You see an invading species of squid while I see potential for profit. Those Japanese would undoubtably go crazy for kalamari this big!
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You see an invading species of squid while I see potential for profit. Those Japanese would undoubtably go crazy for kalamari this big!
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
Four stage strategy from Yes, Minister:
Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
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You see, this is typical of the Backroom. Those of us who know our world is coming to an end at the rampant tentacles of the decapods present Clear and Unbiased Scientific Proof TM* of that inky end, and still there are the complacent nay-sayers who just see dollar signs.Originally Posted by spmetla
Where oh where is our messiah Al Gore and his "Inconvenient Sucker"?
*Statement bolded because this makes it TRUE.
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"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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I think you are confusing the Vice President with the President's Vices...
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Pape for global overlord!!
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What about the giant jellyfish and stingrays? They're poisonous.
Wooooo!!!
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The Jellyfish movement has no strong sense of direction and are content to go with the flow, i.e., they are too influenced by current event. As for Stingrays, they made their move too quickly and picked a bad first target in Steve Irwin. They will be reeling from that bad PR for years.
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It's not looking good guys. They're moving inland, as far as Birmingham in the midlands.
Keepers at Birmingham's Sea Life Centre were puzzled about why George the octopus was off his food and seemed tired and miserable.
On Monday staff at the centre discovered "he" had laid thousands of eggs in the tank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6924036.stm
I thought I'd be safer up in the hills of the north, now I'm not sure.
Oh noes...
You'd have to be a sucker not to believe it.The octopus is among the most intelligent inhabitants of the oceans, with a highly-developed nervous system and the largest and most advanced brain of any invertebrate.
The creatures often lay up to a hundred thousand eggs.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Who'd have thought the octopus would be so smart that the males can lay eggs too? That way the female of the species can't pull that "we suffer to give birth to your children!" crap. By laying thousands of eggs though, eight tentacles suddenly doesn't seem like enough to raise all those octokids.
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Jaws was just a film about really big sushi to you, wasn't it?
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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They've teamed up with the lobsters. Remember that diver attacked off the coast of Cornwall a week or so back? It's a classic military manoeuver. The pincer movement.
The squids and the lobsters are the footsoldiers, stormtroopers if you will, all controlled by the octosquid masters.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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They've teamed up with the lobsters...It's a classic military manoeuver. The pincer movement.<rimshot>
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All hail the great Cthulhu!
"Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"
"The English are a strange people....They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed the garrison and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"
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Why bother? The Dread Lord will eat you either way.
What do this things eat anyway? Might they go after humans?
GoreBag: Oh, Prole, you're a nerd's wet dream.
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I'm leaning toward a Cthulhu/Nyarlothotep ticket in '08. The octosquids will have the vote by then.
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Not just sushi but sharkfin soup as well! Big animals just taste better, just call these King Kalamari and make a reality show about catching them and we're set.Jaws was just a film about really big sushi to you, wasn't it?
When that inky end comes I just hope to have enough dollar signs to hang out in the ISS...unless they follow us into space.You see, this is typical of the Backroom. Those of us who know our world is coming to an end at the rampant tentacles of the decapods present Clear and Unbiased Scientific Proof TM* of that inky end, and still there are the complacent nay-sayers who just see dollar signs.
Where oh where is our messiah Al Gore and his "Inconvenient Sucker"?
*Statement bolded because this makes it TRUE.
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
Four stage strategy from Yes, Minister:
Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
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The real question is what squids think of circumcision. Depending on their answer, I can either move to Montana or welcome our new overlords.
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The real question is what squids think of circumcision. Depending on their answer, I can either move to Montana or welcome our new overlords.
That is a real kick in the tentacles for this thread Alexander. But it is a cutting question worthy of discussion as those on the wrong side of the blade will surely end up in Octolobsquid penal colonies.
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I have no way of proving that some Orgahs aren't octosquids already. I would like to know their feelings on circumcision, gun control, abortion, religion and the existence of god. (A singular, benevolent god, as opposed to the elder gods who dwell in outer darkness, full of unfathomable malevolence.)
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But unfathomable malevolence is fun!
I wonder what the octosquids think of PETA...
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C.S. Lewis
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