Jan 13 2013

May every blessing have this outcome

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While carrying out some obscure and pointless ritual on the sea, an orthodox priest instead manages to catch the attention of something far more interesting.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

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theophontes (坏蛋)

13 January 2013 at 8:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

There, there, poor little octopus. The eBil priestie man won’t hurt you.
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McC2lhu doesn't want to know what you did there.

13 January 2013 at 9:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Well, this just proves the premise of the Red Lights movie you pooh-poohed earlier. There’s all the mindless humminah-humminah of the swallowers of a bullshit mythology, et voila, octopodes! Magic, I tells ya, pure magic!
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Constantinos Michael

13 January 2013 at 9:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I like how the priest rambles on, but nobody cares!
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DLC

13 January 2013 at 9:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I was rather expecting him to catch a Jesus-Fish. α
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Beatrice

13 January 2013 at 9:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Er.. this doesn’t look like it ended all that well for the octopus.
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Gregory Greenwood

13 January 2013 at 10:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Get your meaningless gee-gaws out of my ocean, foul air-breather!

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Beatrice @ 5;

Er.. this doesn’t look like it ended all that well for the octopus.

Sadly, that does seem to be the case. It would have been better all round if a larger cephalpod had eaten the priest instead.
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mace134

13 January 2013 at 10:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@5

:( Poor bugger was just curious…
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LykeX

13 January 2013 at 10:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They do seem to be rather rough with the poor ‘pus. Why didn’t they just throw it back in the water?
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Ogvorbis

13 January 2013 at 10:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Why didn’t they just throw it back in the water?

Priest was asking the ocean to bless the humans with food. Ocean did that.
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Ogvorbis

13 January 2013 at 10:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Aaaaaaaaaand to continue:

Ocean did that. Would seem impolite not to eat the food the ocean just provided. Might piss off the gods.
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indicus

13 January 2013 at 10:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Is… is that a noodly appendage I see? The FSM has blessed us with his appearance! PBUH!
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steve oberski

13 January 2013 at 11:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Good to see that some of the audience had the appropriate response to the ritual – laughter.

I thought the “singing” in the church I was forced to attend as a child was bad, but that was really bad.
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Zeno

13 January 2013 at 11:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Silly Orthodox clerics, blessing the sea in hopes of ensuring a bountiful harvest of seafood! It’s completely unreasonable and not at all like the time our parish’s Catholic priest blessed my parents’ new car to preserve it and its occupants from harm. That worked perfectly (until the accident in which it was totaled).
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tsig

13 January 2013 at 11:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

All fishermen want to know, what was he singing?
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felixhoefert

13 January 2013 at 11:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“blessing the sea in hopes of ensuring a bountiful harvest of seafood”

It’s not superstition, you ignorant fools! It’s religion! Religion! Totally different! Sofistimicated!
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shouldbeworking

13 January 2013 at 12:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Three seconds into the video the words to the Newfoundland song “squid jigging ground” popped into my mind.
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mobius

13 January 2013 at 12:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

And of course the man was blessed by His noodly appendage.
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boadinum

13 January 2013 at 12:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Where’s a giant squid when you need one? I guess we’ll have to wait until the 27th.
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Leanchoilia

13 January 2013 at 1:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oof, I started wincing when they were using various orifices to tug on the octopus.
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dysomniak, darwinian socialist

13 January 2013 at 1:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I don’t really find this entertaining at all. And I guarantee the octopus didn’t.
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Crudely Wrott

13 January 2013 at 2:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Who caught who? Or, which caught which?

It looked for a moment there as if the mighty cephalopod had the upper hand. Or, the upper tentacle, or, the hand of a human in its tentacles.

Too bad that we didn’t get a better look at the second catch. Perhaps it pulled someone down into the cold, dark depths to explain their deeds to the darkest of underlords?
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harvardmba

13 January 2013 at 2:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Another post demonstrating the endless idiocy of myers. Apparently seeing morons catch and otherwise harm an animal is a blessing! Oh, and interesting! I guess when you’ve tortured animals yourself in the lab (in the name of scientific progress, of course) seeing something like this is rather benign.
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Zeno

13 January 2013 at 3:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

harvardmba: Is there an opportunity where you live to obtain counseling to help with your comprehension problem? (It would be a blessing to you.)
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Lofty

13 January 2013 at 3:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Apparently having a Harvard MBA does strange things to your comprehension.
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chigau (無味ない)

13 January 2013 at 3:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Hey everybody!
Did you know that Harvard grants MBA degrees?
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abear

13 January 2013 at 4:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Apparently having a Harvard MBA does strange things to your comprehension.

Did I mention Greg Laden went to Harvard?
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Gregory Greenwood

13 January 2013 at 4:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

harvardmba @ 22;

Do you hear that whistling sound?It is the point sailing over your head.

Again.
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Caine, Fleur du mal +

13 January 2013 at 4:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Did I mention Greg Laden went to Harvard?

Harvard and Harvard Business School – not the same thing.

Idiot.
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chigau (無味ない)

13 January 2013 at 4:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Harvard and Harvard Business School – not the same thing.

Ah, yes, Caine. But does harvardmba understand that?
Shouldn’t xir ‘nym be harvardbsmba?
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Nick Gotts (formerly KG)

13 January 2013 at 5:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Shouldn’t xir ‘nym be harvardbsmba? – chigau

It is strangely appropriate that “Business School” abbreviates to “BS”.
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newfie

13 January 2013 at 5:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

16. shouldbeworking
Three seconds into the video the words to the Newfoundland song “squid jigging ground” popped into my mind.

Same here. Dangling a shiny object in the water and pulling it up and down is squid jiggin’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijLPFNOhx_o
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michaelolsen

14 January 2013 at 10:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Mr proud of his Harvard mba should either get a refund or Harvard should sue him. Unless they can join together and bottle his distilled inabillity to read and from that derive a cure for dyslexia.
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jba55

14 January 2013 at 1:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m pretty sure this is how everything got started in Innsmouth. We need a video of the next ritual, I bet it’s even more obscure, less comprehensible and gets much more dramatic results.