Threads that go off topic - here and other forums.

[DiscoMick]

The good thing about this thread is that it's impossible to go off topic - you could throw in literally anything and it would be OK.
So, let's try an experiment. If I mention, say ... left-handed female German Shepherds with puppies from Argentina, what will be the response ... ...?

[bee utey]

German Sheperdesses you mean.

[DiscoMick]

It works!


Let's try another one: blue-ringed octopuses (octopi?).

[Lotz-A-Landies]

It works!


Let's try another one: blue-ringed octopuses (octopi?).

I'm guessing that the former would be correct as octopus is Greek not Latin!

Just like its fetus/fetuses not foetus/foeti

[Eevo]

i dont remember the romans eating calamari,

[bee utey]

i dont remember the romans eating calamari,

To quote a notorious Australian, "were you there?"

[Eevo]

To quote a notorious Australian, "were you there?"

Veni, vidi, vici

[Lotz-A-Landies]

To quote a notorious Australian, "were you there?"

That is neither Hapalochlaena lunulata, nor Hapalochlaena maculosa

Neither of the Aussie Blue Ringed Octopuses are either that big or completely blue!

(Even if it is a mosaic tiled floor)

[Avion8]

My kingdom for an octopus!

[bee utey]

That is neither Hapalochlaena lunulata, nor Hapalochlaena maculosa

Neither of the Aussie Blue Ringed Octopuses are either that big or completely blue!

(Even if it is a mosaic tiled floor)

Artistic license. The ceramic tile merchants of Herculaneum ran out of the special blue-rings-on-them tiles that week. And if you'd travelled all the way from the Mediterranean to the Indian ocean and took two thousand years to do it, you'd feel rather reduced too. If the Suez Canal had been put in earlier, the blue rings would have got here with much more muscle mass.