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Category: Art • Cephalopods • Weirdness
Posted on: June 17, 2011 10:07 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: nomen-nescio.myopenid.com
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June 17, 2011 10:16 AM
wait, wait... what is it writing on, exactly?
Posted by: Xopher
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June 17, 2011 10:18 AM
....and social morays?
Posted by: WCorvi
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June 17, 2011 10:21 AM
So, can Kraken write with all eight arms at a time??!? If so, they can outpublish the rest of us with no problem!
Posted by: Zeno
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June 17, 2011 10:24 AM
Literate? Well, maybe the octopus is. The annotator in the corner sure had problems: "Octopus deceiving a predator with its ink". There. All fixed.
Posted by: Bodach
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June 17, 2011 10:25 AM
dammit, Zeno; beat me to it.
Posted by: Rey Fox, Bird Caller Guy
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June 17, 2011 10:34 AM
Wait, that little salmon is supposed to be a predator?
Posted by: Moggie
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June 17, 2011 10:37 AM
To quote Dean Martin: that's a moray?
Posted by: Steven Dunlap
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June 17, 2011 10:37 AM
This reminds me of a great Gracie Allen bit in which she explains her lion trap to George:
Posted by: llewelly
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June 17, 2011 10:42 AM
That's nothing. Wait 'till you find out how many cephalopods have OkCupid accounts.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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June 17, 2011 10:44 AM
is actually a moray eel.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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June 17, 2011 10:46 AM
oo Moggie's was good
Posted by: Kome
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June 17, 2011 10:59 AM
Jokes on the octopus. Eels can't read!
Posted by: Harbo
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June 17, 2011 11:02 AM
The pen is mightier than the sword....Fish!
Posted by: inflection
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June 17, 2011 11:19 AM
Ceci n'est pas une requin.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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June 17, 2011 11:34 AM
Cephalopods fill me with the dread of defamation.
Is it legal to teach them literacy?
Glen Davidson
Posted by: pinkboi
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June 17, 2011 11:37 AM
Its defense works best against people, who believe anything they read. (or replace people w/ your favorite punching bag, e.g., IDiots)
Also, #2 - zing!
Posted by: fcaccin
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June 17, 2011 12:05 PM
The actual technical term is "octopublishing".
(rimshot)
Posted by: э̀иэЯ
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June 17, 2011 12:07 PM
Interesting tool use: the thing is writing backwards.
Posted by: feralboy12, der Ken-Puppe Sie außerhalb in 1983 verlassen
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June 17, 2011 12:53 PM
Ya'll know me. Know how I earn a living. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad...wait, what?
Posted by: F
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June 17, 2011 1:06 PM
That's OK, as they are apparently absent on land. Plenty of dangerous illiterate predators, though.
Posted by: octopod
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June 17, 2011 2:37 PM
Oh jeez. WHERE does this image come from? I have to know and I really can't find the information. Please. O_O
Posted by: sandiseattle
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June 17, 2011 2:40 PM
My question would be, if the octopus can write, why doesn't he get his own blog?
Posted by: matthewpettyuk
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June 17, 2011 3:11 PM
Here's an old sketch I drew of Social Morays.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/muteboy/7294989/in/set-72157603876527586
Posted by: MJM
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June 17, 2011 3:13 PM
If the octopus got his own blog, would we get to see "Friday Biologist" posts?
Posted by: sandiseattle
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June 17, 2011 3:23 PM
@MJM
and Monday Metazoan would include humans every now an then.
Posted by: Mr.Kosta
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June 17, 2011 4:16 PM
Chthulhu is going to get sued by Dagon for identity theft, me thinks.
Posted by: docslacker
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June 17, 2011 6:15 PM
Awesome octopus is deconstructing Magritte.
"This is not a pipe"
Posted by: Don Smith
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June 17, 2011 7:49 PM
Moggie @7,
You must have been waiting for YEARS to be able to use that one!
Oh, and LOL!
Posted by: Glendon Mellow
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June 17, 2011 7:56 PM
#21 Octopod, this is what I dislike about Tumblr: lots of sharing, rarely credit to the artists.
Using Tineye, I found the image as far back as early 2010. But still not credited.
Bloggers, credit your images!
Posted by: statueofmike
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June 18, 2011 12:44 AM
I'm fairly certain that's Mohammed frightening the eel.
Posted by: Samantha Vimes
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June 18, 2011 5:19 AM
How did the moray draw the question mark?
The octopus, by writing backwards, shows he is left-tentacled.
Posted by: Peter Ashby
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June 18, 2011 3:31 PM
@Samantha Vimes
Or cross lateral (probably more likely).
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM, CR
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June 20, 2011 10:57 PM
It should be a quill pen, but other than that? Why the confusion?