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Friday Cephalopod: All dressed in red and white…must be Santa Cephalopod!
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 25, 2009 8:46 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: recovering catholic
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December 25, 2009 9:22 AM
Merry, merry, merry! My wish for all of us is a New Year filled with peace and contentment.
Posted by: F
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December 25, 2009 9:40 AM
Pretty pretty.
Posted by: neon-elf.myopenid.com
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December 25, 2009 9:45 AM
Very festive.
I can just see all the little cephalopods hanging eight tiny stockings in their coconut shells, waiting for the Spotted One to arrive.
Posted by: aharleygyrl
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December 25, 2009 9:49 AM
Really gets us Atheists in the Holiday Spirits! Happy X-mas!
Posted by: sqlrob
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December 25, 2009 11:33 AM
Not a creature was stirring, not even a barnacle.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, OM
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December 25, 2009 11:45 AM
Like many crustaceans, barnacles seldom stir. They're more the shaken type.
Posted by: scribe999
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December 25, 2009 12:30 PM
So, this cephalopod is a a shill for Coca-Cola also?
Posted by: Joffan
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December 25, 2009 1:04 PM
Have a very monkey squidmas and a pyrocapric New Year to all Pharyngulites!
Posted by: ~Pharyngulette~
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December 25, 2009 2:46 PM
No, sorry. I've been around for enough winter solstices to know that it isn't Santa unless it's wearing a red-and-white fuzzy hat. That can only mean that this is... [gasps] THE ANTI-SANTA!
Posted by: F
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December 25, 2009 3:25 PM
Yup. Anti-Claus is a real buzz-killer.
Presents? We don' need no steenking presents.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM, CR
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December 25, 2009 4:39 PM
Who's all red with spots of white?
Santa's all red with spots of white!
Whose eight arms can hold you tight?
Santa's eight arms can hold you tight!
Spots of white! Hold you tight!
Must be Santa, must be Santa,
Must be Santa, Santa Cephalopod!
Who lives in the ocean deep?
Santa lives in the ocean deep!
Who comes crawling when you sleep?
Santa comes crawling when you sleep!
Ocean deep! When you sleep!
Spots of white! Hold you tight!
Must be Santa, must be Santa,
Must be Santa, Santa Cephalopod!
Who has arms that number eight?
Santa has arms that number eight!
Who sneaks around when it's really late?
Santa sneaks around when it's really late!
Number eight! Really late!
Ocean deep! When you sleep!
Spots of white! Hold you tight!
Must be Santa, must be Santa,
Must be Santa, Santa Cephalopod!
(I'd write more, but I really can't stand that song... Happy Cephalopodmas, one and all!)
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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December 25, 2009 6:13 PM
I wait for his pretty tentacles to come down my chimney . . .
Merry Squidmas, everyone!
Posted by: Cath the Canberra Cook
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December 25, 2009 6:39 PM
What song are you parodying, Cuttlefish? I don't recognise it.
Posted by: tsig0
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December 25, 2009 6:47 PM
Where's the presents. I waz promised presents.
That's it I do not believe in Squidmas or Squids or Gods.
THERE now see what YOU made me do!!!
Posted by: Cath the Canberra Cook
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December 25, 2009 8:38 PM
I got a stuffed toy squid for Squidmas. Her name is Thelma. Yay!
Posted by: SC OM
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December 25, 2009 8:59 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k
*tries to get song out of head after family singing and now this*
*grr*
Posted by: Gregory Greenwood
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December 25, 2009 9:17 PM
If it was a choice of this pretty cephalopod or a creepy, over weight old man breaking into my home at night, I know which one I would choose.
*Here's a hint; the cephalopod would not prompt me to immediately call the police and possibly seek to pummel the intruder with whatever conveniently heavy and/or pointed object came to hand. A mad man in a Santa suit, on the other hand, may illicit just such a reaction*
Posted by: walter.amos
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December 25, 2009 10:04 PM
@17 - "elicit" not "illicit".
Cephalopods are notoriously nitpicky spellers.
Posted by: llewelly
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December 26, 2009 5:57 AM
Definitely not safe for work ...Posted by: Cath the Canberra Cook
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December 26, 2009 6:51 AM
Well, SC, I thank you. I think. In consolation, at least you have better words for your earworm.
Posted by: Gregory Greenwood
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December 26, 2009 10:30 AM
walter.amos @ 18;
'@17 - "elicit" not "illicit".
Cephalopods are notoriously nitpicky spellers.'
Sorry, my bad. I did not mean to use the term 'illicit', even though clobbering said intruder would doubtless be illegal. Elicit it is.
*note to self; remmember to double check all spelling before posting.*
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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December 26, 2009 11:03 AM
Really?
Nobody has noted the resemblance of this li'l dude to Amanita muscaria?
The possible original source of Santa's canonical red-and-white outfit?
It all comes full circle again.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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December 26, 2009 11:35 PM
bah. some sort of protected link to the pic
Posted by: Antiochus Epiphanes
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December 27, 2009 12:28 AM
While we are talking of resemblances, consider Rafflesia arnoldii?