GIANT SQUID FINALLY CAPTURED ON CAMERA!

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I saw a six foot squid try and have sex with a diver on TV once. I wish I'd recorded it, it was amazing.

chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

SQUIDSS

Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.idiocentrism.com/hokusai.jpg

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

The text of the above image:


OCTOPUS MAXIMUS: My wish comes true at last, this day of days; finally Ihave you in my grasp! Your "bobo" is ripe and full, how wonderful! Superiorto all others! To suck and suck and suck some more. After we do otmasterfully, I'll guide yo to the Dragon Palace of the Sea God and envelopeyou. "Zuu sufu sufu chyu chyu chyu tsu zuu fufufuuu..."

MAIDEN: You hateful octopus! Your sucking at the mouth of my womb makes megasp for breath! Aah! yes... it's... There.!!! With the sucker, thesucker!! inside, squiggle, squiggle, Oooh! Oooh, good, Oooh good! There,there! Theeeeere! Goood! Whew! Aah! Good, good, Aaaaaaaaaah! Not yet!Until now it was I that men called an octopus! An octopus! Ooh! Whew! Howare you able...!? Ooh! "yoyoyooh, Saa... Hicha hicha gucha gucha, yuchyuuchyu guzu guzu suu suuu...."

OCTOPUS MAXIMUS: All eigth legs (arms?) to interwine with!! How do you likeit htis way? Ah, look! The inside has swollen, moistened by the warm watersof lust. "Nura nura doku doku doku..."

MAIDEN: Yes, it tingles now; soon there will be no sensation at all left myhips. Ooooooh! Boundaries and borders gone! I 've Vanished....!!!!!!

OCTOPUS MINIMUM: After daddy finishes, I too want to rub and rub my suckersat the ridge of your furry place until you dissapear and then I'll sucksome more, "chyu chyu.."

~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

No way, I trying to find that exact image not half an hour ago. I'm glad I'm not the only one who, when, giant squids are mentioned, immediately thinks of Nineteenth Century Japanese octopus porn.

chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

(you know I have a website about Japanese art, Joe? I would hardly fail to think of that)

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

"nyah, nyah, I'm fucking ginormous but you can't even get a picture of me, that's how cult I am, so catch the ink-vapors, you hoes"

You're saying Giant Squiddy is a sell out, Banana?

Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

not quite a giant squid, but...

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, tentacle porn is ingrained in Japanese culture? Holy shit. That explains a lot, really.

Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

No, but I meant that I would know a famous print like that (it's by Hokusai, I've seen it in books and the British Museum, etc.); and there is, in the fishing villages of Japan, an idea of octopuses as dangerously sexual creatures - different commentators describe that pic as a rape-horror image and as the sexual dream of the fisherwoman - and there are at least a few other similarish images.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Led Zeppelin attempted to pay homage about 35 years ago in a Seattle hotel room. Scant hours beforehand, Jimmy Page's bow-sounds during Dazed & Confused that evening were said to resemble the Octopus' mighty slurps.

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

squiddyyyyy!

hah!, Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

argg!

AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I got nothin' against ya. I just heard There was gold in yer belly.

AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...
photos and vid on the Discover Channel this weekend

kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

what ever happened to andy@grassh0pper.0rg?
i can't keep track of a lot of things.

giant squid though = still good.

rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Friday, 4 August 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20897

gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

O'Shea said it would make calamari rings the size of tractor tires if cut up"

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/29/asia/AS-GEN-New-Zealand-Colossal-Squid.php

"O'Shea has previously described the colossal squid, which has razor-sharp swivelling hooks at the end of its tentacles, as "a nasty aggressive sort of squid... a gelatinous blob with seriously evil arms on it."

If the new specimen was cut into squid rings, they would be size of tractor tyres, although they would taste like ammonia.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFm14m9RwvD98Wpi_EcgK9zruU_g

Suggestions such as using a giant microwave to unfreeze it were discarded, and on Monday the squid was placed in a tank filled with cold salty water to ensure it defrosts slowly without decomposing.

gff, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link

"Hey doc, how about like, a big fuckin microwave!"
"..."

gff, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link

jhoshea has said he will eat calamari rings the size of tractor tires if they are served with a lemon wedge

J0hn D., Tuesday, 29 April 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link

giant squid

colossal squid

squidzilla

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh what big eyes you have

Tom D., Wednesday, 30 April 2008 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link

i can only imagine the smell in that room!

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

^^^ actual squid

graty80 (libcrypt), Monday, 5 January 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link

false colour

ledge, Monday, 5 January 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link

no seriously what is that

big papa cigarettes (╓abies), Monday, 5 January 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

poor squid

choomette (sunny successor), Monday, 5 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Drexel University doctoral student Jessica Schiffman won an honorable mention in photography in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for capturing what's actually an array of suckers found on the tentacles of a long-finned squid.

Each sucker--about 400 micrometers wide, or a little smaller than the width of a human hair--is surrounded with "fangs" of chitin, a hard organic material.

Squid use their powerful suckers to secure unwitting prey and feed their robust appetites--much like the horror-movie plant that inspired the image's color scheme.

Description doesn't really make sense 'cause squid suckers are obviously a lot bigger than 400 micrometers.

ledge, Monday, 5 January 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/wallo.jpg

o_O (ken c), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link

What ledgey said.

graty80 (libcrypt), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link

lol ken

^likes black girls (HI DERE), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

even more squid captured on camera http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57562424/giant-squid-filmed-alive-in-deep-sea-for-first-time/

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link

it seems

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, from what I understand, in 2004 the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat were taken. Then, in 2006, scientists for the first time took video footage of a live giant squid as it was captured. This latest development is the first video of one undisturbed in the ocean.

jaymc, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 05:15 (eleven years ago) link

six months pass...

A pretty good documentary about this is making the rounds. Worth it alone for the scene when the Japanese scientist who's been studying this for 40 years finally sees one.

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 July 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link

Just watched it, incredible stuff. Moving and humbling. Also chilling, that staring blue eye! Japanese Squid Doctor may currently be my favourite human being.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 14 July 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link

three years pass...

just reached the chapter in moby dick called "the sq

mark s, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:16 (seven years ago) link

try again:

just reached the chapter in moby dick called "the squid" -- it reads like a strange dream, of course, not least because the pequod has been following a ghostly apparition of silvery spray for several nights before this, and bcz daggoo at mast top sees the squid and wrongly announces it as being moby dick… it comes in the same section as several chapters mocking established science (cuvier, scoresby etc) for not really knowing much about whales, compared to what whalers know. and it announces that sperm whales feast in giant squid and we know this because of the scars they bear, of battles in the depths with giant squid and the sharp hooks they have instead of suckers, on their tentacles, as well as beaks and tentacles found in sperm whale stomachs

^^^all this now folded into actual real ocean-research science

mark s, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

Found on Wellington's south coast this morning 🦑
Squid are aliens on earth.
Please don't take me to your leader. pic.twitter.com/dQdqzwMpZA

— She who dares, Rodney (@bukiecik7) August 26, 2018

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link


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