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    Marine biologist Silvia Maciá was boating on the north coast of Jamaica in the summer of 2001 when she noticed something soar out of the sea. At first she thought it was a member of the flying fish family—a group of marine fish that escape predators by breaking the water's surface at great speed and gliding through the air on unusually large pectoral fins. But after tracing the creature's graceful arc for a few seconds, Maciá realized this was no fish. It was a squid—and it was flying.

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    Let me be the first to say:

    "All hail to our new octosquid overlords".
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    I watched this Discovery Channel special series many years back, where they were talking about a future scenario where in the humans had left Earth after more or less wrecking it's weather pattern and settled on some other planet.
    They predicted quite a few things including turtles growing as large as dinosaurs and squids eventually filling the void left by primates, as the most intelligent species.


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    Stupid squid need to stick with their own, swimming around and being all jelly and what not. Ain't nobody want them here, takin our jobs and our womens with their extra tentacles and suction cups. How we supposed to accomodate them when they all look the same?
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    "On a LISTSERV dedicated to mollusks"

    Wow. That's our top spy agency now.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
    Stupid squid need to stick with their own, swimming around and being all jelly and what not. Ain't nobody want them here, takin our jobs and our womens with their extra tentacles and suction cups. How we supposed to accomodate them when they all look the same?
    Now that would be a feat in multicultural tolerance.

    I can see the headlines now, Non-squid humans now minority births
    Or maybe, The first squid president pledges to end the barbaric practice of eating seafood


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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
    Yes ambassador?


    Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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    Sheriff Joe is mobilizing as we speak to stop the Squid Threat.
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    It is pointless to resist. All your shrimp are belong to us.
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    Why isnt anyones considering that now with a boat and a few bug nets it would be easy to set up a self catching squid industry/calamari resteraunt?
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    They thought of that and are already lost to us, these things prey on he smart

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
    Why isnt anyones considering that now with a boat and a few bug nets it would be easy to set up a self catching squid industry/calamari resteraunt?
    Popplers. That's why.


    Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
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    Hah! Take your overgrown squid he is no mach for the majesty of Armok!
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    Being better than the worst does not inherently make you good. But being better than the rest lets you brag.


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