ja.net, show us your squid

[fmstlr]

I, copycat.

[acid_squid]

u, pervert

you can find anything!!!

http://images.budplant.com/products/full/12745.jpg

[key_loser]

It just so happens that ja.net and I were horsing around last night and got about halfway through making a stuffed four-legged squid.

that sounds more productive than horsing around...

[acid_squid]

you got halfway through a 4-legged squid... that makes it a squid with 2 legs.... um, that's just a person with bumpy skin, NOT a squid.

[unhip]

ha's.

[yangnome]

a stuffed four-legged squid....is that like the beast with two backs?

[ja.net]

Originally posted by yangnome
a stuffed four-legged squid....is that like the beast with two backs?

Gross! He's like my little brother. *cue incest heebie jeebie*

[fmstlr]

little?

[ja.net]

Well. Bigger than a shrimp tempura, smaller than a baby's arm.

[ocd]

A baby's arm holding a tomato?

[yangnome]

Originally posted by ja.net


Gross! He's like my little brother. *cue incest heebie jeebie*

Well, what other images does "stuffed four-legged squid bring to mind?

[yangnome]

stuffed four-legged squid?

http://www.101positions.com/20_Intertwined.jpg

[ja.net]

I'm gonna puke. This thread needs to die. (no offense, kl)

[Evil Mastermind]

You're sure it's a squid, and not a quadropus?

[ocd]

http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/VampPhotopPostures.jpg
Richard E. Young and Katharina M. Mangold (1922-2003) *

These photographs of Vampyroteuthis were taken insitu by an ROV of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The photograph on the left is a side view of the vampire in an unusual pose. Note the small white photophores on the arms (they seem to form rows), on the head, mantle and fins. Some of the photophores extend onto the web. Note the peculiar nature of the web in this posture. On the right the arms are aligned and one hardly notices the presence of a web. Note the two oval white spots on the dorsal surface. These were once thought to be photophores but actually are photoreceptors.

[herrokitty]

Originally posted by acid_squid
you got halfway through a 4-legged squid... that makes it a squid with 2 legs.... um, that's just a person with bumpy skin, NOT a squid.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7194

Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles


http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/9999/99997194F1.JPG
If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two.

That is the extraordinary behaviour observed for the first time in two species of octopus by Christine Huffard's team from the University of California, Berkeley, US.

Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.

The two species have slightly different strategies. Octopus marginatus from Indonesia wraps itself into a ball while walking, perhaps to imitate a coconut rolling with the current.

Tiny Octopus aculeatus of Australia holds up six of its arms to disguise itself as a clump of seaweed, while walking at up to 14 centimetres per second - faster than it can manage using more than two arms.

"This camouflage is so good, it's easy to lose sight of the animal," Huffard says. Many other octopus species have back arms that might be strong enough to allow walking, she says.

"I have never ever heard of any behaviour remotely similar to this," says Steve O'Shea, a cephalopod expert at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. "This is yet another example of how little we know about these creatures."

http://www.mnh.si.edu/natural_partners/squid4/DispatchImages/20Feb1999/squid_beak_closeup.jpg

cRIKEy!