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September
2003

11:30 am

Save the Tree Octopus!

treeocto.jpgGive. Give until it hurts. Then give some more. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus needs you. Well, actually, all it really needs is a mild climate and access to water, plus a few nice trees of medium fluffiness, but these things don't come cheap anymore, in Vancouver they're actually quite pricey, but really, when all's said and done, would you want to live in a world devoid of tree octopi?

Me, neither.


UPDATE

Both I and the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus thank you for your continued and unwavering interest in its continued well-being. The comments section of this entry is now closed.

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(thanks to Wis[s]e Words for the link.)

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33 Comments

  1. pat
    posted November 6, 2003 at 8:46 am

    i love them so much i am a great suporter

  2. Dr. Who
    posted November 6, 2003 at 8:55 am

    I also deeply love the tree octopus. It would be tragic shame to think that we could ever loose this creature(especially when we considers all that it does for our environment).

  3. pericat
    posted November 6, 2003 at 4:51 pm

    Word.

  4. Me
    posted November 10, 2003 at 10:44 am

    ITS NOT REAL!!

  5. Thomas Nuykak
    posted November 10, 2003 at 10:50 am

    IT IS NOT REAL THERE IS NO TREE OCTOPUS. HOW COULS POSSIBABLY BELIVE THAT THERE WAS!!!

  6. Anonymous
    posted November 10, 2003 at 10:52 am

    OUCH THAS GOTTA HURT

  7. pericat
    posted November 10, 2003 at 11:44 am

    Tom, the shop’s called twice now. You need to bring in your irony meter for recalibration.

  8. posted November 12, 2003 at 1:10 pm

    Is this real? Are you joking? STOP MESSING WITH MY MIND!?!?!

  9. pericat
    posted November 12, 2003 at 8:11 pm

    Define “real”.

  10. posted November 20, 2003 at 12:54 pm

    Real as in is it alive is it real? dose it exist if I sirch t6he world will I find it? I live in seattle and I have never herd or seen such athin

  11. pericat
    posted November 20, 2003 at 1:03 pm

    It’s not a real creature. It is a real website, though.

  12. posted December 3, 2003 at 1:03 pm

    If the animal is not real than why are you posting it on the web??

  13. pericat
    posted December 3, 2003 at 1:18 pm

    It’s part of that subset of “humour” known as “parody”. It’s just meant to be funny.

    It’s not meant to trick you, or make you feel bad. I’m sorry if it has.

  14. Anonymous
    posted December 19, 2003 at 10:31 am

    I am writing a 7 page papper on octopi. If it is meant to be humour make it some thing funny. I love humour, but I am pulling my hair out over this report thing.

  15. Olivia
    posted December 19, 2003 at 10:32 am

    I am writing a 7 page papper on octopi. If it is meant to be humour make it some thing funny. I love humour, but I am pulling my hair out over this report thing.

  16. enjay
    posted December 21, 2003 at 10:03 am

    Humour is very personal; what one person thinks is funny others don’t. I think the tree octopus is hysterical.

    By the way, have you heard of the sidehill gouger? These are animals with legs on one side that are shorter than the legs on the other side. They have gotten this way through centuries of genetic selection, because they live on steep mountainsides and always walk around them in the same direction while they graze, so the uphill legs have come to be shorter than the downhill legs. There are 2 subspecies; lefthand sidehill gougers always walk in a counterclockwise direction, and righthand gougers always go clockwise. They don’t usually breed together, because the results can be pretty awful and can’t move about much at all, so predators usually get them quickly. They are very fast runners; but the only way you can catch a gouger is on a flat area, because they can’t run on the flats at all.

  17. Rufas
    posted January 4, 2004 at 9:41 am

    Ths s s fckng stpd, y nd t gt lf.

  18. posted January 4, 2004 at 10:17 am

    Ah, to be a pimply-faced teenager again, in spirit, if not in fact!

    Don’t swear on my blog, Rufus. Your command of invective is at best banal. No vowels for you.

  19. Josh
    posted January 8, 2004 at 6:40 pm

    It’s hilarious.

  20. Tara L Herwig
    posted May 6, 2004 at 4:40 pm

    [moved from inappropriate entry - pericat]

    I think that the Tree Octopus is a pathetic website!! Some kids will believe it, tell thier friend and then thier friend will laugh at them!

  21. Tara L Herwig
    posted May 6, 2004 at 4:42 pm

    [moved from inappropriate entry - pericat]

    I think that the Tree Octopus is an interesting website!! I also think it’s very funny!!!

  22. emotionally damaged
    posted May 10, 2004 at 12:55 pm

    We really believed in the tree octopus we made sn’s about it, told all our teachers, and told our friends. We are emotionally scarred for life. We still our FOTPNWTO, through it all.

  23. posted May 10, 2004 at 1:23 pm

    And that’s the important thing, isn’t it? To maintain your ideals, no matter who or what seeks to dump on them.

    Gullibility is underrated as a desirable personality trait.

  24. LARS BENEDETTO
    posted May 12, 2004 at 5:39 pm

    We saw an octopus. It was up 2 meters in a tree above the water by La Push, WA.

  25. ashley
    posted May 14, 2004 at 7:45 am

    the tree cotopus is so very stupid

  26. posted May 17, 2004 at 7:37 am

    I saw the tree octopus two, I was on planet neptune were the UFOs droped me off after probing my but, when i saw it then it ate me and now i am typing this up and the tree octopi is siting next to my.

  27. Federico Tennyson
    posted May 20, 2004 at 2:12 pm

    I saw the tree octopus. It was climbing my tree in my yard. Lucky i had my camera next to me. I quickly snaped a shot before it swam up the tree. Later i saw its gaint beak!

  28. sam baker
    posted May 21, 2004 at 5:56 am

    ow my god a tree octopuss is stuck to my head it attacked me there very agresive it was after i got a picture of it and i just made 30000000000000 dollers off of it relly there relly amazing creatures but its still stuck to my head i think i need to have it surgecly reoved

  29. Crystal
    posted May 21, 2004 at 11:24 am

    Wow, save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, WE MUST SAVE THEM!!! lol, thnx Mr. Pace =)

  30. mac
    posted May 27, 2004 at 1:57 pm

    i think the octopus is the best

  31. posted June 1, 2004 at 3:14 pm

    why did the they do that. IT’S CREEPY

  32. Rodney EDwards
    posted June 2, 2004 at 8:58 am

    u guys need to stop lying there is no such thing of a tree octopus!!!!!!!!

  33. tim
    posted June 10, 2004 at 1:06 am

    this is one of the best web sites i have ever seen. i am now using it in an assignment. i hope that one day i can travel to america to see this elusive creature of paradise!