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An embarrassing situation for the octopus

Category: CephalopodsWeirdness
Posted on: September 9, 2007 9:23 AM, by PZ Myers

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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#1

Posted by: Gem | September 9, 2007 9:36 AM

Tentacle hentai -- two words that should never have been put together.

#2

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.

#3

Posted by: Dan | September 9, 2007 9:49 AM

Can't really eat mollusks all the time, can you?

#4

Posted by: S. Fisher | September 9, 2007 10:39 AM

Is that Barbie?

#5

Posted by: AntonGarou | September 9, 2007 10:49 AM

In US you eat mollusc, in Soviet Russia mollusc eat you.

#6

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?

#7

Posted by: Jewbacchus | September 9, 2007 11:36 AM

Tentacoo Wape is the bee's knees.

#8

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 \
| |
| any infants to be slain except those who were already |
| |
| damned and predestined for eternal death." |
| |
| [John Calvin, rationalizing the slaughter |
| |
\ of infants in the Old Testament] /
---------------------------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ ($$)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

(Alas, if only the [TT] monospaced-font command worked here...)

#9

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>

#10

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?

#11

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.

#12

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.

#13

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.

#14

Posted by: Inky | September 10, 2007 1:52 PM

followed the weird cake link and

EEEE I *love* the Mario Bros. cake!!!

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