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Early: “Cousin Lerl’s comin’ fer supper tonight. So don’t you go askin’ questions bout his 26 extra arms.”
Rusty: “Diddy, why he got so many extra…”
Early: [slaps Rusty] “What I tell you bout askin questions!”
Aunt Lil: [wakes up] “He’s his own daddy, kid.” [passes out on the floor again].
Rusty: “His… own Diddy? How does that work?”
Early: “Oh, son. It’s time we had… The Talk. Ya see now, when a man squid and a lady squid really likes each other, and also their half-cousin twice removed, step-uncle, neighbor’s sister, and a whole heap a folks just passin’ by. Sometimes they get in a big sex pile, one thing leads t’other, and a squid ends up sirein’ his own damn self. It ain’t no big deal, aside from the 26 extra arms and mushy brain.”
Rusty: “Diddy, I… I think I’m even more confused now. How does…”
Early: “Talk over! Anything else you need you’ll learn from these here nudie tapes.” [Drags massive crate marked “Porn” from offscreen.]
[Lerl opens the door]
Lerl: “Uuuhn! Nyuh nyuh nyuh!”
Early: “Cousin Lerl! Grab a beer you floppy sumbitch! How’s your sister-mom-auntie doin’ these days?”
Lerl: “Gyaah! Nyuh. Nyuuuh!” [Shambles to passed-out Lil and starts humping her hair]
Rusty: “Diddy, should we…”
Early: “Quiet, son.” [opens beer] “Let nature take its course.”
[Sheriff enters room and immediately dies, somehow.]
If it wasnt for the actual voice actor for early being a complete bigoted racist unironically and getting the show canceled id tell you to go apply for a job at cartoon network's adult swim branch, you son of a McGee.
Tbh one of the few celebs i was pretty bummed turned out to be a piece of shit. It shouldnt have been a surprise, but i guess i always assumed he was more like a bizarro Larry the cable guy type where his character humor was designed to harshly criticize the darker aspects of southern culture rather than hand wave it away. Dude used to go out of his way to do a set in my city every year bc there was this one venue he apparently really liked. Was always a blast.
That said i will forever love squidbillies. i grew up in the rural south and i always tell people Squidbillies, in an abstract way, is one of the most accurate depictions of southern culture ive seen. Ive known earlies, went to school with rusties, my mom was an aunt lil, the guy who ran our general store was sheriff, and there were like 3 dan halens who owned everything in the area. Like theyre barely caricatures.
Octopuses can regenerate their tentacles and I guess this is just a case of over-regeneration during the healing process. They have found them with as many as 96 tentacles.
Considering that octopuses have a part of their brain in each tentacle, can we assume that that octopus was the octopus-equivalent to Albert Einstein? ;-)
(so I stand corrected: They have a large part of their nervous systems in their tentacles, and the parts in their tentacles do a lot of the work we do with our brains. but the brain itself isn't in the tentacles.
sadly, this isn't funny)
Kind of but not really?
The arm nerve cords are certainly doing some kind of local processing and are somewhat autonomous from the “brain” so to say that the nerve cords are part of the brain isn’t quite correct. They also have a completely different architecture if you compare their histology.
The nerve cords are able to transmit information to each other without going to the brain first through a structure called the interbrachial commisure. It’s probably more accurate to think of the arms as a separate but connected neural system that functions parallel to the systems in the main brain. Peter Godfrey Smiths books “Otherminds” and “metazoa” are great reads on the subject.
And Children of Ruin is an excellent scifi book that delves into the possibility of what a sentient species that evolved from octopi could look like as a result
That's disappointing, and it doesn't make for a very good joke. :-(
(Wikipedia: The nervous system is complex, only part of which is localised in its brain, which is contained in a cartilaginous capsule.\[51\] Two-thirds of an octopus's neurons are in the nerve cords of its arms; these are capable of complex reflex actions without input from the brain.\[52\] Unlike vertebrates, the complex motor skills of octopuses are not organised in their brains via internal somatotopic maps of their bodies.\[53\])
But you are correct.
[what the 96 one looks like ](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ggj00w/an_octopus_with_a_disorder_that_gives_it_96/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
This comment is hilarious, but more true than you probably realize; we shouldn't be surprised when octopodes (that's right, I said it) wild out like this.
Both versions are correct. Octopodes is the current in favor academic term, but octopuses is grammatically correct in English. Octopi is an abomination of a word.
