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xiphias ([personal profile] xiphias) wrote2006-01-01 02:00 pm

So, I was just telling my parents about my Octopus/Inteligent Design theory. . .

We're at my parents' house; my niece and nephew and their parents were over for the weekend for New Year's, and they just left, and Lis is asleep, and I was telling my parents about how Intelligent Design actually all holds together, if you assume that HUMANS aren't the creature that was designed. As I said, "So, all you need is to think of a creature without joints, without teeth, and whose eyes don't grow from their optic nerves, but are intelligent and have the ability to use tools. . . "

And Dad said, "Oh! Octopuses!"

I explained about Cthulhu and the Flying Spaghetti monster are probably therefore just visions of the Great Octopus.

And I explained my further theory about how, according to this theory, the purpose of humans was to be controlled by the Intelligent Designer to create global warming to make large shallow seas over the coastal areas that humans have built up, so that the octopuses could have the benefit of our structures while they created their own society.

And Mom said, "So, the Bush Dynasty is being controlled by Cthulhu in order to destroy humanity?"

And Dad said, "It explains a lot about Cheney -- he always did have that kind of fishy, Innsmouth look to him."

I said, "Yeah. This has actually been keeping me up at nights. . . it all hangs together all too well. If you can come up with ANYTHING that would be an argument against this, anything that will make me feel better about this, I'd love to hear it."

Mom and Dad were quiet and thinking for a while. And Mom said, "Well, they'll probably need a small slave population of humans to work the dry-land areas for a while. . . ."

(Other comments: "Well, if the Greenland ice caps go, the sea levels will go up about fifty feet. Once the octopuses get MIT, it's all over. On the other hand, they'll also get Logan Airport, which should slow them down some. . . 'I dunno, man, I went to this place near the shore, and I was stuck there for six freakin' hours. . . '")

[identity profile] theclamsman.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)

And Mom said, "Well, they'll probably need a small slave population of humans to work the dry-land areas for a while. . . ."

HA ha...Mom rocks.

And well, you'd think that Methuen, Tewksbury, and Billerica would be enough to slow the octopodes. >_>.

[identity profile] bunrab.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
And stop and think about it, WHERE is the Prince Spaghetti headquarters? Along the north shore of Massachusetts??? verrrrrry suspicious.

[identity profile] kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, your family is awesome.

[identity profile] hangedwoman.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I adore your parents.

[identity profile] elisem.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, oh, OH! MUST link; this is brilliant. May I?

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Please do.
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[personal profile] archangelbeth 2006-01-01 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*so dead laughing*

*applause*

You are so onto something here!

[identity profile] yehoshua.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You forgot what will happen when our New Octopus Overlords hit the Weston tolls.

<octopus> Who's stupid idea was it to call this thing Fast Lane, anyway? And why can't any of these bipeds just PICK A FREAKING LANE ALREADY!?!

[identity profile] bynkii.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Hell, just get them on the Pike at Allston Brighton at 5:05 pm on a thursday.

"WHY did these stupid vertebrates invent cars? They don't seem to get the concept of ACTUALLY MOVING IN THEM. DEAR GOD, I could have mated and had grandsquids just in the time it took me to get past that TOLL BOOTH!!!

Fast Lane my ink organs"

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[identity profile] mattblum.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The theory may or may not be right. However, I have a temporary solution: Let them have Washington. Everything in Washington takes ten times longer to get done than it ought to.

[identity profile] patgreene.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh this is just priceless. I hope you don't mind -- I linked to it.

[identity profile] deerdancer22.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I miss you all so much!

[identity profile] temima.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I for one welcome our new octopus overlords and will help with their management of dryland slave camps. Or technical support. Whatever."
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[personal profile] sovay 2006-01-02 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Randomly: I like your icon.

[identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Metaquote?

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Sure!

[identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I was idly skimming, and saw on [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes:

I was telling my parents about how Intelligent Design actually all holds together, if you assume that HUMANS aren't the creature that was designed.

And I knew it was you before I saw your name.

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[personal profile] gingicat 2006-01-02 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
*laughs*

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FYI

[personal profile] cheshyre 2006-01-02 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Your earlier post on this subject was http://www.livejournal.com/users/xiphias/2005/09/07/
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[personal profile] sovay 2006-01-02 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
On the other hand, they'll also get Logan Airport, which should slow them down some. . . 'I dunno, man, I went to this place near the shore, and I was stuck there for six freakin' hours. . . '

*snerk*

So very, sadly true . . .

[identity profile] clayin.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
*wandered over from [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes*
You for the win!
Is it okay if I link to it?

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2006-01-02 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure!

[identity profile] salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com 2006-01-03 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Your parents are orders of magnitude cooler than mine.

(Here from metaquotes)

[identity profile] ladyniko.livejournal.com 2006-01-03 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
*lol*

Linked over from Metaquots. :)

I love your parents!

And, as other friends said, it makes an odd sort of sense. :)

[identity profile] liddle-oldman.livejournal.com 2006-01-03 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Here from Metaquotes.

Your parents rule.

But now I'm terrified. This makes far too much sense.

[identity profile] felis-sidus.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry. The octopi don't need to enslave us. As a species, we're more than willing and able to drive ourselves to extinction without any urging from them.

[identity profile] sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
And now people understand why I refer to Portland, Oregon as "Innsmouth West". Of course, I live in Dallas, Texas, which continues Hunter S. Thompson's comment of "The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing every Saturday night had the Nazis won the war" by demonstrating what we'd be doing every Sunday morning.

[identity profile] fierce-rabbit.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You have heard, have you not, that when Bush leaves the White House he is thinking about "retiring" to Dallas?

*Ahem*

(Anonymous) 2006-01-04 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I, for one, welcome our new tentacled overlords.

[identity profile] rmd.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
awesome. btw, this just got linked from http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/, so expect more influx.

clever

[identity profile] jon-a-ross.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
here from [livejournal.com profile] sclerotic_rings and linking as well.

[identity profile] hels-hound.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Best.

LiveJournal entry.

Ever!

[identity profile] darenye.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
*dies laughing* That bit about being stuck in Logan was soo good!
Unfortunately, I can think of no arguments to refute yours. This is unusual, so I will have to think more on it, and possibly get back to you.

[identity profile] lazy-boring-man.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
At first I shrugged this off as just somewhat interesting, but now I can't stop thinking about it! o_O

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. . . insidious, isn't it?

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