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Friday Cephalopod: This is how you suck face

Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: July 3, 2009 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

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Posted by: MadScientist | July 3, 2009 6:12 AM

That's not a picture of cuttlefish snogging, that's Jar-jar Binks! Gee, there's never a sith around when you need one.

Posted by: SEF | July 3, 2009 6:39 AM

He/she has very red eyebrows.

Posted by: RFX | July 3, 2009 6:49 AM

a poll:
http://www.yesnogod.com/

Posted by: TomatoPaste | July 3, 2009 7:48 AM

#3: Awesome poll!

I just love seeing fledgeling Cthulhu's make love! Thanks PZ :)

Posted by: James F | July 3, 2009 7:49 AM

Anyone else reminded of Bill Plympton's How to Kiss?

Posted by: Kel | July 3, 2009 8:03 AM

What's with the creationist advertising on here?

Posted by: ItchyNuts | July 3, 2009 8:04 AM

#3: As previously remarked, awesome poll!

And some interesting results too...

Posted by: Buckeye Hamburger | July 3, 2009 8:08 AM

Where does the one end and the other begin? They're sucking face so hard, they're fused.

Posted by: sonofthelama | July 3, 2009 8:38 AM

"cuddle"fish

#10

Posted by: sonofthelama | July 3, 2009 8:41 AM

"cuddle"fish

#11

Posted by: Ramel | July 3, 2009 8:43 AM

@Kel: sci blogs has changed their ad provider lots of inappropriate ads appearing allover the place including creationists here, medical quackery for PalMD and Orac, and mail order brides on the pro-feminist blogs. Quite a few of the bloggers are up in arms, Isis has gone so far as to stop posting until the situation is resolved. PZ might not of spotted it yet as he's away in germany at the moment.

#12

Posted by: Ramel | July 3, 2009 8:46 AM

Back on topic, are they kissing or trying to kill each other? Either way that is an awesome pic!

#13

Posted by: Kel | July 3, 2009 8:51 AM

Here I was thinking it was a scam to take money from creationist organisations... :P

#14

Posted by: Ajita | July 3, 2009 8:58 AM

Yeah what is it exactly they're doing? It's not friendly behavior, I suppose...

#15

Posted by: Ajita | July 3, 2009 9:06 AM

@Kel and Ramel: There's no reason to get so upset. Remember, when creationist ads are on free-thought sites their organizations are losing money and not getting any incoming business. They're like money falling out through the holes of creationists' pockets. I make it a point to click on every creationist/religious ad, every time I see one. 'Click' thats a dime from the creationists' pockets that won't go towards hooking some innocent victim somewhere.

#16

Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | July 3, 2009 9:29 AM

Ah.... college.

*sigh*

#17

Posted by: John Morales | July 3, 2009 9:35 AM

Ads? What ads? ;)

#18

Posted by: aarrgghh | July 3, 2009 9:51 AM

i was just reading this story:

"survivor still haunted by 1971 air crash"

the survivor is now a librarian in munich. look at the graphic in the background of the contemporary photo of her. look familiar?

#19

Posted by: Rorschach | July 3, 2009 9:53 AM

What's with the creationist advertising on here?

Flash-, and adblock seem to be shielding me from that experience.For which Im grateful.
But if SB do this on purpose,or for ad revenue reasons,I'd be happy to tell them what I think about it.

#20

Posted by: Sili | July 3, 2009 9:57 AM

I thought you said the Trophy Wife(tm) didn't like getting featured on here?

I'm not much for PDAs, but I have to admit it's kind of cute that you can still do that at your age.

#21

Posted by: Moggie | July 3, 2009 10:16 AM

#3: some interesting numbers at that poll. Currently, the most godless is Oceania, with 69% in the 'no' camp. That'll be why we've always been at war with them, I expect.

#22

Posted by: daveau | July 3, 2009 10:19 AM

Moggie- I thought we have always been at war with Eastasia.

#23

Posted by: OurDeadSelves | July 3, 2009 10:33 AM

Awe! This made me realize I haven't smooched the Mr. today.

#24

Posted by: abb3w | July 3, 2009 10:44 AM

In matters semi-unrelated, an allusion to giant electrified squid clanks in today's Girl Genius.

#25

Posted by: Moggie | July 3, 2009 11:01 AM

#22, depends who "we" are, doesn't it? You've read the story from the point of view of Oceania, but the three blocs were essentially alike, and the whole thing could easily have been written from the perspectives of Neo-Bolshevism or Death Worship without too many changes.

