Thursday 19 June 2008

Animal Facts#1: The Octopus

Fun Octopus facts! Some are more true than others! Did you know that...
  • The Octopus is the only animal in the world with 8 knees?
  • An Octopus invented the fountain pen! George Safford Parker was an octopus fanatic, and regularly discarded his failed fountain pen prototypes into their tanks. One day, he saw his favourite pet, Caesar the Cephalopod, filling the barrel with it's own ink, and George realised that this worked much better than his own ink concoction, which mainly consisted of water, gravel and sunlight.
  • Live Octopus is considered a delicacy in South Korea? Bunch o' twats.
  • The newly discovered 6-tentacled 'Hexapus' isn't a freaky Octopus at all! It's merely the latest hatchling from the Kraken's 5000 year breeding circle, and it indicates carnage, terror, pestilence for all ocean-dwelling men everywhere.
  • Octopus wrestling was the most popular sport in the USA for a period of time in the 1960s, until it was declared unconstitutional and revealed as a communist ploy to steal US salt water by Republican senator Mark Hatfield?

Here we can see a young Dennis Wise, John Terry and Frank Lampard taking part in some recreational animal torture.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, great facts! I am enlightened right up. However, that is patently Andy Townsend on the right of your octopus wrestling picture, which rather tarnishes things.

A wittering idiot said...

Yes, it does look quite like Townsend now that you mention it. However, 'Lampard' is, and always will be a funnier name.

Anonymous said...

ACE! I cant wait to hear more animal facts.....