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I have this problem all the time

Category: Humor
Posted on: September 18, 2007 1:00 AM, by PZ Myers

Or I would, if I actually had a land squid.

Does anyone know where I could pick up one of those babies? Petco, Petsmart?

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Call tentacle support.

Posted by: Frac | September 18, 2007 1:27 AM

Apparently the Griffin family in Quahog, RI, has a squid as a house pet. Perhaps you could ask them where they got theirs (although they appear to be none too pleased with it; perhaps it fights with the evil monkey in the son's closet).

[Link]

Posted by: Zeno | September 18, 2007 1:28 AM

I thought evil militant liberal atheist darwinistas ate babies for breakfast. Now we know the toof! It's the pet that eats 'em!

So what do evil militant liberal atheist darwinistas eat?

Posted by: blf | September 18, 2007 1:45 AM

nice link. Shannon Wheeler makes some of the smartest, coolest comics out there. Too Much Coffee Man is super-great. They did an OPERA of it at the recent Comic-Con here in SD. I met the cast. I've met Shannon a few times, and he always gracefully puts up with my fanboy idiocy. I'm actually wearing at this second, while typing, a TMCM shirt based on a design found on a pirated Zippo in Japan, that Wheeler re-pirated from them.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j190/aspictured/bootlegshirtbiglt.jpg

and yes, I'm a complete nerd, in my own special way.

Posted by: garth | September 18, 2007 3:24 AM

Now why would you like to develop land squids? Everyone knows that the problem of land life is all what stands between us and our tentacled overlords.

Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | September 18, 2007 5:37 AM

So what do evil militant liberal atheist darwinistas eat?

English muffins?

Having a land squid would certainly make the trip into uni in the morning more interesting. And my parents could stop worrying about me living in the bad part of town, at least. Who would try to mug me while I was riding a giant squid?

Unless my enemies also aquired land squids and formed some kind of land squid gang, bent on destruction. Then what would happen to the world? This technology is clearly evil and should be stopped.

Posted by: Emma | September 18, 2007 5:45 AM

Surely you know the plight of the endangered tree octopus:

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

Barely as robust a population as Sasquatch, and you want pets?

Posted by: True Bob | September 18, 2007 7:05 AM

You know, I see the same reaction by my Scottish wife whenever someone refers to her as being English....

Posted by: Satcomguy | September 18, 2007 7:23 AM

Your wife eats your friends?

Posted by: PZ Myers | September 18, 2007 8:06 AM

#10

Your wife eats your friends?

Entirely justifiable, by the sound of it.

Posted by: MartinM | September 18, 2007 8:10 AM

#11

Having my own land cephalopod to ride would be the greatest thing ever. I'd have to get one for my son, though, too. (I was so proud the day he asked me to make him some "octopus pants.")

Posted by: Melissa G | September 18, 2007 12:15 PM

#12

Monty ran an octopus strip on the weekend as well (oops - instead of a squid strip, I should say. Don't eat me):

http://www.comiczone.com/comics/monty/archive/monty-20070916.html

Posted by: Derryl Murphy | September 18, 2007 12:20 PM

#13

PZ, I think your best bet might be Land's End...

Posted by: Steviepinhead | September 18, 2007 12:49 PM

#14

>perhaps it fights with the evil monkey in the son's closet).

Isn't it about time that monkey got spanked?

Posted by: Ian | September 18, 2007 5:35 PM