Friday Cephalopod: Tiny and pointy!
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: March 16, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers
Idiosepius notoides
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Posted by: paddy | March 16, 2007 7:40 AM
Oh pointy pods, oh pointy pointy...
I wonder if there are any more poems about cephalopods, because there probably should be.
Posted by: beepbeepitsme | March 16, 2007 9:07 AM
It looks like a very pointy, spotted fingernail. Definitely time for new glasses.
Posted by: Tuomo Hämäläinen | March 16, 2007 3:31 PM
Like a cute little sperm (and that bring in my memory something about the tales and childrens and angry mother in a previous post...)
Posted by: HMHB | March 16, 2007 6:21 PM
re paddy
try HMHB* " them's the vagaries":
" thin men bin men lexicographers,
squid yes, not so octopus".
Deranged yes not so comprehensible.
*aka half man half biscuit**
**cookies to north americans***
*** no further comment needed
Posted by: melior | March 16, 2007 11:10 PM
Adapting a verse from England's Greatest One-Armed Poet:
O pointy squid, o pointy pointy,
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy.