Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/18/octopuses-starfish-and-prawn.html
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uhhhh uhhhh - an octopus falling onto me from the sky? is a new nightmare.
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There are worse sea critters.
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Looks like free food to me.
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I was pretty much brought up on octopus… and what you show looks deeellllishhhhussss… but after learning of just how smart they are, well…
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In many parts of Asia, it would be considered “free food”. Like if Chicken Nuggets fell from the sky in the US.
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A new kind of all–you can-eat of seafood delivery service. I wonder if a certain company is behind this…
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the process of waterspouts sucking animals out of the sea has never been directly observed.
So, it could be that sea creatures have just learned to fly.
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well yeah. waterspouts are large fuzzy white things and the animals inside don’t cary signs and flashlights.
While I may have a problem eating caught octopi, I think I’d make an exception for octopi from the sky (new band name)
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It is a thoroughly depressing that all I can think of when I see that lead photo is the famous “falling man” photo from 9/11. I’m not linking it for obvious reasons, but god, I’m sick of this century already.
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The original poster has since admitted that the octopus photo is a photoshop job…
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I never meant to give you any scampi
I never meant to feed you no lo-mein
I only wanted to one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you
Laughing in the seafood rain
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Charles Fort collected reams of these kind of stories. He was the most gullible man who ever lived.
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On the other hand they have a life span of about three years…
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Reminds me of a part in Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart when the village has a hoard of locusts descend on them. They’re ecstatic: free food!!!
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Hey, at least some of us USAians would not consider Chicken Nuggets to be food.
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LOL - I know, that’s why I picked that specific “food”.
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exactly — and when it falls from the sky? Smart, Suckers, Angry? all in all a bad mix
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