Maegan
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 | 11:17 AM
Why it's endangered:
and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and sasquatch.
Cute page! |
catbarloo
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 | 09:39 PM
I'd still like to buy one of their coffee mugs though. |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 12:36 PM
Alex,
We would like to suggest that you give a light I.Q. test before allowing non-members to post. Children who don't even get that they're at a site called "Museum of Hoaxes" and the implications of that title, and in spite of that still don't get from the links (i.e. People for the ethical treatment of pumpkins) that something is bogus, shouldn't be allowed to pollute the air with their drivel. If these students are so worried about wasting their precious time they should quit skipping ENGLISH classes. There is a difference between their, there, and they're. Learn it ladies. Ur doesn't equal "you are" or "You're" or "your." I liked this little link because it provided me with a laugh, until I lost 5 minutes of my life trying to read the drivel this lady (I suspect they're one in the same) posted. |
padego
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 12:41 PM
Ahem...
It's octopi not octopusses.
Back to class children |
Charybdis
in Hell
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 01:02 PM
Ahem...
Octopodes.
padego, please see me after class.
(I realize that both octopi and octopodes are acceptable, I just wanted to be an ass) |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 01:20 PM
I prefer the Bond way, you know James Bond, and just calling it "Pussy Galore"! 😊 |
Charybdis
in Hell
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 01:26 PM
Far funnier and slightly more subtle : <a href="http://www.bondmovies.com/sounds/sounds/daf/plenty.mp3">Sound Clip</a>
Plenty O'Toole: Hi, I'm Plenty.
James Bond: But of course you are.
Plenty O'Toole: Plenty O'Toole.
James Bond: Named after your father perhaps? |
padego
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 01:27 PM
Sorry,
I just wish I could stop making those stupid mistakpodes. |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 01:45 PM
Are the 3 entries in CAPS the same person???? |
Charybdis
in Hell
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 02:00 PM
More than likely |
RAe
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 02:23 PM
I really enjoyed that hoax... it was cute. Of course, I do have to say I agree with most of the people typing after the person typed in caps. Obviously, they needed to get back to english class. Thanks for the laughs everyone! |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 | 02:55 PM
There ya go Paul. Avatar slow enough??? |
Doug McLeod
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 | 05:34 PM
Have you considered a 'multi-girl' theory; teenage girls like to cruise the net together. The theme of messages 2 and 3 revolves around the writer's feelings of hurt, both to herself and the octupi, whereas the first message has a more distinctive theology concerned with truth, and a greater concern with the emotions of the recipient. Although we are not told the author of the third message, (Lertropoke is not a real name, corresponding in Google only to this message), in the dialect in use at the time it was possible to construct the name 'Kristy' as a derivative of Kristen, the given name of writer number 2. Note the characteristic -y ending. There are also clues in the language used. Writer 1 consistently uses the 'ur' form for 'your' and derivatives, whereas writer 2 gives the more classically correct form 'your'. Writers 2 and 3 are also more extravagent in their use of exclamation marks, where we again see a more measured tone from writer 1.
In determining when these letters were written it is worth considering that '1 Cross Girl' suggests a response made at the time of first viewing the website, whereas 2 and 3 Cross Girl could have been composed in the post-spectating period when a deeper understanding of the writer's emotions was available. This suggests that 2,3 Cross Girl were composed around the same time whereas 1 Cross Girl dates from an earlier period.
I would conclude that by any reasonable standards of exegesis, 1 Cross Girl could not have been written by the same author as 2 and 3 Cross Girl. I further suggest that internal clues make it highly likely that 3 Cross Girl was written by the same author as 2 Cross Girl, and at around the same time. It is true that some of my friends have found a different author for 3 Cross Girl based on minor differences of taxonomy, but this must be regarded as speculative. |
Rod
in the land of smarties.
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 | 07:04 PM
All I can say about the above post is "Wow, and I thought 'I' had too much time on my hands...".
