🐙 octopodes 🐙

How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.
by Oscar T. Octopus

How do you people share webp links to messaging apps? Preview never shows and sometimes the image doesnt open
- The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.

Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??
- Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university’s psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these cats—what else were they going to do?
  Lots of wild experiments giving drugs to animals.
  
  Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.
  
  The crack spider's bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.
- Scientists
  
  Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!
- The same person who'd hug a tripping octopus.
- You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.

Who doesn't want to cuddle on ecstasy?
- My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.

"the lab's pet octopus fucked with us in a type of fuckery as yet undocumented: part 726a" just doesn't have the same oomph

Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.

An octopus stole the pixels, huh

*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)
- Octopodes nuts
  
  I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don't, it's ock-top-uh-deez
- I use all forms of octopi interchangeably just to piss off "linguists".
  Edit:linguists -> "linguists"
  
  I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they're painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.
  
  Linguists are probably the least likely people to get upset at someone using the "wrong" word. they might pull out their notebook and start asking you questions though
  
  Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.
  Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.
  Don’t worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.
  
  octopiussi
- That one Merriam-Webster video that did the rounds on this topic years ago seems to have been retracted. I don't think "technically correct" is right, since it is never really used, but more "arguably could have been". And, as was even stated in that video, if you say octopedes nobody will know what you're on about.
  The video has been taken down, but they've published this article which ultimately recommends either "octopuses" or "octopi", and reaffirms that if you say octopodes nobody will know what it means. Except octopodes nuts.
  
  Well, we can't have all the octopodes nuts having their secret octopodes (related?) discussions with their own secret language like the word "octopods", now can we?
  We can't keep letting them get away with it!
- *Octopussies
  
  Only Japanese ones
- Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So “octopuses” would be technically correct with “octopodes” and “octopi” also accepted.
  If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.
  But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.
  
  at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal
  
  Octothingies is my favorite
  
  To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it's actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you'd still want octopodes
- Octopi?
  
  Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!
- Title fixed.