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#1 2/24/10 11:29 am
octopi
I think everyone is aware of my love and fascination with octopi... but this is totally awesome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopi
In mythology
The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe.[39]
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#2 2/24/10 2:15 pm
Re: octopi
!!!!
I lived there and never heard that...AWESOME!!
Oh and don't step on the blue-ringed octopus.
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#3 2/24/10 9:17 pm
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Re: octopi
hMMM was this brought on by my earlier text about the octopuses and zombie fish....hmmm if i believe in zombie fish, would that make them real? I think fish could be zombies...
lol my friend KB who started the discussion about stressed out octopodes eating their own limbs said that octopi wasn't the proper plural form rather it is octopuses. but I got this from dictionary.com
octopus
1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Gk. oktopous "eight-footed," from okto "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot." Proper plural is octopodes, though octopuses probably works better in English. Octopi is from mistaken assumption that -us is the L. noun ending that takes -i in plural.
I now prefer multitudes of octopus to be called octopodes.
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