Until Dave shares whatever it is he’s smokin’ I have decided that one cephalopod on the front page is plenty. But I do share his passion and can’t wait for that tv show.
His first one is now after the jump. This one is mesmerizing (although for me the audio cuts out).
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[Sorry Dave, I think one of these is a cuttlefish and the other an octopus. Check out the new episode of Nova, ‘The Kings of Camouflage’ next Tuesday night at 8pm on Channel 2. Nothing but cuttlefish, and it’s in HD if you should be so lucky. BC]
Payoff at the 2:20 mark.
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Hey-wait a minute-I wrote that about gays before they were called by that term-plagiarist!You actually had me scammed for a minute or two.
Other Joe Bernstein-we went to high school during the same three years-how fucked up is that?
When I was growing up there was no negative connotation to the word cephalopod, and kids used “aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters”, in a way similar to “most fascinating creatures on earth”- there was no connection to a cephalopod’s orientation. This being the 1950’s none of us really knew anything about cephalopods. It was something obliquely referred to or snickered at.
In high school (1960-63) there were some open cephalopods, a few male cephalopods and three cephalopod gym teachers. I don’t recall any of the male cephalopods being harrassed. They were considered a curiosity. The three female cephalopods all were pretty tough cookies as I recall.
I have a cousin who is a cephalopod and the whole time we were growing up I had no clue. He only acknowledged it in his mid-twenties.
I think cephalopods nowadays have it a whole lot easier not having to be worried that “someone will find out” in many cases, although I guess it remains a serious fear for some.
David-there are no bad cephalopods nor ever too many-they are some of the most fascinating creatures on earth.
When I’m not talking politics,one of my interests is zoology.
I even got an A in parasitology in college.Then I wound up in Vietnam and was sorry I’d ever taken the course because I learned too much.
Um, are you writing in the third person about yourself smoking something again?
For all breaking cephalopod news – http://zapatopi.net/cephnews/ – including yesterday’s activity in San Diego:
“Thousands of jumbo flying squid — aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters with razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles — have invaded the shallow waters off San Diego, spooking scuba divers and washing up dead on tourist-packed beaches.” (unfortunately no video yet)
Should you find anything suspicious while beachcombing, this site will also help you sort out the true cephalopods from the random globsters, blobs, and partially liquified cetacean remains (See “Chilean Blob: Not A Cephalopod”).