The curse of Boing Boing

I promise never to send you Boing Boing links, PZ.

Awesome scene, but that narrator makes me want to /wrists ...

Haven't you posted this before? I won't deign to watch the video, since I can't stand National Geographic narrators, but I've seen it before, and it's indeed awesome.

It's a cool video but best watched without sound. Nat Geo seem to think all their clips should come across like The Planet's Funniest Animals.

I sent you something a few weeks ago (not from boingboing, but still stupid) after a beer or three. I'm blaming the beer.

My beer apologizes.

i never said right now.

So does the shark die? I don't want any spoilers before I watch this. :)

Nom Nom Nom

Yeah, I've posted various versions of the octopus vs. shark video a few times in the past. It goes in cycles...next year, a whole bunch of people will have forgotten it or discovered it anew, and I'll get another flood of email.

Weird thing: it's always the same aquarium and the same octopus. Someday I'd like to see some independent observations of the same phenomenon.

That shark had it comin' to him er her... ah whatever.

So... how did the octopus do in the shark? Suffocation? Crushing?

--Raynfala

What kind of ineffective ruthless killing machine shark is that, anyway? Gives other ruthless killing machine sharks a bad name.

Why do the idiot writers insist that he say "octopi"?

It's "octopuses", for fuck's sake.

Ewwww. That's horrible.

Are all American documentary commentaries that imbecilic?

*shudders*

Why couldn't they have gotten David Attenborough to narrate?

The video I want to see is a giant Pacific octopus eating a National Geographic narrator, with all the narration performed by a shark.

Standard Curve, that would be bloody marvelous!

@ #13

It's octopi, you infidel!

To mirror #11, did the lack of water going through its gills down the shark or was it some sort of damage caused by the octopus?

Almost certainly, what killed the shark is that after getting a good grip, the octopus would have torn into it with its very sharp beak.

This was posted before indeed. Too bad, was hoping for some refreshingly new kill

@18
Sharks tend to become immobilized when turned upside down..
I imagine it still lived a little while as the octopus feasted of it

Sounds like I was lucky to be at a place where sounds is a no go and without headphones :)

This was my first view of this so I just found the octopus body language to be like.. hilarious. hidden stalking death... turns pro wrestler.

I second the notion about seeing it eat a natgeo guy, that would be awesome! Or like.. a creationist :P

Father Barron!

What kind of ineffective ruthless killing machine shark is that, anyway? Gives other ruthless killing machine sharks a bad name.

Well, some sadist removed the poor thing's laser. That's gotta hurt.

Well, it's just a dogfish, a pretty small shark. I remember growing up on the BC coast, catching these while fishing. My brother used to spear them, as well a Cod, wearing mask, snorkel and flippers with a homemade spear - a broompool fitted with a sharpened quarter inch steel rod with a hinged barb, and piece a surgical rubber tubing to propel it.

Octopodes.

Not a fair match. In my book dogfish come a bit lower than a Great White!

"Dogfish carcases kept showing up at the bottom of the tank."

And the aquarium people couldn't work out what killed them until they threw in another dogfish... Like, the sharp beak and the tentacles are typical of a vegetarian or a filter-feeder?

from Wiki "Spiny dogfish":

Once the most abundant shark species in the world, populations of Squalus acanthias have declined significantly. They are classified in the IUCN Red List of threatened species as Vulnerable globally and Critically Endangered in the Northeast Atlantic, meaning stocks around Europe have decreased by at least 95%. This is a direct result of overfishing* to supply northern Europe's taste for Rock Salmon, Saumonette or Zeepaling.

*Maybe. I have an alternative hypothesis:

Idiot aquarium people + octopuses** = dogfish decline

**octopus (plural) - Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Where was Debbie Gibson? Did I miss her in there somewhere? =(

Is this a new game, like Rock / Paper / Scissors?

Shark eats razorfish but not octopus.
Razorfish eats octopus but not shark.
Octopus eats shark but not razorfish.

I guess PZ would loose most of the time - he wouldn't be able to stop going up "octopus"

re 18:
It's octopi, you infidel!

Not a chance. that "us" on the end is Greek and not a suffix, it is the word "pus" for "feet". the "-i" pluralization od "-us" is Latin.

besides octopuses, octopodes is also an acceptable plural keeping in the Greek mode.

It would appear that Kishimoto is still angling for a Pharyngulation.

Or perhaps not ...
[spoiler]

Seeing as how the poor squid goes on to be killed.

That's funny-- I thought the curse of BoingBoing was their heavy-handed agree-with-us-or-vanish comment policy.

Octopusen.

Octopussies

There is no longer a game called Rock/Paper/Scissors. It is now called Rock/Paper/Scissors/Lizard/Spock.

Bazinga!

According to this very reputable website *cough*, the plural of octopus is octopus'. When I see that I think "octopus prime" and then I picture a giant robotic octopus and think "Awesome!"

Octopi is just so much more appetizing.

Yeech.

That's gotta be the most irritating narration I've ever had the misfortune to endure.

It suggests nothing good about the demographic to which the program is targeted.

Dogfish carcases kept showing up at the bottom of the tank.

The autopsies all concluded: death due to natural causes.

I've been known to over-indulge in sharing English Russia posts (which boing boing sometimes hijacks). Since pirates fit in to the FSM thing, here is a video of Somali pirates on a Russian tanker. http://tinyurl.com/2vmgctx

A bit of a OT stretch eh?

octopi

no, that's "octo pie" like "octo mom" only with pie.

The commentary made me want to shoot myself in the face.

The tentacle action got me pretty excited though.

@5 wrote:

My beer apologizes.

It could worse-Bourbon and the South.