BrotherhoodWWW 10 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 They add flavoring to a goeduck bake other than that they are tough and taste like madrona bark. Except the ones that survive in the pacific yew stands, hear-tell that there is some medicinal purposes for them. However the info on the Sasquatch is false. You see the Bigfoot is a southern and eastern slope cascade critter and happens to be the totem for my lodge Tataliya 614! Many sightings have been within 50 miles of Camp Fife. Link to post Share on other sites
packsaddle 753 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Trivia question to my students for today..you guys are free to try your hand as well..it sounds like you might fit the profile... In the movie, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, with Kirk Douglas playing the character, Ned Land - the character Ned is locked in a storage room with the professor's assistant, Conseil (played by Peter Lorre). Ned discovers that the specimens are preserved in ethanol and begins to drink from the jars. He accidentally swallows one of the specimens and reads the label to find out what it was. Question: What was it? Link to post Share on other sites
oldisnewagain1 42 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 cephalopods (but I seem to remember him calling them polliwogs?) As far as the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus goes I think the introduction of the North Eastern Snow Snake to the area caused the extinction (This message has been edited by oldisnewagain1) Link to post Share on other sites
John-in-KC 311 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 http://www.cgc.maricopa.edu/academic-affairs/library/mags-journals/Pages/hoaxes.aspx Googling on pacific northwest tree octopus "scientific+american" yields hundreds of articles in that august magazine not one bloody word. OGE: May we close this attempt at an online snipe hunt please? Link to post Share on other sites
packsaddle 753 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 C'mon, John, what's the harm? I'm personally involved in debunking biological fallacies and this doesn't bother me one bit. oldisnewagain1, I'm awarding partial credit for remembering that part. It's close. But in that particular scene, he read the label for the specimen he swallowed and spoke its scientific name, Generic and specific epithets. That will get you full credit. Extra credit if you can figure out what kind of organism it was (not a cephalopod). Link to post Share on other sites
John-in-KC 311 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Pack, It would not have bothered me if it had been posted on April Fools' Day. As it was, it was originally posted in I&P, and I make make a face value ruling on stuff there that the OP knows it's a) serious and b) contentious. Link to post Share on other sites
BadenP 93 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Gee John Quit being such a stick in the mud, what's the matter no sense of humor, lol. I hope you don't act like that around your scouts otherwise you might get called "Ol Mr. Crochety". To all you budding chefs out there try frying the beast in hot seasoned oil and you get some great fried calamari, add some wild edible mushrooms from the forest and you get a great wilderness dinner and a great lesson for your scouts in wilderness foraging. Buona Apetite! Link to post Share on other sites
packsaddle 753 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Yeah, I get you now. I wasn't sure about where it fits really and I don't know who moved it or why. I understand your feelings about being serious and contentious but the I&P forum is also where a sense of humor helps at times. As it is this thread is neither serious nor contentious. Unless someone actually believes this stuff...in which case they could just as well spend their time looking for bigfoot or space aliens or some such. Link to post Share on other sites
BadenP 93 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Pack Not serious or contentious is a huge understatement, poor John must be going through a rough patch. By the way have you heard about the little creature from your neck of the woods? It is called the "Southern Sucking Cuttlefish", it inhabits the swampy areas of the deep south and is closely related to the NW tree octopus. Link to post Share on other sites
John-in-KC 311 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Actually, I am. Someone I know who has a cancer was admitted to an area ICU last night for 2d order of magnitude complications of treatment. Not in my intimate circle, but in the next ring out... Link to post Share on other sites
sailingpj 18 Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Well, though this is not serious, it is definitely contentious. I just put it in I&P because I didn't think it merited being put anywhere else. Why is April Fools day the one day a year we can try to put a smile on people's faces? Link to post Share on other sites
frank10 12 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Fake you say? It's been sighted more often than our unit commissioner! Link to post Share on other sites
packsaddle 753 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 John, I understand. I'm sorry for that news and wish him and you the best. Link to post Share on other sites
BrotherhoodWWW 10 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 drats delayed double post(This message has been edited by BrotherhoodWWW) Link to post Share on other sites
thunderbolt 10 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I was always told to chop the octopus up fine and cook in a white sauce to serve over spotted owl. Link to post Share on other sites
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