"I further suggest that internal clues make it highly likely that 3 Cross Girl was written by the same author as 2 Cross Girl, and at around the same time." - Doug McLeod
You didn't happen to notice that they were posted only one minute apart to come to this conclusion, did you? |
Smerk
in to mischief
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 | 07:39 PM
Such a pity that the link to Greanpeas doesn't work. Mottled roach is good! Their aroma closely resembles certain flowers ...boquet of vintage camel urine! It seems as though the only legit animals linked to are the Christmas Island crabs. |
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 | 01:04 AM
Going back a wee bit, I agree that an IQ test would be good for non members. Perhaps (since this seems to be a popular subject we gripe about) they need to be able to destinguish between your and you're and then between there, their and they're. It's just a bit harder than what they normally have too do to post. |
Smerk
in to mischief
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 | 01:14 AM
Ah, the wonders of the English Language, spoken in many dialects...don't forget whether, weather and wether! 😉 |
Rod
in the land of smarties.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 | 01:18 AM
Yes, and let us not forget destinguish and distinguish, nettie. |
Rod
in the land of smarties.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 | 01:27 AM
And the many variations of too, to, and two, too? |
Smerk
in to mischief
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 | 01:56 AM
Hmmm, we'd better be careful...there's a nasty thread going about being off-topic among other things... :coolsmirk: |
Matt
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 | 10:44 PM
This website is pretty funny in hindsite, Freshman year I almost did my research paper on invertabrates on this. It wasn't until days into it that I realize that one of its main predators is the sasquatch, that was the real tip, and when I go back all the little touches they made were ingenious if not a little mean. |
Cher
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 | 02:46 PM
I am actually wokring on a paper/presentation on select octopus species and I think I will put some of these pics in my power point presentation. My classmates will like it. It is possible that some of them will believe it. |
Cher
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 | 02:52 PM
I meant "working"- just 'cause I know one of you will get on my case about spelling. |
padego
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 | 05:02 PM
don't know about in tree's but I've played with them under water,
beautiful animals, highly intelligent, shy but very curious.
One once had a real fascination for my flash light wanting to take it back into it's den, would spend half the dive just untangling myself from him. |
cole and amy
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 08:58 AM
we thank that yall are real real funny and we dont believe in all that crappy mess bout all dem dang tree octopussess..octipi..them thangs. whatever. anyways, talk to yalls later! |
prof.guiliian
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 09:10 AM
we have seen tree octopi, and not just in the pacific northwest...there was one in the new forest...i poked it with a stick myself so i no its real. we have taken pictures but as you are all non believers we refuse to share our magical moment if you will not appreciate it. but it is disgusting that you dont have faith in god's creatures. we are trying to help these rare beasts by raising awareness of their existance...how are we to do so if you wont give them a chance to live and simply pass it off as a hoax. you should be ashamed of yourselves.
yours sincerely,
prof.guillian
university of science
(firm believer in the tree octopus) |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 09:22 AM
:lol:
university of science... |
Rod
in the land of smarties.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 10:04 AM
If the Prof gets away with spelling like that, it's no wonder nobody can spell anymore. |
Sharruma
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 12:43 PM
I'm not sure about this I.Q. test
I mean there's no way I'd pass 😛 |
Smerk
in to mischief
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 02:01 AM
Just remember, Sharruma, there are no right or wrong answers! |
Just a random guy
in in a hospital, out of a long coma
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 07:55 AM
Well, Sharruma, you could always REGISTER *evil fanfare plays*. Why restrict the the dumb nonmembers when theyre the best cannon fodder? |
Hyped on Caffiene
in Michigan down by the river
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 11:28 AM
Coming from the guy that was a newby to the forum less than 2 weeks ago heh |
Hyped on Caffiene
in Michigan down by the river
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 11:30 AM
and on a happier note, the pumpkins are thriving in their natural habitat, we should be wasting money on more crazy ventures, oh lets say pumpkin sasquatch relocation programs
More food for the sasquatch and more of our friend the tree octopus |
I love volleyball.
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 | 05:36 PM
I really didn't want to get into this, but it's CAFFEINE, not caffiene.
& To "Professor Guillian",
It's "know", not "no".
And generally, the G in God is capitalized.
I is usually capitalized when you are speaking about yourself.
Oh, and existence, not existance.
I think your teaching license needs to be revoked at the "University of Science".
This is a little sad just because I'm only in the 8th grade. |
Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 | 06:25 PM
Ut, punctuation goes inside the quotation marks! |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 | 07:50 PM
Way to tell it like it is Citizen... 😊 |
I love volleyball.
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 | 05:15 PM
Wow...You're SO effing funny...
Except not.
And it doesn't sound like WE are the ones who are on "high horses".
Obviously, you DO spend your days on this sad website, or else you wouldn't have checked for responses.
