Tattoo
For whatever reason, The Kraken has come up quite a bit, lately. Perhaps it’s the over all popularity of all things tentacley (at least in the comics world)… but I love it. Release THE KRAKEN! (a dark spiced rum available in a fine grocery store or Bev-Mo near you).
She ought to get an accompanying tat of the remains of a squished ship.
You’d think Ryan would want to read up about the ancient legends. What are you waiting for? Get Kraken!
Beware of the Kraken! Many a sailor has become lunch! Many a ship has become toothpicks!
And thats all I have too say about that
Uh oh. Rye, whatever you do, don’t tell her fairies do not exist!
Even though that’s an octopus on her arm rather than a squid I believe the largest kraken-wannabe in existence, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, which can reach a whooping 14meters in length could certainly use one middle-sized skeptic Ryan as a light snack…
Or maybe all that time spent working at the Calamari Kitchen had gotten Ryan completely disenchanted with all kinds of cephalopods…
wings… An octopus?! You’d think from all the time Ryan spent dressed up as a squid giving out chowder samples for the Kalamari Kitchen he’d recognize another cephalopod.
Seems she got it right though. Krake in German means octopus.
Funny thought… Wonder if Randy will call the tat, Gus.
Glad you caught that, Wrath… it was actually a technical artist thing… “Squid” fit better in the space I’d allotted… so I went with “squid.” (Silly artists).
stick… Krake does indeed mean octopus… it also means knarley root thing (yay, Wikipedia). In any case, Gus would be a good conversation betwixt Randie & Squish.
Mr. Gulls… What…? Fairies aren’t real! I knew it!
Squidman…. Have you seen THe Kraken!???
Dada…. I got Kraken… it’s dark, it’s rummy… it’s got a cool bottle!
@ stick figurer – yeah, you’re absolutely right, “Krake” is German for octopus, not squid, since the later one is called “Kalmar”, but all through the middle ages was little understanding as to the difference between the two so the monstrous version somehow got misnomered and the name stuck…
That’s also why, long after biologists started classifying cephalopods most depictions of this mythical beast showed to be it more like an octopus, and even Jules Verne, who is usually so precise in his use of science describes the monstrous squids in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ” as “poulpe geant”, a French word referring only to octopuses (like with German, the French word for squid is “calmar”), even though, only a few years earlier, in 1861, a chance encounter of the French corvette Alecton with one of these creatures not only finally de-mythified their existence, but also showed the scientific community that all larger specimens are all actually squids…
But I digress – all the large real-life cephalopods may be squids, but the mythical mile-long kraken can be anything it wants as long as it has tentacles, eats humans and sinks ships…
But in Ryan’s case I have an inkling he really doesn’t care about being scientifically accurate and would rather avoid anything cephalopod related for the foreseeable future, specifically because of his time spent handing out chowder samples while dressed as one of them…
@Brig – I took so long to write the above, I didn’t think to check the latest answers especially yours, before posting, so now I feel a little bit silly XD
Anyway, don’t sweat it, “squid” in this context works perfectly fine, since it can be interpreted he’s being willfully fuzzy about his terminology in order to better show his lack of enthusiasm about the subject.
We’ve had a bottle of Kraken rum for some time now. Very tasty.
Wrath… no worries… I like your account… The French interpretation is interesting. And your latter offering about Ryan is correct.
Pete… I’m saying… you know that what I speak of… (and I am beginning to warm up to the rum… this after years of avoiding it… don’t get me wrong… NO shots… but cleverly disguised, rum is getting okay).
Yeah, I’ve seen (and tasted) the Kraken! He goes good with tartar or coctail sauce too, Hee Hee!
I actually caught a Humbolt squid off of big sur several years ago. That was an expirience that was fun while it lasted, but I would rather not repeat. That is about as close as I’ve been to a real Kraken.
FAIRIES ARE TOO REAL! Hmmmph. Young people nowadays.
When you stop believing in fairies, the world gets a lot less sparkly….
Not only in comics – there was a Kraken in this week’s episode of Ugly Americans.
wings… Yours is nicely researched review. Good job there. In time most mysteries are resolved and truth prevails. (remember I said that as it may have an added meaning in the near future) Still its a good thing those French corvette sailors didn’t sail off the edge of the flat Earth and into oblivion, as their discovery might have been lost for many more years.
jude… Do you speak of San Fran fairies, or those from elsewhere?
brig… It might just be the rum warming YOU up, instead…or in addition?
PS: wings, jude, brig… I’m seriously luv’in how all of yoos use lower case letters in your screen names. Me? I sign my name all lower case.
Synchroncity can be amusing. Two comics, the second of which was Wednesday’s:
http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-6-12/
http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-6-13/
stick,
IN THAT CASE…
just kiddin’.
She could have the tat altered to make it look like it’s eating a sailor … then she can say there’s an octopus AND a squid there.
(former Navy here, I can call myself a squid if I want :P)
“J”oe… very, uh, FUNNY.
SEE… I told you that tentacled things is all up in our faces…
Thanks, Squiddies, for the references… (welcome, Mary!) The Kraken is out there… be careful.
AND, Wolf… my sister is marrying a squid next weekend! I think I can call him a squid, yah? (Cartoon mind going crazy right now with imagery!)
Sure can, Brig. We just get tense when groundpounders (Army) and airheads (Air Force) say it, because we know they ain’t usually saying it so lovingly. 😀 (think of it being said through clenched teeth …)
We forgive the Marines for saying it, we are so proud of our little brothers … only took them a century to move out and get their own department, and they still need us for rides. ::smirk::
(my stepbrother was a jarhead, and even 20 years later we still give each other the usual flack, heh)
As I always remind him, MARINE stands for “my [backside] rides in Navy equipment” (edited, obviously).