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  2. Wes says

    $15! At one for each appendage, that would be $75.

    Oh no. Is PZ planning to post pics of his “fifth tentacle”?

  4. SEF says

    I think you can muster more appendages than that! Although the fitting might be a problem. The occasions on which you could wear them would also be somewhat limited.

    It looks better than some Doctor Who props though. So there could be amateur film-making possibilities for it.

  7. aiabx says

    Hmm.. Maybe you could get a budget-priced smaller tentacle for your fifth appendage. Just so the rest of us guys don’t feel all intinidated in the ‘Pods locker room.

  8. Janine says

    For women, it would be $60.

    Unless you want to start placing them into orifices also. Them for men and women, it could be at least $105. That is as far as I will go.

  11. DiscoveredJoys says

    The Fifth Appendage sounds like the title of a Terry Pratchett book! Although the cover art could be tricky…

    You could always stuff one (faux tentacle, not ‘appendage’) with old socks and use it against the bottom of a door as a draught excluder.

  12. Mercurious says

    Imagine walking down the street and you see a guy with one of these pocking out of the bottom of his pants………….

  13. says

    I thought the title was excerpted from a personal ad at first. Like “Must Love Dogs.”

    Ha! But wouldn’t “Must Love Tentacles” apply to everyone? Like “Must Enjoy Breathing” or “Must Think Curling Isn’t A Real Sport”?

  14. Janine says

    Browning, how dare you make fun of curling! You have to like any sport where a broom is an essential instrument.

  15. says

    All I can say is that it would make a kickass pointer for lecturing in class. I suspect the students would be unable to look away if you were waving one of those at the chalkboard.

  16. MartinM says

    Or $60 for some of us–such a deal!

    Sorry, no savings for you. No such thing as a she-bear, remember? :P

    “Must Think Curling Isn’t A Real Sport”

    Scotland is good at it, therefore it is a sport.

  18. Scrofulum says

    Wouldn’t make much difference to me on the computer as I’m a one-finger typist anyway.

    Of course, your goosing days would be numbered . . .

  19. says

    Brownian, don’t you make fun of curling. A) Curling is awesome, B) Canada kicks ass at it, and C) Many of the readers here don’t have a clue what curling is. They probably think you’re talking about hair styling or something.

  20. says

    You have to like any sport where a broom is an essential instrument.

    My sisters used to try to make housework exciting by picking rooms out of a hat and seeing who could clean their room the fastest. I didn’t fall for it back then, either.

    Scotland is good at it, therefore it is a sport.

    Need I mention the caber toss, or should we all just assume you were joking?

  21. MartinM says

    Need I mention the caber toss, or should we all just assume you were joking?

    Nobody is good at the caber toss. The trick is to suck marginally less than everyone else.

  22. octopod says

    Filled with rice or something, that would make a sweet draft-excluder. Or, for that matter, one of those warm things you put around your neck to keep warm. Damn, now I want to make one. Although I do like the idea of using that arm to point in class.

    Y’all are dirty. I assumed PZ was going to put the fifth one over his head.

    And for that matter, For A Limited Time Only, there’s an online perfume company featuring a perfume based on “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”…

  24. says

    Brownian, don’t you make fun of curling. A) Curling is awesome, B) Canada kicks ass at it, and C) Many of the readers here don’t have a clue what curling is. They probably think you’re talking about hair styling or something.

    Posted by: King Aardvark | January 18, 2008 12:02 PM

    Rocks and brooms on ice.

  25. stogoe says

    Hey! The caber toss is awesome. In theory. It’s a more exciting competition than weightlifting, at least. Caber tossing should definitely replace both the shot-put and weightlifting as an Olympic sport.

    And curling is tremendously boring. If you want to fall asleep watching ‘sports’, it’s a tossup between curling and baseball.

  30. Rita Bennett says

    Off topic, but she would enjoy this thread.

    Molly Ivins died January 31, 2007.

    Maybe make a donation to your favorite charity as a remembrance of her. And go for that mammogram.
    Men, you can also get breast cancer.

    She was born August 30, 1944.

  32. buck says

    Or $60 for some of us–such a deal!

    you ladies could get a beak instead of the fifth tentacle. 100% effective in preventing rape when stategically placed

  33. J Daley says

    Curling is a captivating spectator sport, the intricacies of which never fail to elicit rapt attention and awe.*

    *When really, really stoned.

  34. noncarborundum says

    $75.00? PZ, they say “one size fits all”, but that’s ridiculous. Or is it? If not, I’m somewhere between impressed and horrified.

  35. Stefan says

    Now I thought that I had a dirty mind myself, but apparently I am a novice:

    I honestly thought that PZ meant the fifth tentacle for his HEAD!

    Obviously, because any carnival/mardis gras costume worthwhile should disguise your identity properly! So I though “tentacle” in ManiacMansion-style, if anyone remembers that old Computer game.

    At least here in Germany costumes are meant as a proper disguise for carnival in the first place, while being sexy only comes second in purpose. Well, so let’s order six tentacles then…

  36. Mena says

    Ah, the illustrious tentacle naughty bits makes me think of…
    Londo!
    Sorry, I miss B5 and that last movie wasn’t that good. :^(

  37. CrypticLife says

    You people are weird.

    And of course it’s not $60 for females, unless you haven’t hit puberty yet. It’s $90.

  38. David Marjanović, OM says

    I was going to ask about the head, too… I’ve always been the Most Naïve of the Scientists.

  39. David Marjanović, OM says

    I was going to ask about the head, too… I’ve always been the Most Naïve of the Scientists.

  42. cicely says

    I’ve been lurking for a while, but I just HAVE to break cover to say “Thanks!” for the link to the tentacle arms.
    Day-in, day-out content is excellent, also, but the opportunity to own my very own tentacle arms…..priceless!

    (Yes, they want money for the goods, but the OPPORTUNITY is priceless.)

  44. Rich says

    I’m American and I rather like curling. Last I saw the American team was rather good. But I don’t follow it too closely. If I’m flipping through the channels and it’s on I’ll watch it over other sports. Actually, now that I think about it, it’s the only sport that I like.

  46. Dr Paisley says

    #2 Oh no. Is PZ planning to post pics of his “fifth tentacle”?

    More importantly, does he call it Brian Epstein?

  47. Ichthyic says

    It kind of reminds me of Dagon: Sect of the Sea

    great movie, perhaps the best of all time…

    (all hail Dagon)

    Ia, Ia, Cthulhu Fataghn!

    I might be a bit biased.

    btw, do those sucker arms have teeth on the suckers?

    worthless without functioning teeth-ringed suckers.

  48. Angie says

    I saw these a couple of years while working at Fanime in San Jose. They weren’t as charming when worn by a bunch of young men hoping to create tentacle porn, although I did initially squee at the sight of them.

  49. Betz says

    Hold on – are those suction cups functional? I propose a non-intuitive use, one that won’t get you a court date:

    Anybody can have a Garfield doll or a “Baby on Board” placard on their car window; giant tentacles will make you stand out from the crowd of commuter drone-mobiles! No self-respecting sushi delivery van is complete without one!!

  50. In Denial says

    #26: Seconded.

    For the rest of you perverts: based on the original context, the fifth one is supposed to be a HAT. I assume this would involve sewing on a strap to wear it that way IRL. Not sewing a strap-on, mind you. :P

  52. says

    Sorry, no savings for you. No such thing as a she-bear, remember? :P

    LOL, Martin!

    Now I thought that I had a dirty mind myself, but apparently I am a novice

    Just keep on hanging out here, Stefan: One of us! One of us! One of us!