Why do people think of me when they see things like this?

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   sylwyn

   1 February 2013 at 10:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I hope this isn’t taken the wrong way, but my first thought was that they associated you with the ‘throbbing pink brain-cephalopod.’ Evil, genius, tyrannical mastermind of the skeptical blog-sphere and all that…

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   EvoMonkey

   1 February 2013 at 10:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Added bonus – it would make you taller.

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   birgerjohansson

   1 February 2013 at 11:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Cue for mentioning the novel “Emperor Mollusc versus The Sinister Brain”!

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   andrewarensburger

   1 February 2013 at 11:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That image should be captioned, “My eyes are up here!”

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   Danny

   1 February 2013 at 11:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I think some noble individual needs to take on the monumental task of knitting this for you.

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   johnhattan

   1 February 2013 at 11:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   So PZ Myers walks into a bar with a squid on his head. The bartender says “hey, where’d you get that?”. The squid says “I found this one in Minnesota!”.

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   burgundy

   1 February 2013 at 11:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I can’t say I blame them. After all, I immediately thought of PZ when I first saw this.

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   Martin Wagner

   1 February 2013 at 11:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Basil Wolverton! The greatest!

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   sqlrob

   1 February 2013 at 11:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   And here I thought it was going to be this

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    Amphiox

    1 February 2013 at 12:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    But is that really a cephalopod?

    The brain organization and the appendage tip look decidely vertebrate to me. And the way the main body is propped up is suggestive of an internal skeleton (unless the picture was taken underwater).

    There’s no clear delineation of the mantle from the presumptive muscular foot/tentacles, no sign of a radula, and no syphon.

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    busterggi

    1 February 2013 at 12:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Is that from SpaceHawk by Basil Wolverton?

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    steve oberski

    1 February 2013 at 1:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Does this ceph-head make me look fat ?

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    F [nucular nyandrothol]

    1 February 2013 at 2:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Is it trying to unzip dude’s shirt and/or cop a feel?

    But is that really a cephalopod?

    Hmm. Is that really a human? That thing looks pretty weird as well. (Comic book art.)

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    kristine

    1 February 2013 at 2:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Please credit artist Basil Wolverton for this.
    Comic fan/atheist,
    Kristine

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    ogremeister

    1 February 2013 at 2:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    PZ:
    

    OK, it’s true, I probably would like to have a throbbing pink brain-cephalopod clinging to my head.

    I’ll be right over.

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    Audley Z. Darkheart (liar and scoundrel)

    1 February 2013 at 3:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Sorry, thought it was a penis monster at first, not a cephalopod.

    Cue for mentioning the novel “Emperor Mollusc versus The Sinister Brain”!

    I ♥ your style, birger.

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    oaksterdam

    1 February 2013 at 3:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    This is probably a good place forthis

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    scottlesch

    1 February 2013 at 4:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    In America, people tell you “Shit in your hat.” In Soviet Union, hat shits on you!

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    Sophi Daniels

    2 February 2013 at 3:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    looks like a symbiotic relationship to me.