The Overlords were watching over her...

Dirt · Post by **Dirt** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:21 pm

Been following this story for awhile. Glad to hear it's going well

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:22 pm

Saw the picture; Want to die.

Eel Snave · Post by **Eel Snave** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:24 pm

her suckers are less pliable.

I thought this happened to all women after a while.

Dirt · Post by **Dirt** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:25 pm

Smoove_B wrote:Saws the picture; Want to die.

It's the Circle of Life.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:27 pm

Aurora will be allowed to stay with her eggs as long as she continues to care for them. When they are close to hatching, which could be as late as spring, they will be moved to rearing tanks. Perhaps none or as many as a few thousand could survive...

Are they mad?

Debris · Post by **Debris** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:01 pm

Austin wrote:
Aurora will be allowed to stay with her eggs as long as she continues to care for them. When they are close to hatching, which could be as late as spring, they will be moved to rearing tanks. Perhaps none or as many as a few thousand could survive...
Are they mad?

It's like the cephalopod version of Skynet!

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:14 pm

They caught this not far from where I grew up:

Perhaps we inadvertantly took out one of their operatives?

Bakhtosh · Post by **Bakhtosh** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:19 pm

When the thousands of Octopi warriors are born, those vertebrates will learn their lesson for imprisoning one of our own.

You will all pay.

Mr. Sparkle · Post by **Mr. Sparkle** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:20 pm

IceBear wrote:They caught this not far from where I grew up:

Perhaps we inadvertantly took out one of their operatives?

Personally I find Giant Squid to be the scariest motherf*ckin animals on the planet.

They take chunks outta WHALES for chissakes... and they're down there somewhere... lurking.

Octopus are mainly just disturbingly smart...

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:31 pm

Where I grew up we used to get a lot of squid come into the shallows to spawn and die (well, we did for a decade and then they stopped and no one is sure why).

Anyway, I was about 12 and fishing just off the side of the road into the ocean with a nice shiny lure for salt water trout or a tommy cod. Anyway, I guess a squid saw my nice shiny lure and attacked it. I brought it ashore and the damn then wasn't even hooked, it just wouldn't let go - just a mass of angry tentacles. I just cut the line and threw it back, and that sucker was only a foot long.

Another time we were scooping up squid for the fishermen as bait. I guess there was 3ft of water in the cove and it was just *filled* with squid. My buddy slipped and fell in. He had a dozen of the suckers attached to him when he crawled out. He still has a scar on his upper arm where one bit him.

Still, we had fun with squid. After they spawned, they got slow just before they died, so we could catch them with our hands and use them as living water squirters. One used ink once and ruined my favorite shirt - BASTARD - but normally they just shot water.

Mr. Sparkle · Post by **Mr. Sparkle** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:36 pm

IceBear wrote:Still, we had fun with squid

I have fun eating them, but that's where it starts and stops with me.

Though I do have a historical appreciation for their axons as well.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:37 pm

I grew up in a fishing village and I hate seafood. Go figure

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:41 pm

I grew up tending corn fields and I couldn't eat not stomach the smell of corn for years. I'm over it now. I still don't eat fish though. Blech. The concept of any food that tastes better the less it tastes like what it is baffles me. People complain that their fish tastes too fishy. The day I send back my steak becuase it has too much of a beefy taste, is probably the day I shoot myself in the head. What would you do if your potato was too tatery?

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:40 pm

IceBear wrote:Where I grew up we used to get a lot of squid come into the shallows to spawn and die (well, we did for a decade and then they stopped and no one is sure why).

They're massing for the 7-Hour War.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:15 pm

Zaxxon wrote:
IceBear wrote:Where I grew up we used to get a lot of squid come into the shallows to spawn and die (well, we did for a decade and then they stopped and no one is sure why).
They're massing for the 7-Hour War.

Where is the one free man when you need him?

Crowley · Post by **Crowley** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:57 pm

$iljanus wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:
IceBear wrote:Where I grew up we used to get a lot of squid come into the shallows to spawn and die (well, we did for a decade and then they stopped and no one is sure why).
They're massing for the 7-Hour War.
Where is the one free man when you need him?

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:13 pm

We're waaaaay behind on developing the proper powered armor that will give us a chance (albeit a slim one) to stave off the invasion. This vexes me.

Kagath · Post by **Kagath** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:24 pm

IceBear wrote:snip...
Another time we were scooping up squid for the fishermen as bait. I guess there was 3ft of water in the cove and it was just *filled* with squid. My buddy slipped and fell in. He had a dozen of the suckers attached to him when he crawled out. He still has a scar on his upper arm where one bit him.

Still, we had fun with squid. After they spawned, they got slow just before they died, so we could catch them with our hands and use them as living water squirters. One used ink once and ruined my favorite shirt - BASTARD - but normally they just shot water.

LOL. Funny stuff.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:40 pm

Kagath wrote:
IceBear wrote:snip...
Another time we were scooping up squid for the fishermen as bait. I guess there was 3ft of water in the cove and it was just *filled* with squid. My buddy slipped and fell in. He had a dozen of the suckers attached to him when he crawled out. He still has a scar on his upper arm where one bit him.

Still, we had fun with squid. After they spawned, they got slow just before they died, so we could catch them with our hands and use them as living water squirters. One used ink once and ruined my favorite shirt - BASTARD - but normally they just shot water.
LOL. Funny stuff.

Funny, we do the same thing with captured mammals. They seem to always squirt yellow water or red ink for some reason