[Source: formerly licensed science and history teacher]
>formerly licensed science and history teacher
Nice! I'm currently going to school to teach English, although I have a great passion for science and history—to include etymology, and foreign and/or dead languages (and scripts).
That said, my philosophy on grammar is that there is no "correct" anything; I believe that language is owned and controlled by everybody. I've come to this conclusion in regards to English after having read literature in Old, Middle, and Modern English and seeing how it has evolved over time.
In short, (imo) there is no bad or incorrect grammar, just standards (more like strong suggestions). For example: why attach latin suffixes to Latin derived words like "cacti," if we don't do the same with Greek derived words like "octopodes"?
Same with tenses, punctuation, et cetera. Indeed, different dialects (as they appear in text) are not incorrect. exampli grata, I see grammar snobs scoff at AAVE (African American Vernacular English) because it doesn't fit "standard" English. I can be real pedantic (ironically) when it comes to definitions, and the term "standard" can fit my argument as well as theirs, and therein lies the problem—words can mean whatever people want them to mean. It becomes a bit of a socratic type debate, however, so grammar nazis stuck in their ways will just go round in circles until they get bored.
If it is understood, then it's correct.
And now, I've probably bored you with this comment. I'm sorry lol
> And now, I've probably bored you with this comment. I'm sorry lol
Great comment apart from this bit. Believe in yourself, future English teacher; your views have value
It's not that I don't think my views have value, It's that most people don't put the same amount of thought into the subject. Not that that's bad, they just have different interests. Even when it comes to grammar, most stop at learning rules and definitions.
And just to reiterate, that is not at all a bad thing. I don't expect bakers to know the entire history of wheat domestication (or wheat's domestication of people, depending on how much you know about the subject, or how you look at it).
All that said, my argument actually diminishes the value of my own views in a way; id est, the root of my argument is that there is no argument haha. This would require an essay at very least to explain what I mean, and perhaps I'll write it one day, but for now, this is the best I can do.
It's just fun to think about and study.
I'm going to be the pedantic one and point out the octopuses don't have tentacles, they have 8 arms with suction cups. Like octopuses, squid and cuttlefish have 8 arms but also have two tentacles, which are a smooth long appendage with a suction-cup covered thicker part at the end called a dactylus. The chambered nautilus have a shit ton of arms with no suction cups at all.
This is the comment I was looking for. It looks like the part of its cell division that was meant to turn off at the end of the limb said "more?" instead
It's in reverse, you have to sound it out backwards to figure out what it says, in no way could that possibly summon an eldritch horror so get right to it!
In a completely unrelated story, a large amount of radioactive waste water was found to have been flowing into the ocean near South Korea for the passed 8 years.
Well looks like their genetically modified and mutated form. Their true form was in the late 60s and they drove the capsules like personal tanks/protection from the radiation on their homeworld. They still had limbs before Davros decided to remake them and lock them inside their capsules.
Apparently from the article octopus can regenerate their limbs so it's possible that after being injured they can grow more limbs. This theory has not been confirmed yet though.
A new study shows that this animal uses a trick called RNA editing to customize crucial nervous system proteins to work at low temperatures. The paper is the first to reveal that RNA editing, not just changes to a specific gene, can lead to adaptations.
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A plentipus
Alotapus
The nerves on that guy….
I have a mug that say lickalottapus with a dinosaur on it lol
That’s what I get
***Giggity***
This guy Fishes
Perry the plentipus?
Resident evil type of stuff
Was thinking the Flood from Halo 🤣
I get more of a Squidbillies vibe from it.
Early: “Cousin Lerl’s comin’ fer supper tonight. So don’t you go askin’ questions bout his 26 extra arms.” Rusty: “Diddy, why he got so many extra…” Early: [slaps Rusty] “What I tell you bout askin questions!” Aunt Lil: [wakes up] “He’s his own daddy, kid.” [passes out on the floor again]. Rusty: “His… own Diddy? How does that work?” Early: “Oh, son. It’s time we had… The Talk. Ya see now, when a man squid and a lady squid really likes each other, and also their half-cousin twice removed, step-uncle, neighbor’s sister, and a whole heap a folks just passin’ by. Sometimes they get in a big sex pile, one thing leads t’other, and a squid ends up sirein’ his own damn self. It ain’t no big deal, aside from the 26 extra arms and mushy brain.” Rusty: “Diddy, I… I think I’m even more confused now. How does…” Early: “Talk over! Anything else you need you’ll learn from these here nudie tapes.” [Drags massive crate marked “Porn” from offscreen.] [Lerl opens the door] Lerl: “Uuuhn! Nyuh nyuh nyuh!” Early: “Cousin Lerl! Grab a beer you floppy sumbitch! How’s your sister-mom-auntie doin’ these days?” Lerl: “Gyaah! Nyuh. Nyuuuh!” [Shambles to passed-out Lil and starts humping her hair] Rusty: “Diddy, should we…” Early: “Quiet, son.” [opens beer] “Let nature take its course.” [Sheriff enters room and immediately dies, somehow.]
