Anti-Caturday post
It’s no contest. The sea pig has everything a mere cat lacks: it’s cute and adorable, it’s pink, and it’s got tentacles. Once you’ve gone holothurian, you’ll never go…uh, I’m sure the local poet will be along to provide a catchy rhyme.
(Also on Sb)
Zeno:
October 8th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The sea pig is one day late for Garbanzo Day!
abadidea:
October 8th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
The closest rhyme I can think of is Epicurean.
ChasCPeterson:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Why, I was just extolling the many virtues of the sea-pig yesterday in class. What could be cooler than a bilaterally symmetrical motile animal with radially symmetrical sessile ancestors with bilaterally symmetrical motile ancestors with possibly-radially-symmetrical sessile ancestors? They have reinvented walking legs. Essentially scaled-up tardigrades without the exoskeleton. So, so cool.
Almost as cool as yer pelagic swimming sea cukes.
Father Ogvorbis: It's Good for You. It Builds Character:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Golgafrinchian?
Cuttlefish:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
An adventuresome, bold Epicurean
Thought he’d whip up some friend holothurian
His attempts, though, at makin’
Delicious sea-bacon
All failed. So sea-pigs, stop worryin’
abadidea:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Honored to have been of assistance, Mr. Cuttlefish, but would sea-pig count as one of those excessive delicacies Epicureans are admonished to avoid? :)
Viva:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
You know, that thing made me think of the burgess shale fossil hallucigenia. that is a good thing! Fossilized animals are cute by definition. Especially ordovician sea scorpions.
tushcloots:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Sea pigs don’t piss on everything, either.
How to stop cats pissing on your car
Baktru:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Meh not too impressed by the sea pigs. Sea Angels however are kind of cute:
Defaithed:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
While I tapped at a text editor, Cuttlefish beat me to the poem. Here’s my attempt anyway:
==
Ode to Eating Sea Cuke
Just stop your worryin’
and go holothurian;
the texture is burry ‘n’
nice.
It’s no worse than durian;
a true Epicurean
eats them with curry ‘n’
rice.
==
Ahem. Sorry, I guess I’ll leave it to the pros. But for the record, I have eaten raw sea cucumber, smothered in hot sauce, at a Korean restaurant (and dang it if “Korean” doesn’t *almost* make for a good additional rhyme…).
Mmm, rubbery stuff. Not as crunchy as jellyfish.
llewelly:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Cuttlefish | 8 October 2011 at 2:03 pm:
(Emphasis mine.)
Er, friend?
“Adventuresome, bold Epicurean” tried to cook a friend?
I’ve heard tell of people cannibalizing a fellow raftmate when lost far out to sea, or a fellow pioneer when trapped by deep snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but eating a friend for the sake of “adventure”?
Brian:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Perhaps in his haste, Cuttlefish was too fried to properly spell-check his post.
RFW:
October 8th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
The French composer Erik Satie wrote Embryons desséchés (“Desiccated embryos”), a suite of three short pieces for piano. The first is D’Holothurie, “Desiccated embryo of a Holothurian.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2PfFtQPWM
Music to stroke your pet cephalopod or holothurian by.
Glen Davidson:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Wait until they become accessories for socialites like Paris Hilton
We’ll see them all over the place. Smaller and more convenient than a dog, and clammier too!
Glen Davidson
happiestsadist:
October 8th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Aww, they’re all pink and adorable!
I love the cat purring in my lap, but I kind of also want a sweet little sea pig in a tank.
Kent Damgaard:
October 8th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
I don’t think Satie is right, this looks more like it needs some old Barry White tunes :)
CriticalDragon1177:
October 8th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
PZ Myers,
What is the point of these Anti-Caturday posts anyway? What does the word Caturday mean anyway?
'Tis Himself, OM:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
But do sea pigs barf all over the bath mat, leaving a present for you to discover as you stumble barefoot towards the toilet at oh-dark-hundred?
dexitroboper:
October 8th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Caturday: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=caturday
Troy Britain:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Wow, a deuterostome… Who are you and what have you done with P(‘protostome’)Z Myers?!
pj:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
@CriticalDragon1177
Saturday is Caturday for cat lovers. There are three possibilities that I can think of for Anti-Caturday:
1) PZ opposes all cuteness
2) PZ tries to keep up his appearances as a baby-eating atheist internet overlord
3) it’s a willy-waving contest with non-blogger Jerry Coyne who has Caturday regularly in his non-blog Why Evolution Is True
CriticalDragon1177:
October 8th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Dexitroboper,
Oh so, Caturday, means funny pictures of cats? Interesting.
Tethys:
October 8th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
um..I could very well be wrong but I think Caturday started on icanhascheezburger.com
vltava:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:20 am
Caturday, like most everything on the Net, started on 4chan.
John Morales:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:37 am
pj, I can think of more.
(Your (1) is confuted by this very post, BTW)
pj:
October 9th, 2011 at 12:54 am
I admit I didn’t read the actual text this time. So anti-cuteness is refuted. Other possibilities:
- PZ hates cats (but it would shameful for a biologist to hate an entire species IMO)
- PZ wants to challenge fluffonormative views of cuteness
What do you have, John Morales?
Ragutis:
October 9th, 2011 at 1:34 am
Cute, but it’s no “Barry the worm”.
Katkinkate:
October 9th, 2011 at 2:31 am
Another alternative: PZ likes to be a contrarian. That’s not a problem though. I do myself at times. It’s quite fun. Does anyone know what the little swimming things are under the beastie?
John Morales:
October 9th, 2011 at 2:53 am
pj,
An unfettered imagination, and no need to speculate. :)
chimaera:
October 9th, 2011 at 3:25 am
Not all sea pigs are as cute as this one…
WMDKitty:
October 9th, 2011 at 5:58 am
I just snatched your “anti-caturday” icon. Love it.
scotthatfield:
October 11th, 2011 at 3:45 am
Once you have gone holothurian,
You will desire no other friend.