Friday Cephalopod: Don't make any sudden moves
Category: Cephalopods • Humor
Posted on: June 29, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers
removed at the request of Gary Larson
Figure from Bride of the Far Side(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Gary Larson.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Search this blog
Profile
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
• a longer profile of yours truly
• my calendar
• Nature Network
• RichardDawkins Network
• facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter
• Atheist Nexus
• the Pharyngula chat room
(#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net)
I reserve the right to publicly post, with full identifying information about the source, any email sent to me that contains threats of violence.
Random Quote
(Complete listing)The order of creation in the Bible is woefully incorrect and violates even the most simple and obvious rules of natural science.
[Charles Cazeau, U.S. professor of geology]
Recent Posts
- Nice shirt
- Faith hurts
- There probably isn't
- Enduring damage
- Casey Luskin writes a revealing letter
- Come on down
- The Wall Street Journal editorial pages are a very silly place
- Friday Cephalopod: Out of the shadows it comes
- Turnabout
- Liveblogging Janet Browne
A Taste of Pharyngula
(Complete listing)The burden of bearing a massive penis
More details of cephalopod dinner etiquette
Deep homologies in the pharyngeal arches
PZ Myers' Own Original, Cosmic, and Eccentric Analogy for How the Genome Works -OR- High Geekology
Recent Comments
- Pierce R. Butler on There probably isn't
- SC on Faith hurts
- Naked Bunny with a Whip on Enduring damage
- Wowbagger on Faith hurts
- Pierce R. Butler on Enduring damage
- Owlmirror on Faith hurts
- Longtime Lurker on Enduring damage
- 'This Himself on Enduring damage
- Wowbagger on Faith hurts
- mayhempix on Turnabout
Archives
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
Blogroll
(Complete listing)Other Information
Subscribe via Email
Stay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest.
« Wonderfully ‘radical’ editorial in Nature | Main | Friday Cephalopod: Since I'm heading to the Pacific Northwest tomorrow… »
TrackBacks
(TrackBack URL for this entry: )
Comments
One of my favourite cartoons of all time.
Posted by: Evolving Squid | June 29, 2007 6:44 AM
A CARTOON of a cephalopod?!!
I am deeply offended! I expect a stunning photo of a real living creature. In protest I will go diving on my local reef and find my own octopus or something.
Posted by: Fernando Magyar | June 29, 2007 6:47 AM
The Far Side has always been the cartoon of preference for science geeks. The Thagomizer comes rather naturally to mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
Posted by: forsen | June 29, 2007 7:03 AM
Gary Larson is my idol. I'll never forget the thagomizer.
Such a shame he stopped drawing and asked for his babies to be returned. ie for his cartoons not to be posted on the internet. :-(
But at leat he is properly honoured..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni
Posted by: Andrew | June 29, 2007 8:00 AM
What could there possibly be to fear in such a glorious creature? Those dinnerplate eyes, those tree-trunk arms, that steel-shearing...hungry...beak...
Crap. Betrayed by my inner mammal.
Posted by: rrt | June 29, 2007 10:04 AM
The Electron Microscope unit I inhabited through much of my PhD was festooned with Larson's work. On the door of one of the scope rooms was the one where 1 caveman is sitting atop a huge stone microscope under which is a mammoth. He is saying to caveman 2 'It's a mammoth' and entitled 'Early Microscope'. Sheer genius.
Posted by: Peter Ashby | June 29, 2007 3:36 PM
I copy to my Science Humor website. ;-)
More...
http://www.sciencehumor.org
Posted by: Luis Brudna | June 29, 2007 4:31 PM
Reading Larson's published books of cartoons was one of the sheer delights of my late High School and early College years. They'd have me howling with laughter and my mom would want to see just what was so funny. Seemingly invariably, she never "got" the humor. At all. My mom's reasonably well educated (retired school librarian), but most of Larson's stuff was just over her head, while it never failed to tickle my funny bone.
Posted by: JJR | June 29, 2007 8:01 PM
What I noticed was that all of us in the family considered 10% of Larson's cartoons to be laugh-out-loud funny, it was a different selection for each person. But "Squids can sense fear" is a general favourite.
Posted by: Monado | June 29, 2007 8:52 PM