An embarrassing situation for the octopus

Shelley had her weird cake article, but it failed to include this bizarre masterpiece.

I can't quite imagine why a cephalopod would want to do that, when there are so many attractive molluscs in the sea.

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Tentacle hentai -- two words that should never have been put together.

Is that Barbie?

By S. Fisher (not verified) on 09 Sep 2007 #permalink

In US you eat mollusc, in Soviet Russia mollusc eat you.

By AntonGarou (not verified) on 09 Sep 2007 #permalink

To be fair to Shelly hers were Nerdy cakes.
"I can't quite imagine why a cephalopod would want to do that, when there are so many attractive molluscs in the sea."
What makes you think it wasn't just having a meal?

Tentacoo Wape is the bee's knees.

By Jewbacchus (not verified) on 09 Sep 2007 #permalink

Which link leads you to others on the same site...

one of which leads you to http://www.virtualroadside.com/fortune/ ...

which generates random quotes with random ASCII art ...

which includes an option for "offensive atheist" quotations...

some of which are pretty good:

_________________________________________________________
/ "We may rest assured that God would never have suffered \
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| any infants to be slain except those who were already |
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| damned and predestined for eternal death." |
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| [John Calvin, rationalizing the slaughter |
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\ of infants in the Old Testament] /
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\ ^__^
\ ($$)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
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(Alas, if only the [TT] monospaced-font command worked here...)

By Pierce R. Butler (not verified) on 09 Sep 2007 #permalink

Hey PZ,
That cephalopod is not having sex with barbie! He's eating her! Doesn't cephalopod sex have something to do with the male puting a dab of sperm on the female with his tentacle? Not as intrusive as mammalian sex?

By Robert Madewell (not verified) on 09 Sep 2007 #permalink

Didn't you learn from the "Tentacle Sex" episode?

Expect a whole bunch of creepy searches to end up here.

As the creator of the cake I have to say I was inspired by the combination of "Creepy half a barbie on a stick to put on a cake" (the dolls have no lower legs, just a toothpick) and the octopus cake pan sold by Williams and Sonoma for a very brief period...it seems they've been pulled from the shelves.

The flickr set for all the pictures of my cake is here FYI.

followed the weird cake link and

EEEE I *love* the Mario Bros. cake!!!