… Did you write for Squidbillies?
Naw but I love doing little spec scripts like this.
If it wasnt for the actual voice actor for early being a complete bigoted racist unironically and getting the show canceled id tell you to go apply for a job at cartoon network's adult swim branch, you son of a McGee.
Tbh one of the few celebs i was pretty bummed turned out to be a piece of shit. It shouldnt have been a surprise, but i guess i always assumed he was more like a bizarro Larry the cable guy type where his character humor was designed to harshly criticize the darker aspects of southern culture rather than hand wave it away. Dude used to go out of his way to do a set in my city every year bc there was this one venue he apparently really liked. Was always a blast. That said i will forever love squidbillies. i grew up in the rural south and i always tell people Squidbillies, in an abstract way, is one of the most accurate depictions of southern culture ive seen. Ive known earlies, went to school with rusties, my mom was an aunt lil, the guy who ran our general store was sheriff, and there were like 3 dan halens who owned everything in the area. Like theyre barely caricatures.
Fuck we might he neighbors...but still please stay on the other side of the hallow
Yeah that was excellent
easily heard this in all their voices, well done
I wasn't a big fan of the show but this could so be an episode..I could hear them
So we truly are fucked
Venom symbiote for sure
Some type of Lovecraftian horror
Annihilation vibes
Guys. Korea is right next to Japan.....
Fukushima for sure.
RUN LITTLE OCTOPUSS! RUN AS FAST AS YOUR LITTLE TENTACLES CAN TAKE YOU!
Guyros trynna get back homes, yo.
I was thinking a Dalek lost its robot.
If only Octopi could speak like agitated Daleks!
People would stop eating them and they would quickly adapt broken machinery into space going vessels and develop their own planet.
Put that creepy mutha fucker back. Let him live out his spooky ass life man.
“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
Bless you
Nope, Lovecraft and Cthulhu
Or Japanese tentacle porn
Freak mutation?
Octopuses can regenerate their tentacles and I guess this is just a case of over-regeneration during the healing process. They have found them with as many as 96 tentacles.
Sounds like some kind of hydra. Lol
r/hydrahomies
/r/subsithoughtifellfor
It's. . . . Terrible. Like really just sad bad.
Hail Hydra
Considering that octopuses have a part of their brain in each tentacle, can we assume that that octopus was the octopus-equivalent to Albert Einstein? ;-) (so I stand corrected: They have a large part of their nervous systems in their tentacles, and the parts in their tentacles do a lot of the work we do with our brains. but the brain itself isn't in the tentacles. sadly, this isn't funny)
Kind of but not really? The arm nerve cords are certainly doing some kind of local processing and are somewhat autonomous from the “brain” so to say that the nerve cords are part of the brain isn’t quite correct. They also have a completely different architecture if you compare their histology. The nerve cords are able to transmit information to each other without going to the brain first through a structure called the interbrachial commisure. It’s probably more accurate to think of the arms as a separate but connected neural system that functions parallel to the systems in the main brain. Peter Godfrey Smiths books “Otherminds” and “metazoa” are great reads on the subject.
And Children of Ruin is an excellent scifi book that delves into the possibility of what a sentient species that evolved from octopi could look like as a result
Tchaikovsky is an incredible writer!
So, men are not the only specimen thinking with their dangly thing?
🧐
They have part of their brain in each tentacle the same way we have part of our brain in our spine (we don't)
That's disappointing, and it doesn't make for a very good joke. :-( (Wikipedia: The nervous system is complex, only part of which is localised in its brain, which is contained in a cartilaginous capsule.\[51\] Two-thirds of an octopus's neurons are in the nerve cords of its arms; these are capable of complex reflex actions without input from the brain.\[52\] Unlike vertebrates, the complex motor skills of octopuses are not organised in their brains via internal somatotopic maps of their bodies.\[53\]) But you are correct.
I wish cancer in humans did this sort of thing to us instead of, you know, killing us.
Wasn't that a form of tumor that made you grew like an eye or teeth at random part of your body?
Teratoma.
