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Category: Humor • Weirdness
Posted on: April 14, 2006 1:09 PM, by PZ Myers
You tell me…should I be flattered at all the email coming in from people saying that the phrase "flailing around like a lubed-up squid" brought me immediately to their mind?
Maybe it was the erotic resonance of the image that elicits that prompts the association…
Please don't tell me I'm the only one who detects the erotic resonance.
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Apparently not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_rape
I note that this is the first Google hit for that term, meaning that it is easier to find a scholarly discussion than the raw hentai material itself.
Posted by: Blake Stacey | April 14, 2006 1:20 PM
No, that's resoundingly erotic. Your erot-o-meter is right on target.
Posted by: JoeB | April 14, 2006 1:20 PM
No, but you may be the first person to accuse Bucky (or Mr. Conley) of "erotic resonance"! Don't say it in Bucky's hearing, he'll get... ideas. :-)
Posted by: David Harmon | April 14, 2006 1:52 PM
and "Well-Oiled Machine" invokes...?
Posted by: owlbear1 | April 14, 2006 2:15 PM
I think any phrase involving the word "lube" these days has plenty of erotic resonance. Come on, is anyone really able to see the sign for that restaurant, Quaker Steak & Lube, without snickering?
Posted by: Nate | April 14, 2006 2:36 PM
Just be glad you're a sex symbol, PZ.
Posted by: BronzeDog | April 14, 2006 2:50 PM
PZ - Check out today's "Get Fuzzy" (April 14, 2006). That may be where this is coming from. And yes, I did think of this site when I read the comic strip...
Posted by: RSmith | April 14, 2006 3:36 PM
I gotta start actually checking the links to these things...
Posted by: RSmith | April 14, 2006 3:37 PM
Please don't tell me I'm the only one who detects the erotic resonance.
Well, you don't seem to be, PZ, to judge from the comments. But I gotta say -- I'm worried about all of you.
You people need to get out in the fresh air, meet a girl, preferably one without tentacles....
Posted by: jrochest | April 14, 2006 5:14 PM
I, too, almost immediately thought of this site. Interestingly it's the first time I've read the local comics page is ages as my partner just subscribed to Fri-Sun so she can read the events section on Sunday.
Posted by: Robert D2 | April 14, 2006 5:20 PM
I've been a vistor to your blog for only a few days and I thought of you immediately (cute guy, lube, naughty thoughts aplenty). Didn't even know you had a Friday squid feature. The things one learns from aimless internet wanderings...
Posted by: KiaD | April 14, 2006 5:47 PM
"You people need to get out in the fresh air, meet a girl, preferably one without tentacles...."
That is strictly for suckers.
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson | April 14, 2006 9:10 PM
If it makes you feel better, some of us were at a Howlerfest in DC and thought of you while admiring a diorama depicting ancient cephalopods at the Smithsonian.
Posted by: arensb | April 15, 2006 10:29 PM
OctoPi69: What are you wearing?
CephaloPompoms: KY, baby, just for you. Wanna see my stingers?
OctoPi69: Ow! The last time I met a girl like you, she drove me to ink.
Posted by: Kevin Hayden | April 17, 2006 2:42 AM