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Octidextris? that's a new one..
What if they solve the Cube?? Are humans endangered??
EB
Posted by: EB | May 30, 2009 at 09:28 AM
I think it's a study to see if visitors will do the boffins' work for them. For free. That's gotta be worth a couple hundred thousand dollars, eh?
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 30, 2009 at 09:55 AM
EB, they have a better chance of solving the cube than I do. Of course peeling off the stickers does help. How do you get grant money for things like this? I would like to do a study on why my labrador likes to chase squirrels. Is it instinct or unresolved puppy issues? What would happen if I gave her a stuffed animal squirrel. I already know the answer to that one. If it had a squeaker in it she would tear that out in about 5 minutes. But which paw would she use to hold it on the floor?
Posted by: nursecindy | May 30, 2009 at 09:56 AM
We all know what a guy's favorite tentacle is. Duh.
Posted by: Siouxie | May 30, 2009 at 09:57 AM
At the end of a rough workday, I always reach for a nice cold rubik's cube.
There's nothing like it.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | May 30, 2009 at 09:58 AM
Duh, Siouxie - the only one.
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 30, 2009 at 09:59 AM
I know when I want to relax I think of working on complicated and frustrating puzzles too.
Posted by: Margaritaville | May 30, 2009 at 10:05 AM
They should be careful. Remember what happened with that rubber ducky?
Posted by: Siouxie | May 30, 2009 at 10:10 AM
If this works, give them a saxaphone and some sheet music.
Posted by: Clankazoid | May 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Wait. They gave them Rubik's Cubes to RELIEVE stress? I would think that live electrodes would work as well.
If they want to give them a puzzle that takes time to master, give them a three-hook bra to play with.
Posted by: Steve | May 30, 2009 at 10:13 AM
I always thought it was 'octo pie'.
Maybe it's just me, but it's possible that octopusses (π) may not have a sense of 'play' and that giving them things that they cannot eat may just be frustrating to them.
I know the Rubik's Cube certainly is frustrating to me.
Posted by: NotSherly | May 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM
And no one should bring up Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus.
...
Oops.
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM
cindy, wasn't Unresolved Puppy Issues an 80's band?
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | May 30, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Octopodes.
How do they expect octopodes to use one arm on the Rubiks cube, when most humans use two?
Posted by: oneblankspace | May 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Octomom should get one too. She may be a little stressed by now.
Posted by: Siouxie | May 30, 2009 at 10:56 AM
"octopuses...have even been shown to partially think with their arms."
Maybe they're Italian octopuses?
Posted by: Clown Puppy | May 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
I believe it was Jeff. Of course I was only a child then. Siouxie be careful of ScottMGS. According to a post he made on the parrot link yesterday his is rubber. I'm still trying to work that out in my mind.
Posted by: nursecindy | May 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM
I'm rubber. You're glue. It bounces off me and sticks to you.
;-p
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Then they will use 4 scientists to teach the creatures how to high-5.
Posted by: Martinishark | May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Wouldn't a Rubik's Octagon be better?
Posted by: ron | May 30, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I like the clever way that the researchers label the left-side tentacles with an L instead of an R. This shows really close attention to detail in the experiment.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | May 30, 2009 at 12:35 PM
NotSherly, I say octopusses, you say octopi... Let's call the whole thing off...
Posted by: "frodolives" | May 30, 2009 at 12:36 PM
I just say Maud Adamses.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | May 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM
NotSherly, They definitely have a sense of play - I have friends that dive in the Pacific Northwest (brr!) and I guess the giant octopi there like to steal things, particularly dive lights, from divers and play keepaway.
Posted by: cowprintrabbit | May 30, 2009 at 01:31 PM
OH, GOOD GOD, Siouxie!!! If Octomom had an octopus, that's 64!!! And then each of them... (Of course, exponentially, we could tax them each a dollar, and pay off the national debt in 276 years...) (And Allen in Division, I made the numbers up, so don't bother doing the math...)
Posted by: "frodolives" | May 30, 2009 at 02:59 PM
Thanks for the Allan Sherman song, Fr D'Olives. I hadn't heard that before. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to plant my tomahtoes.
CPR, playful octopi wbagnf guys I dated in high school.
Posted by: NotSherly | May 30, 2009 at 03:06 PM
NotSherl... I would NEVER want to stop you from planting your home-grown tomatoes!!!
Posted by: "frodolives" | May 30, 2009 at 04:31 PM
BTW, "Fr D'Olives" is one I hadn't heard before...
Reminds me of the Mel Brooks movie "Spaceballs"...
Priest: "You're the best man?"
John Candy, as the "Mog": Yes!
Priest: "What's your name?"
Mog: "Barf!"
Priest: "Full name?"
Mog: "Barf-olomew!!!"
Posted by: "Frere D'Olives" | May 30, 2009 at 05:20 PM
I believe the proper pluralization is octopodes, being Greek in origin.
Posted by: Audrey the Liberal | May 31, 2009 at 12:36 AM