Ze octopoose, or razère, ze hexopoose, een luvv

13 Responses to “Ze octopoose, or razère, ze hexopoose, een luvv”

• Pinko Punko

  September 26, 2008 at 9:48 am

  Mon dieu!
• princessannie

  September 26, 2008 at 9:54 am

  See, this I understand! Great post!
• Kathleen

  September 26, 2008 at 11:34 am

  awwww

  or as ze French say: awwwww
• Pinko Punko

  September 26, 2008 at 11:41 am

  Zoot alors!
• princessannie

  September 26, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  Lait! Jus d’orange! Raisin! Shampooing! Nouveau! Douce reverie! Je me souviens! Eprouve en clinique! Rouge cerise! Il prend l’autobus!
• Chuckles

  September 26, 2008 at 1:06 pm

  I am reminded of that frigging sweet steam punk mecha short.
• Latin irregular verb

  September 26, 2008 at 11:27 pm

  Mais je voulais tous de même les manger. Suis-je un monstre? Probablement.
• Latin irregular verb

  September 26, 2008 at 11:44 pm

  Quand j’étais un petit garçon, j’ai voulu aussi que le pauvre chat Sylvestre mangeait le oiseau horrible.
• mdh

  September 27, 2008 at 4:41 pm

  That audio only auto plays when I open this or the front page, which is a great soundtrack to the Sarah Palin post above. Is the video any good?
• Kevin Baker

  September 28, 2008 at 6:44 am

  I have always wished that octopuses (octopi?) were sentient beings, although in reality, that would probably work out badly for our species. But they’re just so freakin’ cool.
• princessannie

  September 28, 2008 at 11:00 am

  I saw a show on tv where the octowhatevers were sneaking out of their tanks at night, going into the feed tanks, pigging out and then going back into their tanks before the dude that plays with them came back. He caught it on film, they sneaked right across the floor.

  He also forced them to do tube maze things for food.

  They’re smart and sneaky.
• plover

  September 28, 2008 at 5:39 pm

  The etymologically correct plural is “octopodes”, but is deemed too pedantic to bother with. “Octopi”, is a Latin plural form applied to a Greek-derived word, and is thus arguably the most incorrect choice. The general consensus is to simply treat “octopus” as an English word and use the English plural “octopuses”. (And that’s the short version, Wikipedia has more.)

  This video includes the octopus-and-tubes guy. The guy says that actually they didn’t have to offer the octopus food in order to get it to go through the tubes — it just does it for its own cephalopodish reasons.

  I think I’ve seen the video that you’re talking about, your annieness. I had also heard a similar story years before that at an aquarium. An octopus was sneaking into other exhibits at night and noshing, then popping back to its own tank by the time anyone showed up the next morning.

  If octopus were truly sentient, our only hope would be if they turned out as neurotic as we are.

  LIVdos:

  Mais, tristement, les pieuvres et calmars sont très savoureux, et il faut que nous acceptions le rôle de monstres. C’est notre sort.

  Tœuffeuring tœuquotache.
• Latin irregular verb

  September 28, 2008 at 6:17 pm

  Octopodes don’t live long enough for their putative sentience to be a problem.