Octopus at the Natural History Museum in London, England.
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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Hello To PZ From London!
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Posted on: September 4, 2008 10:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
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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