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[ Etch-A-Day | etch #24 ]

Another Very Happy Birthday to Stan and Ford! (click to embiggen)

Back in 1998, a website appeared entitled “Help Save the Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus from Extinction”!  It was a pretty delightful combo of artwork, poorly photoshopped octopi in pine trees, and some really creative write-ups.  As a piece of fake-lore, it has attained the dubious honor of actually fooling people into thinking it’s real; so much so that it has its own Snopes page, and has even made it into the Library of Congress!  Even if it started as a hoax, many accept it as a legitimate cryptid today.

The original home of the PNW tree octopus is the Olympic peninsula in Washington, across Puget Sound from Seattle.  But I decided it would be fun if Ford tracked down rumors that a sub-species has been spotted amongst the coastal Redwoods in California, so he and Stan stopped by there to check it out on their way back to Oregon.  

(In the top pic, let’s assume that the adult tree octopus came down to that branch once the boys had passed underneath; otherwise they’re looking very carefully!)

The question remains – will they bring back some babies for Mabel, and the chance to establish a population in Oregon?  Hard to resist!

(For this I used refs for the CA and OR coastlines, as well as a number of octopus and tree octopus pics.)

Stan, immediately doing a dead-on impression of Ford: well, to answer that question, we first need to talk about Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which explains that time is subjective and therefore ultimately meaningless—

“I called someone to bail us out last time. It’s your turn.”

“We probably shouldn’t do this.”

“See you say it’ll be fine? But, something tells me it won’t be.”

“Okay, but they are gonna be so pissed when they see what we did to this place.”

“We probably shouldn’t have tried to surf on the mattress down the stairs..”

“I can’t believe we just prank called him/her. What are we like twelve?”

“Let’s just tell them that the dog did it.”

“I’m picking the lock. But, I just realized that I’m not a detective and this is a hair pin I found in my glovebox.”

“Do you think that alarm means that we’re caught?”

“I’ll fill the bucket with water and you distract him/her while I dump it on their head.”

“This is exactly what we need–a  night out. Let’s go crazy!!”

“Honestly, I think the car looks better after we crashed it.”

“I rang this guy/girls doorbell and ran away really fast??? And they found me.”

“Why is there a giant teddy bear wearing lingerie in my bath tub?”

“Oh my god, why is there an unconscious man/woman on the floor?!”

“We were supposed to be cooking. But, it looks like a murder occurred in here.”

“We broke the window. I think someone is going to notice.”

“I can’t believe we’re trying to climb through a window to get back a pair of your panties/underwear.”

“Shh, they’ll hear us. This is a terrible idea. You are lucky I love you.”

“That cop did not find it as funny as we did.”

Fffhdjghdjgd thank you!! ;o; I feel honored that my art can make others happy and feel comforted. I just want to spread the Ford love around ;v; Thank you so much for coming back to look at all my art <33