December 8, 2008

Mutant Octopi


They are, apparently, quite rare.

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  1. Daryl Scroggins on December 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    All part of god’s sick plan.

  2. Mike Dougan on December 9th, 2008 at 6:21 am

    I actually work off of Mie prefecture (Ugata), that is when I’m not in some shipyard! Toba is the home of the Mikimoto pearls.

  3. Sheila Ryan on December 9th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Mike! Be sure to let us know if you eat one of them mutant octopi.

  4. Alek Lindus on December 9th, 2008 at 10:15 am

    o come now sheila he’s a Scot he wouldna eat nothing like that they only eat Haggis

  5. Daryl Scroggins on December 9th, 2008 at 10:26 am

    Sheila: your comment reminds me of the report some decades back (and probably not true) that a Japanese trawling vessel hauled in the rotting carcass of a pterodactyl–presumably calved from a shelf of ice. Sceptics point out that it’s unlikely such a creature would stay in one piece in ice for that long, but it makes for a good story. The fishermen got tired of smelling it and shoved it back into the sea.

  6. Sheila Ryan on December 9th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Daryl, that will haunt my dreams, both sleeping and waking.