This is a giant squid Big Fin squid. They have elbows now. This is one of those living way down deep doesn’t get seen very often Giant Squid. The question that springs to mind of course is: Why does a giant squid need elbows? Obviously it doesn’t, and yet there they are. If there was anything that didn’t need elbows, you would think it would be a Giant Squid. But no.
This picture was taken 3 and a half kilometers below Hawaii
Perhaps the elbows are to get a better spread of its tentacles in order to feed? Is it easier to sweep up after a haircut? Use them to hold the screen door open while it finds the front door key? Perhaps it has elbows so it can get up the front when it goes to see the Ramones, except they’re all dead now. Except Marky (and Tommy).
Big among squids
Perhaps it has elbows so it can go “Old School” off the top rope like the Undertaker.
Take that you Warrior for the New Green Morality
You can see a highly crappy video from Shell here filmed below an oil rig.
[Giant Squid with Elbows applies for job at Oil Company]
I can’t embed it for some reason.
And there is another wacky squid video (or squideo as we in the left wing media call them) here:
Click me for more unembeded squideo action
And loads more videos and so on here [Cephalopods in Action]
What is better than a Giant Squid? Two Giant Squid? Seriously, if you are going to go to all the trouble of reading this far, you could comment, and then I could comment back and we could have a whole squid related conversation – It’s the internet! And if anyone knows where I can get a copy of this!
Swingin'
And whatever happened to that Quoll guy, he never got back to me…
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This guy wouldn’t be a lost cousin of yours would he First Dog :-D
http://www.squidsquid.com/
I’m now showing my age by being able to remember Squiddly Diddly.
But speaking of Quolls I recently saw some Eastern Spotted Quolls in a wildlife refuge in Tassie, they were fast asleep on their backs, wee snouts and paws in the air (who knew the feet of Quolls were so unbelievably cute??) inside a hollow log; the joy, the joy.
A man walks into a pub with a squid. He says to the barman “This squid can play any musical instrument you care to give it!”
The barman, looking a little unconvinced about such grandiose claims, pulls out a trumpet.
The squid grabs the trumpet and starts belting out tunes as if he was Louis Armstrong himself.
The barmen looks a bit shocked, so he pulls out a guitar (because, you know, one keeps a wide variety of musical instruments behind the bar).
The squid grabs that axe and starts ripping out a few Joe Satriani tunes, note for note perfect.
The barman by this stage is completely bewildered and starts thinking “Is there nothing this squid cannot play?”. So he pulls out the last instrument he has, a final test – a set of old bagpipes.
The squid rips the bagpipes from the barman’s hands and starts thrashing and wailing and wrestling those bagpipes to the ground. The squids owner is completely shocked by the actions of his usually well behaved pet and says to the squid ” “What the hell are you doing with the bagpipes, why aren’t you playing it?”
In the midst of much flailing of arms and squidly bits, the squid turns to his owner and says, “Play it? I can’t even get its knickers off!”
I remember that joke as “Play it? I’m going to **** it as soon as I can get these pyjamas off”. But that would be rude.
And would detract from the image of quoll feet in the air…
Squidsquid is a great website as well.
Ok, you have egged me into going to the effort of signing up and commenting. What’s better than a squid? A caddisfly – I have been learning about these recently because I wanted to know why sections of gravel in my fish tank had sarted assembling themselves into cone shaped things and walking around. Turns out there are bugs inside! Which brings me to the next question: why have the fish not eaten them yet? I have yet to find an answer to this, and it is puzzling because my fish will eat anything they can fit in their mouths, right down to the flour weevil larvae I found in the pantry one day.
“Play it? I’m going to **** it as soon as I can get these pyjamas off”.
That’s what I remember too. And bugger the rudeness :-)
Of course, Tasmania craps all over everywhere else for squidness.
http://swimatyourownrisk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/giantsquid.jpeg
And now I can’t Surfin’ safari out of my head. :-(
They’re not elbows. They’re convenient places to rest one’s beer.
Tasmania’s the spot for all kinds of interesting folk.
http://www.tasmaniathemovie.com/behind-the-scene/cast.asp
But I’m a bit worried about the director and that cross-dressing peacock.
You will of course be thrilled to know that one of the world’s foremost security experts, Bruce Schneier, always blogs about squid on Fridays. A Catholic thing, I guess.
Well then FD.
Clearly you’re smarter (and quicker) than the average Fairfax journo.
Or then again….Maybe they read your blog. :)
http://www.theage.com.au/national/aussie-scientists-help-crack-sea-monster-mystery-20081201-6nx6.html?page=-1
Paddy, I would suggest it is all three.
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