Voracious 7-foot long jumbo squid invade California waters

**Papewaio** · 07-30-2007, 02:15

Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

Where oh where is our messiah Al Gore and his "Inconvenient Sucker"?

I think you are confusing the Vice President with the President's Vices...

**Shaka_Khan** · 07-30-2007, 02:31

What about the giant jellyfish and stingrays? They're poisonous.

**Gregoshi** · 07-30-2007, 05:00

Originally Posted by Shaka_Khan

What about the giant jellyfish and stingrays? They're poisonous.

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.

**InsaneApache** · 07-31-2007, 16:24

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...

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.

You'd have to be a sucker not to believe it.

**Gregoshi** · 07-31-2007, 16:42

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.