# If Jack Bauer were an octopus
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 8, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855 "2006-06-08T07:08:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/1 "2006-06-08T07:08:56Z")
Check out what this octopus can do: [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media\_players\_blue/shark\_hi.html](http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media_players_blue/shark_hi.html)
That’s one badass mofo right there.
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### Author:  [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/2 "2006-06-08T07:25:11Z")
**THAT** is freaking awesome.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/3 "2006-06-08T09:02:03Z")
So awesome that the page crashes Firefox and fails to load in Internet Explorer and Opera. What was it?
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/4 "2006-06-08T09:10:30Z")
Mmkay. I had to download and install realplayer. You’re right. That _is_ an eyeopener.
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### Author:  [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/5 "2006-06-08T09:11:24Z")
You need RealPlayer to watch it?
No, thanks.
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/6 "2006-06-08T12:24:57Z")
I couldn’t get that to play smoothly in the office, but its still startling. Poor shark eh?
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/7 "2006-06-08T14:08:37Z")
Holy smokes. Now I can tell my wife I have _another_ good reason to stay out of the ocean!
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/8 "2006-06-08T14:10:31Z")
Extremely cool. Of course, I’m a big fan of octupuses. Sharks are waaaay overrated.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/9 "2006-06-08T15:50:26Z")
> [@slortar](#):
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> I’m a big fan of octupuses.
Me too. I read someplace that if everything on Earth with bones were to die tomorrow, the octopus would be far and away the smartest critter remaining on the planet.
(As a Seattleite, this is a good incentive to go visit the aquarium again. “Hey, so, when are you planning to put another shark in the tank? Heh heh heh…”)
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### Author:  [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/10 "2006-06-08T17:00:27Z")
Pretty cool.
I just wanted to say that, after reading [Japanese. Tentacle. Porn.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=374630), I was worried that this thread could have gone quite differently.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/11 "2006-06-08T17:34:10Z")
How you like me now!?!
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### Author:  [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jack-bauer-were-an-octopus/359855/12 "2006-06-09T01:01:33Z")
> [@Scoundrel Swanswater](#):
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> You need RealPlayer to watch it?
> No, thanks.
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202)
the “google video version” for non-real-players…