What's This?

Looks like a piece of seaweed on the ocean floor, right?

No, that’s just what it wants you to think.

Now, how about this:

Maybe a cocoanut that’s being carried along by the current?

Again, that’s just what it wants you to think.

In reality, these are both octopodes. (That–not "octopi" or "octopus"–is the correct plural based on the Greek, for sticklers about such matters. The other two words are based on a misperception that "octopus" is a Latin-derived word. Though for us English-speakers, "octopuses" will do just fine, thanks.)

Both of the Cthulhu-spawn are doing their best to be deceptive and tricky. In the first case the octopus has flayed six of his arms out to make him look like seaweed and is preparing to sneak along on two of his legs in an attempt to escape the Cousteau-spawn attempting to film him.

WATCH HIM DO IT.

In the second case the Cthulhu-spawn has wrapped six of his arms around himself to make him look like something he’s not, again so he can escape on two legs.

WATCH HIS ATTEMPT.

Yes, it turns out that

OCTOPODESUSES ARE A TRICKY AND DECEPTIVE BREED–ENEMIES OF MANKIND.

(Cowboy hat tip: Small But Disorganized pros Slashdot.)

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

3 thoughts on “What's This?”

  2. You get some of the oddest things sent to you don’t you Jimmy. ehehehe

    Just as I was about to say, “Don’t tell me these things are alive.” You went and said it. 😛

    What the earth holds never ceases to amaze me.

  3. I saw the creepiest show the other night where an octopus in a lab climbed out of his tank and crawled (in the open air) over to another tank and climbed in and ate a crab. The scientists couldn’t figure out what was happening to all the crabs until they set up a camera at night…..creepy!

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