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- Smift, on 04/16/2009, -3/+48Octopi?
- anexanhume, on 04/16/2009, -1/+32Let's see:
Can shoot ink
Can fit through holes a fraction the size of their bodies
Can change colors
Have venom
That's it, octopi are officially superheroes. - amabaie, on 04/16/2009, -0/+21That's it. From now on, no more octopusses in my bathtub!
- plainOldFool, on 04/16/2009, -1/+22"In fact they all share a common, ancient venomous ancestor" ....
Cthulhu??? - GrooTheWanderer, on 04/16/2009, -1/+18Despite what our school teachers told us, "octopus" is actually of Greek origin so the Latin plural form does not apply.
- jlm408, on 04/16/2009, -3/+14Does that include OctoMom, or just her OctoPussy?
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -0/+9
Dont people eat these alive in china?? - gozroth, on 04/16/2009, -0/+8So now Cuttlefish are the cutest venomous animal on the planet? I'll allow it.
- FearlessFreep, on 04/16/2009, -2/+10octomoms?
- DrSnugglebunny, on 04/16/2009, -0/+8"You still have your old pal Zoidberg. YOU ALL HAVE ZOIDBERG"
- phish3r, on 04/16/2009, -0/+6@GrooTheWanderer
Technically you are correct, but I think it is one of those words that so many people got wrong that both forms are generally accepted now.
From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/octopus :
oc⋅to⋅pus
Show Spelled Pronunciation [ok-tuh-puhs]
–noun, plural -pus⋅es, -pi /-ˌpaɪ/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [-pahy] - IgorUnchained, on 04/16/2009, -0/+6I know they eat little ones (live)...maybe they arent as poisonous.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 04/16/2009, -0/+6You've obviously never watched Battle Of The Planets.
- LonelyTylenoL, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4Great...just great....one more thing that can screw us over......great...
- anexanhume, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4Yeah, I know. I recall reading an article where they would lock an octopus' food in Plexiglas boxes, and it would figure out how to open the locks. They kept making them more complex, and one time it surprised them by squeezing through a slot they didn't think it could fit through. Consequently, it couldn't solve the puzzle, but still wicked awesome.
- MaxxusFlamus, on 04/16/2009, -1/+5Korea.
- Harabeck, on 04/16/2009, -1/+5Read the article, most of the poisons don't work on humans.
- DeathStrawberry, on 04/16/2009, -1/+4Octopus is a cheap food in Japan. I don't know about eating them alive, though.
- LonelyTylenoL, on 04/16/2009, -1/+4Are you insane. They're awesome! They can blend in very well with their environment.
BUT...
Science doesn't completely understand them because they're colorblind, and yet they can blend in with their environment by changing pattern and color on their skin. - BoneheadFarker, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3Are you seriously suggesting we stop looking for medications in nature and design them all from scratch? Where do you think we get our ideas for designing new drugs from? You should be damn glad that penicillin bacteria and every other nature-derived antibiotic exists, otherwise there's a good chance you wouldn't be around to whine about it. How many plants are beneficial to us? How ***** up is it to suffer through pain when we have morphine available to us? Have you ever really looked at how humans eat? Broccoli is the least of your worries...
- beyond12am, on 04/16/2009, -1/+4China? Try LA:
http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/radio/cl-wk-cover6s ... - Wakkyweed, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3You forgot emergency jet escape system and prehensile suckers. Even Batman doesn't have those!
I think I'm going to dip an octopus in radioactive waste and then let him bite me. - Craig304958, on 04/16/2009, -1/+4"Why should nature have things that deliberately heal us? It's not scientific, it's all hippie *****."
"Nature" is an abstract concept. Compounds, whether generated by organisms or simply by chemical processes under certain conditions, all fall within that concept. "Nature" doesn't do anything deliberately. Saying it doe is just hippie *****, not to mention illogical. - shutaro, on 04/16/2009, -1/+3We'll all be dead by Newyears.
- iDiggYa, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Curry cuttlefish you order while at dim sum is awesome, I've been ordering those since childhood. *drools*
- beaversprite, on 04/16/2009, -2/+4octopodes...or octopi. Or octopuses. All 3 are correct.
- BentCorner, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2It's Korea. I saw a place that served it back when I was in the Air Force. They also showed it a couple years ago on The Amazing Race. Contestants had to eat some live octopus.
- DeathStrawberry, on 04/16/2009, -3/+5Octopus Pie?
- lnxfi, on 04/16/2009, -1/+3I didn't know what cuttlefish was until a a few days ago on Digg... those things are nasty.
- strictnein, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2See also: Virii
- GreatSunJester, on 04/16/2009, -1/+3But damn tasty when dried and spiced! OK... I am weird, but they are still tasty!
- RadiatedAnt, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2"sucking on to whatever it can grab" 0_0 all of this happening in your mouth!
- RatatRatR, on 04/16/2009, -1/+3"Octopi" is a false Latinization, an over-extension of a rule that isn't meant to apply everywhere.
- Emceay, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2They don't plan on using the toxins themselves.. just seek to understand the commonality that all venomous creatures share. They want to know why these proteins so effectively target specific areas of the body, THEN engineer that into drugs we already have, and ones that have yet to be.
"For one thing, all of the nature drugs eventually get resisted to."
If that were actually detrimental, alcoholics and the stoned would eventually reach their limit where they can't get drunk anymore without passing out first. While it may reduce it's efficacy, it never loses it's basic ability, and is therefore still extremely useful to the uninitiated as well as retaining some value to those familiar with it. - LilJimmyNordin, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2This message has been brought to you by the Hawaiian Dried Cuttlefish Council.
- doctechnical, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Wait until you hear about box jellyfish. About as big around as your thumbnail, and if one so much as brushes up against you, you can expect to spend a couple of weeks in the hospital in excruciating pain. If you're lucky. If you're not so lucky you just drop dead on the spot.
Octopus? Meh. - RatatRatR, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Yes! Thank you for knowing that!
- JCEEZ, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2octopus is delicious.
- doctechnical, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2They're also pretty smart. If you put food in a jar they can get to they'll open the jar.
- RatatRatR, on 04/16/2009, -1/+3Standard plural in American and British English is octopuses. Octopodes is from Greek, and octopi is a mistaken attempt to Latinize a Greek word. That they all three exist doesn't mean they're all correct.
- Misterberu, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1No! Not the Cuddlefish!!
- zip000, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1It's pretty tasty, I agree, but every time I've had it it has been very, very chewy.
The last time, I had to chew for about 5 or 6 minutes before it was swallow-able; it kinda put me off octopus for a while. - boozedrinker, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1Is it just me, or does EVERYTHING lead to a new miracle drug (that never makes it to market)?
- XStylus, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1"Curse those evil octopii!"
- TheRealJMX, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1Octopwned.
- Jaq524, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Or the infrequently used "octopodes" (if going from the Greek...)
- noumuon, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1this has to be a troll. yea, the natural opium is far, far worse than the 100x-stronger-than-heroin synthetic opiate fentanyl.
- flamesoftheend, on 04/16/2009, -1/+2What about octo-pussies
- fender01, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1Dr. Fry, fish researcher. Works on so many levels....
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