July 7th, 2017: Octopus Wrasslin’
 

I’m having trouble relating 30kg to “Giant”... but I’m no Einstein, never understood relativity.
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Hello, that ain’t wrestling. “Assisting” means what? Carrying gear? Taking pictures? Holding the hunters beer?
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That’s unconstitutional until they pass a law making it illegal for the octopus to capture or harass you.
The constitution guarantees the government will fuck all equally.

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A 60 pound octopus scares the shit outta me.

Whatever happened to recipes of the day?

Slice tentacles into one-inch rings, bread with Uncle Buck's Fish Fry, fry in 275-350 degree oil until just firm.

Feeds 100.

You might find some over here. ;)

On the flip side, I believe it is the Australian Blue Ring octopus at about 2-3 inches tip to tip with a venom that is 100% lethal and has no antitoxin available. I knew there was a reason that I haven't traveled down under.:eek:

ONE of the reasons. Every damn critter in Australia wants to kill you and feast on your entrails. Fortunately most of them can't, but that doesn't stop them from wanting to. :lol:

The tentacles of an octopus do not slice into rings. You're thinking of the body of the squid, squid "rings".

No I'm not. You're thinking I'm thinking of squid. Kalimari never entered my mind.

Maybe I should have said perpendicular to their length, or across the grain? Do octopi have grain?

Domesticated Octopi are grain fed. :rolleyes:

This same topic was recently covered in a local story on the program "Local Wonder".

Those are the best kind. The best cows, the best octopi, farmers' daughters...;)

the water?
His pants?
Her skirt?
These people talk about weight, 50lb, 100lb, etc. Or they talk about size, like 6ft across, 20 ft across, etc. But they never put them together like 8ft across and 150 lbs, to paint a complete picture. I wonder if it's because there is no correlation, like 8ft across could be anywhere from 50 to 200 lbs?
Doesn't matter I guess, because I ain't going to their house and they're not welcome in mine. :headshake

The Earthly laws of physics do not apply to octopi, as they are not of this world.

No grain. But if you slice then like that, you'll get discs, not rings. The tentacles are not hollow.

What're you? Some kind of mollusc snob, or sump'n?:eyebrow:

Fuckin' hippies, man...

Mmm ... Yum. Octopus is good. Best is grilled.

Octopus in the house? We had two in the late 50s in an aquarium in our living-room. One day they were both found down the hallway about 20 feet from the tank dead dead dead.

There had always been a 1 inch heater hole in the top deck of the tank and what folks figured out was that the tank started to rust in a corner. In those days all tanks had metal corners with the glass sort of tarred into the chrome corners. The rusting metal drove the poor octopi out of the tank thru the heater hole.

I feel bad for them to this day..:yelsick:

The thing people forget about octopi is that they only have one inflexible body part, which is the beak they use to break open their food. There are no bones in their weight! Fill a quart freezer bag with water and dump it on a scale. Shave off 20% of the weight you get to account for all their muscle tissue, and you'll have roughly the weight of an octopus that would fit in that quart bag. Find someone good at math and have them figure out what volume any size octopus will fill by starting with its recorded weight (I just got home from almost 2 weeks on the road and my math brain has the dumbs right now...).

I'd rather wade through a pack of angry small dogs than try to deal with even one tentacle from a mature Pacific giant octopus. I've seen live ones in zoos and they are SCARY big. And all octopi are venomous as far as I know; their venom is a paralytic, not a narcotic. Few are lethal, but regardless of that an octopus bite sounds like a really bad day.

Scary does not equal dangerous. The Blue Ring Octopus is the only one that's a threat to humans.