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Open Thread (Squid) April 20

We love having you comment here at First Blog On The Moon but it’s a little bit difficult for discussion to continue uninterrupted on specific posts when off-topic comments land in the middle of them. So when I can’t think of anything else to do I will cop out and start an open thread where you can leave comments that don’t quite fit on one of the other posts as long as they are about squid. Remember that tip-offs can be made here. But only about squid.

Have at it!

17 Comments

  1. Posted April 20, 2009 at 10:16 am | Permalink

    I’m suing you for plagiarism. {Sentence removed for legal reasons — First Dog} And making up stuff as if I wrote it, you great big {SNIP – Man not ball, come on Scott, you know you can do better – First Dog} And treason. {SNIP – funny but probably libelous} Pay me one trillion dollars squid immediately. {Sorry, this bit had to go — First Dog}

    Or else.

  2. Posted April 20, 2009 at 1:08 pm | Permalink

    You forgot to italicise your parentheses. Fair point about all of the other stuff though. I apologise unreservedly for everything ever. And I know you don’t edit people’s comments to say whatever you like.

  3. Posted April 20, 2009 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    Expect to hear from my lawyers, Mr Onthemoon. They are having a party and would like you to attend because you are so clever and witty.

  4. Venise Alstergren
    Posted April 20, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

    Squid are gentle and shy. Poor things.
    Ahem! Cough, cough. Today is my what you had last Wednesday. Sic transit gloria del mundi. (which sounds over the top but wasn’t meant to be.)

  5. Posted April 20, 2009 at 6:30 pm | Permalink

    Oh dear. JF Beck will be wetting his pants over this one.

  6. Dan
    Posted April 20, 2009 at 10:36 pm | Permalink

    I saw a squid once. Then I found five bucks.

    What a day.

  7. Alan Kennedy
    Posted April 21, 2009 at 11:28 am | Permalink

    I found a squid once. It was delicious with a little bit of flour then quickly fried with fresh chilli and ginger…..

  8. Peta Waller-Bryant
    Posted April 21, 2009 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

    oh no! I missed out on squid discussion day, under the assumption of an extension, I will contribute:

    squid was on my sushi today, it was raw. I’m not too keen on the consistency, but I ate it anyway attempting to appear brave in front my peers… I don’t think it worked, as they saw my facial expression.

    I wonder, is a cuttlefish a type of squid? And if so (or not) – why do birds like them when dry? Does this pairing occur naturally in the wild?

    Regards.

  9. Firstdog
    Posted April 21, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

    It is ok Peta – we will continue with the squid discussion thread as it appears that those democracy hating buffoons from Pure Poison are busy hating democracy somewhere else. What is it about the left and squid? It would be good if someone could answer Peta’s questions without resorting to Google. Dan – that is the post of the thread so far.

  10. twobob
    Posted April 21, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

    At great personal danger I have determined that alien squid are the root cause of climate change. They have mastered the art of mind control and have infiltrated businesses and politicians world wide. These alien squid originated from a world of oceans which are quite like ours except that they are warmer and more acidic. Their objective is the transformation of our oceans so that their ruling class can continue their domination of habitable planets galaxy wide. They are known throughout the galaxy as the BoldenwAter squid. They are particularly ugly and deceitful little squid skilled in manipulation of the masses through media releases and misinformation.

  11. Posted April 21, 2009 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

    In Bangkok, you can buy spicy squid on a stick at street stalls for only 20 baht. They have a big plastic tub of squid, mostly dead but not always. They chuck it straight on the hotplate where it sort of sizzles and pops. If it wasn’t dead to start with it soon is. When it is nicely charred they skewer it on a satay stick and dip it in a bucket of spice sauce and hand it to you. If you are a westener they usually offer you a plastic bag and a napkin so the sauce doesn’t get everywhere when you it eat – the Thais are very practised at eating street food off sticks without making a mess. I presume the squid comes out of the Chao Phraya river which flows through the city like a large warm drain, which is a bit worrying, but it’s never done me any harm.

  12. Posted April 22, 2009 at 1:13 pm | Permalink

    Vinegared squid – the kind you can order in many Japanese restaurants – is really quite delicious.

  13. Animal Mother
    Posted April 22, 2009 at 2:31 pm | Permalink

    Murky business chasing squid.

  14. Alan Kennedy
    Posted April 22, 2009 at 5:57 pm | Permalink

    On a matter on the periphery how do you make that film promo for the kid in the pajamas shut up Every time I open the blog they start yapping at me. I would never go to the film in a month of Sundays so give up on the promo already. I would rather eat raw squid.

  15. SP
    Posted April 24, 2009 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

    Giant squids are seriously cool. They have eyes the size of bus tyres, can devour whole ships whole and are generally terrifying. My favourite sea-dwellers by far!

  16. 12au7
    Posted April 26, 2009 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    Ha-ha-ha. It doesn’t get better than this.

  17. Trubbell at Mill
    Posted April 29, 2009 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

    Did you know that squids invented fisting?

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