JUST WHAT WE NEED!
A new squid.
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In this photo, one can clearly differentiate the distinct segments of the squid anatomy. The glans. The shaft. The tentacles.
Posted by: MonsterMagnet | August 08, 2004 at 06:13 AM
This is actually pretty cool. I love hearing about new species of animals, especially sea life. Anyone who's watched the Blue Planet series' "The Deep" episode knows how wondrous and intriguing all of it is -- yes, even including finding a previously unknown squid. (Although what would be the best is to be able to find and study an 80-foot Giant Squid in its natural environment. Haven't seen one yet.)
Of course, squids are actually really cool animals. If you've ever watched how they communicate with one another through their chromatophores in an almost psychedelic display, you know what I'm talking about. I hate handling dead squid and I don't like calamari, but live squids are actually pretty neat animals.
Posted by: Gregg | August 08, 2004 at 06:16 AM
"spinning plankton blooms"
I intend to use this as an expletive from this point on. "Spinnig plankton blooms, I've overdrawn my checking acount again!" It suits.
Those unidentified tracks frighten me, though...
Posted by: waxwing | August 08, 2004 at 06:16 AM
That squid is only slightly less difficult to look at than Pitman.
Posted by: Leetie | August 08, 2004 at 06:25 AM
It’s an undersea discovery
A bright red new calamari
A fresh invertebrate
To serve on a plate
Now we just need a new recipe
Posted by: slowlayne | August 08, 2004 at 06:29 AM
Hey waxwing "Sinning Plankton Blooms" WBAGNFARB
Posted by: Sean | August 08, 2004 at 06:37 AM
Crap. I meant "Spinning". But you know,they both work!
Posted by: Sean | August 08, 2004 at 06:40 AM
That's a lot of calamari. Yum!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | August 08, 2004 at 06:41 AM
Mmmm.Unidentified tracks and spinning plankton blooms...Sounds like it's part of a swirling cosmic mystery...
Posted by: Sean | August 08, 2004 at 06:47 AM
"That squid is only slightly less difficult to look at than Pitman."
No, Pitman is much worse...
Posted by: Gregg | August 08, 2004 at 07:31 AM
Spinning Sinning Pitman Blooms!
slowlayne, a challenge: use "Little Red Corvette" as a basis for a "little red squid" song. Are we allowed to challenge you after you've already written a hilarious limerick?
Posted by: waxwing | August 08, 2004 at 07:50 AM
NewScientist.com? You mean somebody who READS this site reads Dave as well and forwarded this?!
Well just slap me with a spinning plankton bloom!
PS I had SPB in the (as Dave put it in a column about ants reprinted in the Herald recently) "undershorts area." The dermatologist prescribed some ointment and it went away toot-sweet.
Posted by: Trystan Shout | August 08, 2004 at 08:51 AM
It makes you wonder how many species of plants and animals we don't know about in the rainforest.
Posted by: entertainment news | August 08, 2004 at 09:29 AM
are you sure that's a real photo of 'tracks' ... looks like a walk in the woods on a snowy evening. could be a hoax. course, i'm a city girl.
Posted by: queensbee | August 08, 2004 at 10:35 AM
They would look excellent at center ice next to the faceoff circle.
Posted by: Red Wings Fans | August 08, 2004 at 11:34 AM
Waxwing, thanks and here goes (keep in mind this is after a few mimosas and more than one bloody mary)
Little Red Squidette
I guess I should have known by the way you sprayed your ink sideways
That you were too deep
See you’re the kind of genus that belives in hiding out, you
Swam away from me
I guess I must be dumb cause you had a pocket full of plankton
Spinning and oh so sweet
But it was the Atlantic ridge, I should have zagged but I zigged
I said fry some calamari
And I said
Little Red Squidette
Baby you’re much too deep
Little Red Squidette
Baby you caught me in your net sweep
I guess I should have closed my eyes when the anglerfish dangled his bulb before me
That’s when he netted me
But all then I saw the strange new plankton with those four cle-arly de-fined rings
I wondered if I dove too deep
But we were thermal invertin’ my love was just hurtin
And U said collect me for keeps
Oh baby!
Little Red Squidette
Baby you’re much too deep
Little Red Squidette
Baby you caught me in your net sweep
A body like your ought to be in a tank
Cause it’s on the verge of being unique
Move over baby, climb in my jar
I’m gonna try to take you little red ink machine!
Oh you’ve got tentacles like I’ve never seen, ow!
And the suckers so smooth
You must be the one for me..baby!
Ow!
Baby you’re much too deep
Little Red Squidette
U’re a specimen ..that’s got to laaast
Little Red Squidette
Cuz if you don’t, cuz if you don’t
I’m gonna run you right in to the deep
Right into the deep
Right into the deep
Little Red Squidette
Posted by: slowlayne | August 08, 2004 at 12:07 PM
For a good time, calamari.
Posted by: Pilsenerman | August 08, 2004 at 12:38 PM
slowlayne,
I was laughing so hard I nearly inked myself!
That was wonderful. My sides hurt now.
Posted by: waxwing | August 08, 2004 at 01:00 PM
slowlayne - Next time you're in Lauderdale, bloody marys and mimosas are on the house!
Posted by: djtonyb | August 08, 2004 at 11:03 PM
Remember that great song by the Seagulls? "There's a new squid in town."
Posted by: snethet | August 09, 2004 at 05:05 AM
This is the squid that one day will rule the world as Animal Planet predicts!
Posted by: Kevin | August 09, 2004 at 07:44 AM
If I was the first of my spieces dragged up from 2km below the sea surface, I'd be blushing too!
Posted by: Aardvark | August 09, 2004 at 07:55 PM