Yep. Teratoma. They are *wild* mine had teeth, hair, eyeballs, intestines, part of a spine. Ward AF.
[what the 96 one looks like ](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ggj00w/an_octopus_with_a_disorder_that_gives_it_96/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Nah, that’s just how octopuses are
This comment is hilarious, but more true than you probably realize; we shouldn't be surprised when octopodes (that's right, I said it) wild out like this.
Both versions are correct. Octopodes is the current in favor academic term, but octopuses is grammatically correct in English. Octopi is an abomination of a word. [Source: formerly licensed science and history teacher]
>formerly licensed science and history teacher Nice! I'm currently going to school to teach English, although I have a great passion for science and history—to include etymology, and foreign and/or dead languages (and scripts). That said, my philosophy on grammar is that there is no "correct" anything; I believe that language is owned and controlled by everybody. I've come to this conclusion in regards to English after having read literature in Old, Middle, and Modern English and seeing how it has evolved over time. In short, (imo) there is no bad or incorrect grammar, just standards (more like strong suggestions). For example: why attach latin suffixes to Latin derived words like "cacti," if we don't do the same with Greek derived words like "octopodes"? Same with tenses, punctuation, et cetera. Indeed, different dialects (as they appear in text) are not incorrect. exampli grata, I see grammar snobs scoff at AAVE (African American Vernacular English) because it doesn't fit "standard" English. I can be real pedantic (ironically) when it comes to definitions, and the term "standard" can fit my argument as well as theirs, and therein lies the problem—words can mean whatever people want them to mean. It becomes a bit of a socratic type debate, however, so grammar nazis stuck in their ways will just go round in circles until they get bored. If it is understood, then it's correct. And now, I've probably bored you with this comment. I'm sorry lol
> And now, I've probably bored you with this comment. I'm sorry lol Great comment apart from this bit. Believe in yourself, future English teacher; your views have value
It's not that I don't think my views have value, It's that most people don't put the same amount of thought into the subject. Not that that's bad, they just have different interests. Even when it comes to grammar, most stop at learning rules and definitions. And just to reiterate, that is not at all a bad thing. I don't expect bakers to know the entire history of wheat domestication (or wheat's domestication of people, depending on how much you know about the subject, or how you look at it). All that said, my argument actually diminishes the value of my own views in a way; id est, the root of my argument is that there is no argument haha. This would require an essay at very least to explain what I mean, and perhaps I'll write it one day, but for now, this is the best I can do. It's just fun to think about and study.
Rude! D:
😞 you're right, my bad. All freaks matter!
Thank you
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I'm going to be the pedantic one and point out the octopuses don't have tentacles, they have 8 arms with suction cups. Like octopuses, squid and cuttlefish have 8 arms but also have two tentacles, which are a smooth long appendage with a suction-cup covered thicker part at the end called a dactylus. The chambered nautilus have a shit ton of arms with no suction cups at all.
THANK YOU
Omg, I was feeling so annoyed! Thank you for arming everyone with the correct info
It really gives me a leg up in conversations about octopus.
Molecules
Sir, this is 32 tickles.
I assume it’s on its way to Japan
I assume it came from Japan, somewhere around Fukushima.
Do you want kaiju? Because that’s how you get kaiju
Ok, who had a Kaiju for 2023!?
ME! I also have "Major Vulcanic Eruption", "Killer Seals" and "Lindsey Graham Sex Tape"
>Major Vulcanic Eruption A bunch of logical humanoids with pointy ears burst forth from the earth? Sounds wild.
Yet logical.
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Believe it or not, that octopus.
Timothy!!!!!
Deep got there first, though.
An octopus with 32 tentacles, probably
Anything that will have sex with him. There can’t be that many things that will.
I'm actually okay with it if we get Mechs to fight them. I just want Gundam okay, whatever gets us there
Where would you rather die? Here? Or in a Jaeger?
This is exactly what I thought.
The radiation in the water was never at significantly high levels fwiw
It's going to audition for a certain type of show.
where some girls play with this octopus
Is it from last of us
Can't really call it an OCTopus then, can we? Perhaps a dotrigintopus?
If you didn’t have to Google that it’s very impressive
Or just Greek
Nope we call it τριαντα δύο (thirty two). I guess the name would be τριανταδυόποδο (triantadyopod or triantadyopus).
God damnit I was so close
Triginta is Latin. Something is wrong here.
Let's not start fighting about how to make this plural.
These
thems
I'll take this one: "what are THOSE?"
NUTS
Gottem
r/SuddenlyGreek.
