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Friday Cephalopod: Future Molluscan Overlord
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: September 3, 2010 12:53 PM, by PZ Myers
Octopus chierchiae
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Posted by: Glen Davidson
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September 3, 2010 1:06 PM
I am tentacled, hear me suction!
[Awww, widdle guy[?]]
Glen Davidson
Posted by: elonin
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September 3, 2010 1:20 PM
Thought my evil overlord was bigger.
Posted by: Markita Lynda: Healthcare is a damn right
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September 3, 2010 1:21 PM
It looks as if it's thinking deep thoughts.
BTW, isn't Daisy Hill where Snoopy was born?
Posted by: jeffery.g.davis
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September 3, 2010 1:35 PM
The Doctor is our enemy! The Doctor will be eliminated! Eliminate! Eliminate!
Posted by: Dhorvath, OM
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September 3, 2010 1:37 PM
@Jeffery.g.davis,
My thoughts exactly. 'Cept I like 'Exterminate' better.
Posted by: cag
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September 3, 2010 1:42 PM
Cephalopod Bread
6 cups All Porpoise flour
2 cups milk of human kindness
1 yeast infection
Mix, knead and form into loaves. Bake in a hydrothermal vent for 30 minutes.
Posted by: dashukta
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September 3, 2010 1:42 PM
@Monando (#3):
Yup. Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.
I wonder if these folks named themselves in reference to that.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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September 3, 2010 1:43 PM
Yep.
His brother Spike too.
Posted by: jeffery.g.davis
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September 3, 2010 1:44 PM
Ah Damn, you're right, I banged it off quick while working on something else, just proves I need to spend more time back logging Dr Who and less getting work done =) SERIOUS NERD FAIL!!!
Posted by: Aquaria
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September 3, 2010 1:44 PM
My mother gave me a purse that looked like that. Fewer straps, though.
Maybe I wouldn't have taken it straight to Goodwill if it had tentacles.
Posted by: irenedelse
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September 3, 2010 1:55 PM
Sure, he's cute at that age. But wait until he grows up and begins lusting after the Bride next door...
Posted by: lexicalninja
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September 3, 2010 2:09 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/09/02/GA2010090201931.html
PZ's illigitimate cephalopod love-child. Don't tell Trophy Wife.
Posted by: Chakra5
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September 3, 2010 2:24 PM
The spaghetti monster is the lord and master...this creature takes the form of he who boiled for our sins. therefor we must worship it.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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September 3, 2010 3:47 PM
I like the motto of Daisy Hill Ceph Farm:
Posted by: Will Von Wizzlepig
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September 3, 2010 4:47 PM
They're sure cute little things- I looked up some other photos of them, they're stripey a bit like a lionfish or a pajama-stripe cuttlefish... which makes me wonder how toxic the are?
Posted by: Gregory Greenwood
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September 3, 2010 4:59 PM
Aw, the little chapie is so cute. He is probably sitting there thinking;
"I wish that the big veterbrate would stop pointing that camera at me, I am trying to sleep!"
To sleep, perchance to dream of the Bride of Frankenstein. Aye, there's the tentacle pron...
Posted by: Gregory Greenwood
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September 3, 2010 5:08 PM
jeffery.g.davis @ 4;
'Eliminate'? 'Eliminate', you say!?
'Exterminate'! It's 'Exterminate', man! Any Dr Who fan worth his or her ridiculously unconvincing monster costumes and polystyrene 'rock' scenery knows that! 'Tis practically heresy 'gainst the grand old man of over the top and very, very British (by 'British', I of course mean 'utterly incomprehensible' to all those who do not hail from this sceptered isle) sci-fi.
Davros will not be pleased! No more day trips to Skaro for you!
Posted by: Arty45
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September 3, 2010 5:41 PM
Hey Pharyngulators,
Help out a good cause and sign on to the petition to ask Stephen Colbert to hold a "Restoring Truthiness" rally in Washington, DC.
http://www.colbertrally.com/
Posted by: Chakra5
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September 3, 2010 6:02 PM
By Colbert's own definition, I'd say there's too much of that shit going on over there already.
Posted by: MosesZD
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September 3, 2010 6:20 PM
Over-lord my ass:
Flame-Grilled Octopus
•4 1/2 pounds of octopus, fresh or frozen (defrosted)
•olive oil to coat
•-----------
•For the sauce:
•1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil
•juice of 2 lemons or vinegar (about 4 tablespoons)
•-----------
•To garnish:
•crushed Greek oregano (rigani)
Clean, then place the whole octopus in a pot with enough boiling water to to cover generously. When it resumes boiling, cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and drain. When cool enough to handle, rub the octopus with your hands under running water to remove the dark outer membrane. This comes off fairly easily, and if it doesn't all come off, that's all right.
