Friday Cephalopod: Blue and gold
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: January 26, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

Sepioteuthis sepioidea
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: January 26, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Comments
Oh, that is a beauty of a cephalopod. They look so adorable.
Posted by: Martin Wisse | January 26, 2007 7:25 AM
A loliginid! Woo hoo!
Posted by: Frank Anderson | January 26, 2007 8:14 AM
My school's colors!
Posted by: rlrr | January 26, 2007 8:33 AM
Those were my old high school colors, too. Why couldn't we have been the Kent-Meridian Squid instead of the Kent-Meridian Royals?
Posted by: PZ Myers | January 26, 2007 9:05 AM
U!
C!
L!
A!!!
Posted by: CCP | January 26, 2007 9:22 AM
There's a great bar in the east village I used to frequent. Learned to play pool there.
The pitchers were cheap. It was seedy. I loved it. It was called. The Blue and Gold. Are those Ukrainian colors?
Posted by: Steve_C | January 26, 2007 10:12 AM
Da. Those are the colors of the Ukrainian flag, with its big blue sky over vast fields of golden wheat.
Posted by: Kseniya | January 26, 2007 10:29 AM
Indeed, the great cephalopod smiled upon me today... I found out who stole my squid-themed licence plate in October 2005 and can now begin the process of recovering the money it cost to replace.
I bet that person is going to be surprised when they get my message.
Posted by: Evolving Squid | January 26, 2007 11:04 AM
Apropos of nothing, but I note you are forecast to continue to have a mild winter, PZ.
Posted by: llewelly | January 26, 2007 11:35 AM
Posted by: Altabin | January 26, 2007 12:18 PM
These colors are consistent with the blue and gold crews of US nuclear submarines.
Posted by: Doug | January 26, 2007 1:43 PM
"... you bring the whiskey, I'll bring the dame..."
It does look more like a "golden domer" than a Bruin. The blue's all wrong for one thing. A Cal Bear? Perhaps it's Oskie with his mask off.
Posted by: ArtK | January 26, 2007 1:53 PM