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.
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.
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.
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...)
Surely you had to think hard before deciding against Veruca Salt as the music...
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."
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 )
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.
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.
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.
I was expecting him to launch the spear with the octopus still attached--a la True Lies.
Different cephalopod, but still...
http://xkcd.com/520/
Somebody please give an octopus an ipad.
I know. After seeing what a cat can do, imagine an octopus!
Cuttlefish steals octopus that steals spanner:
And just because, face-off with a deadly predator:
Cuttlefish must have been a lighting
guyfish, hands off the spanner!Amazing!