Dear Helen, when I said squid suck, I was not expression gastronomic aversion.As a double entendre, I was referring to the large number of suction cups with which they cling to things. And just to confuse things more, I just remembered reading about cuttlefish, large enough to battle whales (though the whales apparently most always win). The dictionary say the cuttlefish have eight arms and two tentacles. I wonder if that total is what is called ten arms elsewhere.