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doublejeopardy
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: Octopus Attacks Canadian Mini Sub |
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Octopus Attacks Canadian Mini-Sub
This video is bit long but kinda cool, IMHO
or you can read the story here |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: Re: Octopus Attacks Canadian Mini Sub |
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I bet it is a top secret American trained octopus. People have been saying they are after the Arctic (by starting at Vancouver Island)! |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:58 am Post subject: Re: Octopus Attacks Canadian Mini Sub |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I bet it is a top secret American trained octopus. People have been saying they are after the Arctic (by starting at Vancouver Island)! |
You know, they did train dolphins to find mines and bombs during Vietnam...  |
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doublejeopardy
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:06 am Post subject: Re: Octopus Attacks Canadian Mini Sub |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I bet it is a top secret American trained octopus. People have been saying they are after the Arctic (by starting at Vancouver Island)! |
You know, they did train dolphins to find mines and bombs during Vietnam... |
And Octopuses aren't as dumb as one might think. I remember watching a show about researchers who were missing fish from a fish tank. They couldn't figure out why, so they set up a video camera. It recorded the octopus in the adjacent tank climbing out of its tank over into the fish tank, chowing down and then climbing back into its own tank. "Who? Me?"
I wouldn't put it past those wily, Northwest passage-coveting Yanks. And lord knows, an untrained octopus can take out a canadian sub, imagine what a trained one could do  |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| I suggest we start training polar bears to take out Americans and Danes now. Plus, while we don't have penguins, maybe we can do a Batman II with puffins. They'd never see it coming |
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Lemonade
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: Octopus Attacks Canadian Mini Sub |
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| doublejeopardy wrote: |
| Pligganease wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I bet it is a top secret American trained octopus. People have been saying they are after the Arctic (by starting at Vancouver Island)! |
You know, they did train dolphins to find mines and bombs during Vietnam... |
And Octopuses aren't as dumb as one might think. I remember watching a show about researchers who were missing fish from a fish tank. They couldn't figure out why, so they set up a video camera. It recorded the octopus in the adjacent tank climbing out of its tank over into the fish tank, chowing down and then climbing back into its own tank. "Who? Me?"
I wouldn't put it past those wily, Northwest passage-coveting Yanks. And lord knows, an untrained octopus can take out a canadian sub, imagine what a trained one could do |
We might have seen the same video... with one exception.... they weren't "fish" they were SHARKS.... BIG huge SHARKS!!! The octopus was in the same tank as the sharks. One GREAT big huge gulp and the sharks were gobbled up. Truely one of the most shocking videos I've ever seen. And no way was the octopus trained. Question is.... can or will they eat human divers? Have we underestimated the octopus? |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: Octopus Attacks Canadian Mini Sub |
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| doublejeopardy wrote: |
| And Octopuses... |
Isn't it octopi? And since when did octopus become a proper noun?
Sparkles*_* |
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laconic2
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Wonderful World of ESL
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: Averted |
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As the Canadian PM has not raised a sovereignty issue over the attack, one must assume the octopus was Canadian.
Another international crisis thus averted. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Octopus comes from Greek, not Latin. So if you really want to be an English cop it would be octopodes. |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I suggest we start training polar bears to take out Americans |
Ever heard of this stupid American? Grizzly Man.
He might have been eaten by Canadian-trained Grizzlies. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:21 am Post subject: |
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| Mills wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I suggest we start training polar bears to take out Americans |
Ever heard of this stupid American? Grizzly Man.
He might have been eaten by Canadian-trained Grizzlies. |
We gave up on the grizzlies. Look how long it took them to get Grizzly man. They aren't very good as a weapon. |
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Njord
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| Octopus comes from Greek, not Latin. So if you really want to be an English cop it would be octopodes. |
True, except in Detroit where the newspaper held a vote and "octopi" won. After this, "octopi" has been the local standard. |
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Njord
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:01 am Post subject: |
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In case you are wondering why this was worth having a vote in the first place, it is because of hockey. When we score a goal in the playoffs, fans throw octopi on the ice.
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| This bizarre seafood-stinging custom began with the Cusimano brothers, who tossed out the first eight-legged pitch—an octopus they'd lifted from their family fish store—on April 15,1952 as a good luck omen back in the days when a team needed only eight victories to win the Stanley Cup. Pete Cusimano chucked the mollusk onto the ice to celebrate the Wings' first goal in the third game of the finals against the Montreal Canadiens. The Red Wings won that game and went on to become the first team to win the Stanley Cup—hockey's most coveted prize—in eight straight games. |
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laconic2
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Wonderful World of ESL
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: Coincidence |
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| Njord wrote: |
In case you are wondering why this was worth having a vote in the first place, it is because of hockey. When we score a goal in the playoffs, fans throw octopi on the ice.
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| This bizarre seafood-stinging custom began with the Cusimano brothers, who tossed out the first eight-legged pitch—an octopus they'd lifted from their family fish store—on April 15,1952 as a good luck omen back in the days when a team needed only eight victories to win the Stanley Cup. Pete Cusimano chucked the mollusk onto the ice to celebrate the Wings' first goal in the third game of the finals against the Montreal Canadiens. The Red Wings won that game and went on to become the first team to win the Stanley Cup—hockey's most coveted prize—in eight straight games. |
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From the sounds of the attack on the mini-sub, it may be that some of the octopedes/octopi/octopuses have tired of the "bizarre seafood-stinging custom" and decided to take mattters into their eight hands. Not too much they can do about it on ice, but sea water is a different matter.
Ask the crew of the mini-sub.
You think it was just a coincidence that it was a Canadian mini-sub?  |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| As a life long sailor, the true enemy of modern fleets is rust. I have spent several years battling the foe with a rust chipper and marine paint. Please remember that rust never sleeps. People never want to hear about the true heck of the real battle but when some big sea monster attacks, oh yea the camera crews show up, the headlines follow and all of a sudden its a big deal. |
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