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Octopuses(??) Seen Walking From Predators [BAD GRAMMAR ALERT]
AP/Newsday ^
| 3/25/05
| RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Posted on 03/25/2005 8:32:30 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: proxy_user
You're smart. Seriously. I wish I knew that kind of stuff but my eyes glaze over when I try to learn it.
To: kiriath_jearim
Not surprising. They can walk away from aquariums quite a long distance before shrivelling up.
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posted on
03/25/2005 8:59:55 AM PST
by
Nataku X
(Food for Thought: http://web2.airmail.net/scsr/)
To: dighton
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:00:17 AM PST
by
Petronski
(If Reichskanzler Greer can kill Terri, who will be next?)
To: kiriath_jearim
trying to sneak away by walking on two arms Wait a doggone minute. How do they know the two tentacles were the legs and not the arms? This is bogus and bad science. (Is doggone spelled with two GGs or one G?)
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:01:31 AM PST
by
Casloy
To: BerthaDee
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:02:18 AM PST
by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
To: BerthaDee
A: "Look at those happy fish!"
B: "How can you know the pleasures of a fish? You are not a fish."
A: "How do you know I do not know the pleasures of a fish? You are not me.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:05:40 AM PST
by
NationSoConceived
("Truth bestows no pardon upon error, but wipes it out in the most effectual manner." - M.B.E.)
To: Izzy Dunne
No, that's for -ius, which "radius" is and "octopus" is not. "Octopus" takes one I to go plural - "octopi."
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:06:49 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I am at Dr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself)
To: kiriath_jearim
I thought it was 'Octopussy' Mr. Bond!
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:06:54 AM PST
by
Hayzo
To: kiriath_jearim
pretending to be a bunch of algae [Music:] "What's it all about, Algae?..."
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:19:10 AM PST
by
talleyman
(E=mc2 (before taxes))
To: Blzbba
Holy Hand Grenade!
Is that the African or European variety of Octopi... Octopusses... Octopodes... Octopussy.... ---[boingk]---
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:20:07 AM PST
by
Kevin OMalley
(No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
To: Joe 6-pack
What do you call 8 octopi? Octopi are squared?...
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:21:50 AM PST
by
talleyman
(E=mc2 (before taxes))
To: kiriath_jearim
Merriam-Webster says octopuses is ok.
http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=octopus
Main Entry: oc·to·pus
Pronunciation: 'äk-t&-p&s, -"pus
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -pus·es or oc·to·pi /-"pI/
Etymology: New Latin Octopod-, Octopus, from Greek oktOpous
1 : any of a genus (Octopus) of cephalopod mollusks that have eight muscular arms equipped with two rows of suckers; broadly : any octopod excepting the paper nautilus
2 : something that resembles an octopus especially in having many centrally directed branches
[octopus illustration]
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:23:10 AM PST
by
PatoLoco
To: Xenalyte
No, that's for -ius, which "radius" is and "octopus" is not. Which is just what I said.
Anyway, according to Dictionary.com, either is correct. So I withdraw my complaint, if the original poster withdraws his.
But the plural of "virus" is NOT "virii", as I have seen elsewhere. Consistency is not a virtue of the language....
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:50:15 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: kiriath_jearim; martin_fierro; Boazo; Constitution Day; MeekOneGOP
I thought that the plural of "octopus" was "octopii".
The actual quote was: "Let them eat octoCAKE"
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:55:33 AM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: TomGuy; PilloryHillary; doug from upland; Fiddlstix
"Yeh, we always knew they were tricky. Devious. And we know clams have legs. They don't fool us."
Clams have no legs, no ankles, just a foot.
Therefore, Hillary Clinton is two clams.
Wish she'd clam up....
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:58:48 AM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: dighton; BerthaDee; general_re; BlueLancer; Happygal; Thinkin' Gal; hellinahandcart; Poohbah
In Australia, O.aculeatus Watch yer nomenclature there mates. Yer getting too close.
(Signed)
aculeus.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:59:27 AM PST
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
To: curmudgeonII
Sort of like the two octopus lovers who walked on the bottom of the ocean floor. Arm in arm...in arm...in arm...in arm...in arm...in arm...
Singing the Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand Hand Hand Hand Hand Hand Hand Hand"
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posted on
03/25/2005 10:02:58 AM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: BerthaDee
...octopusesiusii...Wickedly funny. ROFLMAO x 2!!!
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posted on
03/25/2005 10:05:16 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
(If you can lead, do it. If you can't, follow. If you can't do either, become a Democrat.)
To: kiriath_jearim
One observation that was not included in this article was the reactions of the predators to the walking algae. One grouper was noted to be startled by the algae with legs, and began singing, "What's it all about, Algae?".
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posted on
03/25/2005 10:06:25 AM PST
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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