Squid vs Octapus

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discuss.

― anthony, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

octopus I deem to be more aesthetically appealing, with their colours and all. The word squid is more fun to say: "ahh Squiddy, I got nothin' against ya..." In a fight between the two I would back a squid even bearing in mind an octopuses ink-squirting abilities, squids seem more sinister.

― rainy, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Octopus is feat. prominantly in Gravity's Rainbow. Therefore, it wins. Also, I had pasta in a squid ink sauce once. It turned my shit runny. So double dud.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can a squid squirt ink too, then?

― rainy, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about cuttlefish?

― Emma, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Octopus are the second best animals in the entire world (behind cats and ahead of the star-nosed mole), they're really smart and have amazing colour and shape changing abilities that make me unable to eat them, as a mark of respect. Although having said that, I'm sure giant squid of the type that are supposed to fight sperm whales to the death in the depths of the sea would be worthy of respect were I to meet one.

― DG, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about Cockles Vs Winkles?

― Martin, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's also that episode where Homer's recounting his (false) memory of what happened at a town hall meeting and an octopus hands him the phone and says, "For you sir, it's the president." So by Simpsons references (which are the only true measure of value) we're tied.

― tha chzza, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if octopuses are so smart, howcum they're not posting (compare/contrast ninjasquid!! One-nil...)

― mark s, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Squids are one of the oldest animals on earth and have been around since the time of the DINOSAURS. So if you matched a squid with an octopus ROBOT....

― Tom, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nooooooo! Make him stop!

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So have sharks and alligators Tom and I bet my Robot Shark and Robot Alligator would whup the ass of your Robot Octopus.

Did anyone see The Beast about a giant squid with big hooks on its tentacles? It was very funny.

― Emma, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I ate squid sausages last night which were blimmin georgeous (is squid stuffed with pork sausage) so on last nights experience I'm with the squid possies.

Also one of the kids in Help! I'm A Fish turns into a squid. Which isn't a fish.

― Pete, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG, you may find a giant sqid off the coast of Kaikoura in New Zealand. some scientists came to look for them last year, but the weather kept on preventing them from finding them. I recall the scientist was very sweet and very enthused about the squids.

― rainy, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whe I first saw the question, I immediately thought of which were better to eat. So, um, calimari vs whatever octopuses are eaten as, perhaps?

― matthew hintz, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ate octopus (pulpo) and squid on Monday night. I think I shall come down on the side of the pulpo, although Baran's intriguing sausage- stuffed squid would have a chance of converting me.

― Tim, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Deep Rising = best movie about giant octopus eveh!

― Pete, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The 'giant octopus' scene in 'Ed Wood' takes some beating...

― Andrew L, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to work in a fish market, where I was left with the job of carving up fresh seafood, as no one else (vegetarians all) wanted to do it. I have to say that the octopus "legs" were most fun for chasing people around the kitchen with. Also, they're very cartoonish, colorful and rubbery. Squids are just floppy and gross.

― Kerry, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I were a vegetarian I would perhaps think about getting a job somewhere I would not be surrounded by dead creatures.

According to last night's pub quiz, the average person eats 8 cows in a lifetime (if they are not veggie). I reckon I've had at least that already and I'm only 26.

― Emma, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fried calamari, daash of lemon, mucho pepper...yummmm

― Geoff, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, the octopus in the '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' movie wuz best.

The concept of a ROBOT octopus somehow fills me with a nameless dread.

'Octopussy' = worst James Bond film.

― DavidM, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...

i have to diagree david m, i really liked octapussy, infact i'm watching it right now. as for the octapuss vs. the squid, giant squids are cool, but what is cooler than changeing shape and colour to fit any where you bloody well please? well, tell me

― josh baker, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

being able to fly

― michael, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if octopuses are so smart, howcum they're not posting

Well, Mark, perhaps they are TOO smart to be internet mentalists? Or perhaps they are posting - there are several regulars I've yet to see in the flesh, so who is to say that some of them aren't typing with eight tentacles in the ocean depths? (And was your comment a reference to Cartman's "If dolphins are so smart, why do they live in igloos?"?)

I love octopuses, personally. Not only are they clever and infinitely better than the overrated chameleons with their fancy press agents getting them all the big colour-changing props, they can squeeze through insanely tiny spaces. And there's a great monster-octopus scene in the wonderful Toilers Of The Sea by Victor Hugo.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the internet, no one knows you're an octopus.

― rosemary, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or a ninjasquid.

― Graham, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

deep rising has a weird sea anomeone thingy....it kills people.....yeah......

― Carmen Elektaza, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

octapus's r kool. they r heaps betta than squid cuz they have 8 'legs'.

― ebiny smith, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

B-but squid have TEN legs! They are therefore 25% better! QED!

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

Revive!

The giant squid is no longer King of the Cephalopods. Make way for the Colossal Squid!

I love this quote:

"Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that's out there. We've got something that's even larger, and not just larger but an order of magnitude meaner."

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 3 April 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

How long before it attacks the surface world?

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Thursday, 3 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hopefully it won't get pre-emptive

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 3 April 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently size is important after all.

― Skottie, Thursday, 3 April 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

upon read this article today, i immediately pondered the quantity of calamari - hors d'ouvres for everyone!

― j.a.e., Thursday, 3 April 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I am looking at the pictures of that thing lying on the gurneys there, and unless London Transit has made some severe cutbacks I'm not aware of, there is no way that thing is bigger than a double decker bus!

Why, it's not even as big as the scary squid in woodcut whaler illustrations!

― kate, Thursday, 3 April 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, the squid on the gurney is described as:

The specimen, which was caught in the past few weeks in the Ross Sea, has a mantle length of 2.5 metres. That is a larger mantle than any giant squid that Dr O'Shea has seen and this specimen is still immature, the NZ scientist believes.

"It's only half to two-thirds grown,

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

How can they tell it's only half to two-thirds grown! Why I am immature, so am I only half to two-thirds grown, and I shall reach a terrifying height of TWELVE FEET?!?!? What would be scarier, a twelve foot SQUID or a twelve foot KATE?!?!?

― kate, Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

or a twelve foot LIZARD?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)