Are people aware that today is International Cephalopod Awareness Day?
Can I celebrate with some calamari?
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Oct 08, 2007 9:07:11 am PDT #5637 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
amych - Oct 08, 2007 9:08:18 am PDT #5638 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Can I celebrate with some calamari?
Depends. Do you promise to be aware of it? Because it's hardly celebrating otherwise...
Liese S. - Oct 08, 2007 9:08:20 am PDT #5639 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Can I celebrate with some calamari?
Depends on whether the cephalopod is supposed to be aware or if you're supposed to be aware of it.
eta: Hee, x-post.
Sparky1 - Oct 08, 2007 9:09:54 am PDT #5640 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Kat, I have another idea ... off to check a different database.
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2007 9:10:12 am PDT #5641 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Can I celebrate with some calamari?
P.Z. Meyers says that if you do, you'll get no scantily-clad women.....
Somebody has found their way to the inner sanctum of the cephalopod lords, and returned with pictures. Yes, it's true: cephalopod worship, for some reason, involves scantily clad women.
Wait a minute…eating cephalopods? No scantily clad ladies for you, Rick.
Sparky1 - Oct 08, 2007 9:14:11 am PDT #5642 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Kat, I have it and will send it to the email address I've used for you before...
Kat - Oct 08, 2007 9:15:29 am PDT #5643 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sparky, you ROCK! you're like the super sleuth librarian! THANK YOU!
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2007 9:26:08 am PDT #5644 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's a national institute for play.
Which I found by tracking down this instance of wild and domesticated animals playing.
Connie Neil - Oct 08, 2007 9:29:18 am PDT #5645 of 10001
brillig
How is "play" defined? Activity that is not immediately beneficial to the creature doing the action? One that's not related to food/shelter/survival?
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2007 9:32:48 am PDT #5646 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From the snopes page:
We note that although these photographs are genuine, the interpretation of what they depict is somewhat subjective. Although most lay observers would characterize the activity shown in these images as "play," animal behavioralists differ as to whether it truly constitutes play (i.e., activity engaged in purely for pleasure) or whether that description is an anthropomorphization of more instinctive, survival-based behaviors.