this is bizarre. i can’t believe there are so few uses of this word on the inter­net. in attempt­ing to remem­ber the reason for employ­ing the term in the first place, i searched google for “encephalopods”, where s.m. came up 1st again, among an incred­i­bly meagre sprin­kling of other usages. only “cephalopod” (‘head-foot’) is, it appears, accept­able to marine biol­o­gists & every­one else.

of the few very strange google links thrown up by “encephalopods” (check em), art’s evoca­tive rant is quite touch­ing, although not if you follow on & read his response to dizz’s dumb question.

re-​reading the orig­i­nal post (and greatly enjoy­ing the squid pig­ment zoom pages through the “encephalopod” link word) i recalled the gen­eral attempt to besmirch the oth­er­wise untar­nished rep­u­ta­tion of the blog controller-​in-​chief with truth­ful insin­u­a­tions employ­ing k-slang links (inci­den­tally stum­bling across the wonderfully-​named DEA acro­bat doc­u­ment on a ‘street terms’ search) but still with­out ini­tially fath­om­ing the reason for using the a) “encephalopod” and b) “purple pow­ered bumping” ref­er­ences, until the ‘lowest denom­i­na­tional coin was grav­i­ta­tion­ally influenced” and “blind squid” appeared in my mind. a sub­se­quent google search led to the redis­cov­ery of the source of a), but not of b).

can anyone think of any good reason why the anti­quated word “encephalopod” came to be in my brain? more impor­tantly, was the ket­a­mine inserted force­fully by a third party into an unwill­ing blog controller-in-chief’s fron­tispiece in a manner sim­i­lar to “Sammie”’s inges­tion of an amox­i­cillin tablet at the skilled hands of tech­ni­cian “Mo”, as demon­strated by the link to “joy” in the orig­i­nal post?

this blog’s con­tri­bu­tion to the force­ful blend­ing of such unlikely bed­fel­lows as (±)-2-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexanone & beings of the Cephaloda class must be upheld. an inves­ti­ga­tion into other odd mar­riages could begin with rose­mary west & slade’s dave glover or charles bron­son & saira ali ahmed

Posted by tim hun at 5am on 11.02.03

Dear Tim, the same word was sus­tained by myself as well. Thanks for the post.

Posted by laura ingles at 9pm on 03.01.06

it hap­pened to me, as well

Posted by elv ini at 3pm on 05.07.07

8-legged k-holes are not for the weak of heart.

Posted by seth at 10am on 12.12.07