Place the octopus in the pressure cooker with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, seal, and when pressure is reached, lower the heat and cook for 10 minutes. Use quick pressure release, remove the octopus and drain.
When the octopus is cool enough to handle, cut off the tentacles, and cut the head sac into 1/2 inch strips. Brush with olive oil (or brush the grill) and grill over low coals for about 45 minutes to 1 hour (test for tenderness).
Just before serving, cut tentacles into 3/4 to 1 inch pieces (on a diagonal), and make the sauce: whip the oil and lemon juice or vinegar in the blender until it thickens (a few seconds). Pour over the octopus, sprinkle with oregano, and serve.
Another taste: Serve grilled octopus with slices of lime.
Posted by: Marella
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September 3, 2010 7:32 PM
Our 'future molluscan overlord' looks like he CBF molluscan overlording to me!
Posted by: Franklin Percival
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September 3, 2010 7:37 PM
When I was at primary school in the mid-fifties, we were served, periodically, with a dessert called 'Spotted Dick'. I won't ask you to contemplate what it may have looked like in a smattering of enfeebled custard.
Most of us here are cognizant of cephalopods' intelligence and powers of mimicry, but do they really want to die of custard poisoning?
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM, CR
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September 3, 2010 8:10 PM
--MosesZD@#20--
I've recipes for human, too
(The damnedest thing--it's really true!)
But I'll show more restraint than you
Because I'm so polite.
And so, no steak, no pie, no stew,
No tasty human brain fondue,
But trust me, if you had a chew
You'd savor every bite!
Posted by: 朴競花/박경화 (Gyeong Hwa)
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September 3, 2010 8:25 PM
I take it Cuttlefish isn't a fan of khô mực sợi.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp
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September 3, 2010 8:31 PM
Moses we have a nice Greek restaurant here in Mount Pleasant that serves essentially that as an app and it's easily one of my favorite things not only on their menu, but in town.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp
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September 3, 2010 8:34 PM
Difference is that it's only the tentacles and they're served un-sliced. Just long and charred perfectly.
Damn I'm hungry now.
octopadi skaras
Posted by: Markita Lynda: Healthcare is a damn right
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September 3, 2010 8:50 PM
Is there any truth to the rumour that Greek cooks used old agitator/wringer washers to tenderize octopodes before cooking?
Posted by: SonicScrewdriver
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September 4, 2010 1:10 AM
Octopodes have the double whammy of being utterly delicious, and oh so cute and playful.
One look at those big eyes was more than enough to set me off my tako.
Posted by: SonicScrewdriver
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September 4, 2010 1:13 AM
Also, @ #17. Perhaps not totally incomprehensible to "us who dwell 'cross the pond." Cat pins and verylongscarves for great justice!
Posted by: TheRatKing
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September 4, 2010 2:49 AM
I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Squishy.
Posted by: Svetogorsk
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September 4, 2010 4:27 AM
Talking of weirdly erotic tentacles, a friend has just sent me a link to these amazing time-lapse studies of sweet peas.
They were filmed 80 years ago, so the commentary could have been recorded by Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmondeley-Warner, but the images themselves are astonishing.
Posted by: paulnaveau
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September 4, 2010 5:36 AM
Hmm, this picture indeed reminds me of overlords, those from Starcraft.
(((((And of Salt & pepper squid from the chinese restaurant, yummy)))))
Posted by: Tim Harris
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September 4, 2010 8:26 AM
Horrendously off-topic, but go to Butterflies and Wheels or Time Magazine and see what is being perpetrated against Ahmadi Muslims in flood-stricken Pakistan - Islam can be a real religion of love...
Posted by: Aoichan
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September 4, 2010 8:42 AM
Sure, he looks cute now, but remember, Cephalopod overlords do grow up.
And not all of them become Krakens that oversexed Greek gods can unleash whenever they feel the need to be dramatic.
(This was a public service announcement based on absolutely nothing. Or at the very least those goddamn "unleash the Kraken jokes.")
Posted by: No One
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September 4, 2010 11:54 AM
My grandmothers octopus stew...
Fresh tomatoes, pearl onions, garlic, a bit of red vinager, honey, oregano.
With hard crust bread for sauce dipping.
Where did I put my spear-gun?
Posted by: Jimmy handbags
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September 5, 2010 9:19 PM
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This is interesting for Collective intelligence purposes and well done.
Could I have more background information on that project? Having worked at Yahoo!
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What is your business model, advertising?