Thursday, January 12, 2012

Reader Mail

Barnacles,

I've managed to forget my lovesickness-induced depression long enough to log... Oh that's right. I remember now. I'm depressed.

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Barnacles,

Whomper has propped me up at my computer insisting I need to do something other than listen to sad music and eat lunchable after lunchable. Maybe answering some reader mail will temporarily suppress my malaise/improve my mood. I doubt it, but here goes:

Scuba Owl,
Long time reader, first time reader mail writer. Love the blog. So in your last post you referred to Chicken Poktapus as an 'octopedal obstacle.' I just read an article I thought you might find interesting. It suggests that octopi are not octopedal, as previously though, but rather that two of their tentacles are in fact arms, making them bipedal like us. Here's a link to the link. What are your thoughts on that?
Keep up the great work. Your fan,
Raymond B.
Well the truth is I'm not 'bipedal.' I am a bi-taloned,  feathered, winged, endothermic, vertebrate, and supposedly egg-laying animal with binocular vision and a knack for estimating depth of field.

Secondly, I am familiar with the assertion that octopi are in fact bipedal, but I find said assertion ludicrous. I mean, what's next? I suppose you're going to tell me octopi are intelligent creatures that have jobs, communicate with others, drink coffee and trade on the stock market? I've had an artist draw up a concept of this ridiculous... concept, just so we can all see how ridiculous it is.

(Click to enlarge)

I hope this puts the octopus/doppiopus debate to rest.

Still depressed,
Scuba

Editor's note: Owls are birds, and birds are in fact bipedal.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Hick Up in the Relationship

Blistering Barnacles,

Can you smell it in the air? Smell what, you ask? I'll give you a hint: its all you need, and I'm in it. Its a four letter word but is not on the FCC's radar. That's right, folks, the word is love. And now that I've surmounted the octopedal obstacle known as Chicken Poktapus I can't think of anything that could possibly come between me and my crustaceous lady love, the exotically silent Shelly. Click below to see my hopes and dreams play out exactly as I imagined they would.

- Scuba

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Stockholm Sweet Home

Dearest Barnacles,

Thanks to my unflappable determination and inscrutable wit I have escaped captivity in Chicken Poktapus' deep sea lair and returned to scenic Lakey Lake. Whomper could not be happier if a seagull dropped a french fry in his blowhole. Click below to read more of my harrowing tale.

- Scuba

Chicken Poktapus Saga: Epilogue
(Chicken Poktalepiloctopus)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Surf and Turf

Dear Friends, Family, Women and Children, Colleagues, Comrades and Joe,

You no doubt missed me achingly over the past couple of months. I experienced a harrowing ordeal, escaping only by means my sharp wit and your suspension of belief. I am happy to be back behind the wheel of this blog and will now read you a statement from my legal team:

"The views expressed in the past few blog posts do not express the views or opinions of Scuba Owl, Scuba Corp. or any Scuba Owlfiliates. Our blog was victimized by a malicious hack two months ago and we are proactively doing everything we can to retroactively protect your privacy, which has most likely gone the way of a helium-inflated balloon released into the air by a two year old child. Please accept our deepest apologies."

So anywhooo, here's what happened.


- Scuba Owl

Monday, July 25, 2011