This is so off subject so please just get over yourself.... |
I love volleyball.
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 | 05:17 PM
And I think you meant loser...
Please spell correctly if you're trying to diss someone. |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 | 05:50 PM
Hill-billys being put in their place by 8th grade students...
I JUST LOVE THIS PLACE!!!
:lol: |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 | 06:07 PM
You've got to love it when you put a theory out there (i.e. dumbass hill-billys) and then they return and leave proof!
😏 |
angel
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 | 06:10 PM
worse thing is those girls go to my school, the swearing ones, i'm so ashamed, they been boasting about what they said on this website so i thought i'd have a look. and even worse....we're 16! maturity eh?? xxxx aisha |
I love volleyball.
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 | 07:33 PM
You put punctuation inside the quotation marks when it's actually inside a real quote, I did not use it in a real sentence, just bits.
(I was not using a direct quote.)
This is in response to a comment left a while ago. |
LaMa
in Europe
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 | 03:55 PM
oh my Gad! The Chavs now kidnapped the Tree Octopus thread! This is what you get when you follow the Popes standpoint on condoms... |
Sunnygal88
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 | 01:22 PM
I'm disappointed the Tree Octopus isn't real! I am searching for infomation on endangered octopi and am specifically interested in orange flesh tones. When I saw the pic of the Tree Octopus, my instant reaction was one of joy that I could have found such an incredible creature and never heard of it before! Well, anyway, it was great to have such excitement for a few minutes. I do think it is unfortunate that there is a not a disclaimer anywhere on the site. Even if it seems like hoax material would be obvious, it would be polite to the larger learning community to have such a disclaimer to save time. Thanks for all the postings that confirmed by doubts about the site! 😊 |
Mecaldo
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 | 12:30 PM
ALL I KNOW IS THAT THE THING PLUCKED OUT MY EYE!
i have to wear a patch now and i have the tree octopus to blame |
bunny
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 | 04:36 PM
thank you for raising awareness of the plight of the Tree Octopus. your work will not be in vain. already, it seems, others are gathering to lend their support in saving these rare and beautiful creatures.
nevermore shall schoolchildren be limited to their beliefs in a marine-only cephalopod.
Save the Tree Octopus!! |
Fire angel
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 | 09:26 AM
:coolhmm: |
Fire angel
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 | 09:32 AM
Um, i've never heard of tree octopus' before when did this hoax pop up? I hear alot of stories about things that people swear that they have seen but this is the first I've heard of, anyone care to give me a storie about these things? |
b
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 | 05:20 PM
braden i am and i say you suck if you believe in this site :sick:
!@#$ you all to !!!!$% @#$% |
(Real) Professor Gullian
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 | 06:03 AM
Did he say "Punctuation goes inside the closing quotation marks"?
US English and British English greatly differ in how they do them punctiation in thar them quoted sentency schtuff.
Yours Sincerily,
Professor Gullian
University of Sciencey Stuff and Other Things Very Little People Care or Want to Know About
(Still Firm Believer in the Tree Octopus) |
GARY
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 | 09:33 AM
THE CYNICISM EXPRESSED ON SOME OF THE ABOVE COMMENTS IS TROUBLING. I SUSPECT THAT SOME THESE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS FLAT, TOO. |
Whale.balooga
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 | 12:53 PM
I love tree octompuses. please buy a tentical ribbon. we must save these creatures among the trees. peace out pumpkins! |
Mason
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 | 09:30 AM
I walked by a tree ibe day and got inked in the face by a tree octopus yes they are real and if u dont belive me ill soo u my acid burns remeber that and dont underestamate the TREE OPTOPUS
MUAHAHAHA |
jessica
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 | 05:51 AM
this guy is a fraud why do you guyz believe him?? its all a fraud itsa haux!!! |
kim
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 | 05:48 PM
u have to be stupid if u really believe in these fake tree octopus things. no, not stupid, i meant so sstupid that u make a bana look smart!!!!! |
Logan
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 | 02:18 PM
this is so gay... its not even real |
Patsy
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 | 03:42 PM
I told my neice that these werent ral but she doesnt believ and i dont know what to do i mean she belives all of this stuff im like really whio would anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :exclaim: |
johnson
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 | 03:13 PM
this tree octopus are so real.
i just saw one in my back yard.
and i was so scary i jump up on my tree house. |
