Did it Level Up?
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If you ask me, we’re going too far with being politically correct and coming up with new euphemisms. When I was a kid, the octopus was just dead. Nothing like a little trauma at the aquarium to really give your childhood meaning.
I saw this sign in the wild and laughed.
I’ve only ever seen “this animal has been moved” which is a sure sign that it’s dead…
Ladies and gentlemen, the octopus has shuffled off this mortal coil. Either that or it broke HP limit.
i’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, its stone dead, this is an ex-octopus
“Did it Level Up?”
Depends…. Are you buddhist?
Octopodes die after spawning. “Completed its life cycle” is not just a clever euphemism for death here. They live, they breed, they die.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Reproduction
@Nick: I am, actually.
Perhaps you’d care to use the “reply” function?
Back in February, when I posted that comment, there was no reply function.
Completed its life cycle as a doornail… Something doesn’t sound quite right!
Our octopus is in another castle.
My favorite part is the last sentence. “So uh, the octopus is dead and we’re… We’re just gunna replace it. BUT HEY CHECK OUT THESE F**KING FISH! WOW, RIGHT!?”
funny!
That expired octopus has clearly lost the game of life; why they had to play with the wording for it’s loss of life energy rather than just saying it had a failed to continue living I don’t know.
What Octopodes said.
I wonder where that was taken? Getting octopus eggs to hatch and then raising the babies is no small accomplishment, even for a public aquarium. (Yes, I’m a fish geek. I’ve kept fish since I was about seven years old.)
OCTOPUS IS DEAD. GO AWAY.
Ptffpt…phpftt…BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I’m not certain, but I think that may well be at the Sea Life aquarium attached to Legoland California. That looks like the top edge of the logo there at the bottom, and the font looks like all their other signs.
Sparrow: they only say they’re getting a new octopus; it may not actually be this one’s babies.
It’s at the Newport Aquarium in Cincinnati, OH.
Still, I think “The old octopus is dead, we’re getting a new one” is too harsh sounding for little kids.
The Octopus is dead. Long live the Octopus.
but the octopus is dead !?
This is an ex-octopus!
Sorry kids. Grandma has completed her life cycle.
funny
“Captain, the octopus’ dilithium crystal is exhausted, she can’t take it any more”
Octomon, digivolve to…
CTHULUMON!!
No doubt George Carlin spun in his grave over this shit. He hated the soft euphemistic language that shaded the truth in our society these days.
It’s not dead, it’s just resting!
wrong, it’s dead, totally dead, finished, caput, never to return in it’s previous form…well, maybe…
This is from Newport Aquarium, i work there. Sadly the octupus did die, and were redoing the exhibit and getting a new one.
Hey, it is better to have a sign saying there is no octopus in the tank than to have a million folks asking “where is it”. And at least with the “completed life cycle” there is the implied hope that the thing got laid, rather than just croaking of old age. Go octopus!
Considering that octopii only live 1-3 years (IIRC), they must keep that sign on file…
@ Sunshine: Its at the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Kentucky, thank you! Being NEAR Cincinnati doesn’t make you IN Cincinnati…
Yes, it does.
Cincinnati: Imma eat yoo >:V
Lol, jk
I LIKE the sign. It’s kind of nice. Not every thing has to be blunt, bold, harsh and in your face. Sometimes it’s just nice to be nice.
i concur, i think the word ‘dead’ has such a negative connotation, this is much more pleasant…
Not much of a cycle, eh?
Maybe it’s just mostly cycled.
I just feel bad for the octupus now. And plus….disposing of a dead octopus is just hard to think about.
this sign belongs in the universe where flowers grow on park benches which sing about the air in the mountains.
it may be nice to use a veil of darkness over kids to protect them from the truth that the world they live in sucks, but soon peeps in their 20′s wont have a clue that things die, just that they complete their life cycle and you can be sure that those peeps wont last 2 seconds in the real world… (1 second to realise the truth & 1 second to jump off a building)
Please drop by our cafe and sample our fresh calamari!
Calamari is squid. Just sayin’.
This is an awesome turn of phrase! I can imagine it being used to take the edge off death in embarrasing press releases (workplace deaths, friendly-fire incidents etc).
The actopus has begun it’s death cycle.
