It's an omen!

First, California is hit with a small earthquake (that never happens, does it?) and then…the squid appear.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

It's sweet how the Californians try to throw them back in the sea. Have they no knives, no garlic, no pans with hot oil? Because if the squid did, we know what they'd do.

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