In my limited seven years of visiting Snopes, I've learned that there is not thing too moronic. Someone, somewhere, will take it as true.
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I took a course last year that was designed to help students navigate the college on-line library and general internet. The teacher used this website as an example of why not everything that's posted online is real, true, or credible. She told us to type in the site address and then asked what we noticed about it. Sadly, over 60 seconds of silence passed before I was the only one who spoke up to explain "There's no such thing as a tree octopus." It was only then that a few people laughed as though they realized it was fake.
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These were my favorite suggestions. For some cruel reason I actually hope someone tried to write their congressman or pamphleted their neighborhood.
quote:-Write your representatives to let them know that you are concerned and that you feel the tree octopus should be included on the Endangered Species List and given special protection. -Help build awareness of the tree octopus by telling your friends and co-workers -Participate in tree octopus awareness marches. You can demonstrate their plight during the march by having your friends dress up as tree octopuses while you attack them in a lumber jack costume. -Pamphlet your neighborhood. Tentacle ribbons make excellent doorknob hangers. -Sign the petition! -- nothing activates activity like an Internet petition.
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I am torn. Is it better to protect the octopus or to protect its predator, the sasquatch? Either way, nature will lose out!
This is part of why I love the internet. Millions of people are spread their more bizarre and humorous creations. of course, more people can spread their truly scary sites too.
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They should take some stills from the BBC programme "The Future Is Wild". There are some computer generated tree climbing octopi in that.
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admittedly, it's a pretty good fake. If I wasn't inherently a bit skeptical, I'd almost buy into it. That, and I lived on the Olympic Penninsula for a few years.
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I'm glad everyone is concerned about the Tree Octopus, but what about the poor Nauga? The poor animal is nearly extinct due to overhunting for it's skin (which is then sold off at low rates to manufacturers of couches, loveseats and even car seats).
Stand up for the poor nauga, brothers and sisters.
Stand up now.
Ta ra 'wan,
Ieuan "And some actually believe it" ab Arthur
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quote:Originally posted by Ieuan ab Arthur: Hi All:
I'm glad everyone is concerned about the Tree Octopus, but what about the poor Nauga? The poor animal is nearly extinct due to overhunting for it's skin (which is then sold off at low rates to manufacturers of couches, loveseats and even car seats).
Stand up for the poor nauga, brothers and sisters.
Stand up now.
Ta ra 'wan,
Ieuan "And some actually believe it" ab Arthur
One year at Boy Scout summer camp, I was relaxing in our troop's camp when a couple of older scouts (15-17) strolled into the camp with a bunch of younger ones (11-13). They were leading a Nauga hunt and looking for more hunters.
I might have been a naive 14yo (okay, no might to it), but that one clicked instantly.
So I did the right thing...
I joined the ringleaders.
Donovan "You gotta be very careful of the red Naugas though..." Ravenhull
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It's a play on naugahyde, the fake leather upholstry material, Nocturnal.
Seaboe
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quote:Originally posted by BlueStar: They should take some stills from the BBC programme "The Future Is Wild". There are some computer generated tree climbing octopi in that.
Oh, you mean the squibbon?
I found the book of the series just yesterday, having managed to miss all but one of the episodes. It's extremely well done, especially the Megasquid.
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quote:Originally posted by Ieuan ab Arthur: Hi All:
I'm glad everyone is concerned about the Tree Octopus, but what about the poor Nauga? The poor animal is nearly extinct due to overhunting for it's skin (which is then sold off at low rates to manufacturers of couches, loveseats and even car seats).
Stand up for the poor nauga, brothers and sisters.
Stand up now.
Ta ra 'wan,
Ieuan "And some actually believe it" ab Arthur
One year at Boy Scout summer camp, I was relaxing in our troop's camp when a couple of older scouts (15-17) strolled into the camp with a bunch of younger ones (11-13). They were leading a Nauga hunt and looking for more hunters.
I might have been a naive 14yo (okay, no might to it), but that one clicked instantly.
So I did the right thing...
I joined the ringleaders.
Donovan "You gotta be very careful of the red Naugas though..." Ravenhull
Sounds like a subtle variation on snipe hunting.
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But, don't we all know at least one person who could use the directions furnished on this site for making aluminum foil deflector beanies? Probably anyone who fell for the tree octopus joke would fall for the need for a beanie.
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Death to all cephalopods on land or at sea! Tentacles are evil!
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quote:Originally posted by Ieuan ab Arthur: Stand up for the poor nauga, brothers and sisters.
Stand up now.
A little doggerel I came up with years ago:
Please be kind and bow your head, And remember all those naugas dead. Remember all of those that died, To sacrifice their nauga hide.
quote:Originally posted by Felessan: I found the book of the series just yesterday, having managed to miss all but one of the episodes. It's extremely well done, especially the Megasquid.
Saw the commercials for the series, then missed almost all of it, then found the book (big fan of Dougal Dixon!), then picked up the series on DVD. Also a fan of Wayne D. Barlowe, and am currently hunting down a copy of the Alien Planet program, as well as the book by Barlowe that it's based on...
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