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Octopus alert

Posted: February 6th, 2019, 1:46 pm
by stewamax
[From BBC News]: A driver who swerved "to avoid an octopus" before crashing has been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving. Police were called to the A381 between Malborough and South Milton in Devon...

Re: Octopus alert

Posted: February 6th, 2019, 7:23 pm
by PinkDalek
Thwack (may have been the sound if hit):

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16086

Re: Octopus alert

Posted: February 7th, 2019, 9:35 am
by brightncheerful
The driver who swerved to avoid an octopus has been fined fifty squid.

Re: Octopus alert

Posted: February 7th, 2019, 1:01 pm
by Bink333
The Cephlaplod are now investigating.

The driver swerved to avoid one octopus, but he really couldn't have avoided it, because there were hundreds of them. He was driving in the Calamari Desert.

Re: Octopus alert

Posted: February 7th, 2019, 3:04 pm
by UncleEbenezer
Bink, you're in the wrong thread.

Unless I've missed that joke appearing elsewhere on lemonfool within the last couple of days?

Re: Octopus alert

Posted: February 7th, 2019, 3:19 pm
by stewamax
UncleEbenezer wrote:Unless I've missed that joke appearing elsewhere on lemonfool within the last couple of days?

Cephlaplodophiles think alike: it appears that the Snug post and mine were made just 20 minutes apart

Re: Octopus alert

Posted: February 7th, 2019, 3:48 pm
by PinkDalek
stewamax wrote:Cephlaplodophiles think alike


I'm glad you spelt it the way you did. Cephalopodophile would appear to have an entry in the Urban Dictionary.

Re: Octopus alert

Posted: February 7th, 2019, 6:58 pm
by stewamax
... I'm not. It's just that my spelling is atroshus/attrocous/atroschous/bad