Why Does the Octopus Have Eight Arms?
Dear God,
Why did you design the octopus with eight arms? Wouldn’t four arms have been just as effective? Couldn’t you gave gone to ten arms, as long as you were going for a big quantity?
- Jean-Jacques
Jean-Jacques,
The octopus has eight arms because it’s called the octopus. Duh. Oct means eight, you know.
Look, you’re not a deity, so you don’t understand how this works. First, you name the animal. Then you create it. So, I named the animal the octopus, and then I had to give it eight legs.
Same thing with the centipede. I named it the centipede, and then I had to give it 100 legs.
Yes, I know – centipedes don’t really have 100 legs. That’s because of Satan, who keeps on trying to make me look bad. He knocked some of the centipede’s legs off. He said it was for the sake of efficiency.
Efficiency is the devil’s tool.
- God
October 15, 2008 at 9:53 pm
