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I'm new here, but I'm curious about the "obsession" with Squid. Is it due to them being involved in a famous evolution debate? Or an inside joke that we evolved from a squid-like creatures many years ago? Or that human embryos look similar to those of squids? Or am I just missing the point?

And what happens to the kid when the cephalopod hugs him back?

A little payback for all of that calamari ;-)

I think it 'cause they're evolved along a completely different path than our own. They're like alien, intelligent predators that can change colours an' shit. What's not to like?

Simply put - they're cool *and* Cthulhuesque.
I still think we should try to captive-breed longer-lived octopi and see if we can work on increasing intelligence, though.

PZ likes squid.

My wife and I took our 3 year old twins (boy & girl) out to eat at an Italian place a couple of weeks ago. We ordered calamari, a big platter with rings and tentacle clusters. Neither of the kids ate a bit of their dinners, pizza and ravioli, but man did they eat the heck out of that calamari! They loved it! I was a little surprised, but probably should not have been. After all they both like to tell me, when I am trying to get them to eat more vegetables, "but dad, I'm a carnivore!" (they like cats and like to think of themselves as cats)

Squid are anti-cuddly. It's why they're cool, and it's also why the comic works.

I think a captive breeding program to increase cephalopod intelligence would be a fantastic idea . . . right up until the point where they rebel and kill us all. Maybe we should just shoot for getting them to the level of bright golden retrievers or something.

I particularly like the expression on the squid's "face".

Just today, my three-year-old asked if we had any octopus pants.

I am TOTALLY going to make him some octopus pants!!!

By Melissa G (not verified) on 22 Feb 2007 #permalink

Either normal pants made from fabric with pictures of octopi, or pants with eight legs.

The potential effects of pants made out of an octopus sounds like a Newberry award-winning book waiting to be banned, if you ask me.