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« Go back to Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor | Main | Squid on ice »

Friday Cephalopod: Tiny and pointy!

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms
Posted on: March 16, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

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Idiosepius notoides

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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#1

Oh pointy pods, oh pointy pointy...

I wonder if there are any more poems about cephalopods, because there probably should be.

Posted by: paddy | March 16, 2007 7:40 AM

#2

It looks like a very pointy, spotted fingernail. Definitely time for new glasses.

Posted by: beepbeepitsme | March 16, 2007 9:07 AM

#3

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: Tuomo Hämäläinen | March 16, 2007 3:31 PM

#4

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: HMHB | March 16, 2007 6:21 PM

#5

Adapting a verse from England's Greatest One-Armed Poet:

O pointy squid, o pointy pointy,
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy.

Posted by: melior | March 16, 2007 11:10 PM

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