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    Kissing Octopus Flash Drive's Bizarre Mating Ritual Captured on Film
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    Image of aaj111 aaj111
    12/30/08

    In reply to Kissing Octopus Flash Drive's Bizarre Mating Ritual Captured on Film
    They look like Octo-Elephants.
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    12/30/08

    @aaj111: Aren't those from Lord of the Rings?
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Kissing Octopus Flash Drive's Bizarre Mating Ritual Captured on Film
    No thank you. I don't want that octopus with it's sex magnet around my computer. It might as well write a suicide note for my hd too.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/30/08

    @1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons: You do know there are massive magnets IN your HD already, right?
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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    12/30/08

    @RTFA_SteveDave: Yes but it's best not to take the chances. Sure it probably won't kill the thing right away maybe ever but abstaining from using the sex magnet will only insure my hd's purity.
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    Image of MadCrazy MadCrazy
    12/30/08

    In reply to Kissing Octopus Flash Drive's Bizarre Mating Ritual Captured on Film
    I'm protest on the grounds that these things are grossly inacurate.


    -Octopus Sex-

    When octopuses reproduce, males use a specialized arm called a hectocotylus to insert spermatophores (packets of sperm) into the female's mantle cavity. The hectocotylus in benthic octopuses is usually the third right arm.

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    12/30/08

    @MadCrazy: Isn't it Octopi?
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    Image of bluewyvern bluewyvern
    12/31/08

    @RTFA_SteveDave: Common misconception. It's an attempt to treat "octopus" like a Latin noun, when it actually comes from the Greek. "Octopodes" would be the Greek-ified plural, while plain English is "octopuses", as MadCrazy has correctly employed.


    [en.wikipedia.org]


    Now we know!

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    12/31/08

    @bluewyvern: I will concede on Octopuses, but I will only give up Elvii or Lexii when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
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    Image of Zeniq Zeniq
    12/30/08

    In reply to Kissing Octopus Flash Drive's Bizarre Mating Ritual Captured on Film
    I'm so confused. What is the point of these lovey mcKissy things??
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    12/30/08

    @Zeniq: Uh, I think I'm gonna let your Father explain that.


    Or that gym teacher who always tucks his t-shirt into his shorts.

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