Mystery & Life
I celebrate new discoveries like the first living giant squid photographed (slideshow), but what I really love is that there are still mysteries in this world! Listen and then tell me, shouldn’t “Bloop!” be the word we use to describe anything that is beautifully peculiar and not yet understood? 
By the way, there are some word phrases that should never be used, even in a scientific setting, and the following paragraph contains a couple salient examples:
“The hope was that a camera would squirt out the pureed genitals and a passing squid, driven into a sexual frenzy, would then mate with the lens - a project that, some may be relieved to hear, never came to fruition.”
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Octopi porn? Yikes… I wonder how they wrote up the research grant request for that one!
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Noah said,
September 28, 2005 @ 1:08 pm
Am I the only one who hates the name “squid” for these creatures? It’s fine for the smaller calamari-fodder variety, but for animals as majestic and mysterious as these, the name “squid” makes me cringe. (But then, I still cringe at the word “blog,” too.) I wonder if it’s too late to bring Kraken back…