Friday Cephalopod: Placid and serene

Is it a cat?
Is it a moomintroll?

No, it's super-cephalopod!

All it needs is a tiny blanket and a teddy.

**honk-shu**

*bubble*

**honk-shu**

*bubble*

'Placid and serene'?
More like 'Lurking and Plotting' .

You're sure it's not a Moomintroll? Nice one, echidna :)

Oh, my, isn't she cute. She even looks like she's purring...: )

"He waits and dreams in the deep, and one day the cities of man shall fall before him!"

It looks like an orange hippo.......

I love my cute deadly!

I don't care what it is, my question is:
Does this creature throw stuff?
I love those rebellious animals.
:)

Am I the only one, or did it remind anyone else of PZ?

Fhtagn!

Hippopodamus.

Kate:
Good 'un.

It is simply exhibiting natrual behaviour. To anthropomorphise this creature serves no purpose and is an example of why emotion is redundant and must be removed to further human evolution.

If Garfield were an cephalopod,
I think he'd look like that;
A bug-eyed, lazy, orange-coated
Tabby octocat!

At first glance, it looks like a baby hippo that ate too much orange sherbet.

@Eidolon:

Why thank you! I hadn't had coffee yet, and all I wanted to do was crawl into that pic and curl up with the little cutie for a nap! (Once I'd put on some diving gear and a rebreather, that is.)

Weeze anthropomorphaizin?
Oh Noes!

Cute?

No.

Dead but dreaming, in the ancient sands of the deep sea.

And if you get too close, up for a midnight snack from the easily opened fridge of your cranium.

Are its tentacles stuffed into the sand to anchor it, or is it up to something nefarious down there ...

He looks like I wish I felt.

Anne Hedonia, I have noticed many spelling errors in your posts, you should return to Processing Central to have your nanoprobes restored to proper working order. Perfection is the goal. The rest of you will be assimilated shortly, resistance is futile.

"And when Bagpuss falls asleep...."

A calico octopus?

Bagpuss was apparently intended to be orange striped, but he came back from the dyers pink instead and the programme makers just went with it.

HE is uncannily like my cat! I second the Garfield idea

My reading of Pharyngula motivated me to mention cephalopods in my most recent blog post... so PZ Myers has accomplished something in educating the world about the wonders of the squishy sea creatures. Does anyone know of any good references on the nervous system of cephalopods?

Wait, don't most octopi change color to orange when they're aggravated? (as opposed to matching surrounding colors normally)

I'd like to be
Under the sea
In an octopus' garden
In the shade...

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

he appears to have achieved Buddha-nature.

This is the first cute octopus I've seen. It almost looks furry because of the image compression artifacts. Wow.

'ki' your use of humour displays a flawed reliance upon emotion.

Are its tentacles stuffed into the sand to anchor it, or is it up to something nefarious down there ...

I think he's just dropped his keys.

'ki' your use of humour displays a flawed reliance upon emotion.

Maybe, but I found it to be funny.

On the other hand, your attempts to skewer what you imagine to be the atheist's disdain for emotion miss their target entirely.

Anne, your concern has been noted and filed under "t" for "Troll".

She looks awfully full, must have eaten the whole christian!
Good girl!!

If only our life was so serene.

One of the reasons I am a certified scuba diver. It is another world down there.

Good picture for the week!

It's looking for food in the sand.

Is Anne Hedonian attempting an antiPoe? If so, she'd do well to remember Brownian's Corollary to Poe's Law: "A fundamentalist theist/creationist is generally incapable of producing a convincing parody of an atheist/evolutionist."

One needs to understand a thing before one can lampoon a thing. The naive lack of rigour which characterises the fundie and creationist positions makes them easily satirised, but by their very nature they render their victims unable to appreciate another's way of thinking enough to replicate it.

From another her posts on another thread, my hypothesis is that Anne is doing her Vulcan imitation.

In my opinion the largest threat for California are cataclysms and ecological catastrophes. Not important is how many money we have because one tragedy can us take all.

Notagod #38
NomNomNice one

BIG girl arencha babe?

That image simply exudes serenity and comfort, well being and even cephalopod happiness.

There ain't a cushioned couch on Earth that can deliver anywhere near that level of physical tranquility to us bony landlubbers.

Many creationists admit ID is just creationism with the serial numbers filed off and an undefined "intelligent designer" used in place of Yahweh.