This morning

[mrissa]

I went to get my back fixed, and timprov came home with a pillar of squid.

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[numinicious.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I didn't expect the squid. A pillar of cheese, maybe.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

NOOOObody expects the pillar of squid!

Among its chief weapons are tentacles, suckers, and a phonetical devotion to the Poh-pay!

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that what happened to Lot's wife in the Bible? She looked back and turned into a pillar of squid?

...never mind.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I went differently Biblical with it: I told T. that if the Lord had appeared before the Israelites as a cloud by day and a pillar of squid by night, more people would be religious. Or at least different people.

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps this is what is known (in undersea circles) as being a Pillar of the Community.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there something about a mad Arab and gods with tentacles and madness and all that?

Sing along!

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I saw Mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth,
In the ring of stones on Sentinel Hill
My brother and I were spawned
From the Necronomicon
Dad looks just like his picture on page 751!

Now we will work to summon Yog-Sothoth,
The Key to where the Great Old Ones have trod.
He'd surely have come unglued
Had Armitage ever viewed
Mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth the god!

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Do squid come in pillar form? I'm trying to envision something more than a wonderful caryatid, but failing miserably.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

The image I had was something like one of those big giro things they cut bits of meat off to put in pitas, except with squid.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

The squid in question is 350 million years old. Gyro meat is rarely more then 275 million, even in the mall.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

You sure?

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

That's quite a chiropractor you have there.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Funny, I don't normally find squid rigid enough to stack. They tend more toward oozing piles than pillars.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

But no lousy T-shirt?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We looked for one for markgritter, but none of them said, "My wife got her back fixed and my housemate got a pillar of squid and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

You'll just have to get one made, then.

[aszanoni.livejournal.com]

Zazzle.com.

Then everyone can have a shirt in a different color and with different fonts... And probably way too many other customizations. :>

I know, you can make stuff at Cafepress.com too. But aside from Zazzle's stupid policy of deleting anything I make Public [i.e., so supposedly I could sell it], I like them better than Cafepress. Zazzle is a TOY.

Ahem. Yes, I see by this that I really do need a hot drink and to goto bed.

- Chica

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Pray tell, what is a pillar of squid?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's about 15" high, 350 million years old. Black, grey, pointy.