Shelley had her weird cake article, but it failed to include this bizarre masterpiece.
I can't quite imagine why a cephalopod would want to do that, when there are so many attractive molluscs in the sea.
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An embarrassing situation for the octopus
Category: Cephalopods • Weirdness
Posted on: September 9, 2007 9:23 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Gem | September 9, 2007 9:36 AM
Tentacle hentai -- two words that should never have been put together.
Posted by: forsen | September 9, 2007 9:38 AM
A modern take on an older shunga...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife
I will never get my head around the Japanese.
Posted by: Dan | September 9, 2007 9:49 AM
Can't really eat mollusks all the time, can you?
Posted by: S. Fisher | September 9, 2007 10:39 AM
Is that Barbie?
Posted by: AntonGarou | September 9, 2007 10:49 AM
In US you eat mollusc, in Soviet Russia mollusc eat you.
Posted by: sailor | September 9, 2007 11:05 AM
To be fair to Shelly hers were Nerdy cakes.
"I can't quite imagine why a cephalopod would want to do that, when there are so many attractive molluscs in the sea."
What makes you think it wasn't just having a meal?
Posted by: Jewbacchus | September 9, 2007 11:36 AM
Tentacoo Wape is the bee's knees.
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | September 9, 2007 12:50 PM
Which link leads you to others on the same site...
one of which leads you to http://www.virtualroadside.com/fortune/ ...
which generates random quotes with random ASCII art ...
which includes an option for "offensive atheist" quotations...
some of which are pretty good:
_________________________________________________________
/ "We may rest assured that God would never have suffered \
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| any infants to be slain except those who were already |
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| damned and predestined for eternal death." |
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| [John Calvin, rationalizing the slaughter |
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\ of infants in the Old Testament] /
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\ ^__^
\ ($$)\_______
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||----w |
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(Alas, if only the [TT] monospaced-font command worked here...)
Posted by: Aerik | September 9, 2007 1:46 PM
HAHAHA!!
Japanese monster tentacle rape porn always gets my goat. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
</sarcasm>
Posted by: Robert Madewell | September 9, 2007 1:55 PM
Hey PZ,
That cephalopod is not having sex with barbie! He's eating her! Doesn't cephalopod sex have something to do with the male puting a dab of sperm on the female with his tentacle? Not as intrusive as mammalian sex?
Posted by: Graculus | September 9, 2007 5:41 PM
Didn't you learn from the "Tentacle Sex" episode?
Expect a whole bunch of creepy searches to end up here.
Posted by: Franny | September 9, 2007 9:08 PM
As the creator of the cake I have to say I was inspired by the combination of "Creepy half a barbie on a stick to put on a cake" (the dolls have no lower legs, just a toothpick) and the octopus cake pan sold by Williams and Sonoma for a very brief period...it seems they've been pulled from the shelves.
The flickr set for all the pictures of my cake is here FYI.
Posted by: Jon Anderson | September 10, 2007 12:39 AM
Graculus,
I'm already getting search traffic for "hentai birthday"... That blog post made me the first hit on Google.
Posted by: Inky | September 10, 2007 1:52 PM
followed the weird cake link and
EEEE I *love* the Mario Bros. cake!!!