Must have tentacles!
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: January 18, 2008 11:19 AM, by PZ Myers
I want. Look at this nifty Tentacle Arm:
And they're cheap! $15! At one for each appendage, that would be $75.
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Speaking of tentacle-related products, how about this classy squid iPhone case?
http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/ipod-iphone/squid-iphone-case/
Posted by: yud | January 18, 2008 11:23 AM
Oh no. Is PZ planning to post pics of his "fifth tentacle"?
Posted by: Wes | January 18, 2008 11:24 AM
$75, lets see two arms, two legs... ughhh. Thanks for that mental picture of you PZ.
Posted by: Iron! | January 18, 2008 11:25 AM
I think you can muster more appendages than that! Although the fitting might be a problem. The occasions on which you could wear them would also be somewhat limited.
It looks better than some Doctor Who props though. So there could be amateur film-making possibilities for it.
Posted by: SEF | January 18, 2008 11:25 AM
Or $60 for some of us--such a deal!
Posted by: thalarctos | January 18, 2008 11:26 AM
Hey! I thought this was a family web site!
Posted by: idlemind | January 18, 2008 11:28 AM
Hmm.. Maybe you could get a budget-priced smaller tentacle for your fifth appendage. Just so the rest of us guys don't feel all intinidated in the 'Pods locker room.
Posted by: aiabx | January 18, 2008 11:30 AM
For women, it would be $60.
Unless you want to start placing them into orifices also. Them for men and women, it could be at least $105. That is as far as I will go.
Posted by: Janine | January 18, 2008 11:31 AM
You plan on wearing one as a hat?
Wait...five "appendages"...um...oh...OH!
Pervert.
Posted by: Todd | January 18, 2008 11:31 AM
I thought the title was excerpted from a personal ad at first. Like "Must Love Dogs."
Posted by: Rey Fox | January 18, 2008 11:32 AM
The Fifth Appendage sounds like the title of a Terry Pratchett book! Although the cover art could be tricky...
You could always stuff one (faux tentacle, not 'appendage') with old socks and use it against the bottom of a door as a draught excluder.
Posted by: DiscoveredJoys | January 18, 2008 11:34 AM
Imagine walking down the street and you see a guy with one of these pocking out of the bottom of his pants.............
Posted by: Mercurious | January 18, 2008 11:41 AM
Ha! But wouldn't "Must Love Tentacles" apply to everyone? Like "Must Enjoy Breathing" or "Must Think Curling Isn't A Real Sport"?
Posted by: Brownian, OM | January 18, 2008 11:45 AM
Browning, how dare you make fun of curling! You have to like any sport where a broom is an essential instrument.
Posted by: Janine | January 18, 2008 11:48 AM
All I can say is that it would make a kickass pointer for lecturing in class. I suspect the students would be unable to look away if you were waving one of those at the chalkboard.
Posted by: gg | January 18, 2008 11:53 AM
Sorry, no savings for you. No such thing as a she-bear, remember? :P
Scotland is good at it, therefore it is a sport.
Posted by: MartinM | January 18, 2008 11:54 AM
Janine wrote: "Browning, how dare you make fun of curling! You have to like any sport where a broom is an essential instrument."
Hey, and it's an activity with a Jonathan Coulton theme song, so it must be a sport!
Posted by: gg | January 18, 2008 11:58 AM
Wouldn't make much difference to me on the computer as I'm a one-finger typist anyway.
Of course, your goosing days would be numbered . . .
Posted by: Scrofulum | January 18, 2008 12:01 PM
Brownian, don't you make fun of curling. A) Curling is awesome, B) Canada kicks ass at it, and C) Many of the readers here don't have a clue what curling is. They probably think you're talking about hair styling or something.
Posted by: King Aardvark | January 18, 2008 12:02 PM
You have to like any sport where a broom is an essential instrument.
My sisters used to try to make housework exciting by picking rooms out of a hat and seeing who could clean their room the fastest. I didn't fall for it back then, either.
Scotland is good at it, therefore it is a sport.
Need I mention the caber toss, or should we all just assume you were joking?
Posted by: Brownian, OM | January 18, 2008 12:04 PM
Nobody is good at the caber toss. The trick is to suck marginally less than everyone else.
Posted by: MartinM | January 18, 2008 12:07 PM
Filled with rice or something, that would make a sweet draft-excluder. Or, for that matter, one of those warm things you put around your neck to keep warm. Damn, now I want to make one. Although I do like the idea of using that arm to point in class.
Y'all are dirty. I assumed PZ was going to put the fifth one over his head.
And for that matter, For A Limited Time Only, there's an online perfume company featuring a perfume based on "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife"...
Posted by: octopod | January 18, 2008 12:14 PM
You stole that from Boing-Boing.
Posted by: Moses | January 18, 2008 12:27 PM
Rocks and brooms on ice.
Posted by: Moses | January 18, 2008 12:30 PM
Hey! The caber toss is awesome. In theory. It's a more exciting competition than weightlifting, at least. Caber tossing should definitely replace both the shot-put and weightlifting as an Olympic sport.
And curling is tremendously boring. If you want to fall asleep watching 'sports', it's a tossup between curling and baseball.
Posted by: stogoe | January 18, 2008 12:34 PM
No wai! A plug for Gaia Online at Pharyngula? Sweet!