Maybe it’s just mostly completed its life cycle?
Our octopus has been relocated to the sushi bar/eductaional display.
Although, I think signage saying that it had “shuffled off this mortal coil” would actually be sort of neat.
wasnt this in the cincinatti aquarium?
If you feed it baby koalas it will reincarnate into a Chaos Octopus.
Actually it’s feeling better.
It’s very Zen Buddhist to describe death like this, but also an exact scientific description of what happened to the octopus.
All life forms complete their life cycles with death, but not all life forms which die get to complete their life cycles.
In this case, this octopus’s life was fulfilled, just as much as the life of a caterpillar in the bug house would be fulfilled if it pupated, emerged as a butterfly and successfully mated. It’s the caterpillar that gets picked off the leaf by a bird and eaten that /just/ dies.
Insert Bond joke here.
i don’t know if i agree that you need to give birth to have a
completely fulfilled life cycle, i think you just have to have lived…
You are not an animal that dies after you reproduce.
I had a lifecycle when I was a kid…traded it in on a Harley.
I thought the sign meant that the octopus had babies and that we’d get to see them soon…must be that I’m a Mom. For my life to get complicated I had a son…
How about “We took the octopus upstate to a farm where it can run free in the fields with other octopuses”?
Or can you image “Sorry kids, grandma has completed her lifecycle and can’t come for Christmas this year”?
I really like this sign, I don’t know why.
that’s not really a good reason…
Your dad took the octopus to a farm upstate, where it can run free…
Ah the famous Blue Norwegian Octopus…It’s really just pine’in for the fiords, but if we didn’t nail it to the coral it’d be pushin up the sea weed!
Time to respawn octopus: 10… 9… 8…
Another data point: Cephalopods don’t live long, like 18 months or so, which is why it’s not a good idea to get attached to one as a pet.
My guess is they have more than one copy of this sign…if they have cuttlefish also, they’re gonna need it.
Ah, the rarely seen Pheonix Octopus. Watch it emerge from it’s watery ashes into a new, more vibrant Cephalopod.
I don’t know about everyone else, but when I was five, my parents told me my pet died. Sorry.
It isn’t a matter of being blunt, or harsh. There isn’t anything harsh about death. Death is simply death. You can make it sound pretty, “it completed its life cycle”, and all of you harping about it being “scientific” can also bite it. DEATH is a cessation of life and is scientific. It is reality.
I think moreso than anything, this creeps me out. Someone else mentioned it… eventually adults won’t even view death as “death”, it’s going to be this pansy “completed life cycle” crap that has no emotional stigma whatsoever. Don’t grieve over grandma, she just “completed her life cycle”, after all! That kind of disturbs me, honestly. All emotions are important in human life, including sadness and loss.
Succinct.
My thoughts precisely.
Is this at the Newport Aquarium in NKY? If so I’ve seen this and have a picture of the same sign on my home PC haha.
@Prince of Insufficient Light
you win.
Attention ladies and gentlemen: we’re pretty sure the octopus has experienced Hamburger Time. We’ll be getting a new one. The new one will also eventually experience Hamburger Time. And so will we all. Look forward to Hamburger Time.
way to sound atheistically enigmatic
This was at the Newport Aquarium in Covington, KY. I am a member there, and saw this a few weeks ago. Haha.
Sadly, I read that as “complicated” it’s lifestyle. While I was trying to figure out what that meant I read where it said “dead” and had to go back and read the sign. HURR
I believe this is at the Seattle aquarium. We were there a few months ago and the person there said the octopus would be let loose in the Puget Sound to breed. To bad it will die after that.
I was just trying to breed them and they all died.
What they fail to realize is that the octopus hasn’t completed it’s life CYCLE until the new octopus is in there. This is like new-person-at-a-position interviewees who say, “I’m gonna turn this around 360 degrees”, when turning something around is really only 180.
but if the octopus has no life then i would say his cycle is over….
Leveling up is associated with pokemon in my mind, so now I can’t stop thinking that the tank is soon going to have a BadEgg. Yuk for them.
ah yes ze octopus starts its life as an egg, then it hatches into its pupal stage, then it forms a cocoon and hatches into an adult. but then it dies and you get a new one xD (just meh being random lul)