# Our new cephalopod overlords. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105 "2004-12-22T03:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/1 "2004-12-22T03:07:57Z")
[Giant squid “taking over the world.”](http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4811363%5E13762,00.html) Actually, what surprised me most about this was learning that giant squid seem to live less than a year. I always assume large animals have longer life spans than ~200 days. Nothing else insightful to say, but I thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/2 "2004-12-22T03:18:24Z")
I, for one, welcome our new squid overlords. somebody had to say it But if they’re predators, overfishing will surely affect them as it does New Bedford fishermen, so the population should even out after a while. In the meantime, think of all the happy happy sperm whales! ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/3 "2004-12-22T03:25:26Z")
Good. Good. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/4 "2004-12-22T03:26:36Z")
So, **Tentacle Monster** , what are your aims after you and your kind have achieved world domination? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/5 "2004-12-22T03:32:46Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > So, **Tentacle Monster** , what are your aims after you and your kind have achieved world domination? 😉 First, they’re going to hire a cadre of Libertarian lawyers to contest the deeds to everyone’s land… ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/6 "2004-12-22T03:37:27Z")
I’m not sure how I feel about this. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/7 "2004-12-22T03:39:44Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > I’m not sure how I feel about this. Be worried, Softbody… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/8 "2004-12-22T03:57:56Z")
I always thought that large squid moved around rather slowly and gracefully underwater. Then, I watched a documentary about a researcher that went down in an anti-squid cage off the coast of Australia. The squid he studied were a large species but not the giant squid. I have never seen anything so terrifying in my life. The squid were fast, viscious, and evil. They had pure death in their eyes as they tried to find a way to penetrate the cage over and over. Seeing someone in a shark cage is positively mild compared to that. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/9 "2004-12-22T04:03:47Z")
_glances nervously at a map_ _notes that New Jersey is much closer to the ocean than New Mexico_ In less than a month, I’ll be safely back in the desert. Far from the ocean and the multi-tentacled evil that lurks in those depths… _carefuly edges a few feet further west_ ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/10 "2004-12-22T04:18:39Z")
Squid tastes good. I am not worried. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/11 "2004-12-22T04:27:05Z")
Tenacles! Why is it always _tentacles?_ :: **Sunspace** looks around, notes that he is far from the ocean (although not far from Lake Ontario). :: ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/12 "2004-12-22T04:39:32Z")
I don’t live anywhere near the ocean, but just to be on the safe side, I’m looking into recipes for calamari. Can’t be too prepared. Robin ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/13 "2004-12-22T04:45:14Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > I don’t live anywhere near the ocean, but just to be on the safe side, I’m looking into recipes for calamari. Can’t be too prepared. > > Robin They’ll come up the Susquehanna and build a canal from Harassburg to Hershey. You’re toast with a hometown chocolate topping, lady… ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/14 "2004-12-22T04:47:53Z")
I found a site with some videos of [giant squid.](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5551/2505/DC1) Those _are_ creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/15 "2004-12-22T05:48:19Z")
[French Terrorists Deploy Cephalopod Cannon](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20041218/od_afp/francedemofoodoffbeat) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/16 "2004-12-22T05:49:18Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Tenacles! Why is it always _tentacles?_ > > :: **Sunspace** looks around, notes that he is far from the ocean (although not far from Lake Ontario). :: Don’t get too cozy, mate… …there are–_things_–in Lake Ontario. _shivers and gets out her pots and pans for squid smoothie deluxe_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/17 "2004-12-22T13:28:41Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Tenacles! Why is it always _tentacles?_ > > :: **Sunspace** looks around, notes that he is far from the ocean (although not far from Lake Ontario). :: **Sunspace** has ecchi issues. 😉😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/18 "2004-12-22T14:58:38Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > They’ll come up the Susquehanna and build a canal from Harassburg to Hershey. You’re toast with a hometown chocolate topping, lady… I say we cut them off before Harrisburg maybe near the Mason Dixon line, with tanker trucks full of clarified butter made from the milk factory @ Hershey and garlic salt from McCormick. Then we can fill Raven Stadium with boiling oil and have fried calamari with a nice garlic butter sauce. There should be enough for the inhabitants of both PA and MD to have the biggest seafood roast evar! I’ll call Guiness Book, we have to get credit for this. Someone can have my share though, I’m allergic to shellfish. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/19 "2004-12-22T15:39:12Z")
Is Delaware invited to the feast? Pretty please? We never get invited to the big state’s parties anymore. :: _pout_ :: ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105/20 "2004-12-22T20:26:19Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > So, Tentacle Monster, what are your aims after you and your kind have achieved world domination? Well… > [@Shagnasty](#): > > The squid were fast, viscious, and evil. They had pure death in their eyes as they tried to find a way to penetrate the cage over and over. Something like that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-cephalopod-overlords/281105.md?page=2)