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#62799 03/28/2002 2:31 PM
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/03/27/octopus.nz/index.html

"But down here in New Zealand, this is an area which is so poorly explored that its not surprising that we're getting all these weird and wonderful animals."




#62800 03/28/2002 5:26 PM
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Why is the picture of a 1996 giant squid rather than the new find? [Stinking media, they don't think I can tell my cephalopods one from the other, mumble mumble...]


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I thought it was strange, too, that the photograph was of the 1996 squid rather than the giant octopus. If there's that 156-pound octopus (or somewhere thereabout), then there must be a larger one, yes? Soon we'll have the story, "The Octopuses that Swallowed New Zealand"...or ""Jazz0's Last Stand."


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Ya know ... I thought that looked like a squid, but just chalked it up to my not being familiar with the different species.


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Why is the picture of a 1996 giant squid rather than the new find?

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing, FB. Pretty disappointing to have them run an old pic of a different creature. It's like doing a story about capturing a Bigfoot and then running a shot of a big gorilla.

Well, we may have lost our squidwhere are you? you out there? here at AWAD, but we still have our Jazzy octopus!


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Meanwhile, off the coast of Florida:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/03/27/black.blob/index.html

Sign of global warming?


#62806 03/28/2002 8:09 PM
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USn media's use of the wrong photo

Nemmine that; at least they said in the caption that it was the wrong photo. What I wanna know is is Steve O'Shea a Zilder?


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baffling black blob...say that three times fast!


#62808 03/29/2002 5:49 AM
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They showed the real deal on the Beeb news. Looked a bit like Helen Clark in a fish suit ... well, it sure were ugly, anyway.



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Hey, Jazzo, when're we going to see your take on Britain?



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Hey, Jazzo, when're we going to see your take on Britain?

When I get around this big school of fish in my way.



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