#26

Posted by: Felix | July 3, 2009 11:05 AM

aaargh,
amazing article about what happened to that woman. It must be utterly incomprehensible to many readers that she would not praise the jebus that she survived and her family died horribly.
'What's she doing? Is that... is she thinking about how she could have survived? She doesn't know that this certainly means she has a higher purpose in life, which is usually the explanation for why hundreds die horribly, that's how loving God is? She's not supposed to go all rational. It's just not right.'

#27

Posted by: Tom Jonson | July 3, 2009 11:05 AM

Hi Chubby.
Fun to see your blog.
Coming to MN in August.
Lets get together my big friend.
I live in ND now.

Tom

#28

Posted by: Tom Jonson | July 3, 2009 11:08 AM

Hi Chubby.
Fun to see your blog.
Coming to MN in August.
Lets get together my big friend.
I live in ND now.

Tom

#29

Posted by: Jadehawk, OM | July 3, 2009 11:17 AM

Ah.... college.

*sigh*

thread won.

#30

Posted by: Charlie | July 3, 2009 11:20 AM

Ok look at the picture again, only this time when you do say "OM NOM NOM NOM" aloud to yourself.

#31

Posted by: daveau | July 3, 2009 11:23 AM

the three blocs were essentially alike

And interdependent.

So, Tom, how long have you known our "Chubby"?

#32

Posted by: aarrgghh | July 3, 2009 11:26 AM

felix @ 26:

yes, like you i was quite pleased to not hear another obligatory "praise be to jebus!" commercial in that piece. how rare. except for the narrator's gratuitous use of "miraculous", neither the victim nor the reporter go there. so who gets all the praise? her dad's survival tips.

"praise be to reason!"

#33

Posted by: Don Rowe | July 3, 2009 11:31 AM

@#3: Yes, cool poll.

I have to wonder whether the wealth of a nation breeds atheism, or whether the atheism of a nation breeds wealth.

The predominantly religious nations all seem to be the poorer ones.

#34

Posted by: Lee Brimmicombe-Wood | July 3, 2009 11:42 AM

Here's a good 'un. Mitchell & Webb eviscerate alternative medicine in their 'Homeopathic A&E' sketch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

#35

Posted by: Sheril R. Kirshenbaum | July 3, 2009 12:37 PM

Love this image!

#36

Posted by: Becky | July 3, 2009 1:27 PM

I've dated a few guys like that.....

#37

Posted by: JohnnieCanuck | July 3, 2009 1:34 PM

If only the yes/no poll could be relied on for anything. Having the US at 47/53 is suspicious. I note the Canadian tail does not wag the US dog very much, even though our participation is much higher than the population ratio.

Then there's the major fail of not including Mexico in North America. Which part of América del Norte do people not understand?

#38

Posted by: Bert | July 3, 2009 1:51 PM

Heh, Vatican City State is at 50/50 on that poll.

#39

Posted by: HombreMoleculos | July 3, 2009 3:01 PM

@34, Thank you.

#40

Posted by: hyoid | July 3, 2009 3:10 PM

Isn't that sweet! Hey! Which came first? The French or the Cephalopod?

#41

Posted by: Happy Tentacles | July 3, 2009 3:17 PM

Not sure what the cuttlefish are doing, but they look very pleased with themselves.

#34 - yes the Mitchell & Webb Homeopathy sketch was great fun! Loved the homeopathic lager, too!

#42

Posted by: Tully | July 3, 2009 3:19 PM

Om nom nom!

#43

Posted by: squareone | July 3, 2009 3:20 PM

Hot!
Am I the only one who hoped it was a video?
I'll be in my bunk.

#44

Posted by: Brian | July 3, 2009 3:27 PM

That is how? Clearly I've been doing it wrong all this time.

#45

Posted by: (((Billy))) The Atheist | July 3, 2009 4:23 PM

Completely off topic (like that never happens here) but Sarah Palin just announced that she will step down as the governor of Alaska effective July 25. Apparently to focus on a run at the GOP nomination for 2012. It is currently up at Daily Kos. No, I am not kidding.

#46

Posted by: aunt benjy | July 3, 2009 5:44 PM

This picture reminds me of the time the cuttlefish were mating at the aquarium I worked at. After 3 days, the aquarist decided something was very wrong, and separated them to find that the male had eaten half the female's face.

Just sharing...

#47

Posted by: JHS | July 3, 2009 6:19 PM

Hot.