Posted by: Random GOL Fan | January 18, 2008 12:35 PM
Don't you mean $120?
Posted by: The Stone | January 18, 2008 12:37 PM
Does it come with a beak on a string so you can complete the transformation?
Posted by: BlueIndependent | January 18, 2008 12:43 PM
Or how about this?
Posted by: Kyle | January 18, 2008 12:44 PM
Off topic, but she would enjoy this thread.
Molly Ivins died January 31, 2007.
Maybe make a donation to your favorite charity as a remembrance of her. And go for that mammogram.
Men, you can also get breast cancer.
She was born August 30, 1944.
Posted by: Rita Bennett | January 18, 2008 12:50 PM
OOoh, the hentai crowd are gonna love these...
Posted by: Marcus Ranum | January 18, 2008 1:07 PM
Or $60 for some of us--such a deal!
you ladies could get a beak instead of the fifth tentacle. 100% effective in preventing rape when stategically placed
Posted by: buck | January 18, 2008 1:16 PM
Curling is a captivating spectator sport, the intricacies of which never fail to elicit rapt attention and awe.*
*When really, really stoned.
Posted by: J Daley | January 18, 2008 1:26 PM
$75.00? PZ, they say "one size fits all", but that's ridiculous. Or is it? If not, I'm somewhere between impressed and horrified.
Posted by: noncarborundum | January 18, 2008 1:28 PM
Now I thought that I had a dirty mind myself, but apparently I am a novice:
I honestly thought that PZ meant the fifth tentacle for his HEAD!
Obviously, because any carnival/mardis gras costume worthwhile should disguise your identity properly! So I though "tentacle" in ManiacMansion-style, if anyone remembers that old Computer game.
At least here in Germany costumes are meant as a proper disguise for carnival in the first place, while being sexy only comes second in purpose. Well, so let's order six tentacles then...
Posted by: Stefan | January 18, 2008 1:33 PM
Ah, the illustrious tentacle naughty bits makes me think of...
Londo!
Sorry, I miss B5 and that last movie wasn't that good. :^(
Posted by: Mena | January 18, 2008 1:39 PM
You people are weird.
And of course it's not $60 for females, unless you haven't hit puberty yet. It's $90.
Posted by: CrypticLife | January 18, 2008 2:01 PM
I was going to ask about the head, too... I've always been the Most Naïve of the Scientists.
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | January 18, 2008 2:09 PM
"Hey, babe - my Fifth Appendage is prehensile..."
Posted by: Phoenician in a time of Romans | January 18, 2008 2:17 PM
You just WISH your 5th appendage was that big!
SG
Posted by: Science Goddess | January 18, 2008 3:18 PM
I've been lurking for a while, but I just HAVE to break cover to say "Thanks!" for the link to the tentacle arms.
Day-in, day-out content is excellent, also, but the opportunity to own my very own tentacle arms.....priceless!
(Yes, they want money for the goods, but the OPPORTUNITY is priceless.)
Posted by: cicely | January 18, 2008 5:20 PM
"One size fits all"? Hardly.
I bought the set of five, and one of them is too small.
Posted by: HP | January 18, 2008 5:45 PM
I'm American and I rather like curling. Last I saw the American team was rather good. But I don't follow it too closely. If I'm flipping through the channels and it's on I'll watch it over other sports. Actually, now that I think about it, it's the only sport that I like.
Posted by: Rich | January 18, 2008 5:52 PM
It kind of reminds me of Dagon: Sect of the Sea (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264508/ ).
Posted by: August Pamplona | January 18, 2008 5:58 PM
#2 Oh no. Is PZ planning to post pics of his "fifth tentacle"?
More importantly, does he call it Brian Epstein?
Posted by: Dr Paisley | January 18, 2008 8:07 PM
It kind of reminds me of Dagon: Sect of the Sea
great movie, perhaps the best of all time...
(all hail Dagon)
Ia, Ia, Cthulhu Fataghn!
I might be a bit biased.
btw, do those sucker arms have teeth on the suckers?
worthless without functioning teeth-ringed suckers.
Posted by: Ichthyic | January 18, 2008 8:52 PM
I saw these a couple of years while working at Fanime in San Jose. They weren't as charming when worn by a bunch of young men hoping to create tentacle porn, although I did initially squee at the sight of them.
Posted by: Angie | January 18, 2008 9:36 PM
Hold on - are those suction cups functional? I propose a non-intuitive use, one that won't get you a court date:
Anybody can have a Garfield doll or a "Baby on Board" placard on their car window; giant tentacles will make you stand out from the crowd of commuter drone-mobiles! No self-respecting sushi delivery van is complete without one!!
Posted by: Betz | January 18, 2008 10:40 PM
#26: Seconded.
For the rest of you perverts: based on the original context, the fifth one is supposed to be a HAT. I assume this would involve sewing on a strap to wear it that way IRL. Not sewing a strap-on, mind you. :P
Posted by: In Denial | January 18, 2008 11:43 PM
Hmmm...a vibrating tentacle. Could be a best seller!
Posted by: Visionary | January 19, 2008 1:40 AM
LOL, Martin!
Just keep on hanging out here, Stefan: One of us! One of us! One of us!
Posted by: thalarctos | January 19, 2008 9:15 AM