FAO Yanpa

[Taro Toporific]

Muppets / Celebrity:

The Alien makes its escape
Click to view video.

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[Mike Oxlong]

[legion]

I used to puzzle over how they worked out who owned what in Tokyo after the war, most of it had been burned flat. Eventually someone told me the number of landowners was so small it had not been an issue.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Looks like yanpa is doing a coligny on us lately? Or is it coligny that yanpas us?

[Taro Toporific]

Looks like yanpa is doing a coligny on us lately? Or is it coligny that yanpas us?

For what it's worth...

The Great Cephalopod| Last visited: Sat May 05, 2018 12:40 am

The FG's Marshal of France, Seigneur de Châtillon| Last visited: Tue May 29, 2018 11:12 pm

[Russell]

Looks like yanpa is doing a coligny on us lately? Or is it coligny that yanpas us?

For what it's worth...

The Great Cephalopod| Last visited: Sat May 05, 2018 12:40 am

The FG's Marshal of France, Seigneur de Châtillon| Last visited: Tue May 29, 2018 11:12 pm

Ouch, that seems like some serious cases of desocializing...

[Taro Toporific]

...the Octopus High Command has decided ....

Police looking for suspect who threw octopus at condo over and over for one hour
Japan Today 2018-Aug-04 | 06:01 am JST
...After the thumping had gone on for nearly an hour, though, the resident contacted the police, who came out and searched the area.
While they didn’t find any suspicious people lurking around, they did discover some suspicious seafood, in the form of a dead octopus which they said had been thrown against the building’s wall repeatedly.
More..,

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[Russell]

Octopuses given ecstasy by scientists become more friendly and sociable, study finds

'They tended to hug the cage and put their mouth parts on the cage. This is very similar to how humans react to MDMA; they touch each other frequently,' says scientist

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[Taro Toporific]

... the Octopus High Command has decided that no retaliation is necessary.

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Yanpa-sama last seen in in Philadelphia

[Taro Toporific]

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Japanese towns that thrive on once-abundant squid suffer as numbers decline at alarming rate
The Japan Times | Nov 1, 2018
…fluctuations in ocean temperatures, years of overfishing and lax regulatory oversight have drastically depleted populations of the translucent squid in waters around Japan…
… [it’s] the lowest harvest since the national fisheries cooperative started keeping records more than 30 years ago.
More…

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[Mike Oxlong]

[matsuki]

Chicktopi?

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese towns that thrive on once-abundant squid suffer as numbers decline at alarming rate
The Japan Times | Nov 1, 2018…

Japan’s squid industry in crisis amid record low catches
telegraph.co.uk | 21 Jan. 2019
...the Hakodate Cephalopod Research Centre, has been warning fishermen about the potentially dangerous impact of climate change on Japan’s squid population for nearly two decades.
More...

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[matsuki]

I thought the humbolt squid population in the Pacific was reaching problem numbers? Are they not fit for we Japanese consumption?

http://theconversation.com/octopus-and- ... -why-59830

[canman]

Hachinohe is famous for squid, and there is a real sense of crisis here. Fortunately we have Korea to blame for the shortage as on multiple occasions the local newspaper has said the Koreans are sitting just outside the international boundary, poaching all of Japan's squid!

[matsuki]

Fortunately we have Korea to blame for the shortage as on multiple occasions the local newspaper has said the Koreans are sitting just outside the international boundary, poaching all of Japan's squid!

So ronery, no rabu no rabu...

[Taro Toporific]

So ronery, no rabu no rabu...

[Taro Toporific]

Darling denizen of the deep is a Helicocranchia, aka a piglet squid

[Taro Toporific]

REVENGE OF THE TAKO!

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via @BeingKansai

[matsuki]

That's pretty rad!!

[wagyl]

Forget Simon and Martina, this is the ultimate VPL youtube channel.

Octolab TV

[Russell]

The Kraken: What is it and why has Trump's ex-lawyer released it?

The Kraken is a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.

It's also become an internet meme representing a sprawling, unsubstantiated set of claims that purport to outline the case for widespread fraud in the US presidential election.

Pro-Trump groups including QAnon conspiracy theorists have amplified the idea under the hashtag #ReleaseTheKraken, and it's being widely shared by those supporting the legal campaign to challenge the election results.

The 'Kraken' lawyer

Lawyer Sidney Powell - who was until recently part of Donald Trump's legal team and is now acting independently - has described the case she was mounting as a "Kraken" that, when released, would destroy the case for Democrat Joe Biden having won the US presidency.

However, once the documents, almost 200 pages of them, were released, it became clear they consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and unfounded allegations that have already been widely debunked.

Some of these claims have already been rejected in court cases, while others - such as accusations that voting machines are part of a plot originating under former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez - are not backed up with any credible evidence.

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Oh, that baddy Hugo Chavez. Who died in 2013. LOL

[Coligny]

Yea... I’m not so sure aboot that copypasta...

[Marked Trail]

Octopuses are ocean thugs that punch fish
thetimes.co.uk | Dec 23, 2020
Despite its extraordinary intelligence, the life of an octopus is a solitary one. So perhaps it is no wonder that the mighty brained cephalopod engages in a little thuggery to relieve the boredom.
Scientists have discovered that, on occasions, an octopus will “punch” a fish for no reason other than “spite”.
It is known that octopuses are able to escape captivity, solve problems, use tools and even possibly show humour, but they are, in fact, the playground bullies of the undersea world. Indeed, according to new research, they assault fish when they are supposed to be working together.
A report led by Eduardo Sampaio, a researcher at the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre in Lisbon, found that the octopus has a tendency to punch
More behind the paywall...

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[Taro Toporific]

Comparative Cephalopod Anatomy
laughingsquid.com/comparative-functional-anatomy-of-cephalopods/

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[Taro Toporific]

Pssst, Yampa...you got some competition...

Covid: Japan town builds giant squid statue with relief money
BBC News | 2021-May-04
A seaside town in Japan has raised eyebrows after it used funding from an emergency Covid-19 relief grant to build a giant statue of a squid.
-long (43ft) sea creature lies in the port of Noto, where flying squid is the town's delicacy.
It reportedly used 25m yen ($228,500; £164,700) of the emergency funding to build the statue.
Noto officials have told local media it is part of a long term plan to lure tourists back after the pandemic.
More...

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[Marked Trail]

Covid: Japan town builds giant squid statue with relief money
BBC News | 2021-May-04
....emergency Covid-19 relief grant to build a giant statue of a squid
-long (43ft)... is part of a long term plan to lure tourists back after the pandemic.
More...

SACRIFICES AND STATUARY MUST BE MADE to appease the Ancient Ones of the Deep if the port town of Noto expects to survive the Pandemic.

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[Marked Trail]

Pssst, Yampa...you got some competition...

[matsuki]

Caught that today....theys aliens I tell yah!

[Marked Trail]

Cheryl Henson working on octopus puppets for the James Coburn episode of The Muppet Show in London, 1980.

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Here is a brief glimpse of the muppet "Animal" waltzing/fighting with an octopus while James Coburn looks on confused (youtube 0.06 mark).


Also...

In a different octopus-free segment of the same show, check out James Coburn's "Japanese Square Dance"! (youtube)

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Update:

Damn.
I don't even look for this octocrap: It just follows me.

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Maybe via Da1kichi Aman0


Wait there's more!

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Via @kumori_ufo