Intriguing

A little background here: Japanese squid monster moisturizer tentacle woman video. Yup.

More like this

Yup, that was going to be the title of this post. I got the paper and was ready to write the post when I noticed that Peter scooped me and posted about the same paper today (yup, there is just not that many cool papers on Charismatic Marine Megavertebrates to spread around this week).
Where are the faculty bloggers? asks RPM over at evolgen Er, mostly hiding pseudonymously from rampaging department chairs and deans...
Yup, a mention in The Inquirer! (see Wikipedia definition if unclear).

Strange. That's all I have to say.

By Ilovemyfuzzies (not verified) on 05 Jan 2009 #permalink

Ah Japan, you and your tentacles. Yes.

Looks to me that the plot runs something like this:
Oh no. I am a giant octopus and I am on land and dry. Help me.

Oh poor Mr octopus I feel your suffering.

I will help you Mr octopus by applying this moisturizer.

Oh yes. I am saved. --- Mr Octopus has what looks to be a octopus orgasm --

Product is displayed and announcer says something like 'save those you care about from dryness with this stuff'.

FTB.

Perfectly understandable.

I think that's an athlete foot medicine

It reminds me a bit of an old "Oil of Olay" commercial here in the U.S., where an alligator stalked around the model while the announcer droned on about rough, scaly skin. I wonder which came first.

Yep. Alex is correct, that's an ad for athlete's foot medicine. The announcer clearly says "mizumushi"; Japanese for athlete's foot. Oddly, the characters for that are water + bug.

By Squidpuppy (not verified) on 15 Feb 2009 #permalink