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Old 02-04-2011, 07:18 PM   #1
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Default Save the Endangered Pacific NW Tree Octopus from Extinction!



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Old 02-04-2011, 07:23 PM   #2
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Old 02-04-2011, 07:38 PM   #3
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Easier than a dwarf Orca, that's for sure.
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:01 PM   #4
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O6 will probably keep hunting them

Poor little guys - their only crime is being delicious
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:07 PM   #5
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"its natural predators, including the bald eagle and sasquatch. "

Please save the Fur-Bearing Trout!

http://www.furbearingtrout.com/

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other than the Kelvinic University branch of the Wild Haggis Conservation Society"
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:13 PM   #6
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If 0.6 doesn't foreswear his illicit tree octopus hunting, he may face a life time ban.

It's just the correct thing to do.
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Old 02-04-2011, 09:53 PM   #7
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No way I am giving up my arboreal calamari! But they are hard to shoot. They move too fast with all those damn arms!
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You're just begging to be turned into Homeland Security aren't you? I bet you hunt them with a nasty ASSAULT WEAPON too!

Evil calamarite.
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I got my Fry Daddy ready. It is mating season, so they come down out of the trees looking for mates, and are much easier to catch. Off to buy batter mix, cooking oil and lemons....
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You, you... TEA BAGGER!
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Looks like that story belongs right up there with the spaghetti tree....
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It sure proves the: "But I read it on the Internet!" adage, doesn't it?
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now that's a tree hugger
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