15 Responses:

1. lloydwood says:

   13 years ago at 12:25 pm

   From TONMO, The Octopus News Magazine Online:

   http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?17760-Male-or-Female-Octopus-Photos-of-Hectocotylized-Arm

   (captcha: produces damasks, which is just so apt for octopus camouflage...)

2. n_by_nw says:

   13 years ago at 12:31 pm

   Surely you had to think hard before deciding against Veruca Salt as the music...

3. ivorjawa says:

   13 years ago at 12:35 pm

   I'm rather distressed that the diver thought that the appropriate response was to give a cephalopod -- one that has already demonstrated that it's too smart for our good -- a spear gun.

   I mean, c'mon.

   "Now I have a machine gun HO HO HO."

   • tjic says:

     13 years ago at 3:20 pm

     Some people, when confronted with an octobpus, think ``I know, I'll give it my speargun.'' Now they have two problems.)

     ( with apologies http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html )

4. happyinmotion says:

   13 years ago at 1:05 pm

   I dunno man, I can remember when Wellington octopuses weren't such greedy, materialistic pigs.

   Background - yes, you too could move here from SF and fight the octopi when they try to take control of our precious technology.

   • morbid_curious says:

     13 years ago at 2:15 pm

     Wait, that's a local octopus? Shit, if I'd known that I wouldn't have been so blasè about wandering around your waterfront with a camera dangling from my wrist yesterday.

     • happyinmotion says:

       13 years ago at 2:29 pm

       Yup, South Coast near the airport, and mere kilometers from the cafe where you were so calmly sitting last night. Seriously man, you had a lucky escape there.

5. seminiferous says:

   13 years ago at 1:41 pm

   I was expecting him to launch the spear with the octopus still attached--a la True Lies.

6. Dennis says:

   13 years ago at 2:10 pm

   Different cephalopod, but still...

   http://xkcd.com/520/

7. qtrnevermore says:

   13 years ago at 2:38 pm

   Somebody please give an octopus an ipad.

   • Dennis says:

     13 years ago at 12:24 am

     I know. After seeing what a cat can do, imagine an octopus!
8. lafinjack says:

   13 years ago at 1:09 am

   Cuttlefish steals octopus that steals spanner:

   And just because, face-off with a deadly predator:
   • i_e_d says:

     13 years ago at 9:36 am

     Cuttlefish must have been a lighting guy fish, hands off the spanner!

9. blacklion says:

   13 years ago at 2:14 am

   Amazing!

10. duskwuff says:

    13 years ago at 4:07 pm