:08 AM

Shamu?

Posted by: Aaron | September 5, 2008 10:17 AM

P-Zed!

Posted by: Barklikeadog | September 5, 2008 10:20 AM

Lio?

Posted by: Zeno | September 5, 2008 10:31 AM

Barklikeadog, thanks for pronouncing it correctly instead of that cacophonous noise zeeeee.

Can I vote for Captain Nemo?

Posted by: Jacques | September 5, 2008 10:39 AM

PZ!

Posted by: Cronan | September 5, 2008 11:02 AM

Geez, that could be any of FSM-knows-how-many hentai fans...

All bless his sauced name. Ramen.

Posted by: ignatov | September 5, 2008 12:36 PM

Cronan, #12

Who that?

Posted by: ThirtyFiveUp | September 5, 2008 12:47 PM

Medusa!

Posted by: Hank Fox | September 5, 2008 12:50 PM

Do you know the age of the strata that fossil was found in?

Posted by: Paul Burnett | September 5, 2008 1:10 PM

Patrick Duffy as Man from Atlantas?

Posted by: DavidONE | September 5, 2008 1:25 PM

The Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Posted by: Rick Lumb | September 5, 2008 1:29 PM

My first thought was FSM but #7 caused me to laugh uncontrollably

Posted by: bunnycatch3r | September 5, 2008 1:38 PM

A southern woman told me one day, when I mentioned I liked the pillars on the old plantation homes said,
"Thems columns, A pillars what you put your head on at night".

pete

Posted by: peter g | September 5, 2008 1:42 PM

I think Zenō got it. Liō!

Posted by: Sili | September 5, 2008 3:03 PM

Personally I take great offence of this kind of portrayal of FSM (The Flying Spaghetti Monster), and I think it could be worth a lawsuit.

Where did you take the picture?
Wht date?
How long have they been up for display

This is an outrage.

Posted by: Adam | September 6, 2008 6:54 AM