Comments on: All octopus, all the time

All octopus, all the time

Turtles all the way down — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:58:44 -0800

Octopus escaping through one inch hole. Octopus eats shark. Camouflaged octopus. Octopus attacks mini-sub. (Google videos)

By: Malor

Malor — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:15:39 -0800

Attacks? More like "comes to check out, gets sandblasted". :) Octopi are extremely intelligent. I refuse to eat them.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:15:52 -0800

Invertebrates rule.

By: shanevsevil

shanevsevil — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:43:53 -0800

All awesome except the mini-sub video.

By: shoesfullofdust

shoesfullofdust — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:02:16 -0800

Cephalopod Lust Repelled Octopus vs. Shark

By: premiumpolar

premiumpolar — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:09:27 -0800

Their eyes! So cute!

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:22:30 -0800

And of course there is this little fellow, one of the most venomous (and beautiful) creatures in the world. From where else? Australia, the land of venomous reptiles and spiders (Sorry, couldn't resist)

By: chillmost

chillmost — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:33:18 -0800

Australia, the land of venomous reptiles and spiders Crickey! ...*sniff*

By: clevershark

clevershark — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:36:18 -0800

Koreans eat octopus while it's still alive. Of course sometimes the octopus clings to the inside of their throats and kill them, yet it manages to survive.

By: econous

econous — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:48:01 -0800

My ex girlfriend was extremely intelligent, she refused to eat me. Didn't have eight limbs though. Still, clever girl.

By: premiumpolar

premiumpolar — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:48:45 -0800

clevershark would never allow himself to be eaten by an octopus.

By: war wrath of wraith

war wrath of wraith — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:15:18 -0800

Koreans eat octopus while it's still alive. Not exactly. You're thinking of Oldboy, which, if you were to believe to the letter, would have you wondering if private prisons exist. They're cut up while still alive, so when bits and pieces arrive at your table, they're still writhing and wriggling. Same goes for fresh sushi (known as hwe in Korean); it's cut up moments after having its neck broken, but not exactly eaten while still swimming.

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:19:15 -0800

Koreans eat octopus while it's still alive. Not exactly. You're thinking of Oldboy, which, if you were to believe to the letter, would have you wondering if private prisons exist. Or maybe thinking of this . . .

By: war wrath of wraith

war wrath of wraith — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:30:24 -0800

Touché, but I've also heard that Americans like to pose in front of cameras with their gaping assholes. I know 'cause I saw this picture once... I suppose in some parts of Korea they may do that, but in all my time living in the capital city, I've never seen anything resembling what that video shows anywhere (regional differences? city/country?) Notice that the vid was posted by a Korean (meaning, s/he's pointing and being grossed out, too). I have no problems with anyone eating live octopus, btw--it's just not accurate to say "Koreans eat octopus while it's still alive," expecting all Koreans to know what you're talking about.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:43:13 -0800

Maybe it is regional, not a Seoul thing, or whatever. But there are upwards of 30 or so videos on YouTube of, yep, Koreans dining on live octopus or squid, so it must be at least a somewhat common practice somewhere in Korea.

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:12:33 -0800

Damn! They've now blocked google video! There's another video site I can't waste time at during work. Flagged to watch at home...

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:17:44 -0800

my appetite for [watching] octopuses seems insatiable, and so for this I thank you a thousand times

By: maryh

maryh — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:18:03 -0800

And don't forget the walking octopi, out for a watery stroll.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:22:10 -0800

oh, and this mimic octopus is one of my favorites

By: footnote

footnote — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:25:02 -0800

I love octopuses. The first one is very cute -- seems quite proud of himself for getting through that hole. I wouldn't eat him.

By: maryh

maryh — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:25:10 -0800

" There is very little loss of definition or signal strength among communicating octopi. Indeed, their well-known use of "ink" clouds to conceal themselves may indicate that this is the only way that they can have anything like a private thought. The ink cloud may be ad of correction fluid for voluble octopi who have misspoken themselves. "

By: econous

econous — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:26:10 -0800

The following link is not safe for work. [NSFW] I could very well agree it is a short clip, but it's a clip that is Made In Japan. Not my Ex. This comment may be deleted at any time. Thanks be to the Deleter, for s/he it has sacrificed at least one eye. And so say we all.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:33:42 -0800

I'm not sure how I feel about divers playing with this one, [though it looks as if they don't harm it besides depleting its ink]

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:36:16 -0800

econous, that's a disturbing little video. can't be sanitary.

By: maryh

maryh — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:57:55 -0800

Brainy, boneless and sexy.

