Squid overlords of the future

[Ironside]

I just got a wonderful idea: let's BREED genetically manipulated octosquids, and in each generation select the largest ones and most capable of living close to the surface. After a while, we keep selecting for size, but also for those who can stay above the surface for as long as possible! Then we select those that start evolving lungs too, and finally, we will have an army of octosquid overlords!

There is no use resisting, because this will happen anyway, so we might as well let it happen sooner!

Breed them? Bah, for barbarians.

I hold the octosquids' genome right here (holds up a paper with very, very small text)!

Now if we change that sequence and that, and that, etc, we'll have have that octosquid army within a few decades!!

[Gregoshi]

Gimme a break. The octosquids are a spineless threat.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Blasphemer!

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[Gregoshi]

Come on Legio, get a backbone and admit that they are spineless.

[Rodion Romanovich]

I'm not good enough at English idioms to make any suitable pun in return, I'm afraid But you will regret your sacrilege when the octosquids come, I tell ya!

[Gregoshi]

I'm not good enough at English idioms to make any suitable pun in return, I'm afraid But you will regret your sacrilege when the octosquids come, I tell ya!

Sorry Legio, I guess I have an unfair advantage. Not to worry, you'll have the last laugh when the octosquids come and I have nowhere to pun.

(how's that for a little gift Legio? I turned the pun on myself to level the playing field. )

[Conradus]

I may be seen as a heretic now, but I'm sure that the squids won't rule the world in the future. At least, not all of it.
They'll rule the oceans, but they'll have made a pact with the giant squirrels who are going to enslave us and put us in their nut mines. Just as Dilbert predicted
the truth about squirrels

[Gregoshi]

...they'll have made a pact with the giant squirrels who are going to enslave us and put us in their nut mines.

Good thinking Conradus! Their nut mines will be where we make our last stand. They wouldn't dare kick us in their nuts.

[English assassin]

Clearly the only hope for humanity is to start an intensive double nosed andean tiger hound breeding programme immediately. Those octosquids may be clever, but no way will they be expecting an army of two nosed dogs.

well, apart from the ones that read the org, that is.