Sunday, December 21, 2008

Squidography - The Killer Humboldt Squid

Pliny loves Facebook. Where else would Pliny learn that just one hour earlier C**** was in a hotel room in Dublin watching a show about Killer Humboldt Squid? Killer Humboldt Squid! At first Pliny thought C**** must have been watching a very scary film. But no, he had called it a show. That meant it was a documentary. That meant there really was such a creature. So Pliny googled the Killer Humboldt Squid.

Pliny learned that the Killer Humboldt Squid is large, aggressive, raptorial, cannibalistic, with three hearts, stereoscopic eyes, blue blood, a large brain, lightning-fast hook-laden tentacles, eight squirming arms, a disproportionately large razorsharp parrot-like beak, and lives mainly in the deeper blacker, colder lower oxygen regions of the Humboldt Current that sweeps up the east coast of the United States. There are millions and squillions of them. Sometimes they lacerate fishermen and divers.

No wonder then that C**** was sufficiently impressed to sufficiently impress Pliny to google the Killer Humboldt Squid.

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