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Friday Cephalopod: Supermodel

Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: April 24, 2009 9:06 AM, by PZ Myers

Octopus kaurna

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide ^{(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll)}, by Mark Norman.

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Posted by: Fred the Hun | April 24, 2009 9:11 AM

Does it come with a fat free label in the cuttlefish supermarket?

Posted by: daveau | April 24, 2009 9:23 AM

It's that seafood diet that keeps it so slim.

Posted by: Anonymous | April 24, 2009 9:24 AM

I'd love to see it naked and clinging to Richard Branson's back.

Or maybe not.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/dmmkw6

Posted by: seokso | April 24, 2009 9:27 AM

I wouldn't have taken you for the waif-loving type.

Posted by: Nangleator | April 24, 2009 9:30 AM

Tentacles that go on forever...

Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | April 24, 2009 9:32 AM

I think I knew her in High School, but she's changed since then...

Posted by: Agoraphobic Kleptomaniac | April 24, 2009 9:40 AM

Cephalopods don't freak me out usually, but for some reason, I can't look at this one without squirming.

Posted by: Revyloution | April 24, 2009 9:46 AM

Freud was right. I saw the title 'Suppermodel' and right below it is the category 'Orgasm' I looked again, orgasm? ARGH Organism.

Posted by: jennyxyzzy | April 24, 2009 9:52 AM

You can barely see the scars from the cosmetic surgery.

#10

Posted by: Watchman | April 24, 2009 9:54 AM

I love what they're doing with body paint these days.

#11

Posted by: jj | April 24, 2009 10:00 AM

She's got tentacle implants, or is it he's got tentacle implants?

#12

Posted by: Kate | April 24, 2009 10:01 AM

As with "Supermodels" I just want to shove a sandwich at this "Suppermodel".

Eat! Eat! You're too skinny!

#13

Posted by: Boudicca | April 24, 2009 10:15 AM

Work it, girl! Fierce!

#14

Posted by: Tiki Idyll | April 24, 2009 10:15 AM

Woah! I squid-gasmed!

#15

Posted by: Tiki Idyll | April 24, 2009 10:18 AM

@12, I want to shove this supermodel in a sandwich! Delicious!

#16

Posted by: Zorpheous | April 24, 2009 10:29 AM

Must be one of those European "Runway Model" Size zero. I like my Cephalopods with some meet on there bones,... err so to speak, or coin a phrase,...

Still nice eye to look at.

PZ, yous always have the bestest Cephalopods to look at ;-)

#17

Posted by: Matt W | April 24, 2009 10:36 AM

How beautiful!

I for one would welcome cephalopod benefactors.

#18

Posted by: PinheadX | April 24, 2009 11:21 AM

Cthulhu's new trophy wife.

#19

Posted by: Ron Sullivan | April 24, 2009 11:30 AM

And you just know she can change shape in an instant, right after she's slithered through that keyhole.

#20

Posted by: Postman | April 24, 2009 11:46 AM

Someone get Kate Seaweed a sandwich, would you?

#21

Posted by: Kate | April 24, 2009 12:05 PM

@Postman:

Ugh... Ate enough dulce as a child, thanks. O! The horrors of growing up less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean: Having to eat dulce and periwinkles, getting bitten by sandfleas, going swimming in July when the water temp is 6 Celcius...

On the plus side: Incredibly cheap lobster, and lots of it.

#22

Posted by: Christophe Thill | April 24, 2009 12:07 PM

Supermodel? Is it an Australian beauty pageant candidate?

#23

Posted by: SaraJ | April 24, 2009 12:22 PM

Someone get her a sandwich!

#24

Posted by: GeoffR | April 24, 2009 12:59 PM

Surely this picture raises unreasonable, and potentially health-threatening aspirations of slimness in normal Cephalopods. I think it's a bit irresponsible to post it.

#25

Posted by: Glen Davidson | April 24, 2009 2:27 PM

AKA southern burrowing octopus.

Ironically, it's slim so it can slide between the sand and eat the critters residing there.

Slim build, but I'll warrant that it's more than happy to gorge, given the opportunity.

Glen D
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#26

Posted by: Jadehawk, OM | April 24, 2009 2:38 PM

Cephalopods don't freak me out usually, but for some reason, I can't look at this one without squirming.

ditto. maybe it's the odd similarity to a spider

#27

Posted by: dug.inn | April 24, 2009 2:39 PM

For even more cephalopod awesomeness, check out the artwork at this link from Boing Boing:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/24/barnaby-ward-uses-tw.html

#28

Posted by: Art | April 24, 2009 4:48 PM

Who knew they could be anorexic?

Quick, a round of therapy and a nice oily fish for the lady.

#29

Posted by: Menyambal: Making sambal (it isn't dragon magic). | April 24, 2009 5:42 PM

Is it Macedonian?

For anybody who has a life, an Australian model was in the Miss Universe Contest, and made it pretty far, even though she is frighteningly scrawny. The pageant spokeswoman said that she is Macedonian, and has "the typical Macedonian body type".

Do not look up an article about her, as a picture is included.

#30

Posted by: Cath the Canberra Cook | April 24, 2009 7:30 PM

D'oh! I posted my PZ tribute blog post on the wrong thread yesterday. I should have remembered that the Friday cephalopod would turn up on Saturday morning. Now it looks like I'm spamming, but I do promise not to post it again! Cephalopod art & craft. Enjoy.

#31

Posted by: eddie | April 24, 2009 10:25 PM

I'm wondering about the scale of the photo, and if she is gay. Why? Because I have been listening to Attack Of The 60 Ft Lesbian Octopus

#32

Posted by: Samantha Vimes | April 25, 2009 5:34 AM

Long cephalopod is looong.

(I can't believe I'm the first one to think of Long Cat.)

#33

Posted by: Odszkodowanie w UK | April 25, 2009 9:29 AM

Looks like size zero. But it's still nice to look at. It must be a seafood diet then.

#34

Posted by: Sili | April 25, 2009 1:12 PM