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:59:33 -0800

The following link is not safe for work. Not safe for eyes...

By: pracowity

pracowity — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:09:13 -0800

Octopus escaping through one inch hole. That should be a tai chi maneuver or sexual euphemism or some other eu-word. You've got the little man in a boat and you've got the white crane spreads its wings and you've got the octopus escaping through a one inch hole.

By: squasha

squasha — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:13:43 -0800

I know what you mean, Busitoth. I found myself kinda rooting for the sweet little guy to slip up and over the blonde guy's face...and suck off his breathing apparatus! And econous, all I can say is: eww. Serves me right for clicking, though. I live in bukkake-land, I should have known better!

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:05:47 -0800

All awesome except the mini-sub video I must admit that slow-motion approach with the big dark eyes was pretty creepy. Then - Alert! Mini-sub engines on full! Evade! and Mr Tangles gets a blast of marine mayhem. To own a mini-sub would be merely awesome. To be attacked by an octopus while piloting such a vessel would be better than the second coming of Christ.

By: odasaku

odasaku — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:36:19 -0800

Octopodae are so much smarter and cooler than elephants. Why don't we have a day of relentless octopod posts?

By: elendil71

elendil71 — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:53:40 -0800

I was pretty sure this was a double post, and so I was right. But octopi are such astoundingly cool critters that it deserves a re-look. Here for my own octopi anecdote from the previous post.

By: itchylick

itchylick — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:55:59 -0800

"Octopus attacks mini-sub." Looked the other way around to me.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:03:52 -0800

elendil71: What an amazing story! I'm glad you linked back to it, I missed it the first time around.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:07:45 -0800

Don't forget my new personal favorite, the deadly blue-ringed octopus.

By: maryh

maryh — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:19:43 -0800

That was lovely, elendil71.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:46:21 -0800

the mini-sub was remotely controlled, and uninsured, which prompted the owner, on a surface boat, to gun the engines to try and save it.

By: Zed_Lopez

Zed_Lopez — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:21:25 -0800

Octopus plays with Mr. Potato Head. I once saw a nature documentary with footage of a small octopus who liked to sleep in a bottle, which she (IIRC, the documentary identified her as a she) carried around with her -- she'd wrap four tentacles under it, and take a step with the other four, in a gallumphing gait. A diver dropped a new bottle in front of her. She swam over, crawled inside (in a manner that probably resembled the escaping through one inch hole thing, which I haven't watched yet), felt around, and squeezed back out. She swam back to her old bottle and carried it off into the sunset. Wish I had the title of the doc, or a web link for y'all.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:51:31 -0800

I linked a friend to this, with the description: Big Octopus, Tiny Hole. HOT.

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:20:55 -0800

So far in the posts and comments the plural of Octopus has been written as Octopodae and Octopii but not as yet Octopuses, which I think is correct (in English). Also I think Octopuses rock and can grow very big.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:44:42 -0800

Why don't we have a day of relentless octopod posts? Okay, as long as we can include this.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:09:19 -0800

So far in the posts and comments the plural of Octopus has been written as Octopodae and Octopii but not as yet Octopuses, which I think is correct You, sir, are an ignoramus. The correct plural of "octopus" is "octomopusesses"

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:11:55 -0800

Your favourite octopus sucks. The coolest by far is the walnut-sized male blanket octopus, who uses broken off tentacles from the lethal Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish as weapons, and has kamikaze sex with females 100 times his size (um, leaving a living tentacle inside her while he goes off quietly to die after sex...)

By: Iron Rat

Iron Rat — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:04:13 -0800

I catch them sometimes when I am lobstering off a local pier, I got one in october that was almost three feet all across from tip to tip and that is big for around here. I tiped him out of the hoopnet and he went through a crack between the planks in the pier just oozing along like he was made of mercury. I agree with Malor, they are too smart to eat

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:46:35 -0800

Touché, but I've also heard that Americans like to pose in front of cameras with their gaping assholes. I know 'cause I saw this picture once... IIRC, he's actually from Belgium, or was it France?

By: Zed_Lopez

Zed_Lopez — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:41:35 -0800

So far in the posts and comments the plural of Octopus has been written as Octopodae and Octopii but not as yet Octopuses, which I think is correct The American Heritage accepts 'octopi' without comment, and omits 'octopodes.' The OED (the link won't work unless you have a subscription) says 'Plural octopuses, octopi, (rare) octopodes Brit.' Hunh. I'd have said 'octopi' was wrong, and 'octopuses' or 'octopodes' right, probably remembered from some usage guide or other. But it looks like the fight against 'octopi' is lost.