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Category: Cephalopods
Posted on: May 3, 2010 9:06 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Dwymore
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May 3, 2010 9:25 PM
Looks like something out of Hellraiser from far away... Creepy and cool.
Posted by: subbie
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May 3, 2010 9:26 PM
It would certainly give you a leg up on the other bloggers.
Sorry.
Posted by: DLC
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May 3, 2010 9:26 PM
Somehow I almost expect to see Cuttlefish poems written in this. or at least the first letter of each paragraph, like the old illuminated manuscripts.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM, CR
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May 3, 2010 9:32 PM
Want!
An octopus-themed alphabet book, for strange children with exceptionally good taste?
Posted by: Caine, ghetto féministe
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May 3, 2010 9:34 PM
Awesome!
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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May 3, 2010 9:35 PM
I give it 24 hours on the outside until a "By your command" is heard.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott , Drinking Solo Since Death's Back On The Wagon
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May 3, 2010 9:39 PM
A, b, c, d, e, f, g;
H, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p.
Q, r, s, t, u, v,
W, x, w, and z.
Now I've said my ABCs.
Tell me what you think of me.
I love that song . . .
Use the squid alphabet, PZ. It will draw us deeper under your spell where we will be enabled to accomplish even more terrible things in your name.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott , Drinking Solo Since Death's Back On The Wagon
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May 3, 2010 9:42 PM
@ 7: Why is there no "y?"
7: I dunno. Didn't ask.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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May 3, 2010 9:59 PM
Crudely Wrott #7
Do you really want to know?
Mozart wrote a series of variations on the music.
Posted by: randydudek
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May 3, 2010 10:20 PM
Actually Mozart's variations were on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Totally different song. :o)
Posted by: Chgo_Liz
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May 3, 2010 10:34 PM
Same melody: ABC song, Twinkle Twinkle, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
You can do them all in a round.
Yes, I have children. How did you know?
Posted by: randydudek
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May 3, 2010 10:52 PM
Sorry, Liz. I was shooting for sarcasm, but was pretty sure it wasn't going to come across. I was a music major and had to dissect Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman.
Posted by: Ben Goren
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May 3, 2010 10:59 PM
Randyduck, we didn’t just have to dissect it; we had to write our own, thirteenth, variation. Somewhere I’ve still got a copy of that assignment.
As homework assignments go, it was actually quite a lot of fun.
Cheers,
b&
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``All but God can prove this sentence true.''
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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May 3, 2010 11:12 PM
And you still don't believe in God? Well, Cthulhu of course being God.
Sure beats the Shroud of Turin as a manifestation of the divine -- not that it's saying much.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: Audley Z. Darkheart OM, purveyor of candy and lies
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May 3, 2010 11:16 PM
That is amazing. Any chance your book will be typeset w/ the octopus alphabet?
Posted by: Ben Goren
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May 3, 2010 11:26 PM
Glen,
So long as we’re on the subject…one of my Music History professors often stated that the only sacred music was Mozart; all else is profane.
Me? Well, Mozart wrote lots of good stuff, but I don’t think he can hold a candle to Bach or Stravinsky. And, as good as Mozart’s operas are, he’s got nothing on Verdi and Strauss.
He did write an awesome trombone aria in the Requim, though. I have to give him that. I just wish he had written more than valved tympani parts for trumpet. Shit, even Papa Mozart wrote a trumpet concerto; Wolfie had no excuse.
Cheers,
b&
--
EAC Memographer
BAAWA Knight of Blasphemy
``All but God can prove this sentence true.''
Posted by: DLC
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May 4, 2010 12:01 AM
A is for Aquatic, which these animals are.
B is for Brachiopods which these are not.
C is for Cephalopod . . .
Posted by: jcmartz.myopenid.com
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May 4, 2010 12:35 AM
It would use too much ink.
Posted by: wildtype
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May 4, 2010 3:00 AM
Some horrible octopus serial killer is at work here evidently. Rest assured though, through incredibly good investigative work I’ve narrowed it down to a few suspects. It's somebody that speaks English.
Posted by: Pinkydead
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May 4, 2010 5:25 AM
http://www.yourfonts.com/ might work...
...but I certainly don't like octopuses enough to waste my time with a scissors.
Posted by: Peter Ashby
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May 4, 2010 6:06 AM
It's wrong, for one reason: the colour and textures don't vary. It is not nearly funky enough.
Posted by: wjv.myopenid.com
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May 4, 2010 6:14 AM
In lieu of an octopus font, there's always the Groupsex font…
http://www.fontriver.com/font/group_sex/
Posted by: peter.jeaiem
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May 4, 2010 6:15 AM
octupus? Ah... looked like beards/moustaches to me at first glance.
Posted by: pistoreyu
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May 4, 2010 7:42 AM
That statement is MUCH more heretical than PZ's on Sundays. Now I have a glimpse of how some people must feel reading this site. I'm no music major, just a common listener, but I don't agree with your teacher either -- I side with those that say Mozart's music is thoroughly human. Oh, and the font is great.Posted by: pistoreyu
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May 4, 2010 7:46 AM
(Sorry for not breaking paragraphs. It seems I can't comment here properly.)
Posted by: Cannabinaceae
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May 4, 2010 9:07 AM
@11:
You can also sing "Oh Beautiful For Spacious Skies" to the tune of Gilligan's Island.
I've been damned by people for mentioning that.
I would love for some artist to render the octopus font as a woodcut printed with octopus ink.
Posted by: ChrisD
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May 4, 2010 1:56 PM
I emphatically encourage you to begin each of your posts using this typeset for the first letter of the body. It would be a welcome change to the stuffy, plain bold type that is so uncharacteristic of your blog.