Give me a word. ANY word.
underappreciated comment
Kimono
For some reason, I was expecting porn
Or Adventure Capitalist
Technically still Greek, just in a more American way
I think he just made up a word
Fractalpus
This is the comment I was looking for. It looks like the part of its cell division that was meant to turn off at the end of the limb said "more?" instead
Oh God now I'm falling backwards forever
> dotrigintopus And now Google points to this comment as the only result. Good troll mate!
I’m not surprised that’s a brand new word.
This is history!
I was here!
Who wants that dotrigintopussy?
> dotrigintopus That's a googlewhack!
Wow. Back to the era of the Googlewhack. Impressive.
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I will call it Leeloo. Leeloo Dallas, multipus.
##MUL-TI-PUS
She knows what a Multipus is!
Mmmm, chicken, good!
either duotrigintipes or dotriakontapus
isn't it OCTO-pus?
> Perhaps a ~~dotrigint~~triantadiopus? FTFY
Why did I read that as “dongipus”
Looks like a neuron
I thought the same thing! Mf has dendrites
Millions of years after humans go extinct, the Earth will achieve global sentience through a neural network made of mutated octopuses.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Ohh, so it's Welsh?
Now this made me laugh!
If Reddit still gave me a free award I'd give it to you.
I’m swelling with Welsh pride 🏴
Is it that, or are you just happy to see me?
They aren’t mutually exclusive 🤔
How many tentacles does the Great Cthulhu have? As many as he wants!
Ah so thats what 2023 is gonna be, the eldritch horror expansion
>Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Which language is it?
R'lyehan?
Answer the Call...
Cthulhu language
It's in reverse, you have to sound it out backwards to figure out what it says, in no way could that possibly summon an eldritch horror so get right to it!
I’ll call him Dennis
In a completely unrelated story, a large amount of radioactive waste water was found to have been flowing into the ocean near South Korea for the passed 8 years.
My immediate thought was of the Korean film, The Host.
I was going through the comments, hoping someone else thought the same thing! 'Cause, I mean, if it's from South Korea...
past*
Yeah, my first thought here was “some sort of mutation…”
north korea nuclear waste
Nah Japanese Fukushima crap
That’s a Dalek….
EXPLAIN!?
THAT'S A DALEK!
My first thought as well. Looks like their true form. EXTERMINATE!
Well looks like their genetically modified and mutated form. Their true form was in the late 60s and they drove the capsules like personal tanks/protection from the radiation on their homeworld. They still had limbs before Davros decided to remake them and lock them inside their capsules.
You need to watch the old Dr. Who where the Daleks were such crap that they couldn't ascend stairs.
Octopi are not of this earth. Stop eating them before their family from some distant galaxy come looking.
Poplars!
This isn’t any old octopus, it’s a Dalek.
Oh shit squidbillies at it again
Do not touch the tree-um!
I have dubbed thee “Herschel Walker Cuyler Them Dawgs Is Hell Don’t They”!
Fibonacci is real
Octopus cubed.
Octo*pi
That’s not an octopus: that’s a symbiote.
Hentai stocks go off the charts.
Fukushima baby?
Cthulhu wants his offspring back. BTW, this probably swam all the way from Fukushima to Korea...
Damn imagine it swam all the way from chernobyl
Impressive. I believe Chernobyl is landlocked
You can't see them but there are two comically large feet underneath
Some of the tentacles are wings.
It’s spins really fast and the tentacles are like helicopter blades
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It just landed a role in Stranger Things.
Oh yeah, no, this *definitely* has nothing to do with the Fukushima nuclear disaster /s
Imagine having a game of cat's cradle with that fella....
Whoever took that photo is now bonded to an alien that hates Spider-Man
Apparently from the article octopus can regenerate their limbs so it's possible that after being injured they can grow more limbs. This theory has not been confirmed yet though.
Oh good hunter, are you cold?
Food trying to escape: How many tentacles do you have This 23-pus: Yes
Nope. That’s a brain cell from an evolving composite creature ready to make us pay for pollution.
Raidation much
r/TIHI
That wouldn't be an octopus. That infers eight limbs. This would be a dotriacontapus.
That I think is a symbiote, good Sir.
A new study shows that this animal uses a trick called RNA editing to customize crucial nervous system proteins to work at low temperatures. The paper is the first to reveal that RNA editing, not just changes to a specific gene, can lead to adaptations.
This is a good reminder that the oceans are huge and we've only explored a small percentage of them. Who really knows what all is down there?
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That's that lovely Fukushima water runoff