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Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« on: February 01, 2011, 10:32:43 PM »
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/education/2011/02/tree-octopus-exposes-internet-illiteracy/

Researcher invents "tree octopus" and says it's endangered.  Creates fake website, gets it promoted in Google searches to be #1.

Interviews today's youth to have them research why it's endangered, and how to help it.

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

The result?  Kids these days... :facepalm:  Evidently have zero critical analysis tools, and are very gullible.

Must be why globular warming is so worrisome, and that polar bear is gonna drown. 

And why most democrats have jobs.
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2011, 10:36:19 PM »
Sorry. I heard that there were octopodes in the trees, and went and hid under my bed. What were you saying?
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2011, 10:44:58 PM »
This is just great! Here I've been spending all my time trying to save the Naugas, now I have another cause?
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2011, 10:48:09 PM »
It's endangered by dihydrogen monoxide contamination . . .
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2011, 10:49:18 PM »
Quote from: bedlamite on February 01, 2011, 10:44:58 PM
This is just great! Here I've been spending all my time trying to save the Naugas, now I have another cause?











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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2011, 11:24:14 PM »
When you are out hiking or snowshoeing in the woods up here, 'forest calamari' makes a tasty snack. 
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2011, 01:16:03 AM »
That's Farkin' High-Larious,  I especially like the list of other endangered species listed at the bottom:  The Furbearing Trout, the Mountain Walrus, the Saber Tooth Salmon and the Manhatten Beach Mottled Roach.

I almost wet myself laughing so hard.

Oh and  :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2011, 01:36:54 AM »
On a camping trip to Nevada one year I had a couple of folks convinced of the existence of six-inch, black, swarming, jumping scorpions that were attracted by movement and body heat.


It was on the trip back that I explained the joke. Apparently I ruined a camping trip.
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2011, 01:58:14 AM »


In Dahlgren when our class was training with some officers we had an Australian officer instructing us and during a down time he told us about how in Australia sometimes the locals would tell the tourists that it wasn't animals like alligators that you had to look out for it was "drop bears". People would ask what a drop bear was and they would say that they sat up in trees and would drop down on you, so then you would have people that would jerk up and look in trees all nervous like.  :lol:
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2011, 05:16:44 AM »
Both laughed and cried.

More crying, though.

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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2011, 07:38:52 AM »
I'm wondering when an idiot politician will introduce legislation to protect this endangered critter.
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2011, 07:41:53 AM »
Sauteed in a garlic and butter sauce?
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2011, 10:35:55 AM »
Nah.  Broiled. Suction cup edges just barely blackened in the flames.  Overlaid with nice, crisp bacon strips.  Hmmm-mmm good.  'N eyeball soup.  Yum!

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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2011, 06:34:28 PM »
Quote from: RocketMan on February 02, 2011, 07:38:52 AM
I'm wondering when an idiot politician will introduce legislation to protect this endangered critter.

It would have been priceless if he'd held off until something got passed, then announced the joke to every media outlet.
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2011, 07:28:16 PM »
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It would have been priceless if he'd held off until something got passed, then announced the joke to every media outlet.

Who knows, it might happen yet.  The website denies the allegations of Professor Leu.

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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2011, 10:17:13 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on February 02, 2011, 01:16:03 AM
That's Farkin' High-Larious,  I especially like the list of other endangered species listed at the bottom:  The Furbearing Trout, the Mountain Walrus, the Saber Tooth Salmon and the Manhatten Beach Mottled Roach.

I almost wet myself laughing so hard.

Oh and  :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

You missed the best one! "The Rock Nest Monster".

Brilliant!
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2011, 05:26:04 PM »
I wonder if some of the gullibility on this is that some city kids have absolutely no clue when it comes to wildlife outside the city and likely have never been to a place where they couldn't see man made stuff somewhere around them.  All they know of life outside the city is what they read or see on TV. 
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2011, 06:21:20 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on February 03, 2011, 05:26:04 PM
I wonder if some of the gullibility on this is that some city kids have absolutely no clue when it comes to wildlife outside the city and likely have never been to a place where they couldn't see man made stuff somewhere around them.  All they know of life outside the city is what they read or see on TV. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33278616/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2011, 01:26:48 AM »
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I'm wondering when an idiot politician will introduce legislation to protect this endangered critter.

Probably the same ones who "banned" the "Homeboy Nyte-Sites".   =D
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2011, 10:03:14 AM »
Antibubba took the words out of my mouth.  It was a Richmond, VA city councilman who got all upset about the Homeboy Nyte-Sites.

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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2011, 12:02:26 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on February 01, 2011, 10:32:43 PM
The result?  Kids these days... :facepalm:  Evidently have zero critical analysis tools, and are very gullible.


What do you expect from a school system that teaches kids to regurgitate spoon-fed "facts" onto a standardized test instead of teaching critical-thinking and problem-solving skills?....  :facepalm:


Quote from: 230RN on February 02, 2011, 10:35:55 AM
Nah.  Broiled. Suction cup edges just barely blackened in the flames.  Overlaid with nice, crisp bacon strips.  Hmmm-mmm good.  'N eyeball soup.  Yum!



If you have bacon, why do you need the octopus?....  =|
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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2011, 12:23:41 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on February 03, 2011, 05:26:04 PM
I wonder if some of the gullibility on this is that some city kids have absolutely no clue when it comes to wildlife outside the city   

You seem to think it's limited to kids.  Heck, approach any group of people these days, especially dreadlocks-and-soul-patch activitst types, and watch them work into a froth with a simple 'Ban DHMO' pamphlet.

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Re: Won't Someone Think About The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopi?
« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2011, 01:18:29 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on February 04, 2011, 12:02:26 PM
If you have bacon, why do you need the octopus?....  =|

I am thinking it could be an octopus rumaki.  Which I would actually eat in a heartbeat.
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