3/21/2003: Octopus opens jar
 

http://cellar.org/2003/octopusjar.jpg

Happy Friday. This is Frieda, a 9-month-old octopus. She lives at a zoo in Munich. She's learned how to open a jar containing her favorite foods, which include shrimp, crabs, and clams. The jar opening is now on display for visitors, twice a week.

Freaky man!

Re: 3/21/2003: Octopus opens jar
 

Isn't the octopus considered one of the most intelligent invertibrates?

Man ... this could be trouble!

First the invertibrates learn to open jars, next thing you'll know they'll be wanting the keys to the car, and universal suffrage ...

Pray that clams never learn to do something clever ...

(bet you all thought i was only paranoid about people ...)

Worse yet -- imagine 6 fully autos aimed at ya, with 2 arms left free to constantly reload.

Quite the cocky capsnafler, eh? Goin' into showbiz...
Need a challenge? Ive got a 23 month-old, sloppy, crusty jar of Stubb's BBq sauce in the fridge.

At last! Help for the elderly and disabled. They may replace dogs and little monkeys domestic helpers.

We have to teach them to breathe air first. I don't think they could get the proper leverage to open the jars if they also had to hold the jar out of the water.

Unless we only want them to open jars that are already full of saltwater ... you know, pickles, olives ... I think that would work.

How big an octopus do we need as a kitchen appliance? I think I can squeeze a small aquarium into my kitchen design.

That might be a good idea anyway griff ... have a big tank in the kitchen where yah can yank out some fresh, tasty seafood and toss it right into a big ol' pot of boiling water and old bay seasoning.

You'd have to have some way to mark the trained jar opening octopus to tell it from the one that you bought for calimari, though.

You wouldn't be able to open the tomato sauce if you cooked the wrong one.

Octopi are as smart as cats, minus the attitude. They have eyes that are almost on par with ours, and they've been opening jars as far back as 1975. Saw it on a Jaques Cousteau special that came out before a lot of the cellar audience was born. Yiieee! :eek:

I had heard a story about an octopus in a lab or zoo or someplace indoors in a tank. The lab techs or whatever would come in every morning and find rocks from the tank strewn all over the room. They weren't sure why or what happened as the rocks would repeatedly be flung on the floor, even after being replaced in the tank, so they set up a camcorder overnight. According to the tale, the camcorder caught the octopus flinging rocks at cockroaches on the ceiling and walls to knock them in the tank where it would catch them and eat them.

Snopes had nothing on the story, but I'm still unsure of it's authenticity.

Heck, I've got a computer that's that old. And I bought it new.

INVENTORS
 

ACTUALLY, THE OCTOPUS INVENTED THE SCREW TOP CAP. WE BORROWED THE INVENTION IN EGYPTIAN TIMES AND HAVE USED IT WITH GREAT SUCCESS EVER SINCE!

:D

Oh Boy, another wacko. Welcome to the Cellar Ljim. We've almost got them outnumbered.:beer:
PS- Dave gets annoyed if you yell. :D

Well, let's see this one get out, if he's so darn smart! ;)

(Great album by a great prog rock band, BTW)

I don't work blue all that often, but:

Octopi are fucking awesome.

here it is. took me a while to find this.

this is why i'm here.

mmmwooowhoooohoooohooooo!

What's this? Roots, the LJ story? :lol:

boredom bump

You got octopus in my peanut butter!

Just about an hour ago I was sitting at my kitchen table talking with a friend about a giant octopus she had seen at an aquarium in ... Seattle, maybe. I think they are stalking me. :eek: Guess I can't hide in a jar, though - perhaps a bottle. Yes, much better!

That was your first post, lj. We should get it bronzed.

or tarred and feathered

How did you know it was LJ's first post?

just noticed lj joined on my B-day 5 years ago...weird

Octopus mimics predators -- to ward off its predators.

not only color shifting but shape shifting, too

lol - check out post #4 on the link

Another octopus in search of food:

Truman - a seven foot octopus managed to stuff himself into a 14 inch sided box in search of food.

There's not really a box there, he's just a really good octopus mime.

:biglaugha

It's true that he never said a word.

I think that goes without saying

And yet here you are saying it. :D

i did not

Did too.

Big Octopus Squeezes Into Tiny Box

Truman is a quitter.

This is a 2003 thread. Now, there's YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocWF6d0nelY

Nothing like squeezing into a tight box.

And staying there a half hour.

Octopuses - smarter than they look
 

heh heh, thanks dar. I saw that story last night, but was too tired to look for this thread. :blush:

12years ago Thursday. 12 years. 12!

Seems like longer

That's because you've lived several, what most people would consider full lives, since then. ;)

12 years is a long time.

I was doing a training just a moment ago, and my boss introduced me and said I had been here for 25 years. It's true, I started as a temp here 25 years ago. I've been an employee for 'only' 24.5 years. But I've done work here for 25 years. Makes me feel freaking old. I've got a meeting scheduled Wednesday with a retirement planner the HR department is bringing in. That makes me feel even older. I've been just vaguely thinking of retirement as this thing that will happen in the distant future, and I don't need to think of it at all, but it's coming sooner than I think.

My Boeing boss mailed me my 25 year pin, I didn't wait for the presentation. :haha: