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Craft ideas for squidmas!
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: November 26, 2007 6:47 AM, by PZ Myers
For those of you who just like your cephalopods natural, here's a plush cuttlefish. It's cute and cuddly, and I wouldn't mind having one to snuggle up with.
On the other hand, if you like your cephalopods unnatural, you could carry out perverse and disturbing acts on ordinary stuffed animals, turning them into chthonic entities with alien properties.
They're all fun, and all part of a happy squidmas celebration!
Comments
There's a stuffed animal series, called the Giant Microbes. I have my own ebola. "1 000 000 times actual size."
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/
Posted by: Waterdog | November 26, 2007 8:35 AM
Waterdog, the Ebola is cute, but I think I prefer Syphillis.
Posted by: Nan | November 26, 2007 8:52 AM
Just be careful that some fundies don't find out about your stuffed animals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7112929.stm
Posted by: MartinC | November 26, 2007 8:57 AM
I was going to suggest the scabies mite from Giant Microbes as being particularly cute, but they seem to have discontinued this one. The flea and bedbug are pretty good, though.
Posted by: tceisele | November 26, 2007 9:34 AM
TY (yeah, go ahead and hiss) has an adorable octopus plushie named Opie.
http://www.ebaja.pl/images/opiebb.gif
Posted by: Laser Potato | November 26, 2007 9:47 AM
I just noticed the chickenpox one. Heh heh heh, I get it. Chicken.
Posted by: Laser Potato | November 26, 2007 9:54 AM
Before it became Squidmas, the Scandanavians were already celebrating this pagan holiday in the peninsula.
Posted by: danley | November 26, 2007 10:14 AM
I think I linked this yesterday, but one can never have too many cuddly cephalopods.
No, sirree bob.
Posted by: Sili | November 26, 2007 10:37 AM
Woohoo! My link made it on Pharyngula!
The Morbid Tendencies site has a ton of other stuff too - I've given a couple of FrankenCritters to people as gifts before (like Rupert), but I'm definitely requesting a Cthonian for one of my friends this Christmas.
Posted by: Eric | November 26, 2007 12:54 PM
Hey Cuttlefish!
Can we prevail upon you to pen a Squidmas carol? It would be nice to supplant the Xmas carol ear worms that infest my days until this benighted holiday is past with one celebrating cepholopods.
Posted by: shiftlessbum | November 26, 2007 1:40 PM
Ok, shiftlessbum, you shiftless bum, just for you.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2007/11/squidmas-carol.html
The Chorus:
You can't "Fa-la-la" with a rad-u-la, my darling
You can't "Fa-la-la" with a rad-u-la, my dear.
And that star so bright--
It made you flip your lid?
It's the photophoric action of the firefly squid
It's the way we know that squidmastime is here!
5 verses if you click the link....
Posted by: Cuttlefish | November 26, 2007 11:12 PM