Springtime is here, or almost is, and something about this photo fascinates and disgusts me at the same time, kinda like goth/emo laundry. I’m not sure if these are squid or octopi, but either way something just isn’t right. Obviously they’re being dried for either food or rain gear, but these sentient denizens of the deep don’t deserve to be humiliated like this.
This image has been lounging around in our “What to Do With This” file for a long time, way before we began tagging the images with their sources. We’d be happy to post the real story if only our crack team of webminers could determine the original source. Comments?
[Welcome Ectoplasmosis readers! If you liked these octopi, you might like the RoboSquid. Feel free to crawl slither hydropropel yourselves around here as long as you want. Just leave a trail of bread crumbs slime crab shells to find your way back.]
[Ditto to Tonmo & WHI readers!]
[UPDATE 22 March 08: ORIGINAL SOURCE HERE! (via here). Our crack team of webminers just got an extension on their contracts.]
Tacky Raccoons 
Bunk, you should submit this to Pharyngula — he loves cephalopods.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
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Isn’t the one on the left Joan Rivers before plastic surgery? THe one on the right could be Zha Zha Gabor…
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I think they’re hats.
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Dan, VE & FinPeng– Wow. All three of you are absolutely right.
About a week ago I was hanging around a doctor’s office waiting to pee in a cup when I saw a glossy magazine called “SEED.” It had an article on the evolution of eyeballs, and compared human eyes to fly eyes to spider eyes to octopus eyes to potato eyes. By analyzing the structures of the eyeballistics, and the DNA relationships, it concluded that many different eye structures evolved independently to perform the same function. But what does a seed magazine know anyway.
I think they’re hats, too.
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I think I’ve just owned Dan and VE.
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Sorry to come late to the holiday. Those are FLYING Octopi, and they were snapped just before taking their bo sticks to the face of the paparazzi bold enough to take their picture.
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Raincoaster– But they’re hats, right?
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Yeah, but flying ninja octopoid hats. Not just any hats.
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Oh good. I thought they were hats, too.
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Here is a post with a picture of the finished hat. They’re big in Cascadia. Octopus hats. SO hot right now.
[Normally the management of TR doesn’t allow posters to advertise their own posts/websites, but in your case I’ll make an exception for this excellent proof that the things in the image above are indeed hats. Tip ‘o the Tarboosh to Raincoaster! – Bunk]
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Normally I wouldn’t drop a link on a blog I wasn’t already intimate with, but how often do you experience cephalopod-accessory-congruence, eh?
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Honest question… usually once or twice a week but I generally keep it to myself. How ’bout you?
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Every 12-14 hours, but then, I live in Vancouver.
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Vancouver hats are some of the finest in the world.
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