Friday Cephalopod: Classic squid, in purple

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Uroteuthis chinensis

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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Looks like it is ready to "party like it's 1999".

By Shaggy Maniac (not verified) on 26 Mar 2010 #permalink

Reminds me of the giant squid in Watchmen.

[not to open that whole can of worms].

-r.c.

By daijiyobu (not verified) on 26 Mar 2010 #permalink

Someday I'll have me one of those classics, and I'll fix it up to its original specifications.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

By Glen Davidson (not verified) on 26 Mar 2010 #permalink

Goes to show what kind of day I'm having, but all I think about when I see that picture is that gratuitous sex scene in Moby-Dick (unfortunately lost on the editor's floor).

During a bull session aboard the Pequod, Ishmael was relating a story about the last prostitute he'd favored, and when he was getting to the good part, Elijah bellows,

"What about her flukes, man, what about her flukes!?"

By Givesgoodemail (not verified) on 26 Mar 2010 #permalink

Pretty squidy.
I'd wear that on a tee shirt.

Classic squid, in purples

"fixed"

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 26 Mar 2010 #permalink

Classic Squid, in purple? Puleeze! She's obviously a stylish squid in lavender, most likely on her way to a some sort of pelagic ACT UP meeting.

By NeilB48239 (not verified) on 26 Mar 2010 #permalink