Octopus vs. Mr. Potato Head!

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Octopus wins:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp8-16-06f.jpg

Reason: they get bored.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

(And the octopus is named Shania, BTW.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think Mr. Potato head is in the process of assimilating Shania and trurning her into a new nose.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Tiger vs. bonesicle and other pleasures.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's posts like this that make me envy octopi.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

What, you want to rip open a smelt-filled Mr. Potato Head?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hells yes, that sounds like fun.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Some days a life of puzzle-solving and free feedings sounds pretty good. Plus, think of the piano recitals.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was already widely-acknowledged that octopuses were really freakin' smart? Either that or I just manufactured an imaginary scientific consensus to support my own beliefs.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

If they're so damn smart, why can't they get out of those little tanks?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Out of hunger for amusement -- not necessarily food or freedom -- they can maneuver out of tanks whose covers have been held down by 40 pounds of concrete blocks, and climb into the tanks of other sea creatures and eat them. They can die of boredom -- by climbing out, but not finding a tank to climb back in.

― p@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

octopwned

― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure they are as smart as..racoons

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen a raccoon dead of asphyxiation halfway to a garbage can because he was too bored to stay in his own garbage can. Too clever by half, those octopi.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Here's another octopus who loves his Mr. Potato Head.

― Abbott, Friday, 18 January 2008 01:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44347000/jpg/_44347562_octopus203x300.jpg

― Abbott, Friday, 18 January 2008 01:47 (seventeen years ago)

DER OKTOPUS und HERR KARTOFFELKOPF

― Abbott, Friday, 18 January 2008 01:54 (seventeen years ago)

I love that there was already a thread for this story.

― El Tomboto, Friday, 18 January 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091214-octopus-carries-coconuts-coconut-carrying.html

this behavior somewhat described in wapo article above, too.

― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/091214-octopus-carries-coconuts-coconut-carrying_big.jpg

― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo

― It's Favre O'Clock Somewhere!!! (leavethecapital), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

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